Deepika Shridevi
Chennai
Summary
Results-oriented Senior QA Engineer with 8.5 years of hands-on experience in Manual and Automation Testing of web and API-based applications. Skilled in designing, developing, and maintaining robust automation frameworks using Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Playwright (API & UI), and REST Assured. Proficient in functional, regression, and UI testing, along with API validation through Postman and automation scripting.
Experienced in Agile methodologies, defect tracking, and test management using JIRA and Xray. Currently leading QA initiatives for upstream and downstream portals, driving end-to-end test strategy, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring seamless integration across systems. Strong collaborator focused on enhancing software quality, optimizing testing processes, and delivering timely, high-quality releases through efficient test design and continuous integration using Jenkins and Git.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineer
Renault Nissan ISIT
Chennai
06.2023 - Current
- Project Name: SDV OTA software updates and cloud-based vehicle diagnostics.
- Developed and maintained automated test scripts to enhance regression and integration testing efficiency.
- Executed end-to-end testing.
- Collaborated with product managers to validate requirements against project roadmap.
- Conducted defect tracking and root cause analysis to improve software quality.
- Created detailed test reports to document progress and ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Reduced testing cycle times by 30% through implementation of automation frameworks.
- Identified bugs and reported defects to development team using JIRA.
- Performed re-testing of resolved defects to ensure quality assurance.
- API automation karate framework.
- Developed and maintained Playwright automation suites with javascript and Typescript for end-to-end web application testing.
- Created API test scripts using Cypress intercept, request, and schema validations.
- Built custom reusable commands to standardize UI and API flows.
- Integrated Cypress tests with CI tools like Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps for continuous testing.
- Optimized test runs using parallel execution and smart test retries.
- Karate Framework (API + Performance).
- Developed automated API test scripts using the Karate framework, including request/response validations, schema checks, and data-driven tests.
- Designed Karate feature files with clear BDD-style scenarios for easy readability and maintenance.
- Implemented test data setup using Karate's JavaScript and JSON support.
- Integrated Karate tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous execution.
- Manual execution using Bruno & Postman for API testing.
- Performed GCP Log Explorer (logger) validation to verify API request/response logs, error traces, and backend workflow events.
- Validated Cloud Storage (GCS) buckets for file creation, updates, and workflow outputs as part of end-to-end API testing.
Senior Engineer
Happiest Minds technologies
Bangalore
06.2021 - 06.2023
- Project name: Ascend JBL.
- Analyzing the User Stories for the next PI to understand the scope.
- Work on tickets which is allocated in current Sprint Write a test plan for the functional testing using Test link.
- Once, the development is done test manually and identify the defects.
- Follow the test plan coverage and understand what needs to be tested.
- Identify the Bugs and report the defects to development team through JIRA.
- Re-testing the Resolved defects.
- Functional testing should cover in both QA & Stage environment.
- Prepare Test Plan for CR release.
- CR details to Team Should support for Production deployments.
- Participating in all the agile ceremonies - Sprint Planning, daily scrum calls, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
- Regression Testing will be done to check the existing functionality must not be affected.
- Smoke test should be done at all the deployment done through Manual /should run a automation smoke suite.
- Client Interactions through e-mails and calls.
- Demo sessions on the EPIC or functionality to Client/Dev/internal teams.
- Preparing Weekly and monthly status reports Pushing the code to SVN tortoise.
- Automating the scripts when get bandwidth on the current sprints.
- Fixing the failed testacies.
- Jenkins for code maintenance and schedule job execution.
- Automation scripts writing in n-1 for both UI and API(Selenium and rest assured).
Test Engineer
Hewlett packard
Chennai
02.2016 - 02.2020
- Concentra Application, HP online store.
- Understand the requirements from the Design document Document.
- Test Design and Test Case Specification To Test manually and identify the defects.
- Once bugs are fixed, again execute the failing test cases to verify they pass.
- To read all the documents and understand what needs to be tested.
- Review and baseline the test cases with Team Lead.
- Responsible for preparing test scenarios /Test Cases.
- Daily/Weekly Status Reports.
- Analyzing the User Stories and planning the User Stories to be completed in the Sprint.
- To Identify the test cases that need to be automated.
- To Test manually and identify the defects.
- To read all the documents and understand what needs to be tested.
- Responsible for preparing test scenarios and writing Test scripts for regression and functional testing Using Cucumber Framework.
- Developing BDD test using Cucumber Inspect the X-path of the Web Element.
- Participating in all the agile ceremonies - Sprint Planning, daily scrum calls, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
- Identify the Bugs and report the defects to development team through JIRA Re-testing the Resolved defects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - BSC computer science
SSS Jain College For Women
ChennaiSkills
- Manual Testing
- Regression Testing
- Smoke Testing
- Sanity testing
- Cross-browser Testing
- UI Validation
- Responsive Testing
- API Testing
- Defect Tracking
- Test Management
- Bruno
- Postman
- Swagger
- GCP validation
- Agile/Scrum Framework
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Stand-ups
- Story Review
- Retrospective Participation
- Git
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins Pipeline
- Continuous Integration
- Test Strategy
- Planning
- Root Cause Analysis
- Defect Life Cycle Management
- Requirement Traceability
- Peer Review
- Karate Framework
- Cypress
- Playwright
- TypeScript
- Selenium
- Java
Timeline
Senior Engineer
Renault Nissan ISIT
06.2023 - Current
Senior Engineer
Happiest Minds technologies
06.2021 - 06.2023
Test Engineer
Hewlett packard
02.2016 - 02.2020
Bachelor of Science - BSC computer science
SSS Jain College For Women