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Girish Kumar

Chennai

Summary

Results-driven Quality Assurance Engineer with over 5 years of experience delivering high-quality releases across embedded systems, platform firmware, website, and mobile testing projects. Skilled in test strategy, end-to-end automation, and AWS-based tooling, including developing the ASIN Data Store to support dynamic test data generation and improve automation efficiency. Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and leverage strong programming skills in Python and Java. Demonstrated leadership as a QA Release Owner and mentor, driving process improvements and ensuring robust, defect-free software delivery.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Quality Assurance Engineer 2

Amazon
Chennai
04.2023 - Current
  • Took full QA ownership of Good Tier Platform devices, Quickly ramped up into the in-depth understanding of the device architecture, including CLI commands, flashing techniques, bootloader menu, test cases, and automation workflows.
  • Successfully onboarded and enabled the manual testing team to independently execute regression cycles on the Good Tier Platform through comprehensive documentation and hands-on training.
  • Served as QA Release Owner for four quarterly firmware (FW) releases, collaborating with partner teams to define test strategy, scope, and priorities, ensuring high-quality and timely customer delivery.
  • Contributed to two medium-sized security certification projects, owning test planning, execution, bug triaging, and successful on-time delivery to production.
  • Acted as an onboarding buddy to two new QA Engineers, mentoring them on tools, processes, and platform-specific testing practices, enabling rapid and effective integration into the team.
  • Initiated and maintained the QA Deliverables Tracker on the team wiki to centralize and streamline tracking of QA status across all projects, improving visibility and team coordination and also defined a bug template as part of process improvement.
  • Led test case reclassification for 144 test cases and added Pytest markers to 253 P1 test cases, as part of an initiative to normalize test priorities, improve cadence consistency, and reduce ambiguity in bug classification and coverage.

Quality Assurance Engineer 1

Amazon
Hyderabad
10.2020 - 03.2023
  • Successfully contributed to 2 small, 3 medium, and 1 large-scale project, owning responsibilities across test planning, end-to-end testing, bug triaging, and on-time production delivery.
  • Designed and implemented the ASIN Data Store, a dynamic solution to supply ASINs (Product IDs) at runtime for shopping portal test automation, significantly improving test coverage and reducing reliance on static/stalled ASINs. And it was widely accepted and adopted by partner teams as well.
  • Built an AWS Data Pipeline for ADS to fetch product data from Redshift to S3.Developed AWS Lambda functions to convert CSV to JSON and transfer data between S3 buckets.Created AsinDataInterface, enabling test frameworks to fetch, process, and serve ASINs dynamically from S3.
  • Ensured automation coverage of 97% for P0 test cases related to feature launches.
  • Maintained a high-quality coding standard with an average of 1.3 revisions per review across 74 code submissions. and Reviewed and approved 36 peer code changes, contributing to overall code quality.
  • Proactively identified 37 defects during the QA phase before production release, preventing potential issues. Contributed to a zero customer-facing issue record in features owned by me within the component in the year 2021-2022.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Velammal Institute of Technology
Chennai
01-2020

Skills

  • Automation testing and scripting
  • Python programming
  • Web development with Django
  • JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
  • Database management with MySQL
  • Version control with Git
  • Agile methodologies
  • Stakeholder management
  • Test planning

Awards

  • Impressive first impression, 01/01/21
  • Great Team Player Award, 07/01/22

Languages

  • English (Fluent)
  • Tamil (Native)

Timeline

Quality Assurance Engineer 2

Amazon
04.2023 - Current

Quality Assurance Engineer 1

Amazon
10.2020 - 03.2023

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Velammal Institute of Technology

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