Gopika M

Thrissur

Summary

Detail-oriented QA Engineer with 4.8+ years of experience enhancing product quality in Agile environments. Expertise in automation frameworks such as Selenium and Playwright, along with programming skills in TypeScript, Python, and Java. Skilled in API testing, database validation, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization. Experienced in test planning, defect management with Jira, and delivering client demos, focusing on reliable software delivery. Results-driven Senior Software Engineer with expertise in automation frameworks and API testing. Proven ability to develop comprehensive test plans and execute test cases, ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer -QA

Test Yantra

Bangalore

09.2025 - Current

Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives to align testing activities with sprint goals and support continuous improvement.
Test Planning & Design: Develop comprehensive test plans, design and review test cases, ensuring coverage of functional, regression, and edge scenarios.
Execution & Tracking: Execute test cases, capture test evidence, update test suites, log defects in Jira, track their lifecycle, and perform retesting of resolved issues.
Automation Development: Write automation scripts for newly delivered features, raise Pull Requests (PRs), collaborate on code reviews, and merge into the main branch to maintain robust automation frameworks.
Delivered client demos, showcased tested features, provided transparency on quality metrics, and ensured stakeholder confidence in product readiness.

Systems Engineer - QA

Infosys Limited

Trivandrum

07.2021 - 09.2025

Developed manual and automation test cases based on test plan to ensure comprehensive test coverage
Executed API automation tests to validate functionality and performance
Proficient in writing, executing and managing test cases, bug reporting and tracking defects
Performing cross-platform, functional, regression applications
Performing Backend testing by creating and executing SQL Queries
Mentored junior employees
Analysis of business requirements and functional specifications
Attended daily standup meetings to discuss project status and address any blockers
Test reporting and issue resolution
Interacting with development team for issue clarification, bug fixes. Helped to perform more than 10 successful releases to the market without any defects and got client appreciations.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Application -

AJK College of Arts And Science

Navakkarai, Coimbatore

06-2021

Skills

Automation Tools & Frameworks: Selenium, Playwright,TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), Maven
Programming Languages: TypeScript, Python, Java
API Testing: Requests library, Postman, Karate DSL, Rest Assured
Databases: PostgreSQL (querying, validation of test data)

CI/CD & Pipelines: Rio pipelines, Jenkins (if applicable)
Version Control: Git (branching, merging, PR reviews)
Containerization & Cloud: Kubernetes (basic deployment/testing knowledge)
Monitoring & Logging: Splunk / RedPanda (log analysis, debugging)