MADHURI BHARADWAJ R
Bengaluru
Summary
Highly accomplished Staff Software Test Engineer with over 11 years of experience specializing in Quality Assurance, high-volume payment system testing, and full-stack automation. Proven ability to lead QA initiatives, build robust API-first (Karate, RestAssured) and UI (Selenide, Cucumber) hybrid frameworks, and implement testing strategies for containerized (Docker) and asynchronous (RabbitMQ) microservices. Demonstrated leadership as a QA Lead and Scrum Master, driving Agile process improvements, team mentorship, and ensuring on-time delivery with zero production defects.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
STAFF SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER
VISA
Bangalore
07.2022 - Current
- Led quality assurance for a highly scalable, high-volume payments processing platform, ensuring system reliability and performance in a microservices environment.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive, Maven-built Karate Framework as the primary API regression suite for efficient end-to-end service validation and rapid test creation.
- Successfully tested complex, distributed architectures, including validation of asynchronous event messaging and data flow using RabbitMQ.
- Developed and maintained a robust hybrid automation framework leveraging Cucumber, RestAssured, and Selenide for full coverage across BDD, API, and UI layers.
- Hands-on experience testing and debugging containerized applications in a Docker environment, utilizing Mirantis for log configuration, monitoring, and effective troubleshooting.
- Served as the Scrum Master (in addition to QA Lead duties), actively driving sprint planning, managing tasks for all team members, tracking progress, and proactively addressing roadblocks to maintain sprint velocity.
- Led QA efforts (manual and automation), actively contributed to grooming calls, analyzed impacts, and suggested system/requirement changes to enhance quality and design.
LEAD CONSULTANT - QA
VIRTUSA
10.2021 - 07.2022
- Managed QA activities and drove defect triage processes, providing regular status updates and application demos to business stakeholders.
- Enhanced API vs UI comparison scripts using RestAssured and Java serialization (Gson) within the existing Cucumber BDD framework.
- Optimized automation code using Java Streams and predicates to improve script performance and maintainability.
- Awarded Stellar Award for outstanding contributions across multiple areas in a short tenure.
IT ANALYST
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS)
03.2014 - 10.2021
- Performed End-to-End testing for a Billing Solution application; automated in-sprint test scripts using Selenium and utilized RestAssured/JDBC for API/SQL automation. Contributed to JIRA dashboard creation and team mentoring.
- Led regression testing during a major loan origination system re-engineering project, managing test case preparation, defect logging (ALM), and test case walk-throughs with Dev/Clients.
- Executed API testing and validation of billing charge correctness using SOAP UI.
- Received Start of the Month Award for consistent on-time delivery and maintaining zero production defects.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Information Science
SJC Institute of Technology
ChickballapurStandard XII / P.U.C. -
Seshadripuram Main College
BangaloreSkills
- Functional Testing
- Automation Frameworks: Karate (API-First)
- Hybrid Cucumber/Gherkin
- Selenide
- RestAssured
- TestNG
- Selenium WebDriver
- Core Java
- SQL
- MySQL
- Maven
- Git (Bitbucket)
- Jenkins
- JIRA
- Docker
- RabbitMQ
- Mirantis
- Agile/Scrum
- SDLC/STLC
- End-to-End Testing
- Microservices Testing
- CI/CD Integration
- Performance Testing (Exposure)
- API testing
- Exploratory testing
Core Competencies
Functional Testing, API / UI Testing, Karate Tool Hybrid Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenide, RestAssured, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, Core Java, SQL, MySQL, Maven, Git (Bitbucket), Jenkins, JIRA, Docker, RabbitMQ, Mirantis, Agile/Scrum, SDLC/STLC, End-to-End Testing, Microservices Testing, CI/CD Integration, Performance Testing (Exposure)
Timeline
STAFF SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER
VISA
07.2022 - Current
LEAD CONSULTANT - QA
VIRTUSA
10.2021 - 07.2022
IT ANALYST
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS)
03.2014 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Information Science
SJC Institute of Technology
Standard XII / P.U.C. -
Seshadripuram Main College