Monika Viswanathan
Chennai
Summary
Senior Quality Engineer with 9+ years of experience in scalable automation architecture, shift-left testing strategies, and CI/CD quality enablement. Expert in Playwright (TypeScript), Selenium (C#), and API automation. Leveraging AI-powered automation scripting, using prompt engineering and Augment AI, to accelerate large feature automation and reduce manual effort. Strong advocate of quality-first engineering in high-growth product environments.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
ResMed Technology Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
09.2022 - Current
- Architected and scaled UI and API automation frameworks with over 900 enterprise-grade test cases across critical healthcare workflows.
- Built a modular Playwright (TypeScript) framework from scratch, enabling reusable components, fixtures, API integrations, and DB validations.
- Led an AI-driven automation transformation initiative by implementing structured prompt engineering and augmenting AI-assisted scripting to accelerate test case development.
- Designed reusable, structured prompt templates that enabled manual testers to generate automation-ready scripts with minimal coding dependency.
- Reduced automation development effort significantly by enabling: Faster locator generation, automated test scaffolding, and rapid conversion of manual test cases into automation scripts.
- Conducted knowledge transfer sessions and hands-on workshops for manual QA engineers to onboard them into automation using AI-assisted workflows.
- Mentored team members on automation best practices, framework usage, and AI-assisted script optimization.
- Improved sprint-level automation adoption, enabling in-sprint automation coverage instead of post-sprint backlog automation.
- Successfully implemented a shift-left testing strategy, collaborating with developers during story refinement to: Identify automation scenarios early, prepare automation hooks before feature completion, and reduce regression spillover.
- Increased automation velocity across teams by standardizing reusable components and AI-assisted development practices.
- Integrated Azure Functions within CI pipelines to optimize environment validations, and reduce execution overhead, which reduced 50% of the overall execution time
Software Engineer
Integra Connect Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
03.2019 - 09.2022
- Designed automation frameworks integrating DB validations and environment checks.
- Automated regression for production dashboards, reducing manual verification effort.
- Strengthened CI reliability by resolving intermittent failures and improving test stability.
Software Engineer
athenahealth Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
06.2016 - 03.2019
- Developed internal tools and API regression frameworks using Java, Perl, SQL.
- Built deployment workflows using Docker and AWS ECS.
- Created tools to track API dependencies, reducing manual testing effort.
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology
Velammal Engineering College
05.2016
Skills
Automation & framework architecture
- Playwright (TypeScript) – advanced framework development
- Selenium WebDriver (C#) – enterprise automation architecture
- Modular and scalable test framework design
- Page Object Model (POM), fixture-based design
- Cross-browser and cross-environment automation
- API automation (REST, JSON validation, DB validation)
Programming and scripting
- TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6)
- C#, Java
- SQL (complex joins, validations)
AI-driven test engineering
- Prompt engineering for test script generation
- AI-assisted automation using Augment AI
- Structured prompt templates for reusable automation generation
- AI-powered locator generation and dynamic test case scaffolding
- Automation acceleration using LLM-assisted scripting
DevOps and CI/CD
- Azure DevOps pipelines
- Jenkins
- Git (branching strategies)
Awards Recognition
- ResMed Spotlight Award - Automation API integration.
- Integra Connect MVP - Led automation improvements during environment transition.
- Athenahealth Extra Mile Award - Exceptional ownership and delivery.
Key Quality Engineering Contributions
- Established scalable automation aligned with CI/CD pipelines.
- Reduced regression cycle time through AI-assisted scripting.
- Improved release confidence through early defect detection.
- Enhanced automation reliability using reusable modular components.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
ResMed Technology Pvt. Ltd
09.2022 - Current
Software Engineer
Integra Connect Pvt. Ltd
03.2019 - 09.2022
Software Engineer
athenahealth Pvt. Ltd
06.2016 - 03.2019
B.Tech - Information Technology
Velammal Engineering College