Padmapriya Elangovan

• Test Automation Leadership: Designed and enhanced scalable automation frameworks using Playwright & TypeScript, driving maintainability and accelerating test coverage across UI and API layers.
• Quality & Delivery Optimization: Led high-impact regression and integration efforts, improving release quality through strategic automation, environment stability initiatives, and CI/CD pipeline optimization in Azure DevOps.
• Cross-Functional Problem Solving: Collaborated with multiple teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex environment and deployment issues, implementing database rollback and snapshot strategies to ensure delivery continuity.

COMFY/ENLIGHTED CONNECT :

• Comprehensive Test Automation & Skill Development (Selenium & TestNG): Conducted comprehensive regression and sanity testing, leveraging both manual and automated approaches with Selenium and TestNG frameworks. Additionally, mastered Java for enhanced automation capabilities. Reduced the number of manual test cases by 20% through automation.
• Quality Assurance & Release Support: Managed testing across various environments, analyzing test reports to identify and address issues before monthly releases.
• Agile Collaboration & Innovation: Actively participated in sprint planning and stand-up meetings, fostering close collaboration with developers for successful project execution. Independently developed API test suite using Postman, significantly increasing test coverage.

SIPORT Project :

• Rigorous Testing & Script Development (UFT & Postman): Executed regression, sanity, and in-depth REST API testing for rich client application, utilizing UFT for core functional testing and Postman for API validation. Actively participated in script maintenance and creation of new test cases. Identified and resolved around 10 critical defects during testing, preventing potential issues in production.
• Collaboration & Problem-Solving: Demonstrated exceptional collaboration skills by working effectively with cross-functional teams to resolve critical challenges and ensure project progress.
• Delivery & Asset Management: Took ownership for script delivery for every significant build received, ensuring timely testing completion. Managed and maintained virtual machines utilized in project, demonstrating commitment to asset optimization.

UNILEVER Project :

• Enhanced Automation Framework (UFT): Restructured framework using descriptive programming in UFT,improving maintainability and enabling dynamic object identification for web app testing.
• Quality Assurance & Leadership: Led regression and sanity testing for SAP-based web application,identifying high-priority defects. Collaborated with development team for bug resolution and functional requirement analysis.

LARA - CMA CGM Project :

• Efficient Test Automation (UFT & ALM): Analyzed and scripted complex test cases with UFT, leveraging ALM for streamlined execution and enhanced test efficiency.
• Innovation & Collaboration: Automated test data generation, reducing manual effort for test data preparation by 3 hours per week. Collaborated closely with functional teams to ensure critical features were effectively tested.

POSTI Project:

• Automated Web Applications (WebdriverIO & JavaScript): Mastered webdriverio and JavaScript for efficient test automation across web applications. Utilized BDD Cucumber framework for structured test development.
• Test Management & Reporting (JIRA): Managed test cases, defects, and reported regression results utilizing JIRA.
• Technical Proficiency & Collaboration: Rapidly adapted to new tools and languages (WebdriverIO & JavaScript).Collaborated with development to resolve issues and coordinate test data setup.
• Automation Framework & CI/CD Integration: Designed and implemented hybrid automation framework,integrating UFT with JIRA for enhanced efficiency. Automated complex test scripts (UFT) thereby increasing the automation coverage by 40% and contributed to seamless overnight test execution through CI/CD pipeline integration.