Preethi Viswanathan

Test Lead, Payoda Technologies — Feb 2024 – Present

• Leading the Quality Assurance (QA) function for web-based applications, with a focus on test automation, overall QA strategy, and team collaboration.
• Managing functional, regression, and sanity testing cycles, leveraging both manual and automated approaches.
• Building and maintaining automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver with Java, aligned with BDD (Cucumber) and TestNG/JUnit practices.
• Driving cross-browser and multi-environment testing to ensure application consistency and quality across platforms.
• Overseeing test planning, execution pipelines, and defect management via JIRA.
• Guiding the QA team in adopting Agile/Scrum methodologies, ensuring sprint-based delivery, continuous integration via Maven, and participation in daily ceremonies.
• Implementing Page Object Model (POM) patterns and advocating OOP best practices to support robust and maintainable test code.
• Version control responsibility using GIT, maintaining high code quality and shared collaboration.
• Championing process improvement and QA excellence in line with Payoda’s values of continuous learning, collaboration, and high customer satisfaction

Senior Software Engineer Wipro — 2022 to Jan 2024 (1.10 years)

• Designed and implemented automation test cases using Selenium WebDriver with Java, focusing on scalable and maintainable code structures.
• Worked on BDD frameworks like Cucumber, integrating them with Maven and JUnit/TestNG for efficient test execution and reporting.
• Followed the Page Object Model (POM) for building robust test frameworks and improving code reusability.
• Performed functional, regression, and sanity testing for critical web applications across the Retail and Insurance domains.
• Collaborated with developers and business analysts in Agile (Scrum) teams to understand requirements and ensure complete test coverage.
• Managed test activities using JIRA, including story review, test case creation, execution, and defect tracking.
• Executed cross-browser testing and validated application behavior in different environments for consistency and reliability.
• Maintained automation code and contributed to version control processes using GIT.