SAI AVINASH
Hyderabad
Summary
Automation Engineer with 5+ years of experience in designing and maintaining UI, Web, and API automation frameworks. Expertise in C#, WinAppDriver, Appium, Playwright, REST, and gRPC API testing. Demonstrated success in reducing manual testing efforts and enhancing test reliability through innovative automation solutions.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Automation Engineer
RAY IT SOLUTIONS PVT LTD.
Hyderabad
02.2021 - Current
- Results-driven Automation Test Engineer with over 5 years of experience in software testing and automation.
- 2 years of hands-on experience in automating Windows desktop applications using Appium (WinAppDriver) and C#.
- Used Inspect.exe and various strategies (AutomationId, XPath, ClassName) for precise UI element identification.
- Developed and maintained C# automation scripts for complex user flows, including navigation, input validation, and element interaction.
- Applied synchronisation strategies such as explicit and fluent waits, to ensure test reliability.
- Automated test result reporting in Azure DevOps, enabling automatic updates of test case statuses (Pass/Fail) based on execution outcomes.
- 1 year of hands-on experience in API automation testing, developing automated test scripts, and validating RESTful services.
- Automated REST and gRPC API test cases using NUnit, validating request/response contracts, status codes, headers, and message payloads.
- Performed gRPC service testing using protocol buffer (.proto) definitions to validate unary and streaming calls.
- Implemented API validation for positive, negative, and boundary test scenarios, ensuring service reliability.
- Designed reusable utilities for gRPC request construction, response parsing, and assertion handling.
- 2 years of hands-on experience in Playwright automation, developing scalable test scripts to ensure high-quality and reliable web applications.
- Experience in automating the Web applications using Playwright with Reqnroll Framework.
- Implemented page object model (POM) for maintainable and scalable test architecture.
- Validated complex UI workflows including authentication, form submissions, dynamic content handling, and navigation flows.
- Good at writing Xpath for dynamic Web Elements.
- Integrated test results with Extent Reports to provide clear reporting and continuous feedback.
Education
B.E/B.TECH -
Sir CRR College of Engineering
2020
INTERMEDIATE -
NRI Junior College
2016
10TH -
Sree Bharathi High School
2014
Skills
- Appium
- Playwright (Web Automation)
- NUnit Framework
- Postman
- REST API Testing
- gRPC API testing
- Regression and Integration Testing
- Data-driven testing
- Exception Handling Strategies
- Extent Reports and TFS
- Windows Automation Techniques
Timeline
Automation Engineer
RAY IT SOLUTIONS PVT LTD.
02.2021 - Current
B.E/B.TECH -
Sir CRR College of Engineering
INTERMEDIATE -
NRI Junior College
10TH -
Sree Bharathi High School