Shakunthala Murugappan
Software Test Engineer
Bangalore,KA
Summary
Quality Engineer with 2+ years of experience in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, API Testing, and Web Application Testing. Skilled in Selenium WebDriver, PyTest, Postman, SQL, and Agile methodologies. Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Defect Life Cycle, and Test Automation Frameworks.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Test Engineer
Clinisys
07.2024 - Current
- Designed and executed 200+ test cases and test scenarios for healthcare web applications, ensuring comprehensive functional coverage.
- Performed Functional, Smoke, Sanity, Regression, and Integration Testing, reducing production defects by approximately 25%.
Developed and maintained Selenium WebDriver automation scripts using Java, reducing manual regression testing effort by 40%. - Executed API testing using Postman and validated REST API responses, improving API defect detection by 30%.
- Performed SQL database validation to ensure 95%+ data accuracy between frontend and backend systems.
- Logged, tracked, and verified defects throughout the Defect Life Cycle, contributing to a 20% improvement in release quality.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams in Agile environments, helping achieve 95%+ sprint testing completion.
- Participated in release validation and production verification activities, ensuring stable deployments.
Intern
Clinisys
02.2024 - 06.2024
- Executed 100+ manual test cases for healthcare web applications.
- Performed Smoke, Functional, and Regression Testing, improving test coverage by 20%.
- Identified and reported defects, contributing to faster issue resolution by approximately 15%.
- Assisted in API validation and automation testing activities using Postman and Selenium.
Prepared test execution reports and defect summaries for sprint releases.
Education
B.E - Information Science
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
04.2001 -
PUC - Computer Science
CMR National PU College
04.2001 -
SSLC -
Baldwin Girl's High School
04.2001 -
Skills
Testing :Manual Testing ,Automation Testing ,Functional Testing ,Regression Testing ,Smoke Testing ,Sanity Testing ,Integration Testing ,System Testing ,End-to-End Testing ,User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Exploratory Testing
Testing Concepts: SDLC ,STLC ,Defect Life Cycle, Test Planning ,Test Case Design ,Test Scenario Creation ,Defect Tracking ,Requirement Analysis ,Root Cause Analysis
Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, PyTest ,Page Object Model (POM), Data-Driven Framework
API Testing: Postman ,REST API Testing ,JSON Validation ,Request & Response Validation ,API Functional Testing
Programming Languages :Python, C#
Databases: SQL ,MySQL
Development & Backend :FastAPI ,Django ,REST APIs ,SQLAlchemy
DevOps & Tools :Azure DevOps Git ,Swagger
AI Technologies: Generative AI ,LLMs ,RAG ,LangChain ,LangGraph ,AI Agents
Technical Competencies
- Proficient in developing high-performance RESTful APIs using FastAPI, with a focus on asynchronous request handling, routing, and data processing.
- Skilled in engineering secure authentication flows, including OAuth2 and JWT token-based authorization, for protecting sensitive data and ensuring system security.
- Expertise in implementing data persistence layers using SQLAlchemy ORM, designing relational models, and managing complex database relationships.
- Advanced knowledge of data integrity and type safety across API layers, leveraging Pydantic for request validation and response schema modeling.
- Capable of architecting modular backend services with environment-based configurations and robust error-handling patterns.
- Equipped to interface Python applications with SQL databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and perform query optimization and strategic indexing.
- Strong grasp of modern development workflows, including Git version control, virtual environments, and dependency management.
- Committed to writing clean, modular Python code following OOP principles and backend design patterns.
- Technical competency in implementing core features, such as login flows, CRUD modules, and token-based authentication.
- Proficient in validating API endpoints using Postman and conducting automated testing with Pytest to ensure system reliability.
Timeline
Software Test Engineer
Clinisys
07.2024 - Current
Intern
Clinisys
02.2024 - 06.2024
B.E - Information Science
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
04.2001 -
PUC - Computer Science
CMR National PU College
04.2001 -
SSLC -
Baldwin Girl's High School
04.2001 -