Results-driven Senior QA Engineer with expertise in Java and Selenium, previously at ClearTax. Achieved a 60% reduction in manual testing through automated regression suites. Proven ability to mentor teams and enhance CI/CD processes, ensuring high-quality software delivery while fostering collaboration and innovation.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior QA Engineer
ClearTax
Bangalore
09.2023 - Current
Served as an SME for the Supply Chain Product, focusing on features including Order Management and Invoices.
Executed 3,000+ test cases, which include sanity, smoke, functional, and system testing to ensure software reliability.
Led comprehensive testing for critical modules, facilitating seamless ERP system integration covering over 50 test cases.
Developed automated regression suites with Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and RPA, reducing manual test coverage by 60%.
Designed and implemented 30 API test plans for RESTful services using Postman, SoapUI, and Swagger.
Utilized JIRA for defect tracking, Jenkins for CI, and GitLab for source code management.
Configured over 500 aligned test data sets, increasing precision by 40%, and cutting manual setup time by 60%.
Participated in Agile Scrum meetings to plan sprints, and track completion progress.
Implemented an automation suite in the Dev environment, enabling early validation by developers, and decreasing post-build defects by 60%.
Collaborated with the development team to integrate automated test execution in Dev, enabling shift-left testing, and reducing the defect count to 60% somewhere within QA cycles.
Authored over 100 detailed bug reports, with reproduction steps and severity tagging, to accelerate issue resolution by 40%.
Integrated a Selenium-based automation suite into the Dev pipeline, allowing for feature validation at the developer level, and improving build quality pre-QA.
Mentored junior QA team members while establishing best practices for test case design, agile processes, and robust QA standards, which helped the QA team accelerate their work to 2x.
Senior Software Engineer
Wissen Technology Pvt. Ltd.
10.2021 - 08.2023
Analyzed client workflows to prepare over 5,000 effective test scenarios and data so that coverage and scope are maintained across the products.
Developed over 300 test scripts, automating 200 successfully so that output can be achieved in less time.
Pioneered an automation framework with Selenium and TestNG, reducing regression testing duration by 60%.
Conducted extensive API testing using Postman, validating request/response flows, and edge cases, resulting in a 50% reduction in functional bugs.
Troubleshot issues for e-commerce websites, including Fresh ID, enhancing customer satisfaction.
Executed 300 to 400 manual test cases across the UI, SQL Server, and web services, achieving 95% functional coverage, and identifying over 50 critical defects before release.
Assessed script feasibility to align with project requirements.
Senior QA Engineer
Synechron Digital Payment Services Pvt. Ltd
01.2018 - 09.2021
Developed over 150 comprehensive test plans and 500+ test cases for web and client-server applications, ensuring 98% test coverage, and reducing post-deployment defects by 40%.
Executed end-to-end quality assurance testing on 20+ web-based, client-server, and database applications, identifying and resolving over 1,200 bugs, with a 92% first-pass yield.
Utilized Jenkins (20+ pipelines), Maven, GitHub (10+ repositories), and Fresh Release to automate testing workflows, reducing manual testing time by 60%, and accelerating release cycles by 30%.
Delivered Agile documentation for 25+ sprints, including 50+ Test/Defect Summary Reports, and 10+ Test Strategy Reports, improving team visibility and test traceability by 85%.
Education
Bachelor Of Technology - EEE
ITER(SOA) University
Bhubaneshwar
04-2017
Senior Secondary Education - Science
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Sundargarh,Odisha,India
03-2013
Senior Secondary Education - Science
Kendiya Vidyalaya
Sundargarh,Odisha,India
03-2011
Skills
Java and Selenium
Test automation frameworks (BDD, Cucumber with TestNG)
Defect tracking (JIRA)
UI and mobile testing
CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
Version control (GitHub)
API testing and documentation (Postman, Rest Assured, Swagger)