Sushmitha Aranganathan
Accenture
Chennai
1
Certification
10
years of professional experience
Innovative Quality Assurance Automation professional with over 10 years of experience in designing and implementing automated testing strategies. Expertise in leveraging AI-driven quality engineering and intelligent test automation to enhance product quality and accelerate delivery. Skilled in leading QA teams, optimizing testing operations, and ensuring compliance during end-to-end production releases.
Work History
Automation Test Lead
2 Years 10 Months- Built Playwright-based end-to-end automation from scratch, reaching approximately 80–90% automation coverage for critical business scenarios and improving regression efficiency.
- Automated CI/CD pipeline execution for test suites, supporting scheduled and on-demand regression runs, faster feedback, and stronger release validation.
- Applied agentic AI methods to speed up automation scripting and test development, using intelligent generation and refinement of automated test scripts from business requirements and user stories.
- Generated AI-assisted test cases from user stories and acceptance criteria, enhancing test coverage and minimizing manual test-design effort.
- Created test strategy, test plan, and QA approach for functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing across multiple releases.
- Led integration, regression, functional, and end-to-end testing across modernized applications, maintaining business continuity and functional parity during legacy-to-modern platform transition.
- Supported a 4-person QA team for a large-scale retail legacy-to-modernization program for a major U.S. retail chain, covering QA lifecycle from test planning and strategy through production rollout across ~900 stores.
- Partnered in production rollout across ~900 stores, coordinating test readiness, release validation, defect resolution, and post-production support.
- Led client-facing testing initiatives, managing stakeholder communication, risks, dependencies, testing progress, and ensuring release readiness.
- Tested TC52 mobile handheld devices used in inventory operations, validating device-to-application workflows and stock management processes.
- Provided technical and functional guidance to QA team, advancing automation adoption, AI-enabled testing, test quality, CI/CD integration, and continuous improvement, recognized for timely delivery and accountability.
Senior Software Test Analyst
1 Year 10 Months- Performed code reviews and enforced UiPath best practices to raise workflow quality, reusability, and scalability while coordinating testing and dependency resolution.
- Implemented logging, exception handling, and HTML reporting to strengthen execution traceability, metrics visibility, and diagnostic reliability.
- Built JMeter performance testing capability by independently executing tests for monthly releases, preparing detailed client reports, and integrating with TeamCity to support scheduled performance test runs.
- Directed team of 3 through project roadmap definition and execution, facilitated requirement-gathering sessions with BAs, and aligned stakeholder meetings to track progress, resolve blockers, and drive enhancement planning.
Senior Test Engineer
2 Years- Working for Lloyds one of the largest Bank in the UK. The purpose of the project is to build flexible scalable and resilient set of microservices which are aligned to various Payment Domains and Channel.
- Led team of 3 to develop features and functionalities in BDD tests for end-to-end flow across multiple microservices.
- Developed automation test scripts in Selenium using Cucumber BDD and the Spring Test framework; performed unit tests using JUnit.
- Experience in Microservice architecture with Spring Boot based services interacting through a combination of Restful API Camel and Apache Kafka message brokers
- Analyze each user story writing scenario for each acceptance criteria, Defect Reporting and Tracking using Process Management Tools like JIRA, ALM
- Pushed code will be triggered in a Rancher test environment and will run the test scripts then a customized report will be created as per the framework designed and per client requirements
- Implemented continuous deployment builds for each SIT release using Kubernetes.
Test Engineer
2 Years 9 Months- Straight through Payments is a Payment Engine which receives the payments from upstream system. Payments will be processed and validated will be verified and sent to downstream accounting systems
- Led team of 6 as key liaison between development, SME, and business teams throughout testing, ensuring visibility and clarity in business requirements.
- Collaborated with an offshore team to assign testing responsibilities, follow up on test completion, and report status to the project manager, including weekly updates.
- Strong in analyzing and understanding Business specifications, testing requirements and Developing Test plans, Test cases, Test Scenarios and Traceability Matrix
- Expertise in different Types of Testing - Integration, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke
- Expertise in SQL database testing involving SQL Queries, Joins to pull data from database and report verification
- Outlined key achievements and tasks to track project progress.
- Compiled end-of-release reports to summarize project outcomes and conducted walk-throughs for clients at the end of each release.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics and communication
Skills
Test automation frameworks
Behavior-driven development
CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
Mobile testing with Appium
API testing with Postman
RPA solutions with UiPath
AI-driven testing methodologies
JavaScript and Java proficiency
Unit testing with JUnit
Build management with Maven
Version control with Git
Container orchestration with Docker
Test strategy and defect management
IDE proficiency (VSCode
IntelliJ)
Certification
- Generative AI Certified Associate / Professional – Accenture (2026)
LANGUAGES
English, Tamil, French
Timeline
Automation Test Lead
Accenture
12.2023 - CurrentRead More
Senior Software Test Analyst
Accenture
01.2022 - 11.2023Read More
Senior Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies
12.2019 - 12.2021Read More
Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies
02.2017 - 11.2019Read More
BS Abdur Rahman Crescent University
B.Tech from Electronics and communication
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