Venkatesh T S
Bangalore/Bengaluru
Summary
Senior Software Engineer in Test with 9+ years of experience specializing in automation testing for web applications and API automation. Strong expertise in building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks, API automation, CI/CD integration, and AI-assisted testing practices. Proven ability to improve test efficiency, reliability, and delivery quality in Agile environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer in Test
HealthEdge Technologies India Pvt Ltd
01.2025 - Current
- Https://healthedge.com/
Senior SDET
Wellframe
01.2025 - Current
- Designed and implemented API automation frameworks using Java, Rest Assured, and Cucumber BDD to validate end-to-end business workflows.
- Developed reusable step definitions, request/response builders, and common utilities to improve test scalability and maintainability.
- Automated positive, negative, and boundary scenarios to ensure API reliability, data accuracy, and contract validation.
- Integrated API automation suites into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous regression and deployment validation.
- Designed and developed an AI-based visual testing tool to perform visual regression testing of dashboard UI across multiple environments.
- Effectively utilized GitHub Copilot for intelligent code generation and agentic workflows, accelerating automation development and reducing manual coding effort.
- Leveraged Claude Desktop with MCP integrations (File System, REST API, and Playwright MCP) to generate automation code, analyze UI behavior, and retrieve relevant technical information efficiently.
- Applied AI tools strategically to improve development speed, code quality, and problem-solving during automation framework enhancements.
- The Wellframe project is a healthcare engagement platform that enables members to actively manage their health through digital care programs, messaging, and personalized dashboards.
Senior Engineer
QualiTest Group India
05.2021 - 12.2024
- Https://www.qualitestgroup.com/
SDET
Discover
04.2022 - 12.2024
- Writing the automation test scenarios in cucumber gherkin language and implementing test steps and its functions using Rest-Assured java code and which increases testing efficiency by 95%.
- Deployment of applications into testing environment.
- Involved in file manipulation in AWS platform and CloudWatch log verification.
- Analyzing the regression report and reporting defects to developers.
- Execution of regression test suite in Jenkin platform.
- Running the weekly regression suite and updating the reports to the client.
- Developed an automation script to handle different http methods such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and validated the response.
- Experience in fixing the code issue based on the report generated by the SonarQube.
- Project is under Agile environment, Responsible for attending Sprint Planning Session, Grooming session, Stand up calls, Retrospective calls.
- Presenting a scenario walkthrough and execution demo for every requirement with the PO’s and team.
- Discover is a banking domain application & part of the Prefetcher component (Settlement) team. The Prefetcher component fetches the data from upstream applications and provides it to the downstream applications.
Senior Automation Engineer
Fabric
06.2021 - 02.2022
- Successfully developed a selenium automation framework using a design pattern - Page Object Model and cucumber framework from scratch.
- Understanding the test cases / scenarios written by the functional team and writing the automation test cases in cucumber gherkin language and implementing test steps and its functions using selenium java code.
- Execution of regression test suite in sauce lab cloud platform across multiple browsers in parallel execution mode.
- Analyzing the regression report and reporting defects to developers.
- Doing the root cause analysis (RCA) for the failed test scripts and providing the fixes.
- Used locators such as id, name, className, Xpath, CssSelectors etc... To identify the web element in a web page also experience in writing customized Xpath.
- Project is under Agile environment, Responsible for attending Sprint Planning Session, Grooming session, Stand up calls, Retrospective calls.
- Fabric is a group of E-Commerce web applications; it is commonly used to refer to selling products and services over the internet to consumers or other businesses.
Software Engineer
Marlabs Innovations Private Ltd
10.2019 - 05.2021
- Https://www.marlabs.com/
Automation Engineer
LearnShare (LS)
10.2019 - 03.2021
- Understanding Acceptance criteria in the User Stories and Identifying the Functional scenarios and Prepared Test Scenarios based on the User Stories.
- Designing Test Cases based on the Test Scenarios and Executing it using QTest Test Management Tools.
- Performed functional, compatibility testing on different browsers like IE, Firefox & Chrome.
- Performing Smoke, Sanity, Integration testing, Functional, Regression, Re-testing.
- Performed API testing using POSTMAN tool.
- Managing Defect Tracking Process involving Defect reporting and verification using Defect Tracking Tools like JIRA and Version One.
- Developed the Automation Test Scripts in Selenium WebDriver using Java based on the design pattern Page Object Model for re-usability.
- Used locators such as id, name, className, Xpath, CssSelectors etc... To identify the web element in a web page also experience in writing customized Xpath.
- Executing the regression and analyzing the regression report and reporting defects to developers.
- Project is under Agile environment, Responsible for attending Sprint Planning Session, grooming session, Stand up calls, Retrospective calls.
- ELMS is a learning application designed for hospital staff. Using this application mandatory training can be assigned for new joiners or group of Audience by creating an Audience Templates, and can keep track of training, Certification details and can assign badges.
Software Test Engineer
Atman Technologies
08.2014 - 09.2017
- Http://atmantechnologies.com/
Education
B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering
VTU University VVIT College
BangaloreSkills
- Selenium WebDriver 3&4
- Java
- Cucumber (BDD)
- Rest Assured
- POSTMAN
- TestNG
- Junit
- Git hub
- Jenkins
- POM
- Maven
- JIRA
- AWS
- Nexus Repository
- SonarQube (Code coverage)
- STLC
- Regression
- Smoke
- System Integration testing
- SQL
- QTest (Test Case Management tool)
- Agile methodology
- Daily stand up
- Sprint planning/grooming
- Retrospective meeting
- CICD setup
- GitHub Copilot (Generative AI)
- GitHub Copilot (Agentic Mode)
- Claude Desktop
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- AI-Driven Productivity
Accomplishments
- Secured a special mention at the HealthEdge 2025 Hackathon for driving AI-powered automation testing and delivering innovative testing solutions.
- Received an appreciation award from Asset Harvest Quietest team for implementing an automation framework which ranked top 2 out of all 19 submissions.
- Received an award for helping the other team in the huddle situation.
- Part of screening the candidates and participating as an interviewer during the weekend drives.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer in Test
HealthEdge Technologies India Pvt Ltd
01.2025 - Current
Senior SDET
Wellframe
01.2025 - Current
SDET
Discover
04.2022 - 12.2024
Senior Automation Engineer
Fabric
06.2021 - 02.2022
Senior Engineer
QualiTest Group India
05.2021 - 12.2024
Software Engineer
Marlabs Innovations Private Ltd
10.2019 - 05.2021
Automation Engineer
LearnShare (LS)
10.2019 - 03.2021
Software Test Engineer
Atman Technologies
08.2014 - 09.2017
B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering
VTU University VVIT College