SOUMYA PRABHA
KHANDAI
Dallas
Texas, USA
********.*******@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Enthusiastic software Test/QA Engineer with 7 years of experience eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Clear understanding of application life cycle, testing methodologies like Automation, Functional and User Acceptance and best practices for releasing high quality software applications. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in the rapid software development industry. EXPERIENCE
Test Automation Engineer Epsilon Data Management LLC - Irving, Texas 2023 - 2024
● Designed Automation and Manual test cases from the requirement and documented using test rail.
● Setup selenium test project environment using Maven, Selenium WebDriver, Java 11, TestNG, Jenkins, etc.)
● Created Test Cases using Element locators, Page Object and Selenium WebDriver Commands
● Implemented a scalable API testing framework using Rest Assured which resulted in 40% reduction in TTM.
● Used Postman to conduct manual web service testing on various requests such as GET, PUT, POST and DELETE also wrote customer assertions of those Restful APIs.
● Created, Organized and managed Test Automation Resources like test data and test servers.
● Created and executed automation project (on demand/scheduled) using Jenkins pipeline,
● Ran regression testing as part of each release cycle logged and assigned defects and kept track of the defect status using Jira.
● Used daily scrum calls to communicate the defects/ test run results to the development team. Also created a bug report and dashboards out of Jira and shared with stakeholders for tracking.
● Provided test sign off for stories before release. Also performed manual testing when needed.
● Mentored team members on the frameworks and technologies used in the project.
● Developed a robust suite of automated tests using Cucumber and Selenium, resulting in a 30% reduction in regression testing time.
● Successfully implemented Cucumber BDD framework, improving collaboration between QA and development teams and enhancing test coverage.
QA Engineer Brady (Maantic INC)- Tempe, AZ
2022 – 2023
● Coordinated with Scrum Master and stakeholders for Understanding the business requirement and technical specification documents.
● Guiding and mentoring team members, clarifying their queries, helping them to fix manual and automation related issues.
● Creating and managing Postman collections and environments.
● Developed and executed comprehensive test plans for a RESTful API using Postman, resulting in increased code quality and reduced production issues.
● Prepared requirement traceability matrix and test coverage report.
● Performed Smoke, System testing, system Integration Testing, and Regression testing.
● Prepared Test cases, Bug Tracking report, Logging and reporting bugs using Quality center and JIRA.
● Experience developing a Comprehensive Test plan report inclusive of all testing activities.
● Updating status report daily basis and weekly basis by conducting meetings with QA team.
● Conducted functional testing for applications to ensure requirements are met.
● Extensively interacted with developers to analyze and resolve the issues that were encountered while testing the application.
● Knowledge of ITSM frameworks and their application in testing.
● Good understanding of Devops practice and tools. Test Engineer Hamburg Sued (CGI) - Bangalore, India 2014 – 2019
● Broke down Complicated CRs (change requests) into Test Scenarios and provided estimation for CRs or requirements.
● Involved in Internal and external Peer reviews, REs reviews and Business reviews.
● Detected the defects & logged the defects, after classifying them based on the priority and Severity.
● Effectively involved in Root cause analysis of defects found in production and later design test cases for them.
● Helped the Automation team and explained to them application functionality for writing the test cases.
● Involved extensively in doing Smoke testing, Functional testing and Regression testing.
● Traveled Hamburg- Germany multiple times for UAT (User acceptance Testing) and for business meetings
& also for working independently in a project in agile methodology.
● Visited Poland to work with the product development team and conducted multiple knowledge sharing sessions with them to understand the Testing process. SKILLS
٠ Java (8, 11)
٠ Selenium/WebDriver
٠ Cucumber
٠ TestNG
٠ SQL
٠ Rest Assured
٠ Postman
٠ Jenkins
٠ Docker
٠ UAT
٠ Automation Testing
٠ Performance Testing
٠ JMeter
٠ Jira
٠ Rest API
٠ Defect tracking and Monitoring
٠ Manual Testing
٠ Agile
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Technology: Electronic and Communications SCSVMV University 2010 – 2013
AWS certified cloud practitioner 2024 - 2027
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2025 - 2028