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Quality Assurance Engineer Automation & Manual Testing

Location:
Pleasanton, CA
Posted:
February 25, 2026

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Resume:

Ruchika Saxena (Quality Engineer) Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ruchika2019

Mobile: 510-***-**** Email: **********@*****.***

Expertise

● 9 years’ experience in Automation and Manual testing of mobile and web applications. Well versed with SDLC, STLC and Quality practices.

● Proficient in collaborating across teams in agile, working on high visibility products and meeting tight deadlines.

● Adept at creating Test Plans & Test Cases, filing & triaging bugs, extracting logs, security testing, documenting and ensuring high quality.

● Strong in -

Testing ML and Roberta models for Machine Learning.

Writing automation scripts in Selenium/ Appium using Java & Python with TestNG framework, and in Cypress & Playwright using Typescript.

Executing SQL queries for database verification in MySQL.

Testing RESTful APIs using Postman/ Charles/ RESTAssured.

Tools like Jenkins, Git, Github actions, X-Ray, Azure, Kontent AI, Datadog

Understanding of Trunk & feature based development, Docker Containers.

● Proficient in Smoke, Functional, Security, Regression, Integration, UI, Accessibility, Localization, Events, and A/B testing.

● Excellent time management skills, and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities to meet deadlines.

● Documentation skills for standardization of testing guidelines, matrics, & features.

● A team player with excellent communication skills, self-starter, and a fast learner. Experience

QA Engineer at Ddiworld - (Since Oct’ 2024)

It is an international human resources and leadership development consultancy. DDI works with organizations to make changes related to leadership development, leadership selection, succession management, and execution and performance. Responsibilities/ Achievements:

● Test the Roberta and ML models to ensure that the algorithms are set up correctly and the results are accurate, by performing repeatability testing in different phases.

● Perform functional testing during model evaluation and also in the model development phase by following the shift left approach.

● Test the function app, service bus and bus-listeners, to ensure that the bus message contains the correct message to the next entity.

● Develop the framework in Playwright, enable it in the Jenkins build pipeline, and automate the testcases using Typescript.

● Test Gateway API and mcroservices using Postman/ swagger.

● Perform database testing to ensure application data is stored and retireve correctly.

● Debug logs in datadog and app insights, analyse root cause for issues.

● Participate in code reviews of scripts added by other engineers before it is merged.

● Collaborate with data, product, devops teams and quality engineers for smooth functioning of sprint activities & knowledge sharing.

● Perform functional, security, integration testing to ensure that the UI and API of the module are working correctly and also integrating with other module of the application. Technology used:

Typescript, Playwright, Selenium, Java, Jenkins, Git, Github Actions, Github Copilot, Postman, Azure, Jira, Testrail, XRay, App insights, Miro, Databricks,Trunk based development, Datadog, ChatGPT, Atlassian AI.

QA Engineer II at Lancesoft Inc. (client-Paramount Global) -

(Feb’ 2024 - Oct’ 2024)

As a QE in Live Services Platform team, I was responsible for quality of video orchestration. Responsibilities/ Achievements:

● Tested video streaming and orchestration management tools for smooth and efficient live streaming of CBS sports.

● Developed test plans/ test cases for the application & defined automation scope.

● Validate APIs using postman for Zixibot, to ensure that the APIs function reliably to support the smooth operation of the Live Services platform.

● Automate the API testcases using RESTAssured frameworto ensure there are no regressions happening due to the new features.

Technology used:

Java, Selenium, Cypress, Jira, Jenkins, Git, Postman, REST Assured, Testrail, Maven, TestNG, JSON, VS Code, Jsonschema2pojo, Allure reports, New Relic, Airtable. SDET at Tiktok - (Jan’ 2022 - Aug’ 2023)

As the founding member of the Intelligent Creation team in US, I was responsible for maintaining high quality and functionality of video creation tools for millions of users worldwide. Responsibilities/ Achievements:

● I worked closely with the development teams to design and implement test strategies and quality practices, and ensured no P0/ P1 is introduced.

● Verified video creation and streaming quality on different networks; recommendation system for music and stickers, video upload/ download; audio synchronization; security of the uploaded/ created video and audio.

● Created test plan, test cases, test-summary reports, matrics and other documentation.

● Performed root cause analysis for failed tests, updated flaky tests, filed & triaged issues, analyzed internal/ external feedback.

● Collaborated with XFN teams for UI, functional, and integration testing of new features.

● Conducted AB tests on new features alongside conflicting features Analyzed and triaged internal/ external feedback.

● Participated in PRD/ tech review meetings, conducted test case review/ analysis and knowledge sharing sessions for the team.

Technology used:

Java, Selenium, Cypress, Typescript, Jira, Jenkins, Git, Postman, Charles, Maven, TestNG, JSON, Anywhere door, Mindmap, Libra, ByteIO, Chromepath. Software Quality Engineer at Earnest - (Dec’ 2019 - Jan’ 2022) Earnest is a fintech leader that offers education financing products including student loan refinancing and private student loans.

Responsibilities/ Achievements:

● I was responsible for manually testing sprint tickets, automate the scenarios and collaborate with other team members/ teams for end-to-end testing.

● Created the framework in Cypress for the new squad, enabled it in Jenkins nightly build for a smooth CI/CD pipeline integration along with updates in the slack channel.

● Automated the functional tests in Cypress/ Typescript while manually testing the features, ensuring quality and meeting project deadlines.

● Coordinated beta testing for one of the projects, performed API and database testing.

● Added test ids across multiple repos to achieve code consistency. Created a dashboard in Jira for showcasing the test coverage.

● Worked with the Dev productivity team to enable code coverage for repositories so that no PR can be merged until a quality gate of 80-90% is achieved.

● Provided weekly KPI metrics and presented bi-weekly updates from the QA squad.

● Collaborated with the offshore team and an onsite test engineer for ensuring that the sprint work is completed on time and regression is run smoothly. Technology used:

Jira, Xray, Cypress, Selenium, Typescript, Java, Node.js, TestNG, Maven, SQL, Appium, Jenkins, Git, Postman, Docker, Segment, Optimizely, Splunk, JSON, React, HTML5, CSS3 Quality Engineer at World IP Phone Inc. (Client - Google) -

(Oct’ 2016 - Nov’ 2019)

Worked in the Google Keyboard team for testing Gboard on mobile devices. Responsibilities/ Achievements:

● Lead tester for Gboard features like Glide typing, User History, Google translate, Autocorrection/ suggestion, Handwriting layout, Language models, Emojis, etc

● Streamlined the testing process by - designing the standards for test case layout, initiating peer review and team involvement in early development cycle, creating process documents, improving the bug filling process and triaging automation bugs.

● Automated regression tests on mobile devices and conducted Smoke, Functional, GUI, Accessibility, Data Push and localization testing. Technology used: Python, Buganizer, Test tracker, Selenium, Mobile Harness, Surf, CI, ADB, Mobile devices, Dev Utils.



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