Senior SDET Java, Selenium, API Automation

SHUBHAM CHHABRA

SDET QA Automation Engineer

Bangalore, India +91-895******* *****.****@*****.*** PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results-driven SDET with 4.1+ years of experience building scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, and database layers. Adept at designing test strategies that measurably improve release velocity, defect prevention, and coverage in Agile environments. Proficient in leveraging AI-powered tools to accelerate test development and reduce maintenance overhead. Known for independently owning quality across multi-developer product teams. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, SQL

Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, Appium, Postman Frameworks & Patterns: TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), Page Object Model, Data-Driven Framework CI/CD & Version Control: Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Maven Testing Types: Functional, Regression, Integration, End-to-End, Smoke, Sanity, API, UI Performance & Cloud: JMeter, AWS CloudWatch

AI-Assisted Testing: ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot, self-healing locators, AI-driven test generation Project Management: Jira, Zephyr, Agile/Scrum

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Automation Engineer (SDET) Feb 2022 – Present

Goodera — Bangalore, India

• Framework Design: Architected a Selenium-Java automation framework from scratch using Page Object Model and Data-Driven patterns, scaling test coverage from 60% to 90% across web modules.

• Regression Optimization: Automated repetitive regression suites and integrated them into nightly Jenkins CI runs, reducing manual execution effort by 40%.

• API Automation: Built a RestAssured API test layer with TestNG assertions, enabling shift-left defect detection and cutting production incidents by 15%.

• Cross-Functional QA Ownership: Served as the sole QA for an 8-developer product team, owning test strategy, execution, and sign-off across UI, API, and database layers.

• Data Validation: Authored parameterized SQL queries in MySQL and PostgreSQL to validate data consistency across dev, staging, and production environments.

• Defect Prevention: Performed Root Cause Analysis on production incidents and translated findings into preventive test cases, lowering defect recurrence.

• Agile Process: Drove sprint-level test planning, participated in grooming and retrospectives, and aligned automation priorities with Agile release cadence.

• Performance & Observability: Conducted baseline load tests using JMeter and configured AWS CloudWatch dashboards to monitor application health during peak traffic.

• AI-Augmented Testing: Accelerated test authoring and debugging using ChatGPT, Claude, and GitHub Copilot; explored self-healing locator strategies to reduce flaky UI test maintenance. KEY PROJECTS

Goodyos Jan 2025 – Present

• Created a comprehensive test strategy and automation roadmap tailored to high-frequency release cycles.

• Established a defect triage workflow with developers, reducing average issue-to-fix turnaround time.

• Implemented Cucumber BDD scenarios to bridge communication between QA, product, and engineering teams on acceptance criteria.

• Built data-driven test suites with dynamic test data sourced from Excel and database queries, enabling scalable execution across configurations.

• Set up parallel execution using TestNG XML suites, cutting overall suite runtime and supporting faster release validation.

VVAPP

• Designed a dual-layer automation architecture covering Selenium UI tests and RestAssured API validations in a unified suite.

• Enabled multi-environment test execution (dev, staging, prod) through parameterized configuration management.

• Developed reusable utility libraries for common actions (waits, retries, screenshot capture), reducing boilerplate code across test classes.

• Integrated extent reports and logging for detailed test execution dashboards, improving failure analysis and stakeholder visibility.

• Collaborated with backend engineers to validate webhook payloads and third-party API integrations through contract- style assertions.

EDUCATION

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering 2012 – 2016

University Institute of Engineering & Technology, MDU — Rohtak, Haryana

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