QA Automation Engineer with Selenium and Playwright

Samuraju Thota

QA Automation Engineer

Hyderabad, India +91-738******* **********@*****.*** LinkedIn SUMMARY

QA Automation Engineer with 3+ years of experience in manual, automation and API testing of web applications. Builds scalable Selenium WebDriver (Java, TestNG, Maven) and Playwright test suites using the Page Object Model, validates REST APIs with Postman and checks back-end data with SQL. Experienced in Agile/Scrum, Jira defect tracking, regression and cross-browser testing, and CI/CD build verification with Jenkins and Git. Uses AI-assisted tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to speed up test case design, test data generation, script creation and failure analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Selenium WebDriver, Playwright (auto-waiting, locators, fixtures, trace viewer, parallel execution), TestNG, Page Object Model, Data-Driven and Hybrid Frameworks, Cross-Browser Testing, Smoke and Sanity Suites

AI in Testing AI-assisted test case generation, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT prompt engineering, AI-driven test data creation, self-healing locators (concepts), flaky test analysis, defect summarization Languages Java, JavaScript/TypeScript (Playwright basics), SQL, Python (basics) API Testing Postman, REST APIs, JSON, CRUD validation, status codes, payload and schema checks, authentication, Newman (basics)

Testing Types Functional, Regression, Integration, UI, Mobile, Smoke, Sanity, Exploratory, UAT Support, Black-Box Testing

QA Process SDLC, STLC, Bug Life Cycle, Agile/Scrum, Test Plans, Test Cases, RTM, Test Data, Defect and Test Summary Reports, Root Cause Analysis

Tools Jira, Maven, Git/GitHub, Jenkins (CI/CD), MySQL, Eclipse/IntelliJ, VS Code, Extent Reports PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Automation Engineer July 2025 – Present

Pirnav Software Solutions Hyderabad, India

Employee Management System (EMS)

• Automated critical HR workflows (onboarding, attendance, payroll) using Selenium WebDriver with Java and Playwright, and added them to the regression suite.

• Designed and executed manual and automated test cases for functional, regression and integration scenarios across records, attendance, payroll and performance modules.

• Tested REST APIs with Postman collections, validating status codes, request payloads, response schemas and data accuracy.

• Wrote SQL queries to confirm UI actions and API calls produced correct back-end data.

• Used AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot) to draft test scenarios, generate test data and speed up script debugging and failure analysis.

• Logged and tracked defects in Jira, worked with developers to close themwithinsprinttimelines,and supported Jenkins CI/CD runs and release build verification.

Inventory Management System (IMS)

• Tested stock management, supplier handling, order processing and warehouse tracking workflows, including regression and integration testing.

• Automated high-use scenarios in Selenium and Playwright; maintained scripts, reusable page objects and execution reports.

• Validated API endpoints and CRUD operations in Postman and checked back-end data consistency after each operation.

• Reported defects with clear reproduction steps and root cause analysis, and joined release validation with QA and development teams. QA Automation Engineer Sept 2023 – May 2025

Wipro Limited Hyderabad, India

CA Firm Management & Compliance Automation System

• Tested a web application used by Chartered Accountant firms to manage clients, compliance deadlines, documents, billing and filings.

• Wrote and ran manual test cases for client management, compliance calendar, document upload/download, billing and role-based access.

• Automated key regression scenarios with Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG and Maven using the Page Object Model.

• Performed API testing in Postman, verifying request/response data, status codes and payloads for client management and compliance modules.

EDUCATION

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering 2023

NRI University, Vijayawada, India

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