QA Engineer SDET Selenium Automation

AJITH P

QA ENGINEER SDET SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu 883-***-**** **************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/ajith-palani-a1a93137b PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

QA Engineer / SDET with 6+ years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing across E-Commerce and EdTech domains. Skilled in Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Cucumber BDD, REST Assured, SQL, Postman, Git, JIRA, and Jenkins CI/CD. Automated 200+ test cases and built a maintainable POM-based framework adopted across the regression suite, reducing manual regression effort while maintaining near-zero critical-defect leakage to production. Immediate joiner. CORE SKILLS

Automation Testing: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber BDD, POM Framework, Data-Driven Testing Programming & Query: Java, SQL

API Testing: REST Assured, Postman

CI/CD & Tools: Jenkins, Maven, Git, JIRA, DBeaver, ClickUp Testing Types: Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, UI, Cross-Browser, API, End-to-End Methodologies: Agile Scrum, SDLC, STLC, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Test Engineer (QA Analyst) — Brainberg Knowledge Solutions Pvt Ltd Oct 2024 – Present E-Learning Domain Project: Mission Margdharshan

• Perform manual and functional testing for a web-based School Management System covering student, teacher, principal, and admin modules.

• Prepare and execute test cases from business requirements and functional specifications; identify, report, and track defects using JIRA.

• Conduct regression, UI, and cross-browser testing; validate data flow and user access permissions across multiple user roles.

• Collaborate with developers and business teams across Agile sprints to resolve issues and verify end-to-end academic and administrative workflows.

Software Test Engineer (Automation Test Analyst) — Value Information Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd May 2020 – Oct 2024 E-Commerce Domain Project: Selfridges

• Automated 200+ test cases using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, and Cucumber BDD, building a maintainable POM-based framework adopted across the regression suite.

• Reduced manual regression testing effort by integrating data-driven automated scripts into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and analyzing execution reports.

• Conducted API testing and validation using REST Assured; performed backend data validation using SQL queries.

• Designed test scenarios, cases, and data from user stories and acceptance criteria; executed functional, regression, sanity, GUI, and cross-browser testing.

• Maintained close to zero critical-defect leakage to production across multiple release cycles through rigorous functional, regression, and UI testing.

• Authored and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM); participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering) — Anna University (SKP Engineering College), 2014 – 2018 LANGUAGES

English, Tamil, Hindi

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