Senior Software Test Engineer

Nigama Vanam

Senior Software Test Engineer

Bangalore, India +91-707******* ***********@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/nigama-vanam-a95a5a30a PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior Software Test Engineer with 4+ years testing fintech and stock-trading platforms, sustaining zero critical production defects across every release cycle. Specializes in REST API testing (Postman/Swagger), order management workflows, and risk-based test design within Agile/Scrum teams. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

• Designed 200+ test cases from business requirements for order management workflows (market, limit, stop-loss, GTT, bracket orders) on the Upstox trading platform, achieving zero critical defect escapes to production.

• Validated 40+ REST API endpoints (order placement, modification, market data feeds) — covering HTTP methods, status codes, and JSON response validation — using Postman, reducing the API defect rate by 20%.

• Established Beginning of Day (BOD) Testing process pre-9:15 AM IST covering order placement, chart accuracy, watchlist data, and fund balance validation before market open.

• Achieved 100% cross-browser testing coverage across 15+ browser-device combinations using BrowserStack.

• Improved transaction validation accuracy by 18% across fintech workflows including fund transfers and authentication mechanisms, through risk-based impact analysis.

• Built Data-Driven Test Automation Frameworks in Katalon Studio and TestSigma integrated with CI/CD pipelines, reducing regression testing time by 40%.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Test Engineer January 2026 – Present Qapitol QA (IT Staffing & QA Consulting) — Client Engagement: Upstox (Stock Trading Platform, Equity, Derivatives, F&O)

• Analyze business requirements, user stories, and technical specifications to design 200+ test scenarios and test cases mapped to functional specifications, performing end-to-end manual testing across web, Android, and iOS for equity, derivatives, mutual funds, and IPO modules.

• Execute Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, and Exploratory testing across trading and investment business workflows, sustaining zero critical defect escapes to production.

• Validate order entry workflows — Buy, Sell, Modify, Cancel, Order Book — spanning market, limit, stop-loss, GTT, and bracket order types, applying risk-based impact analysis to prioritize coverage.

• Test order management, authentication, portfolio, and market data REST APIs via Postman, verifying 40+ endpoints, HTTP methods, status codes, JSON response payloads, and data integrity to cut the API defect rate by 20%.

• Run Postman-based API testing to validate user profile data, holdings, positions, and account-level responses; test login and authorization flows, including CAS testing, validating authentication mechanisms and session/access control.

• Investigate defects to root cause and assist developers in reproducing issues, executing SQL-based database validation and market-scenario mock testing to surface edge cases before release.

• Run Beginning of Day (BOD) Testing pre-9:15 AM IST and validate app behavior during pre-market, market-hours, and after-market scenarios, covering order placement, chart accuracy, watchlist data, market depth, and fund balance validation.

• Perform cross-browser and cross-device compatibility testing, sustaining 100% coverage across 15+ Android/iOS combinations via BrowserStack, and validate MixPanel and MoEngage event tracking.

• Lead UAT for 5+ feature releases, drive release validation and production-readiness sign-off, and manage the defect lifecycle — writing clear, reproducible defect reports — for 80+ critical defects in JIRA, sustaining a 95%+ sprint closure rate.

• Partner with developers, product managers, and business analysts to resolve requirement ambiguity before sprint commitment and contribute to process improvements and testing best practices, working within Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily Stand-ups, and Retrospectives.

• Publish test execution reports, test summary reports, and quality metrics that drive go/no-go release decisions. QA Engineer February 2025 – June 2025

Sunhive Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Andersen Labs, IT Staffing) — Project: Banking Domain

• Improved transaction validation accuracy by 18% through requirement analysis and QA of fintech workflows including fund transfers, user authentication, and real-time monitoring.

• Formulated Test Plans and Test Strategies for fintech modules and tested 30+ REST API endpoints using Postman and Swagger, with SQL-based database validation.

• Reduced UAT defect leakage by 15–20% through risk-based and black-box test scenario design and impact analysis across critical fintech workflows.

• Facilitated UAT sessions with business stakeholders for fund transfer and authentication modules, ensuring on-time sign-off.

• Tracked 120+ defects in JIRA through defect triage and lifecycle management, writing clear, reproducible defect reports and sustaining a 95% sprint closure rate across all Agile sprints. Test Engineer September 2021 – September 2024

Ray Business Technologies — Projects: Nominus.com (E-commerce) & Catalogue Management System

• Delivered end-to-end software testing for the Nominus.com e-commerce platform and Catalogue Management project

(Kentico CMS) across 20+ production releases with zero critical post-release defects.

• Built Data-Driven Test Automation Frameworks in Katalon Studio and TestSigma, integrated with Git and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, reducing regression time by 40%.

• Drafted Test Plans, Test Strategies, and Test Cases from business requirements for multiple releases; executed Functional, Integration, and Regression testing across all production deployments.

• Oversaw UAT cycles and validated UI-to-database consistency through SQL-based database testing across service and CMS layers.

• Managed 300+ defects via Azure DevOps, writing clear and reproducible defect reports; mentored 3 junior QA engineers and led root cause analysis (RCA) sessions, reducing duplicate defects by 25%. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Testing & Methodologies: Manual, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, UAT, Smoke & Sanity, Exploratory, Black-Box, Risk-Based & Impact Analysis, Agile/Scrum, Cross-Browser Testing

• Automation & API: Selenium WebDriver (Java), TestNG, POM, Katalon Studio, TestSigma, Postman, Swagger, REST API Testing, JSON Validation

• Database & Tools: SQL, PostgreSQL, pgAdmin, JIRA, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Git, Confluence, CI/CD Pipelines, JMeter, RTM

• Domain: Order Management (Market, Limit, Stop-Loss, GTT, Bracket Orders), Trade Execution, P&L Validation, Margin Calculations, BOD Testing, Fund Transfer Testing, MixPanel, MoEngage CERTIFICATIONS

• Katalon Professional Certificate March 2024

• Katalon Practitioner Level Certificate March 2024

• Katalon Expert Level Certificate March 2024

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) – Electrical and Electronics Engineering Vignan's University, Andhra Pradesh, India Graduated: 2019

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