QA Engineer Playwright + Python Automation Tester

VIDHARSHANA S K

QA Engineer Playwright + Python Automation API & Integration Testing

Bangalore, India +91-786******* ***********.*************@*****.*** Notice period: 15 days or less PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• QA Engineer with 5.8 years of experience across banking and media, now building regression automation in a Playwright

(Python) + pytest framework.

• At BMO, helped cut regression runtime from 45 to 30 minutes and flaky failures from 15% to 9%; led testing for 4 WebMethods- to-Boomi integration migrations, including a 150+ file billing migration.

• Hands-on with REST/SOAP APIs (Postman, curl), Salesforce, Zephyr, JIRA, and Agile/Scrum delivery. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation: Playwright, Python, pytest, Automation Framework, Page Object Model, Fixtures, Parameterization, Locator Strategies API: REST/SOAP, Postman, curl, OAuth 2.0, Request/Response Validation Testing: Functional, Regression, Integration, End-to-End, API, UAT, Data Validation CI/CD & Reporting: GitHub Actions, pytest-html

Test Management: Zephyr, JIRA, Confluence

Integration & Cloud: Boomi, WebMethods, Optima, AWS CloudWatch PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Bangalore, India Jan 2021 – Present QA Engineer

Client: Bank of Montreal (BMO) — QA Engineer (Functional & Automation Testing) Jul 2025 – Present Tools: Playwright, Python, pytest, Zephyr, JIRA, BBX, GitHub Actions, VS Code, Agile/Scrum Test Automation (Playwright, Python)

• Develop regression tests in the Playwright (Python) + pytest automation framework using POM, fixtures, parameterization and resilient locators; run via GitHub Actions with pytest-html reports.

• Contributed to optimizations: regression runtime reduced from 45 to 30 minutes; flaky failures cut from 15% to 9%. Functional & Regression Testing

• Test loan and deposit workflows end to end, from account creation to approval, across 4 business entity types (~100 test cases per cycle).

• Validate account variants, loan-decision data, owner/signer structures and 50+ monthly system alerts; maintain test cases in Zephyr and log defects in JIRA.

Client: News Corp Australia — QA Engineer (End-to-End, API & Integration Testing) Jan 2021 – Jun 2025 Tools: Postman, curl, Adpoint, Salesforce, Boomi, WebMethods, Optima, AWS CloudWatch, JIRA

• Tested REST/SOAP APIs in Postman (schema validation, OAuth 2.0, payload chaining); used curl to send requests and post files.

• Led testing for 4 WebMethods-to-Boomi migrations, including the billing migration (150+ files over 9 months); traced a production issue to a database/cache mismatch.

• Validated Adpoint OMS integrations for billing and third-party services (e.g., real estate); tested Salesforce account/opportunity creation and sync with Adpoint.

• Found data-quality defects in UAT/production (decimal rounding, duplicate-account billing); tested CloudWatch monitoring. EDUCATION

B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering — Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu

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