Senior Software Engineer / QA Automation

R Aravind Pandi

Senior Software Engineer

Chennai, IN +91-994******* ***********@*****.***

Summary

Senior Software Engineer / QA Engineer with 7.2 years of experience in software quality assurance, test automation, manual testing, web application testing, Android/SDK testing and IoT/POS device testing. Hands-on experience with Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, SQL, Maven, Git, JIRA and TestRail. Experienced in designing test scenarios and test cases, executing automated and manual test suites, validating positive and negative scenarios, reporting defects by severity and priority, and supporting end-to-end QA activities. Leverages Claude AI (with JIRA/TestRail MCP integrations) and Rovo AI to automate defect monitoring, regression reporting and test documentation, significantly reducing manual QA effort.

Work experience

Sequoia Applied Technologies September 2022 to Present Senior Software Engineer

Projects Worked:

ELO TOUCH, PROFILE BUILDER and OFFRD

Client: ELO Touch Solutions

ELO Touch is a POS and self-service to signage, price checkers and inventory management. Elo's modular retail touch screens allow businesses to configure every interactive retail experience on a seamless integrated platform.

PROFILE BUILDER:

Profile Builder Project, responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a dynamic system that enables users to create, manage, and customize digital profiles. The role involves full-cycle development, integration, optimization, and ensuring a seamless user experience. OFFRD:

OFFRD, a system for generating structured and customizable offer letters. The project focuses on streamlining HR operations by enabling accurate data capture, validation, and automated document creation through secure and scalable workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Designed and performed functional test scenarios and test cases across 12+ Agile sprints, contributing to 10,000+ test case executions and supporting 12 successful product releases.

• Executed and tracked 10,000+ functional, regression and sanity test cases using TestRail across multiple Agile sprints and product releases.

• Tested on various devices like 7-inch devices, Handheld, 10", 22" and Scanner devices.

• Identified, documented and tracked 400+ product defects in JIRA, providing severity, priority, reproduction steps and supporting evidence to accelerate defect resolution.

• Owned QA validation for critical features and functionalities, ensuring complete test coverage, defect tracking and release readiness across assigned modules.

• Owned testing scope for high-priority features, coordinating test coverage, execution, defect validation and regression activities throughout the release cycle.

• Supported QA team coordination in the Team Lead's absence by assigning daily testing activities, tracking execution progress and consolidating defects across the team.

• Participated in QA activities across 12+ Agile sprints, including daily client QA stand-ups, weekly sprint grooming sessions and monthly retrospectives to coordinate testing priorities and communicate QA progress.

AI-Driven QA Automation (Claude AI & Rovo AI):

• Integrated Claude AI with JIRA and TestRail through MCP connectors to automate recurring QA reporting, reducing manual effort for sprint regression tracking, defect monitoring and status reporting.

• Automated a daily Cloud defect-monitoring workflow using Claude with JQL across three JIRA projects, including changelog verification to flag only newly reopened bugs, and generated formatted, priority-sorted Excel reports for the team.

• Used Claude to analyze 12,500+ TestRail result events and reconstruct current test statuses for sprint regression runs, quickly isolating failed cases and producing per-tester execution summaries.

• Automated bulk test assignments in TestRail via API through Claude, updating assignees without altering existing execution statuses.

• Converted JIRA feature requirements and epics into structured, branded PowerPoint decks using Claude, speeding up requirement walkthroughs with stakeholders.

• Generated standardized Excel exports (resolved bugs, reopened bugs, label-based and field-based defect audits) from JIRA using Claude, with consistent formatting, hyperlinked issue IDs and summary sheets.

• Drafted and refined functional test cases with Claude for features such as license management and content upload workflows, improving coverage of positive, negative and edge-case scenarios.

• Used Rovo AI within JIRA for issue search, summarization and documentation support. Cognitive Mobile Technology April 2019 to June 2022 Test Engineer

Client: KONE Elevators

KONE Elevators has its own Parts.KONE.com webpage, an online e-commerce material management platform with the largest multi-brand selection of genuine elevator, escalator and building door spare parts available online 24/7, including maintenance material search, online price and availability information, and a purchasing system.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional specifications and designed 500+ test cases with corresponding test data, ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional and business requirements.

• Worked on functional and regression testing for the Parts.KONE.com e-commerce and material management platform.

• Validated material search, product availability, pricing and purchasing-related workflows.

• Prepared detailed defect reports with appropriate severity, priority, reproduction steps and expected versus actual results.

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages

o Core Java, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript

• Automation Frameworks

o Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber

• Databases

o MySQL

• Tools

o TestRail, JIRA, Git, Maven, Eclipse

• AI Tools

o Claude AI (MCP integrations with JIRA and TestRail, prompt-based workflow automation), Rovo AI

Education

B.Tech Information Technology

Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology Diploma in Computer Technology

V.S.V.N Polytechnic College

SSLC

Seventh Day Adventist Matriculation Higher Secondary School

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