QA Automation Engineer (Java, Selenium, API)

CHAITHRA V

Bengaluru, India ********.*******@*****.*** +91-897******* LinkedIn

Professional Summary

QA Automation Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable automation frameworks for web and API testing. Proficient in Java, Selenium, TestNG, REST Assured, Postman, Playwright and SQL, with strong expertise in API automation, backend validation, regression testing and CI/CD integrated test execution. Experienced in Agile methodologies, test planning and end to end quality assurance.

Technical Skills

Programming & Query language: Java, SQL

Automation Testing Tools: Selenium Webdriver, Postman, REST Assured Frameworks: TestNG, Page Object Model (POM), Data Driven Framework, BDD (Cucumber) CI/CD & Build Tools: Jenkins, Maven, Git

Testing Strategies: Automation Testing, Manual Testing, API Testing, UI Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, UAT Testing. Project and Defect Management: JIRA

Professional Experience

QA Senior Associate – FinTech Operations

Freo Aug 2024 – Feb 2025

- Performed manual and UI testing for lending web applications using Selenium, validating user interface behavior across 150+ test scenarios to ensure functional accuracy and seamless user experience.

- Validated financial workflows in Loan Management System (LMS) ensuring data integrity across UI, APIs and database using SQL queries and API responses.

- Designed and executed structured test cases using TestNG, covering critical lending scenarios and improving defect detection in early test phases.

- Conducted API testing using Postman and REST Assured for validating endpoints, status codes and response structures.

- Logged, tracked and managed defects using JIRA and collaborated with cross- functional teams for timely resolution.

QA Senior Associate – FinTech Operations

Razorpay Nov 2020 – July 2024

- Designed and implemented automation test scripts using Java, Selenium and TestNG following Page Object Model (POM) for high-volume lending workflows including Loans, Credit Cards.

- Automated 300+ end to end test scenarios for lending products resulting in a 20% reduction in manual regression effort and improving release efficiency.

- Developed and executed API automation testing suites using Postman and REST Assured, validating request/response payloads, authentication and error handling.

- Performed backend validation using SQL queries to ensure data consistency across UI, APIs and Database for reconciliation workflows.

- Collaborated cross-functionally to manage and execute 2000+ test cases, contributed to automation framework design, optimized test coverage and improved defect detection rate in pre-production environment by 15%.

- Worked in Agile-based development environments, participating in sprint testing and release validation while supporting CI/CD based test execution processes.

- Maintained test scripts in Git repositories, ensuring version control across a team of 5 QA engineers.

- Actively participated in requirement analysis, test planning and test strategy discussions for new feature releases.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (Information Science Engineering) – VKIT (2017) Pre-University Course (PCMB) – SJRCW College (2010-2012) SSLC – Noble High School (2010)

Certification

Certified in Software Testing - QSpiders, Bengaluru Certified in JAVA Programming - Uttara, Bengaluru

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