QA Automation Engineer (Kotlin, Selenium, Jenkins)

Sathish Kumar B

QA Automation Engineer

+91-900******* *.***********@*****.*** Hyderabad, India LinkedIn Profile PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

QA Automation Engineer with around 3 years of experience designing and scaling UI, API, and SFTP test automation frameworks for enterprise software and healthcare platforms. Skilled in Kotlin, Java, Selenium, Cucumber (BDD), and REST Assured, with hands-on experience integrating automated regression suites into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. Proven record of reducing manual testing effort, improving release confidence, and delivering high-quality software across the SDLC in Agile teams. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Programming Languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, SQL

• Test Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber (BDD), TestNG, JUnit, Playwright, Page Object Model

• API Testing: REST Assured, Postman, REST API validation

• CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, Git, CI/CD pipeline integration

• Cloud & Tools: AWS (S3, SES), JIRA, Confluence, XPath, IntelliJ IDEA / Eclipse

• Testing Types: Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Exploratory, API, Data Ingestion (SFTP)

• Methodologies: Agile / Scrum, SDLC, STLC

• Languages: English, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Automation Engineer MKS Vision Pvt Ltd (Client: Bamboo Health - Healthcare) Feb 2024 - Present Hyderabad, India

• Automated 500+ UI, API, and SFTP test scenarios using Kotlin, Selenium, and Cucumber, reducing manual regression effort by 60%.

• Designed and maintained a scalable UI automation framework using the Page Object Model, improving test maintainability and reuse across 10+ feature areas.

• Built API test automation with REST Assured to validate backend services and REST endpoints, catching contract and data-integrity defects earlier in the release cycle.

• Integrated automated regression suites into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enabling scheduled daily runs and cutting release verification time by 40%.

• Automated email validation workflows by programmatically retrieving and asserting message content from AWS S3 and SES, removing a fully manual verification step.

• Automated Tableau dashboard validation using custom JavaScript with the Tableau VizManager API, extending automated coverage to analytics views not testable by standard UI tools.

• Authored precise XPath locators to reliably identify elements in complex XML and HTML documents, reducing flaky-test failures across the suite.

• Executed functional, regression, smoke, sanity, and exploratory testing, and logged and tracked defects in JIRA to closure while collaborating with developers in Agile sprints.

• Developed detailed test cases from user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring requirement traceability throughout the SDLC.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

• Designed and developed a custom test automation framework from scratch, later adopted for ongoing project automation.

• Won a company-wide bug bounty program among 200+ participants and received a cash prize for identifying high-impact defects.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science Engineering Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu Aug 2020 - Apr 2024 CGPA: 8.46

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