Senior QA Automation Engineer with GenAI Testing

Sireesha A

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior QA Automation Engineer with 8+ years cutting regression cycles and defect leakage across banking, healthcare, and insurance platforms. Built enterprise automation frameworks from zero using Playwright, Selenium, Java, and Rest Assured — replacing slow manual test cycles with fast, reliable CI/CD-integrated suites. Early adopter of AI-driven QA: uses LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT) and GenAI tooling to generate high- coverage test cases and defect reports in a fraction of the time manual authoring takes and validates Retrieval- Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for grounded, accurate AI responses. Known for turning fragile, flaky test suites into dependable release gates that engineering and leadership actually trust. CORE SKILLS

Automation & Testing: Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE/Grid, Playwright, Cucumber (BDD/Gherkin), TestNG, JUnit, Rest Assured, Cypress, SOAP UI, Appium

AI / GenAI: LLM-driven test generation (Gemini, ChatGPT), RAG pipeline validation, GitHub Copilot, AI- assisted defect triage

Languages: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, HTML, CSS, XML

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda), Microsoft Azure (DevOps, App Services)

CI/CD & Build: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Maven, Ant

Defect & PM Tools: Jira, Quality Center, HP ALM

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Methodology: Agile-Scrum, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Emigrant Bank New York, NY Apr 2025 – Present

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Built a Playwright + TypeScript automation framework from the ground up, replacing an ad-hoc manual process and cutting regression execution time from days to hours.

Wrote type-safe, reusable Playwright + TypeScript test modules with strict typing and shared fixtures, cutting duplicate script logic and reducing new-test authoring time.

Parallelized Playwright + TypeScript test execution across browsers and environments, shrinking full regression suite runtime and unblocking faster release sign-off.

Cut test-case documentation time in half by using LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT) to auto-generate edge-case scenarios that manual authoring routinely missed.

Eliminated recurring flaky-test failures by rebuilding suites around Playwright's auto-wait engine and trace viewer, restoring team trust in CI results.

Delivered a unified Web UI + API automation framework in Java, Selenium, Rest Assured, and Cucumber — closing a coverage gap that had let API regressions reach production.

Validated a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline (vector DB, chunking, embeddings, relevance ranking), catching ungrounded AI responses before they reached users.

Hardened REST API test coverage — auth tokens, cookies, session handling — cutting downstream defect escapes from broken API contracts.

Wired Playwright suites into GitHub Actions and Jenkins CI/CD, turning every commit into an automatic smoke/regression check instead of a manual bottleneck.

Ran automated test suites against AWS- and Azure-hosted environments, validating cloud-deployed services and catching environment-specific defects before release.

Rebuilt the framework around the Page Object Model, cutting script-maintenance overhead as the test suite scaled.

Ran Allure and Playwright-native reporting plus visual regression screenshot comparisons, giving stakeholders release-readiness visibility they didn't have before and catching UI defects pre-release.

Owned defect lifecycle end-to-end in Jira and led daily scrum/sprint ceremonies, keeping automation blockers visible and closures on schedule.

Environment: Playwright, GenAI, GitHub Copilot, Rest Assured, TypeScript, Java, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS, Azure, Jira, SQL Server, Allure Reports, POM, Agile-Scrum. Great-West Financial Overland Park, KS Jul 2023 – Mar 2025 QA Automation / Test Engineer

Built a Selenium WebDriver + Java + TestNG automation framework from scratch, converting fully manual regression testing into a scalable automated test suite.

Developed and maintained Playwright automation tests for web applications, covering critical end-to- end workflows and improving regression test coverage.

Created reusable Playwright test components, locators, and page objects to improve test maintainability, execution reliability, and automation scalability.

Developed and executed Appium-based mobile automation tests for critical application workflows, improving mobile regression coverage and reducing manual validation effort across supported devices and platforms.

Automated Angular application testing using Protractor and Java, replacing brittle manual workflows with repeatable and maintainable automated coverage.

Developed gray-box API test cases using Java, TestNG, and Eclipse to validate backend functionality and identify defects before UI testing.

Automated SOAP and REST API validation using Postman, improving service reliability and strengthening API coverage ahead of releases.

Tracked defect metrics and quality trends, feeding actionable insights into sprint planning and continuous process improvements.

Developed and executed complex SQL queries against Oracle and SQL Server to validate UI-to-database data integrity and identify backend data issues before QA sign-off.

Executed Jenkins CI/CD builds and deployment jobs across environments, supporting continuous integration and reliable application releases.

Environment: Java, Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Eclipse, XML, XPath, CSS, Appium, Protractor, Quality Center, SQL, Agile, Windows. Grange Insurance Columbus, OH Jan 2022 – Jun 2023 QA Test Engineer

Designed and implemented a Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression suites, cutting manual test-cycle time.

Closed traceability gaps by mapping every test case back to project requirements, reducing missed- requirement defects escaping to UAT.

Ran Functional, Security, Usability, and UAT testing — automated and manual — surfacing defects earlier in the cycle and reducing production incidents.

Caught data-integrity defects invisible to UI testing by writing SQL queries against Oracle and SQL Server for back-end validation.

Tracked and reported defects in Quality Center, keeping developers and business analysts aligned on true application quality.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, CSS, XPath, Quality Center, Manual Testing, SQL, Windows Gentiva Health Atlanta, GA Nov 2017 – Dec 2021

QA Engineer

Built and enhanced Selenium WebDriver/Java automation frameworks for smoke, functional, and regression testing.

Developed reusable, data-driven automation components and supported cross-browser/cross-platform testing.

Executed end-to-end functional, system, acceptance, and regression testing across web applications.

Performed backend data validation using SQL and Oracle, identifying data-integrity issues.

Managed defect identification, tracking, and resolution using Quality Center.

Collaborated with development and QA teams in an Agile environment to support successful releases. Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Eclipse, SQL, Oracle, SOAP, HTML, XPath, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Agile/Scrum, Windows.

EDUCATION

Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Information Systems Bellevue University May 2014

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