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• Passionate about delivering quality and reliable software products.• Results-driven Software QA Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in Information Systems & Technology.• Expert as a QA Engineer in Automation and Manual testing in Airlines, Pharmaceuticals, and SAAS domains.• Proficient in Selenium, Java, and open-source tools like Cucumber, Rest Assured, and JUnit.• Confidently design testing frameworks, actively seek feedback, and refine designs iteratively prior to coding.• Skilled in Web Application Testing, Web Service Testing, SQL query execution, and Continuous Integration.• Adept at working within Agile / Scrum methodologies collaborating effectively in cross-functional teams. • Spearheaded the implementation of Automation Framework using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG & Maven, improving test coverage and reducing script maintenance effort by 75%.• Worked extensively in testing with Postman, SoapUI, JMeter & Restful web services and validated the responses. • Led Agile-Scrum collaborations, managing product backlogs, prioritizing tasks, and enhancing team efficiency, resulting in 90% acceleration of project delivery. • Managing & Retesting High-Level escalations to ensure service standards for business excellence.• Experienced QA testing in Cloud Networks like AWS, Azure & VMWare.• Experienced in testing Web applications, cloud-based applications as well as client server applications.• Experience in Web based testing including GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Functional Testing, Unit Testing & API Testing.• Expertized in bug reporting, defect triaging, analysis and exceptional debugging.• Written SQL queries to perform backend testing, reducing data inconsistencies by more than 60% and enhancing application stability on Oracle and MS SQL Server.• Responsible for developing, maintaining and compliance of quality assurance testing strategies, policies, procedures, standards, templates, and governance.• Experienced in system security, managing user logins, granting access roles & creating service accounts.• Proficient in Java for creating the Rest-Assured automated test cases and performing API testing.• Written around 2000 - 2500 testcases for every release focusing on every point of testing.• Experienced working on testing Mobile Operating Systems including iOS, Android. • Experienced in machine learning platforms like AI/ML & ChatGPT.• Innovative in problem-solving endeavors while recognizing avenues for refining processes.