Results-driven SDET and QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience delivering high-quality software across Cybersecurity, FinTech, Banking, and Industrial Technology domains. Currently contributing to payment validation systems at PayPal.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Austin, Texas, United States
Working on registration and transaction validation for global payment applications at PayPal.
• Built and maintained automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, TestNG, Cucumber, and REST Assured integrated with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Implemented Playwright for modern E2E testing of payment workflows, leveraging auto-waiting, network interception, and parallel multi-browser execution.
• Designed BDD test suites with Cucumber/Gherkin and Page Object Model (POM) for scalable, maintainable test coverage.
• Performed SOAP/REST API testing with SOAP UI, REST Assured, and Postman.
• Conducted back-end database validation using SQL (joins, unions) against Oracle databases.
• Used Selenium Grid and TestNG for parallel and cross-browser regression testing.
Tech: Java, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber/BDD, Python, TestNG, Maven, REST Assured, SoapUI, Postman, SQL, Oracle, Jenkins, Git, Jira, HP ALM
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Ensured quality and reliability of cybersecurity products including endpoint protection and threat intelligence platforms.
• Designed automation frameworks for endpoint protection products using Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, and Java.
• Leveraged Cypress for component and E2E testing of web-based security consoles with real-time reload and built-in debugging.
• Developed BDD scripts using Cucumber/Gherkin for feature-level security module testing.
• Validated security data feeds and threat intelligence APIs with REST Assured, Postman, and Cypress API testing.
• Managed test execution within Jenkins CI/CD; tracked defects in Jira and HP ALM.
• Collaborated with security and dev teams to define test strategies for new threat detection features.
Tech: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Cucumber, REST Assured, Jenkins, Git, Jira, HP ALM, SQL, TestNG, Maven
2020 — 2023
2020 — 2023
Los Angeles, California, United States
Built and led QA automation for critical forecasting and anomaly detection applications on industrial technology platforms.
• Led design of a POM automation framework using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG for forecasting/anomaly detection apps.
• Designed E2E testing and validation pipelines using Apache Airflow and Python — achieving a 40% reduction in QA cycle time.
• Integrated MLflow/FastAPI predictive models into CI/CD pipeline for automated testing of model outputs and data integrity.
• Developed REST Assured API test suites for large-scale data systems (AWS S3, Redshift).
• Enhanced system performance through optimized data model testing — contributed to a 25% improvement in analytics latency.
• Validated Tableau/Power BI dashboards for BI data accuracy within Agile teams.
• Executed parallel tests using Selenium Grid and Docker on AWS EC2.
Tech: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, REST Assured, Airflow, Python, MLflow, FastAPI, Docker, AWS (S3, Redshift, EC2), Tableau, Power BI, Jenkins, Git, Jira, SQL
2017 — 2020
2017 — 2020
Modesto, California, United States
Delivered quality assurance for core banking and credit union management applications.
• Authored Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases from Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Automated functional test scenarios for web-based banking portals using Selenium WebDriver and Java.
• Executed regression, smoke, and UAT testing for member accounts, loans, and transaction modules.
• Validated back-end banking data integrity with SQL queries; tracked defects in Jira.
Tech: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, SQL, Jira, HP ALM, Manual Testing, Agile/Scrum
2016 — 2017
India
Supported enterprise application QA and Java development for banking and retail sector clients.
• Developed manual and automated test cases for functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Wrote Java automation scripts for enterprise web application testing.
• Performed SQL-based back-end data validation; participated in code reviews.
Tech: Java, Selenium, SQL, Jira, HP QC, Git, Agile/Scrum