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Nithya Ponnusamy

Nithya Ponnusamy

Oak Creek,Milwaukee,Wisconsin

Summary

Highly motivated Senior QA Engineer Over 9 years of experience in manual and automation testing across web, desktop, and API applications. Proficient in developing test scripts using Java, Python, and JavaScript, with hands-on experience in Selenium,Playwrite,RestAssured and Postman. Skilled at integrating automated tests within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and contributing to testing AI-driven applications. Strong analytical mindset, attention to detail, and effective communicator within Agile teams.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

UPS Logistics & Supply Chain Private Ltd
05.2024 - 09.2025
  • Extensive Knowledge in Agile Methodology and participate in Sprint planning ,Sprint retrospective,Product Backlog,Refinement, and Daily scrum meetings
  • Developed and executed comprehensive test plans to ensure software quality and functionality.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve quality issues efficiently.
  • Utilized automated testing tools to enhance testing processes and reduce time-to-delivery.
  • Conducted thorough regression testing to verify system performance after updates and enhancements.
  • Identifying,analyzing and documenting all the bugs observed during testing and create a ticket in the TFS
  • Performed Database testing with SQL and automated data validations using JDBC
  • Responsible for maintaining the pipeline and automation scripts
  • Written various Features,Scenarios,and Scenario Outlines with examples,background in Gherkin language for developing BDD framework
  • Supported during production deployment and helped business and development team to debug the issues

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Wipro Technologies
02.2020 - 05.2024
  • Experience in developing Test automation framework from scratch using Java,Selenium webdriver,Cucumber,TestNG,Jira and Intellij.
  • Involved in analysis,design and review of the Use case and user stories provided by BA for every release
  • Experience in automating regression test cases using Selenium Webdriver/REST Assured/Playwrite
  • Implemented Page Object Model Automation framework with Java,Selenium Webdriver.Page Object Model approach has been implemented to reduce code redundancy
  • Responsible for developing the scripts to support DevOps
  • Used Maven for building the webdriver project. Integrated with continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running the test on nightly basis automatically. Jenkins continuous with the build server
  • Maintained the Java automation code and resources in configuration management tools like Git repository
  • Created ,Implemented and maintained POM for Webpage
  • Experienced in Rest Assured java framework for API automation to validate JOSON /XML formatted data,different http status code.
  • Extensive Knowledge in Agile Methodology and participate in Sprint planning ,Sprint retrospective,Product Backlog,Refinement, and Daily scrum meetings



Quality Assurance Engineer

Optisol Business Solution
09.2015 - 01.2020

• Designed and implemented automated test scripts for RESTful APIs using REST Assured and Java.

• Developed a scalable API automation framework with REST Assured integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

• Performed functional, regression, and integration testing of APIs using REST Assured.

• Validated JSON and XML responses, status codes, headers, and authentication mechanisms in API tests.

• Collaborated with developers and QA teams to identify test scenarios and ensure comprehensive API coverage.

• Integrated REST Assured tests with TestNG and reported test results using tools like Allure and ExtentReports.

• Worked with tools like Postman to understand and document API endpoints before automation.

• Enhanced automation scripts by implementing data-driven and parameterized test cases using external data sources.

• Participated in Agile ceremonies and contributed to sprint planning with estimation of API testing efforts.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Novature Tech Pvt Ltd
09.2015 - 12.2017

• Designed and implemented automated test scripts for RESTful APIs using REST Assured and Java.

• Developed a scalable API automation framework with REST Assured integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

• Performed functional, regression, and integration testing of APIs using REST Assured.

• Validated JSON and XML responses, status codes, headers, and authentication mechanisms in API tests.

• Collaborated with developers and QA teams to identify test scenarios and ensure comprehensive API coverage.

• Integrated REST Assured tests with TestNG and reported test results using tools like Allure and ExtentReports.

• Worked with tools like Postman to understand and document API endpoints before automation.

• Enhanced automation scripts by implementing data-driven and parameterized test cases using external data sources.

• Participated in Agile ceremonies and contributed to sprint planning with estimation of API testing efforts.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

Anna University
Chennai,TN,India
04-2009

Skills

    Test Automation: Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured, UFT, WinAppDriver,Winium

    Frameworks: BDD (Cucumber/SpecFlow), POM, Hybrid, Data-driven

    Languages: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript,C#

    API Testing: Postman, SOAPUI

    Defect Tracking: JIRA, ALM, ADO, TFS

    Databases: SQL Server

Timeline

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

UPS Logistics & Supply Chain Private Ltd
05.2024 - 09.2025

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Wipro Technologies
02.2020 - 05.2024

Quality Assurance Engineer

Optisol Business Solution
09.2015 - 01.2020

Quality Assurance Analyst

Novature Tech Pvt Ltd
09.2015 - 12.2017

Bachelor of Science -

Anna University
Nithya Ponnusamy