RAHUL KOVURI
St. Louis,MO
Summary
Results-driven QA professional with 6+ years of experience in automation and manual testing across Agile and Waterfall environments. Skilled in SDLC/STLC, automation frameworks, and end-to-end testing. Proficient in Selenium, Playwright, Postman, and BDD/TDD methodologies with expertise in smoke, regression, functional, and UAT testing. Project management, analytical skills and software engineering skills to deliver solutions.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. QA Engineer
Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), St. Louis
03.2023 - Current
- Designed and implemented a modular UI automation framework using Playwright (Page Object Model), improving test efficiency and reducing manual validation by 40%.
- Automated end-to-end UI workflows for the Metrics application (file upload, configuration, and data validation), achieving ~50% automation coverage in initial sprints.
- Integrated Playwright test suites into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous validation and accelerating release feedback cycles by 30%.
- Developed and maintained comprehensive test cases ensuring accurate metadata, dynamic data validation, and smooth user acceptance testing.
- Led manual and regression testing after major releases, troubleshooting and ensuring zero critical production defects and improved release stability.
- Performed API validation using Postman, enhancing backend reliability and data integrity across modules.
- Collaborated with developers, QA engineers, and product owners to define test coverage, streamline defect resolution, and enhance overall quality delivery.
QA Engineer
Charter Communications (Spectrum), St. Louis
01.2020 - 02.2023
- Built a BDD-based automation framework using Karate and Tosca, improving test coverage and reducing regression execution time by 35%.
- Automated UI and API test modules across functional, integration, and system environments, enhancing reliability release.
- Collaborated with developers, DevOps, and architects to streamline test planning and accelerate delivery across Agile sprints.
- Optimized frameworks by integrating reusable database and email modules, increasing automation efficiency by 25%.
- Managed test documentation, defect tracking, and version control via JIRA, TestRail, and Git/Bitbucket for complete QA traceability.
Education
Master of Science - Data Science
Maryville University of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MOBachelor of Science - Computer Science
Maryville University of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MOSkills
- Automation Tools: Playwright, Selenium, Tosca, Karate (BDD), Postman, Swagger, Nodejs, Cucumber
- Programming Languages/Frameworks: TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, Page Object Model
- Tools: JIRA, TestRail, Azure DevOps, Git, ALM
- Databases: MySQL, Snowflake
- Approaches: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, TDD, BDD
- Defect tracking
- Python scripting
- CI and CD pipelines
- Postman tool
- Selenium webdriver
- Regression testing
- Test strategy development
- JIRA proficiency
- Mobile testing
- Performance testing
- Cross-browser testing
- Software development lifecycle
- Git
- Load testing
Timeline
Sr. QA Engineer
Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), St. Louis
03.2023 - Current
QA Engineer
Charter Communications (Spectrum), St. Louis
01.2020 - 02.2023
Master of Science - Data Science
Maryville University of Saint Louis
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Maryville University of Saint Louis