Manjula K

About

QA automation engineer who owned and transformed a JavaScript/WebdriverIO UI automation suite into a reliable CI release gate by refactoring to POM, adding API validations, cross-browser coverage, and aggressively reducing flakiness. Demonstrated strong security mindset by uncovering a critical RBAC gap where restricted users could trigger billing actions via direct API calls, and helped reshape product requirements early through detailed acceptance-criteria questions (e.g., CSV upload partial failures).

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Owned end-to-end UI automation suite (design, implementation, maintenance) integrated with CI
• Refactored duplicated linear scripts into a maintainable Page Object Model with reusable utilities
• Significantly reduced flaky tests via explicit waits, stable data-test selectors, async handling, and isolated test data
• Built layered CI strategy (PR smoke/API gating, main branch full regression, nightly) with merge/release gates
• Improved failure triage speed with JUnit reports, artifacts (screenshots/videos), and Slack alerts
• Risk-based test strategy using test pyramid to balance unit/API/UI coverage
• Found and documented critical authorization/security defect (restricted role could generate invoices via API), preventing production hotfixes
• End-to-end QA ownership from feature kickoff through post-deployment monitoring
• Strong cross-functional collaboration (standups/refinement, direct dev/designer partnership)
• Actionable bug reporting with strong evidence (logs, HAR files, screenshots/screen recordings) and clear repro steps
• Risk-based test planning with maintainable regression coverage (smoke vs full, automation tagging, CI/CD integration)
• Experience validating complex user journeys (authentication, onboarding, session persistence) across UI and backend services