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Dharshan Balasubramaniam

Dharshan Balasubramaniam

Senior Automation Test Engineer

Chennai
80
Profile Score

About

Results-driven Senior Automation Test Engineer with 7 years of experience in UI, API, and mobile testing across eCommerce, banking, travel, and eLearning domains. Skilled in Java, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, Cucumber, REST Assured, and Appium, with strong expertise in building scalable automation frameworks and integrating tests with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git. Proven track record of improving product quality, reducing regression effort, and stabilizing automation pipelines through robust test design and Agile collaboration. Passionate about delivering reliable, high-quality software through continuous testing and automation innovation.

Skills & Expertise (26)

Selenium WebDriver Advanced
8.4/10
5
Years Exp
Java Advanced
8.2/10
6
Years Exp
Playwright Advanced
7.9/10
2
Years Exp
Jira Maven Browserstack Zephyr POM Data-Driven JUnit TestNG Serenity BDD Cucumber Visual Studio Eclipse MySql JavaScript Git GitAction Hub Jenkins Android Studio Appium RestAssured Postman Cypress WebdriverIO

Work Experience

Senior Automation Test Engineer

BMS Infosolutions Pvt Ltd

Oct 2024 - Jul 2025

Built and enhanced UI automation and regression test suites, integrated with Jenkins CI/CD, reducing manual testing effort by 12–15 hours per week. Improved overall product quality through robust test design, RTM alignment, and Jira–Zephyr traceability, resulting in a 28% reduction in escaped defects. Designed stable, reusable automation frameworks and data-driven test components, increasing pipeline stability to 92%. Collaborated closely with product owners, developers, and QA teams in Agile ceremonies to accelerate feature readiness and reduce release cycle time by 18%. Implemented API and mobile test automation to support end-to-end quality validation across platforms.

Senior Software Engineer

Lakshya Software Technology

May 2022 - Sep 2022

Implemented POM-based Selenium automation for travel booking flows, cutting regression effort by 8–10 hours/week. Improved test coverage with BDD Cucumber scenarios and TestNG suites, increasing verification depth by 30%. Enhanced reliability with dynamic waits and resilient locators, reducing flaky test failures by 40%. Collaborated across Agile ceremonies to prioritize high-risk booking paths, lowering production defects by 20%. Led automation triage and release readiness improvements that grew new user registrations by 18% within 3 months, expanding market reach.

Quality Engineer -II

ERULEARNING Solutions Pvt Ltd

Mar 2023 - Oct 2024

Automated cross-browser eLearning flows using Playwright and Page Object Model, enabling parallel execution and saving 10–12 hours/week of manual testing effort. Strengthened stability with custom waits, API intercepts, and component-level tests, improving the flake rate by 35%. Integrated CI pipelines with BrowserStack to scale cross-device and cross-browser execution, achieving 94% execution reliability. Aligned automated test cases with business requirements and exploratory insights, improving user-experience coverage and reducing functional failure rates by 22%.

Software Engineer

ICICI Prudential Private Ltd

Feb 2018 - May 2020

Designed test scenarios, RTMs, and documentation using ECP, BVA, decision tables, and state transitions, increasing test coverage to 85%. Maintained Jira/Zephyr test repositories and produced daily/weekly reports, enhancing visibility and reducing communication gaps by 25%. Automated critical UI flows using Java, Selenium, TestNG, and BDD Cucumber, accelerating regression cycles by 10–12 hours/week. Collaborated in Agile sprints to stabilize releases, helping reduce production incident rates by 20%.

Senior Automation Tester

Enterprise Software Pvt Ltd

Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

Authored test plans, RTMs, and closure reports aligned to STLC, increasing audit-readiness and compliance by 25%. Automated UI flows using Java + TestNG with groups and listeners, improving execution speed by 30%. Managed defects in Jira and conducted peer reviews, elevating test quality and reducing rework by 22%. Applied OOP principles and POM structure to enhance framework maintainability, reducing code duplication and improving reusability by 35%.

Software Test Engineer

Adrola Software Technologies India Pvt Ltd

Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

Executed manual testing for banking workflows, ensuring compliance and reliability; documented defects and reports to stakeholders, reducing defect turnaround time by 30%. Introduced POM structure and hybrid mobile automation using Appium, standardizing scripts and saving 6–8 hours/week of manual regression effort. Participated in Agile ceremonies and collaborated cross-functionally to support sprint goals, improving delivery predictability by 20%.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering - K. Ramakrishna College of Technology

- 2016 · Afghanistan

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Profile Score Breakdown

📷 Photo 10/10
📄 Resume 10/10
💼 Job Title 10/10
✍️ Bio 10/10
🛠️ Skills 20/20
🎓 Education 10/10
⏱️ Experience 5/15
💰 Rate 0/5
🏆 Certs 0/5
Verified 5/5
Total Score 80/100

Profile Overview

Member sinceMar 2026

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Skills (26)

Selenium WebDriver Java Playwright Jira Maven Browserstack Zephyr POM Data-Driven JUnit +16 more