Sakthi Velavan

QA Automation Engineer

Chennai 10+ yrs exp 90 · Outstanding

About

Results-driven QA Automation Engineer with 6.2 years of experience in building scalable automation frameworks using Java (Selenium WebDriver) and modern tooling like Playwright with JavaScript. Skilled in Cucumber BDD, data-driven frameworks, TestNG, and JUnit, delivering robust cross-browser automation with traceability, video capture, and CI/CD integration. Strong expertise in functional, regression, smoke, sanity, and exploratory testing, along with REST Assured API automation, Jenkins and Git pipelines, and JIRA defect management to ensure high-quality and continuous delivery.

Skills & Expertise (24)

Playwright Advanced

8.5/10

Years Exp

JavaScript Advanced

8.0/10

Years Exp

Regression Testing Advanced

8.0/10

Years Exp

Selenium WebDriver Advanced

8.0/10

Years Exp

Cypress Advanced

8.0/10

Years Exp

Functional Testing Advanced

8.0/10

Years Exp

Manual Testing Advanced

8.0/10

Years Exp

sanity testing Advanced

7.5/10

Years Exp

smoke testing Advanced

7.5/10

Years Exp

Cucumber Advanced

7.5/10

Years Exp

Java Advanced

7.4/10

Years Exp

Postman Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

REST Assured Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Jenkins Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Git Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Jira Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Agile Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Scrum Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Typescript Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

JUnit Intermediate

6.5/10

Years Exp

TestNG Intermediate

6.5/10

Years Exp

SQL Intermediate

6.5/10

Years Exp

Maven Intermediate

6.0/10

Years Exp

Page Object Model

Work Experience

Software Test Engineer

ASICS TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

Apr 2022 - Present

Developed and maintained end-to-end automation test scripts using Playwright with JavaScript. Automated UI, functional, and regression test cases for web applications. Implemented cross-browser testing (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) using Playwright. Designed and followed Page Object Model (POM) for better code reusability and maintenance. Integrated Playwright tests with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. Performed API testing using Playwright’s built-in request features. Collaborated with developers and QA team in Agile/Scrum environment. Logged and tracked defects using Jira. Performed debugging and troubleshooting of failed test cases. Implemented parallel test execution to reduce execution time. Used BDD framework (Cucumber) with Cypress. Performed API testing using Cypress and integrated with backend validations. Worked in Agile/Scrum environment with sprint-based delivery. Performed debugging and troubleshooting of failed test cases.

Associate Test Engineer

ASICS TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

Jun 2020 - Present

Analyzing the user stories. Prepared Cucumber Feature Files (user stories) and automated the Feature files using Selenium Web Driver. Prepare test scenarios and test data for different user stories. Identify the scenarios which can be automated and which can't be automated. Prepare automation script for this can be automated. Do the manual testing. Test script execution and analyze the failed scenarios. Participate in scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily scrum meeting, review and retrospective. Code check in, check out by using Git Source Management tool. Defect tracking in Jira and update the daily efforts in Jira. Understanding and analyzing the user stories. Analyzing the test scenario and differentiating which can be automated and which cannot be automated. Involved in Automation framework using Selenium Web Driver, POM, Cucumber & Maven build tool. Preparing automation scripts in selenium web driver with cucumber framework. Regression test scripts execute in Jenkins and analyze the regression execution report. Developing BDD tests using cucumber by writing feature files and step definition. Raise and track defects until closure using JIRA. Maintain the source code in GIT repositories. I have good experience in API Rest Assured and Postman.