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Hi, I'm Chaitra Anand. I’m a results-driven QA professional with 7+ years of hands-on experience in functional/manual testing supported by automation for web and mobile apps. I excel at collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality software, with a focus on cloud integrations, API testing, and maintaining robust regression suites. Based in Austin, TX, I thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy mentoring teammates, and continuously improve QA processes. I have hands-on experience with Cypress with Cucumber BDD, Selenium WebDriver, Azure/AWS cloud testing, and CI/CD pipelines, and I’m always excited to learn and apply new testing approaches.…Hi, I'm Chaitra Anand. I’m a results-driven QA professional with 7+ years of hands-on experience in functional/manual testing supported by automation for web and mobile apps. I excel at collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality software, with a focus on cloud integrations, API testing, and maintaining robust regression suites. Based in Austin, TX, I thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy mentoring teammates, and continuously improve QA processes. I have hands-on experience with Cypress with Cucumber BDD, Selenium WebDriver, Azure/AWS cloud testing, and CI/CD pipelines, and I’m always excited to learn and apply new testing approaches.

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Hi, I'm Chaitra Anand. I’m a results-driven QA professional with 7+ years of hands-on experience in functional/manual testing supported by automation for web and mobile apps. I excel at collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality software, with a focus on cloud integrations, API testing, and maintaining robust regression suites. Based in Austin, TX, I thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy mentoring teammates, and continuously improve QA processes. I have hands-on experience with Cypress with Cucumber BDD, Selenium WebDriver, Azure/AWS cloud testing, and CI/CD pipelines, and I’m always excited to learn and apply new testing approaches.…Hi, I'm Chaitra Anand. I’m a results-driven QA professional with 7+ years of hands-on experience in functional/manual testing supported by automation for web and mobile apps. I excel at collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality software, with a focus on cloud integrations, API testing, and maintaining robust regression suites. Based in Austin, TX, I thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy mentoring teammates, and continuously improve QA processes. I have hands-on experience with Cypress with Cucumber BDD, Selenium WebDriver, Azure/AWS cloud testing, and CI/CD pipelines, and I’m always excited to learn and apply new testing approaches.

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Hi, I’m Chaitra Anand. I’m a results-driven QA professional with 7+ years of hands-on experience in functional/manual testing supported by automation for web and mobile apps. I excel at collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality software, with a focus on cloud integrations, API testing, and maintaining robust regression suites.

Based in Austin, TX, I thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy mentoring teammates, and continuously improve QA processes. I have hands-on experience with Cypress with Cucumber BDD, Selenium WebDriver, Azure/AWS cloud testing, and CI/CD pipelines, and I’m always excited to learn and apply new testing approaches.

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Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

French

Intermediate

Work Experience

Senior Software QA Engineer (Contractor) at Starbucks

May 1, 2021 - September 1, 2025

Led testing for a complex cloud-based feature syncing data between client machines and Microsoft Azure. Collaborated with stakeholders to refine requirements, performed UAT support, and validated the app on iPad and Android tablets in a secure lab. Contributed to Cypress automation with Cucumber BDD, participated in CI/CD via Azure DevOps, and performed API testing with Postman. Used Splunk to validate API/Microservice logs and drove mob programming to split features into stories and write BDD feature files.

QA Tester (Contractor) at Amazon

April 1, 2021 - May 1, 2021

Deployed daily builds on Linux and executed TestRail test cases to validate delivery robot readiness. Coordinated with an external team to produce bulk QR code stickers, aiming to streamline test coverage and potentially eliminate manual test steps.

QA Analyst (Contractor) at Mercury Insurance Group

May 1, 2019 - November 1, 2020

Developed Selenium WebDriver scripts in Java (Eclipse) to automate navigation in the Guidewire web-application, used TestNG for reporting, and implemented email-based test reports. Used AutoIT with Java Selenium to attach local folders, leveraged JSON for data-driven tests, and assisted in VBScript migration for OnBase. Conducted backend SQL queries, led test-case reviews, logged defects in HP Quality Center/JIRA, and prepared QA documentation for UAT.

Associate Software Automation Engineer at American Specialty Health

September 1, 2015 - December 1, 2016

Wrote and updated test cases in MTM, executed regression automation scripts, performed UI testing and mobile testing, and contributed to the automation framework using C# in Visual Studio. Mentored interns and collaborated with BAs, Developers, and PMs to define QA strategies.

Business Developer Intern at Yellow Box Corp

June 1, 2015 - August 1, 2015

Business development internship with exposure to MySQL/MongoDB, Google Address API, and related data-oriented tasks.