Looks like you have JavaScript disabled. For the full Twine experience, you will need to re-enable it.

I’m a results-driven QA professional with 10+ years of experience across retail banking, semiconductor, and media/tech ecosystems. I’ve built and led QA teams from the ground up, designed scalable testing strategies, and delivered high-quality releases in fast-paced environments. I’m passionate about shift-left testing, robust automation, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to align QA with business goals. Beyond testing, I enjoy shaping processes that reduce defects, enhance test coverage, and improve overall product quality. I’m a proactive communicator who thrives in cross-disciplinary teams and strives to enable faster, more reliable software delivery.…I’m a results-driven QA professional with 10+ years of experience across retail banking, semiconductor, and media/tech ecosystems. I’ve built and led QA teams from the ground up, designed scalable testing strategies, and delivered high-quality releases in fast-paced environments. I’m passionate about shift-left testing, robust automation, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to align QA with business goals. Beyond testing, I enjoy shaping processes that reduce defects, enhance test coverage, and improve overall product quality. I’m a proactive communicator who thrives in cross-disciplinary teams and strives to enable faster, more reliable software delivery.

Vaishnavi Vaikunta

QA Engineer, Game Tester, Project Manager, +2





I’m a results-driven QA professional with 10+ years of experience across retail banking, semiconductor, and media/tech ecosystems. I’ve built and led QA teams from the ground up, designed scalable testing strategies, and delivered high-quality releases in fast-paced environments. I’m passionate about shift-left testing, robust automation, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to align QA with business goals. Beyond testing, I enjoy shaping processes that reduce defects, enhance test coverage, and improve overall product quality. I’m a proactive communicator who thrives in cross-disciplinary teams and strives to enable faster, more reliable software delivery.…I’m a results-driven QA professional with 10+ years of experience across retail banking, semiconductor, and media/tech ecosystems. I’ve built and led QA teams from the ground up, designed scalable testing strategies, and delivered high-quality releases in fast-paced environments. I’m passionate about shift-left testing, robust automation, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to align QA with business goals. Beyond testing, I enjoy shaping processes that reduce defects, enhance test coverage, and improve overall product quality. I’m a proactive communicator who thrives in cross-disciplinary teams and strives to enable faster, more reliable software delivery.

Available to hire

I’m a results-driven QA professional with 10+ years of experience across retail banking, semiconductor, and media/tech ecosystems. I’ve built and led QA teams from the ground up, designed scalable testing strategies, and delivered high-quality releases in fast-paced environments. I’m passionate about shift-left testing, robust automation, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to align QA with business goals.

Beyond testing, I enjoy shaping processes that reduce defects, enhance test coverage, and improve overall product quality. I’m a proactive communicator who thrives in cross-disciplinary teams and strives to enable faster, more reliable software delivery.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Work Experience

Senior QA Leader at Fodee Media, Inc.

April 1, 2024 - Present

Strategic QA leadership as an early dedicated hire; designed and executed a comprehensive QA strategy for a complex corporate food delivery ecosystem. Led and mentored a 3-person QA team, implemented Cypress-based BDD testing, and increased automated test coverage to 60%. Coordinated cross-product E2E testing and validated API/UI flows to ensure seamless order processing.

Senior Quality Assurance Developer at Foodee Media, Inc.

April 1, 2024 - Present

Senior QA lead responsible for defining and executing QA strategy for a complex food-delivery ecosystem. Built and maintained Cypress-based BDD automation framework; increased automated test coverage to 60% and stabilized regression. Analyzed production bugs and prioritized fixes with the development team to reduce technical debt. Coordinated end-to-end testing across three cross-product platforms and implemented an API testing strategy with Postman. Advocated Shift-Left testing and CI/CD integration; mentored a team of 3 QA engineers.

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist at Technologies Inc.

August 1, 2022 - October 1, 2023

Shift-left implementation reducing support tickets by 38% and overall defect rates by 72% by converting legacy business rules into a TypeScript-based linter framework. Reworked automation workflows to identify bugs earlier, migrated test management to XRay/JIRA, and built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins to improve release quality.

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

August 1, 2022 - October 1, 2023

Shift-left implementation reducing tickets by 38% and overall defect rate by 72% by converting legacy business rules into an in-house TypeScript linter framework. Reworked automation workflows to improve early bug identification by 70% for UI developers. Migrated testing tools to XRay/JIRA and built a centralized end-to-end test repository. Built and managed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins; improved code commit quality by 30%. Established unit/integration test standards for the core automation platform.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer II at CaseWare International

August 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021

Owned QA for 3 accounting products and led a team of 3 to deliver manual and automated solutions. Built Python-Selenium automation framework using Page Object Model for scalable Web UI testing. Delegated tasks, evaluated performance for 5+ Co-ops/Interns; managed QA sign-offs. Integrated nightly automation runs into CI/CD, enabling rapid feedback for the engineering team.

Senior Software Engineer II at Lam Research

December 1, 2017 - October 1, 2019

End-to-end leadership for STL C for Retail Banking systems; architected a scriptless automation framework using Selenium/Python with SQL data verification. Drove cross-functional QA/dev collaboration, implemented HP ALM for defect lifecycle, and integrated automation into Jenkins/GitHub CI/CD.

Software Engineer II at Lam Research

December 1, 2017 - October 1, 2019

Onboarded a new test team and captured requirements to deliver a quality system in POC stage. Automated simulation software for Tier-1 clients (Intel, Samsung, Infineon) using Rational Functional Tester (RFT). Achieved cost efficiency by reducing test scope budgets by 10% and delivering 30 hours in savings per release. Implemented data-driven testing by linking databases for failure history tracking; supported ALM & DevOps with HP ALM and Jenkins/GitHub CI/CD; performed Functional, UAT, API, and cross-browser testing.

Senior Consultant at Capgemini Solutions

September 1, 2014 - December 1, 2017

End-to-end leadership of the software testing lifecycle for Retail Banking systems (RBC account). Built an in-house scriptless automation framework using Selenium and Python with SQL real-time verification. Automated 104 complex regression test cases in under 4 months (covering ~15% of scope). Validated large-scale financial data and web services using SoapUI. Managed ALM/DevOps using HP ALM and integrated automation scripts into Jenkins/GitHub CI/CD; delivered cross-functional test coverage.