I am a results-driven QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience in testing client/server and web applications, proficient in C#, Selenium, Playwright, REST API testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I thrive in Agile environments, collaborating closely with development teams to ensure quality throughout the software lifecycle. I have hands-on experience building data-driven, keyword-driven, and hybrid automation frameworks, deploying test environments in AWS, and performing mobile testing with Appium. I am adept at communicating effectively with stakeholders, delivering clear test plans and reports, and driving continuous improvement through robust automation strategies and meticulous defect management.

Vijya Lakshmi Bulusu

I am a results-driven QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience in testing client/server and web applications, proficient in C#, Selenium, Playwright, REST API testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I thrive in Agile environments, collaborating closely with development teams to ensure quality throughout the software lifecycle. I have hands-on experience building data-driven, keyword-driven, and hybrid automation frameworks, deploying test environments in AWS, and performing mobile testing with Appium. I am adept at communicating effectively with stakeholders, delivering clear test plans and reports, and driving continuous improvement through robust automation strategies and meticulous defect management.

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I am a results-driven QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience in testing client/server and web applications, proficient in C#, Selenium, Playwright, REST API testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I thrive in Agile environments, collaborating closely with development teams to ensure quality throughout the software lifecycle. I have hands-on experience building data-driven, keyword-driven, and hybrid automation frameworks, deploying test environments in AWS, and performing mobile testing with Appium.

I am adept at communicating effectively with stakeholders, delivering clear test plans and reports, and driving continuous improvement through robust automation strategies and meticulous defect management.

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Work Experience

Sr. QA Automation Engineer at First Bancorp
July 1, 2024 - Present
End-to-end testing of an AngularJS/HTML5/CSS3-based web application; designed and maintained Selenium WebDriver scripts in C# for regression and functional testing; built cross-browser automation framework (TestNG/Maven); identified manual vs automation test cases; performed REST API testing via Postman and Playwright; mobile testing with Appium on Android/iOS; participated in Scrum and Cucumber-based BDD; tracked defects in JIRA; validated data integrity with SQL; conducted SOA/web services testing.
Sr. QA Automation Engineer at Custard Insurance Adjusters
December 1, 2022 - June 1, 2024
Led automation acceptance test suites using Java, Selenium, and TestNG; migrated legacy scripts to a new Java-based hybrid framework; implemented distributed CI/CD tests with Jenkins and parallel test execution; created manual test cases; tracked defects in Pivotal Tracker/JIRA; backend data validation with SQL; REST API testing with REST Assured and Postman; used Playwright for UI automation; contributed to CI/CD automation efforts and test reporting.
QA Automation Engineer at CNA Insurance
January 1, 2021 - November 1, 2022
Designed and implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver with C# and TestNG; data-driven testing; API testing with SOAP/REST; database validation with SQL; contributed to CI with Jenkins; created HTML reports for test results; collaborated in an Agile environment to ensure timely delivery.
QA Engineer at Mesirow Investment Banking
August 1, 2017 - February 1, 2019
Developed a Data-Driven Hybrid automation framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, and Maven; implemented Cucumber BDD for test readability; executed tests in CI with Jenkins; parallelized tests across browsers/environments; contributed to API and database testing with REST Assured and SQL.
QA Engineer at Hunters Specialties
March 1, 2019 - December 1, 2020
Performed regression testing on new builds using Selenium WebDriver; developed automation scripts in C#; implemented data-driven tests; collaborated with onsite clients for requirement alignment; contributed to web services testing (SOAP/XML); documented test results and defects; maintained test artifacts for ongoing projects.
Manual Tester at Ace Hardware
May 1, 2016 - July 1, 2017
Planned and executed diverse manual testing types including Smoke, Functional, System, UAT, Accessibility, Integration, Regression; led testing efforts; prepared test artifacts and RTM; participated in defect triage; documented weekly status; supported test environments in Windows.

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Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Healthcare, Other