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Hi, I’m Bala KR. I’m a manual and test automation expert with more than 12 years of experience across the full testing lifecycle, including functional, regression, integration testing, UAT, API testing, and performance testing. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and offshore partners to ensure high‑quality software releases. I've worked across Banking, Utilities, Government, ATO, Xero and Insurance domains, using a wide range of tools like Applitools, BrowserStack, Postman, Bruno, and Splunk. I am comfortable in both Agile and Waterfall models and excel at defect management, test strategy, and automation framework development using Cucumber, Java, Groovy, Python, Robot Framework, and Playwright.…Hi, I’m Bala KR. I’m a manual and test automation expert with more than 12 years of experience across the full testing lifecycle, including functional, regression, integration testing, UAT, API testing, and performance testing. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and offshore partners to ensure high‑quality software releases. I've worked across Banking, Utilities, Government, ATO, Xero and Insurance domains, using a wide range of tools like Applitools, BrowserStack, Postman, Bruno, and Splunk. I am comfortable in both Agile and Waterfall models and excel at defect management, test strategy, and automation framework development using Cucumber, Java, Groovy, Python, Robot Framework, and Playwright.

Bala KR

QA Engineer, Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Bala KR. I’m a manual and test automation expert with more than 12 years of experience across the full testing lifecycle, including functional, regression, integration testing, UAT, API testing, and performance testing. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and offshore partners to ensure high‑quality software releases. I've worked across Banking, Utilities, Government, ATO, Xero and Insurance domains, using a wide range of tools like Applitools, BrowserStack, Postman, Bruno, and Splunk. I am comfortable in both Agile and Waterfall models and excel at defect management, test strategy, and automation framework development using Cucumber, Java, Groovy, Python, Robot Framework, and Playwright.…Hi, I’m Bala KR. I’m a manual and test automation expert with more than 12 years of experience across the full testing lifecycle, including functional, regression, integration testing, UAT, API testing, and performance testing. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and offshore partners to ensure high‑quality software releases. I've worked across Banking, Utilities, Government, ATO, Xero and Insurance domains, using a wide range of tools like Applitools, BrowserStack, Postman, Bruno, and Splunk. I am comfortable in both Agile and Waterfall models and excel at defect management, test strategy, and automation framework development using Cucumber, Java, Groovy, Python, Robot Framework, and Playwright.

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Hi, I’m Bala KR. I’m a manual and test automation expert with more than 12 years of experience across the full testing lifecycle, including functional, regression, integration testing, UAT, API testing, and performance testing. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and offshore partners to ensure high‑quality software releases.

I’ve worked across Banking, Utilities, Government, ATO, Xero and Insurance domains, using a wide range of tools like Applitools, BrowserStack, Postman, Bruno, and Splunk. I am comfortable in both Agile and Waterfall models and excel at defect management, test strategy, and automation framework development using Cucumber, Java, Groovy, Python, Robot Framework, and Playwright.

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Work Experience

Senior Test Engineer at BAW

September 1, 2025 - Present

Single handedly managed the test life cycle of the application, including test planning, estimation, execution, security testing, functional, regression, end-to-end and integration testing. Performed defect management and production verification testing. Coordinated with Managers, Architects, BAs, offshore teams and stakeholders; conducted integrations with ATO, Xero, MYOB, SharePoint, FYI docs, and FYI Collaborate.

Senior Test Engineer at NAB

May 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025

System Integration Testing from scratch to deployment; coordinated with offshore teams. Worked on multiple microservices (Cards Payments, Settings, Account Management, Transaction History); reviewed unit, black-box and component automated test cases; created/executed stubs and wiremocks; created test scenarios and presented them to the team. Release preparation and presentation; performance testing using Gatling/Scala; disaster recovery activities; participated in Agile ceremonies.

Test Engineer at SecurePay

February 1, 2021 - February 1, 2025

UAT/BVT/PVT for periodic production deployments; functional, regression, end-to-end testing and automation. Performance testing using JMeter; automation using Cucumber-Selenium, Geb/Groovy, Testcafe, Python. API testing and automation; REST API, Postman; CI/CD with Jenkins; BrowserStack; SQL; Git; Jira/Xray; Docker. Defined test strategies and created business-oriented test scenarios; defect management; participated in daily Agile ceremonies.

Test Engineer at Origin Energy

September 1, 2016 - February 1, 2021

Manual testing focused on Payments and Sales; NMI and MIRN testing; Auth0 Migration Automation on Geb and Spock Framework with Groovy, Gradle, Testcafe. AWS-related testing with Aurora, DynamoDB, S3 bucket, Lambda functions. Mobile testing with Appium; API testing and automation; OMS; IVR testing using Cyara; SAP Testing – CRM, ISU, RestAPI Automation; AEM Testing; SAP/CRM, ISU; Selenoid, Postman, Charles, Applitools; SAP CRM/ISU testing and data fetching.

Test Analyst at IBM, Wellington, NZ

July 1, 2015 - June 1, 2016

SAP Test Analyst for Fonterra; Agile Test Analyst for District Health Board and Earthquake Commission; Component Performance Tester for Westpac Bank; System Testing and Integration Testing; Defect Management; knowledge transfer from previous vendor; client collaboration.

Test Analyst at IBM, Greenville, USA

November 1, 2010 - March 1, 2015

Onshore Test Lead/Team Lead for MetLife Insurance; worked directly with client; coordinated with offshore teams; estimations and test strategies; defect management; knowledge transfer; address production issues; recognized with Best Value Add for a REXX automation script (500+ hours saved).

Application Programmer at IBM, Bangalore, India

July 1, 2008 - November 1, 2010

eCOBOL Migration for Mainframes; automation via REXX tools and customised TSO commands; support testing for Telstra team; job management with Control-M; mentored team in REXX.