I am a QA Automation leader with 17 years of experience building UI, API, and mobile automation frameworks across healthcare, telecom, fintech, and eCommerce platforms. I specialize in AI-driven testing, leveraging tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and agent-based frameworks to design scalable test architectures and integrate automation into CI/CD for cloud-native microservices. I enjoy mentoring teams, delivering reliable software through hands-on automation, performance testing, and driving improvements in test maintainability and early defect detection.

Janaki Tottidi

I am a QA Automation leader with 17 years of experience building UI, API, and mobile automation frameworks across healthcare, telecom, fintech, and eCommerce platforms. I specialize in AI-driven testing, leveraging tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and agent-based frameworks to design scalable test architectures and integrate automation into CI/CD for cloud-native microservices. I enjoy mentoring teams, delivering reliable software through hands-on automation, performance testing, and driving improvements in test maintainability and early defect detection.

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I am a QA Automation leader with 17 years of experience building UI, API, and mobile automation frameworks across healthcare, telecom, fintech, and eCommerce platforms. I specialize in AI-driven testing, leveraging tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and agent-based frameworks to design scalable test architectures and integrate automation into CI/CD for cloud-native microservices.

I enjoy mentoring teams, delivering reliable software through hands-on automation, performance testing, and driving improvements in test maintainability and early defect detection.

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Work Experience

Senior SDET & Tech Lead
August 1, 2023 - Present
Architected Playwright-based cross-browser automation frameworks using Python Async with Pytest to automate enterprise regression suites. Developed 120+ API automation tests using Python with Pytest & Requests to validate healthcare microservices workflows. Built mobile automation suite using Appium to support Android and iOS testing. Led AI-driven automation POC leveraging GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Playwright MCP server to generate POM-based test frameworks from natural language inputs. Built Jenkins Pipeline scripts using Groovy to schedule nightly execution of Python Playwright UI and Python Pytest API Requests automation scripts. Hands-on experience in AWS cloud (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, Auto Scaling) for deploying, testing, and validating scalable microservices applications.
Senior SDET & Tech Lead
May 1, 2023 - July 1, 2023
Designed scalable UI automation framework using Playwright and Python Async with Pytest to accelerate brokerage platform regression cycles. Built API automation suite covering 80+ REST endpoints using Python with Pytest & Requests. Developed reusable React UI components supporting provisioning dashboards and frontend maintainability.
SDET & Tech Lead
February 1, 2021 - April 1, 2023
Validated Spring Boot microservices deployed on AWS to ensure stable service interactions during cloud migration. Developed Python with Playwright, Pytest & API Requests automation frameworks to reduce manual UI and API testing effort by 55%. Executed performance testing using JMeter and Gatling to identify application performance bottlenecks.
Automation Lead
January 1, 2019 - February 1, 2021
Architected enterprise automation framework using Selenium, Cypress, and RestAssured supporting telecom provisioning systems. Developed 200+ automated UI and API tests using Java and Cucumber to increase regression automation coverage.
Software Developer
August 1, 2017 - December 1, 2018
Developed AngularJS UI modules supporting telecom provisioning platforms. Automated UI and API validation using Selenium with Pytest, Requests to improve release reliability.
Senior Automation Engineer
July 1, 2012 - July 1, 2017
Developed Selenium automation suites covering 150+ regression scenarios reducing manual test cycles by 45%. Integrated automated testing into Jenkins pipelines enabling continuous testing across releases.
Software Automation Engineer
August 1, 2010 - June 1, 2012
Automated 50+ UI test scenarios using Selenium and Java to validate web applications, increasing regression coverage and reducing manual testing effort. Built API automation for 30+ REST services using RestAssured and SOAPUI to validate integrations, improving early defect detection.
Software Automation Engineer
July 1, 2009 - August 1, 2010
Developed automation scripts for 40+ UI test cases using Selenium and Java to validate billing workflows, reducing manual regression effort. Automated API validation for 25+ REST endpoints using RestAssured and SOAPUI to ensure service reliability, improving integration stability.
Software Automation Engineer
July 1, 2008 - June 1, 2009
Automated API testing for 20+ financial endpoints using RestAssured and SOAPUI to validate credit card processing, improving transaction reliability. Developed automation scripts for 30+ UI scenarios using Selenium and Java to validate application features, increasing regression coverage.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering at Anna University
July 1, 2004 - June 1, 2008

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Software & Internet, Retail