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I am a passionate Automation Test Engineer with over 18 years of experience across the full software delivery lifecycle. I collaborate closely with developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to build confidence in releases and to drive quality decisions early in the project lifecycle. I specialize in Playwright, BDD/Cucumber, Postman, and RestAssured for UI and API testing, plus integration and exploratory testing across CRM, ERP, and payment gateway ecosystems. I enjoy mentoring testers, owning regression suites through product evolution, and leading release readiness and UAT activities, with ongoing Salesforce platform and multi-channel commerce domain exposure.…I am a passionate Automation Test Engineer with over 18 years of experience across the full software delivery lifecycle. I collaborate closely with developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to build confidence in releases and to drive quality decisions early in the project lifecycle. I specialize in Playwright, BDD/Cucumber, Postman, and RestAssured for UI and API testing, plus integration and exploratory testing across CRM, ERP, and payment gateway ecosystems. I enjoy mentoring testers, owning regression suites through product evolution, and leading release readiness and UAT activities, with ongoing Salesforce platform and multi-channel commerce domain exposure.

Venkata Dontha

QA Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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I am a passionate Automation Test Engineer with over 18 years of experience across the full software delivery lifecycle. I collaborate closely with developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to build confidence in releases and to drive quality decisions early in the project lifecycle. I specialize in Playwright, BDD/Cucumber, Postman, and RestAssured for UI and API testing, plus integration and exploratory testing across CRM, ERP, and payment gateway ecosystems. I enjoy mentoring testers, owning regression suites through product evolution, and leading release readiness and UAT activities, with ongoing Salesforce platform and multi-channel commerce domain exposure.…I am a passionate Automation Test Engineer with over 18 years of experience across the full software delivery lifecycle. I collaborate closely with developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to build confidence in releases and to drive quality decisions early in the project lifecycle. I specialize in Playwright, BDD/Cucumber, Postman, and RestAssured for UI and API testing, plus integration and exploratory testing across CRM, ERP, and payment gateway ecosystems. I enjoy mentoring testers, owning regression suites through product evolution, and leading release readiness and UAT activities, with ongoing Salesforce platform and multi-channel commerce domain exposure.

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I am a passionate Automation Test Engineer with over 18 years of experience across the full software delivery lifecycle. I collaborate closely with developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to build confidence in releases and to drive quality decisions early in the project lifecycle.

I specialize in Playwright, BDD/Cucumber, Postman, and RestAssured for UI and API testing, plus integration and exploratory testing across CRM, ERP, and payment gateway ecosystems. I enjoy mentoring testers, owning regression suites through product evolution, and leading release readiness and UAT activities, with ongoing Salesforce platform and multi-channel commerce domain exposure.

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Work Experience

Test Automation Engineer / Senior Test Lead at Clarks Shoes

August 1, 2022 - May 1, 2025

End-to-end test automation across SAP ECC/S4HANA, EPOS, e-commerce, OMS, WMS, and third-party integrations; built Playwright-based UI automation and API testing to support CI/CD pipelines and UAT ownership.

Senior QA Lead / Test Automation Engineer at Ted Baker

January 1, 2021 - July 1, 2022

Delivered automation for Dynamics 365 and ERP integration; built Selenium/Cypress frameworks; led UAT sign-off, release governance, and cross-team collaboration.

SDET / Test Automation Engineer at Arringo Ltd (InstaCoins)

October 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021

Sole QA automation engineer for a regulated fintech microservices platform; built RestAssured API tests and Postman collections; contributed to 200+ test cases and release readiness.

Senior QA Lead / Test Automation Engineer at Gatwick Airport

September 1, 2019 - April 1, 2020

Automation and functional testing across mission-critical Salesforce Commerce Cloud reservation and payment workflows; API testing; release checkpoint and UAT facilitation.

Test Lead / QA Automation Engineer at Conexus PFS / LiveArea

June 1, 2013 - July 1, 2019

Multi-client automation across SAP Hybris, Magento, Demandware, Shopify and CRM platform integrations; mentoring teams and owning regression suites through product evolution.

Senior Test Analyst / Test Lead at SITA

January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2013

Functional and integration testing for regulated aviation/border security platforms; exploratory testing, UAT support, and defect management.

Non-Functional Test Analyst at BT

January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2011

Performance, load, and resilience testing for NHS and Olympic infrastructure; communicated non-functional test results to senior stakeholders.

Senior Software Test Engineer at Specsavers

January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2010

Selenium automation framework development; regression suite ownership and defect tracking within a large retail environment.

Senior Test Engineer at JK Technosoft

January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2007

Manual test execution, defect logging and reporting across client projects.