I am Sumitha Cholakkal, a QA Engineer with 9 years of experience supporting enterprise financial platforms. I specialize in manual testing, structured test case design, and defect management, with a deep understanding of business workflows and risk-based validation. I also bring hands-on automation experience with Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Rest Assured, and Postman to strengthen regression suites and accelerate release readiness. I thrive in Agile teams, collaborating with product managers, designers, and developers to ensure quality and real-world coverage across UAT, integration, and production-like environments.

Sumitha Cholakkal

I am Sumitha Cholakkal, a QA Engineer with 9 years of experience supporting enterprise financial platforms. I specialize in manual testing, structured test case design, and defect management, with a deep understanding of business workflows and risk-based validation. I also bring hands-on automation experience with Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Rest Assured, and Postman to strengthen regression suites and accelerate release readiness. I thrive in Agile teams, collaborating with product managers, designers, and developers to ensure quality and real-world coverage across UAT, integration, and production-like environments.

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I am Sumitha Cholakkal, a QA Engineer with 9 years of experience supporting enterprise financial platforms. I specialize in manual testing, structured test case design, and defect management, with a deep understanding of business workflows and risk-based validation.

I also bring hands-on automation experience with Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Rest Assured, and Postman to strengthen regression suites and accelerate release readiness. I thrive in Agile teams, collaborating with product managers, designers, and developers to ensure quality and real-world coverage across UAT, integration, and production-like environments.

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Experience Level

Expert
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

QA Engineer at JP Morgan Chase & Co
December 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026
Led QA delivery within Corporate & Investment Banking systems; designed structured manual test cases aligned to business requirements; managed a small QA team of 3; analyzed trade and transaction flows to identify high-risk integration points; created test scenarios for data validation and edge cases; detected integration defects across backend layers prior to release; participated in sprint planning and reviews; maintained automation regression suites (Selenium + Cucumber) to support release stability; logged defects with clear reproduction steps and impact using Jira.
Senior Software Engineer at Mphasis (Client: JP Morgan Chase & Co – CIB)
December 1, 2021 - December 1, 2024
Worked within Corporate & Investment Banking delivery teams; analyzed complex business requirements and financial workflows across integrated application modules; performed functional and integration testing in SIT and UAT cycles; supported regression testing and release readiness for release candidates; clarified acceptance criteria with product owners and developers; reviewed data recompilation reports of transactional data and identified defects.
Senior Test Engineer at Wipro Limited (Client: Charles Schwab Corporation)
December 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021
Performed manual functional, exploratory, and smoke testing across UI and backend workflows for a trading platform; executed integration and regression testing across financial transactional flows; implemented Rest Assured API automation to support repeatable validation of service behavior and reduce the number of UI test cases; identified inconsistencies between UI-level transaction capture and backend processing; supported environment-related testing issues and collaborated with cross-functional teams to stabilize releases.
Junior Software Engineer at Wipro Limited (Client: Charles Schwab Corporation)
December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2020
Performed manual functional, exploratory, and smoke testing across UI and backend workflows for a trading platform; contributed to automation efforts and defect resolution; helped ensure stability across releases.

Education

M.Tech in Software Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020
BSc Computer Science at NSS College, Ottapalam, Kerala, India
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2016

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services