Hi, I’m Priyanka Pendam, a Senior QA Test Analyst with 9 years of hands-on experience delivering high-quality software across Retail, Public Sector, Salesforce, Health & Technology, Telecom, and Banking & Finance domains. I excel at managing end-to-end testing, defining test strategies, driving defect resolution, and ensuring production readiness for complex business applications. I enjoy collaborating with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure quality and customer satisfaction. I am passionate about automation, API testing, and building scalable QA frameworks for web, mobile, and backend systems.

Priyanka Pendam

Hi, I’m Priyanka Pendam, a Senior QA Test Analyst with 9 years of hands-on experience delivering high-quality software across Retail, Public Sector, Salesforce, Health & Technology, Telecom, and Banking & Finance domains. I excel at managing end-to-end testing, defining test strategies, driving defect resolution, and ensuring production readiness for complex business applications. I enjoy collaborating with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure quality and customer satisfaction. I am passionate about automation, API testing, and building scalable QA frameworks for web, mobile, and backend systems.

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Hi, I’m Priyanka Pendam, a Senior QA Test Analyst with 9 years of hands-on experience delivering high-quality software across Retail, Public Sector, Salesforce, Health & Technology, Telecom, and Banking & Finance domains. I excel at managing end-to-end testing, defining test strategies, driving defect resolution, and ensuring production readiness for complex business applications.

I enjoy collaborating with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure quality and customer satisfaction. I am passionate about automation, API testing, and building scalable QA frameworks for web, mobile, and backend systems.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior QA Test Analyst at Adore Beauty
May 1, 2025 - Present
First QA hire, established the QA function from scratch; built end-to-end QA processes, release workflows, defect standards, and scalable testing frameworks across web, mobile apps, backend systems, and POS. Led QA delivery across 4 product streams, owning testing quality and production readiness; built 1000+ test cases; managed cross-browser/device testing and full defect lifecycle to minimize production defects; delivered QA strategies and risk assessments influencing go/no-go decisions.
Senior Test Analyst at Country Road Group
August 1, 2023 - March 1, 2025
Led testing across 4 cross-functional IT squads; defect tracking for 150+ defects; executed 100+ test cases per brand; validated payment flows across multiple brands resulting in high payment success; coordinated with third-party vendors; performed API testing and campaign-based A/B testing.
Salesforce Test Analyst (Fixed Term Contract) at Salesforce, Melbourne
March 1, 2023 - August 1, 2023
Developed 30+ detailed manual test plans ensuring full acceptance criteria coverage; identified and resolved 150+ defects; tested Salesforce Case Management and Service Cloud workflows; contributed to SAFe agile ceremonies and early testing strategies, reducing critical defects by 30%.
OTT Platform Test Analyst at Foxtel Group, Melbourne
July 1, 2021 - March 1, 2023
Performed functional, regression and integration testing on 50+ backend systems and 10+ microservices; executed 100+ UAT workflows; 300+ API test scenarios; managed 100+ defects; collaborated on CI/CD and AWS service testing.
Automation Test Engineer at HeadUp Labs, Melbourne
March 1, 2021 - May 1, 2021
Created 30+ automated API test cases; developed SAS tokens to access Azure Storage; used Newman to record responses and automate API checks.
Senior Test and Automation Engineer at ABN AMRO Bank, Mumbai & Amsterdam
October 1, 2016 - October 1, 2019
Executed BAT, UAT, functional, integration and regression testing across UI/UX and backend services; automated 20+ test scenarios; validated payment flows and Siebel/Salesforce/JAVA-based services; reduced manual effort through UFT-based automation.

Education

Master of Business Information Systems at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
January 11, 2030 - May 20, 2026
Bachelor of Computer Engineering at Mumbai University, India
January 11, 2030 - May 20, 2026

Qualifications

IIBA Academic Diploma in Business Analysis
January 11, 2030 - May 20, 2026
Professional Year by Australian Computer Society
January 11, 2030 - May 20, 2026
Agile Foundations Certificate
January 11, 2030 - May 20, 2026
Salesforce Essential Training Certificate
January 11, 2030 - May 20, 2026
Robotic Process Automation Developer Foundation (RPA)
January 11, 2030 - May 20, 2026

Industry Experience

Retail, Government, Financial Services, Healthcare, Software & Internet, Professional Services