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I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for web and enterprise platforms. I specialize in designing test automation architectures, reducing regression runtimes, and improving reliability by eliminating flaky tests. I work across Playwright, Selenium, and API testing with strong framework engineering skills (POM, hybrid frameworks, CI/CD) and have domain experience spanning energy/retail, logistics/supply chain, federal systems, healthcare, and telecom.…I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for web and enterprise platforms. I specialize in designing test automation architectures, reducing regression runtimes, and improving reliability by eliminating flaky tests. I work across Playwright, Selenium, and API testing with strong framework engineering skills (POM, hybrid frameworks, CI/CD) and have domain experience spanning energy/retail, logistics/supply chain, federal systems, healthcare, and telecom.

HARI BABU KALPA

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I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for web and enterprise platforms. I specialize in designing test automation architectures, reducing regression runtimes, and improving reliability by eliminating flaky tests. I work across Playwright, Selenium, and API testing with strong framework engineering skills (POM, hybrid frameworks, CI/CD) and have domain experience spanning energy/retail, logistics/supply chain, federal systems, healthcare, and telecom.…I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for web and enterprise platforms. I specialize in designing test automation architectures, reducing regression runtimes, and improving reliability by eliminating flaky tests. I work across Playwright, Selenium, and API testing with strong framework engineering skills (POM, hybrid frameworks, CI/CD) and have domain experience spanning energy/retail, logistics/supply chain, federal systems, healthcare, and telecom.

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I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for web and enterprise platforms. I specialize in designing test automation architectures, reducing regression runtimes, and improving reliability by eliminating flaky tests.

I work across Playwright, Selenium, and API testing with strong framework engineering skills (POM, hybrid frameworks, CI/CD) and have domain experience spanning energy/retail, logistics/supply chain, federal systems, healthcare, and telecom.

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Software Development Testing Engineer at Maddisoft Technologies

June 1, 2025 - July 31, 2026

Client: NRG Energy Inc. Worked on a Retail Campaign Management Platform retention module. Gathered and validated functional requirements and user stories with Scrum and business stakeholders. Authored and executed test cases to validate functional changes and supported UAT by presenting demos to business stakeholders. Built Playwright automation from scratch using Python (Pytest), leveraging async/await and parallel workers to reduce regression runtime by 40% and eliminate flaky tests. Implemented Page Object Model (POM) to improve maintainability and structure. Managed defects in Azure DevOps to closure and collaborated to ensure application quality.

Software Engineer 2 at Dell Technologies

August 1, 2023 - March 31, 2025

Worked on Supply Chain Management (Logistics) for the Ready Stock supply chain program. Designed and maintained a Selenium WebDriver + TestNG + Maven framework (Java) across modules. Developed end-to-end functional automation and performed REST API testing using Rest Assured to validate request/response and integration behavior. Designed and executed functional, integration, and regression test cases. Led Vendor Integration Testing (VIT) with 3PL partners as a team lead, coordinating data flow between Dell applications and 3PL systems. Maintained GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows to trigger test suites on pull requests for continuous testing.

Senior Test Engineer at UST Global

March 1, 2016 - August 31, 2023

Client: Federal Government. Analyzed requirements for a federal logistics and supply chain management system and developed automation from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG. Worked on Siebel Sales Cloud modules including Accounts, Opportunities, Leads, Contacts, Cases, and Campaigns. Automated backend validations by parsing REST API endpoints to replace manual Postman testing. Executed automated test cases, generated reports, and collaborated with developers to investigate and resolve defects.

Test Engineer at UnitedHealth Group (Optum)

June 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

Worked on MQA Product Materials (AARP Medicare Solutions) for CMS-based Medicare materials automation (ANOC, EOC, SB, BAAG). Analyzed requirements and designed test cases and procedures based on functional specifications. Built and executed testing using Test Complete. Logged and tracked defects in HP ALM (Quality Center) and performed functional, re-testing, and regression testing. Participated in daily scrum and coordinated with on-shore and off-shore clients and product owners.

Software Test Engineer at Airhub Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

September 1, 2012 - June 30, 2015

Client: RB Telecom, South Africa. Prepared test scenarios, test cases, and test scripts for IVRS Automatic E-Filing including OBD, Promotions Campaign, CRM Integration, and Reporting for system and integration testing. Participated in peer reviews to identify test gaps and monitored defect fixes through re-testing and closure. Coordinated with offshore leads and clients via sync-ups and weekly meetings, and maintained weekly status trackers reporting progress to PM and leads.