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Aruna Kothandaraman

@arunakothandaraman

Senior QA Automation Engineer at Accurate who cut regression time from 2 hours to 30 minutes with AI tooling.

At Accurate, I led distributed-services testing and defined release quality gates that governed go/no-go decisions before production deployment. I also built and scaled cloud-based automation on AWS and Kubernetes, and used JMeter to validate scalability and failover.

I applied AI tooling to test authoring, triage, and reporting, reducing documentation time by 80% and regression cycle time from 2 hours to 30 minutes. Across my roles, I’ve worked on web, API, and native mobile automation, including UAT for an Identity Verification initiative built on Persona.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Accurate

Apr 2021 - May 2026 (5 years 1 month)

Defined and enforced release quality gates, led distributed services testing, and drove performance/load testing using JMeter. Built cloud-based test automation on AWS and Kubernetes, conducted chaos and resilience testing, and implemented contract testing with Pact.

Java Selenium Playwright Cypress Appium JMeter AWS Kubernetes Docker Rancher Kafka Pact Burp suite Jenkins GitHub Actions SQL Oracle SQL Server Datadog Kibana BrowserStack NetSuite Cursor GitHub Co Pilot MCP Atlassian Rovo

QA Automation Engineer

Westamerica Bank

Apr 2020 - Mar 2021 (11 months)

Developed automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, and Maven in a regulated financial services environment. Maintained CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins and Bitbucket, automated REST API validation, and implemented mobile test automation with Appium.

Selenium Webdriver TestNG Cucumber Maven Jenkins Bitbucket Rest Assured Postman SoapUI Appium Java JMeter SQL Jira

QA Automation Engineer

United Health Group

Feb 2018 - Mar 2020 (2 years 1 month)

Developed Java automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber BDD with Page Object Model. Built Data-Driven and Hybrid frameworks, integrated with Jenkins CI/CD, and performed REST API testing with Postman and Rest Assured.

Java Selenium Webdriver Cucumber TestNG Maven Jenkins Postman Rest Assured SQL MongoDB Jira

Manual Tester

Infosys Technology Ltd.

Oct 2006 - Jul 2009 (2 years 9 months)

Executed Smoke, Functional, Regression, UAT, and System Testing across the full SDLC. Authored test plans, test cases, and test data from business requirements, and communicated defect metrics to stakeholders.

SQL Pl SQL Test Planning Test Case Design SDLC Defect Tracking