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Bhagyarekha Vunnam

@bhagyarekhavunnam

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I am a Lead QA Engineer specializing in automation and API testing.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on QA leadership role focused on automation, API testing, CI/CD integration, and mentoring teams to raise release quality.

I am a Lead QA Engineer with over 12 years of automation and manual testing experience across GRC, healthcare, retail, finance and telecom. I am ISTQB and AccelQ certified and passionate about delivering high-quality software in Agile environments.

I design scalable automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Cucumber and AccelQ, and perform API testing with RestAssured and Postman. I automated 80% of regression suites at Ntirety and led integrations and validation efforts for Oracle Cloud at Skechers to improve release confidence. I continually expand my tooling to include Playwright and CI/CD integration to streamline testing and speed delivery.

I excel at leading QA activities, mentoring teams, and collaborating with stakeholders to define test strategy and metrics. I seek roles where I can drive automation best practices and improve quality through pragmatic, measurable approaches.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead QA

Current

Skechers

Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)

Led QA for integrations of inventory, CRM, and order/shipment data into Oracle Cloud Financials, improving release confidence and reducing production defects. Designed and executed AccelQ and API/UI tests and prepared test strategy, plans and health metrics.

SQL Oracle Cloud API Testing Test Strategy Jira Automation)Postman Automation

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Ntirety

Nov 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 2 months)

Automated 80% of regression tests using TestRunner, improving test execution time and team velocity. Developed Selenium Java POM scripts and led cloud-based testing on AWS, Azure and VMware.

Selenium Webdriver Java TestNG AWS Azure CI CD SQL

Sr QA Engineer

Living Sky Technologies

Jan 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 9 months)

Developed automation test scripts for REST APIs and UI using Selenium and TestNG and owned sprint QA deliverables for releases. Used Kibana for log tracing and performed cross-browser and functional regression testing.

Selenium Webdriver TestNG REST API Testing Kibana Cross Browser Testing Java SQL Automation)Automation

Senior QA Automation Engineer

SigMast Communications

Apr 2019 - Jan 2020 (9 months)

Led testing of SIP, MSRP and RTP telecom stacks on embedded Android devices and automated sanity/regression tests using Java, Maven, RestAssured and TestNG. Trained QA team on GSMA protocols and supported UAT and production validations.

SIP RTP Rest Assured Java TestNG Maven

QA Automation Engineer

SigMast Communications

Aug 2017 - Apr 2019 (1 year 8 months)

Automated API and regression test cases for telecom devices using RestAssured, Java and TestNG, and analyzed logs for issue triage. Supported client UAT and worked on Android built-in mobile applications for Samsung and LG devices.

Rest Assured Java TestNG API Testing Android SIP RTP Log Analysis Automation)Automation

QA Engineer

MetricStream

Jun 2011 - Aug 2015 (4 years 2 months)

Performed functional, UAT and regression testing on enterprise GRC platforms and automated key web workflows using Selenium (Java/TestNG). Executed backend validations using SQL and reported defects via Bugzilla and JIRA.