John Jithu Figaredo

I’m an ISTQB Certified QA Engineer with 4.5+ years of experience owning manual testing for production-grade web and mobile applications in Agile environments. I bring strong expertise in functional, regression, exploratory, and end-to-end testing—backed by release validation and production verification from requirement analysis through sign-off.

I independently handle QA responsibilities across sprint-based releases, creating test scenarios and regression suites, validating APIs and backend behavior, and ensuring critical defects don’t reach customers. I’m especially focused on risk assessment, defect reproduction, and root cause analysis to improve release quality and speed up resolution.

In my recent work, I prevented a critical payment refund defect in an e-commerce platform by identifying that returned product amounts weren’t credited back to customers. I also execute regression validation across multiple sprint cycles to support stable deployments, and I guide junior testers during sprint execution and defect verification.

Beyond manual QA, I build and run mobile automation scripts using Appium with Java, TestNG, and Maven for Android workflows. I collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to clarify requirements, validate backend integrations with Postman, and maintain QA documentation like test plans, reports, execution summaries, and release summaries.