Aishwarya Manjunath
Reading,United Kingdom
Summary
Senior Automation Test Engineer with 13+ years of experience in Quality Assurance across Digital , Insurance , Finance, Retail, and Energy domains. Proven expertise in designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks for UI and API testing using Selenium WebDriver , TestNG , Rest Assured , Postman , and Cucumber BDD . Strong experience in integrating automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and delivery. Adept in functional, regression, UAT, and production testing within Agile environments. Proficient in leveraging Jira and Azure DevOps for test management, defect tracking, and end-to-end delivery coordination.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior QA Automation engineer
Placing Platform Limited
London
2025.01 - Current
- Designed and executed automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Java for a single-market electronic placement platform that supports quoting, negotiation, and binding of insurance risks, improving software quality and reducing manual testing effort.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to automate deployment processes and reduce release times by 30%.
- Collaborated closely with developers, product owners, and business analysts to understand requirements and ensure high-quality delivery of features across the insurance placement life cycle.
- Designed and performed API testing using REST Assured and Postman, validating micro-services, request/response data, and ensuring seamless integration across the platform.
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Procode
London
2023.05 - 2024.12
- Worked on the Intelligent Data Adaptor, system that integrates with Data communication company and the energy suppliers.
- Extensively used Azure DevOps across multiple projects for test plan, design, execution and CI/CD pipelines.
- Developed and implemented automated testing scripts using Cucumber BDD framework to improve test coverage and reduce the amount of time spent on manual testing.
- Automate API testing using Java Rest Assured, Postman and Swagger.
- Hands-on experience using Octopus deploy for code deployments in multiple environments.
- Facilitate sprint planning, refinement, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos to ensure the team was on track to meet their goals and objectives.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
OvalX
London
2021.06 - 2023.04
- The scope included testing the Trading application on Web platform and mobile devices across iOS and Android.
- Work closely with developers, Business Analysts and Product Owners within the team, to develop and maintain test plans and test specifications.
- Experience generating test plans and test cases from product specifications and requirements.
- Created Java based scripts for Selenium Web Driver with TestNG as automation frame work to test integrated web-based systems.
- Implemented Behavior-driven development using Cucumber for backend API Testing.
- Created mobile interaction automation scripts for mobile app across iOS and Android platforms using Appium Tool.
- Experience of testing Restful API services using POSTMAN & Rest Assured.
- Exposure to Performance testing tools like JMeter.
Senior QA Engineer
Accedo
London
2021.01 - 2021.05
- Functional, integration, regression, system testing of media apps on multiple platforms ranging from Smart TVs, gaming consoles, Set Top Boxes, Apple TV, Web, Smart phones, Tablets and more.
- Responsible for test management activities like defect reporting and tracking, uploading the status in the test management tool, daily reporting activities using JIRA.
- Coordination and support during UAT period.
Software Engineer
Accenture Services PVT. LTD
Bengaluru
2013.01 - 2020.12
- Worked as a Software QA engineer for several prestigious clients like Hotstar, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola.
- Created automation scripts for Customer centric applications using Selenium and Seetest tool.
- Integrated Appium to an existing selenium framework for end to end testing of mobile applications.
- Responsible for executing the regression suites on every major build and release it to the client on time.
- Responsible for testing builds in agile methodology, defect reporting and tracking.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bengaluru 2008.09 - 2012.07
Skills
- Selenium WebDriver with Java
- Cucumber BDD Framework
- Playwright (JavaScript/TypeScript)
- Maven & TestNG Framework
- API testing with Rest Assured
- Java
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Azure DevOps
- Agile Methodology
- Postman
Websites
Certification
Received Application Tester Certificate from MIT professor in Accenture.
Languages
English
Advanced
Timeline
Senior QA Automation engineer
Placing Platform Limited
2025.01 - Current
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Procode
2023.05 - 2024.12
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
OvalX
2021.06 - 2023.04
Senior QA Engineer
Accedo
2021.01 - 2021.05
Software Engineer
Accenture Services PVT. LTD
2013.01 - 2020.12
Bachelor of Engineering -
Visvesvaraya Technological University
2008.09 - 2012.07