Pavithra Dubbaka

Senior QA Engineer and SDET with 8+ years developing, maintaining, and executing test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts for complex, multi-system enterprise programs across government, financial services, licensing, and technology. Designs, builds, and maintains automated test frameworks and regression suites using Playwright and Selenium, and collaborates with development and DevOps teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines. Performs functional, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, and smoke testing, validating application functionality, interfaces, APIs, and data integrity across multiple integrated systems.

Analyzes business and technical requirements and translates them into effective testing solutions; identifies, documents, tracks, and validates defects through resolution in Azure DevOps; and supports release management, deployment validation, testing metrics, status reporting, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST at Government of Nova Scotia (Unisys) (2023-09 – Present)

• Develop, maintain, and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts across licensing, permitting, and compliance initiatives.
• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and regression suites using Playwright, covering cross-browser end-to-end user journeys.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to integrate automated regression suites into CI/CD pipelines, giving fast feedback on every build.
• Perform functional, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, and smoke testing across sprint and release cycles.
• Validate application functionality, interfaces, APIs, and data integrity across multiple integrated systems and downstream consumers.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into effective testing solutions, defining scope, coverage, dependencies, and traceability.
• Identify, document, track, and validate defects through resolution using Azure DevOps and Jira, with reproduction steps, severity, environment details, logs, and evidence.
• Support release management activities, deployment validation, and post-deployment smoke testing across environments.
• Provide testing metrics, status reporting, and release-readiness risk communication to delivery stakeholders.
• Develop reusable Selenium WebDriver automation using Java, TestNG, Page Object Model, and Page Factory.
• Design and maintain BDD scenarios in Cucumber/Gherkin and execute tagged suites through Java runners.
• Test RESTful and SOAP services using Postman, SoapUI, and REST Assured, including authentication and JSON/XML validation.
• Validate backend data and business outcomes using SQL and Oracle queries.
• Produce test documentation and knowledge-transfer material, and mentor junior team members on test design, automation, and QA practices.

QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER at CNN, NEWSON (Redspace Inc.) (2021-08 – 2023-07)

• Prepared test strategies, scenarios, cases, scripts, data, and execution documentation from functional and technical requirements.
• Performed functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, API, database, cross-platform, and cross-browser testing.
• Validated application functionality, interfaces, and data integrity across integrated streaming and content-delivery systems.
• Developed and executed Selenium WebDriver and TestNG automation using data-driven frameworks and Excel test data.
• Integrated automated regression suites into Jenkins CI pipelines and analyzed failures, results, and execution trends.
• Used TestNG Parameters and DataProvider annotations to organize functional and regression suites, executing them in parallel with Selenium Grid.
• Performed REST and SOAP testing using SoapUI and Postman; validated JSON/XML messages and responses.
• Wrote SQL queries to verify backend data and consistency between application screens and database results.
• Identified, documented, and tracked defects through resolution with reproduction information and evidence.
• Provided testing metrics, status reporting, and release-readiness updates during Agile ceremonies and release discussions.
• Supported deployment validation, smoke testing, and continuous improvement of automation and test documentation.

QA ENGINEER at Fidelity Investments (NTT DATA) (2018-06 – 2021-07)

• Analyzed user stories and business and technical requirements, translating them into traceable test scenarios, test cases, test data, test scripts, and reports.
• Performed functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, cross-browser, and cross-operating-system testing.
• Developed and executed Java/Selenium WebDriver automation with TestNG and JUnit, including data-driven testing integrated into Jenkins CI.
• Validated application interfaces, APIs, and data integrity across integrated account-servicing and reporting systems.
• Identified, documented, and tracked defects through resolution, performed retesting, and completed regression validation after fixes.
• Produced test summary reports and testing metrics covering execution progress, defects, quality risks, and release concerns.
• Supported release planning, deployment validation, and smoke testing in coordination with developers and stakeholders.
• Created SQL scripts and test data, then validated backend records against frontend values using SQL Server queries.

QA ANALYST at Global Payments (Capgemini) (2015-08 – 2017-10)

• Developed test cases and scripts from business and technical design documents and executed them across development and test environments.
• Developed end-to-end Selenium WebDriver automation scripts with TestNG, reducing manual regression effort.
• Performed smoke, end-to-end, integration, regression, and environment validation supporting release and deployment activities.
• Validated transaction interfaces and data integrity between merchant-facing applications and backend payment systems.
• Identified, documented, and tracked defects to closure using Jira and Rally.
• Wrote SQL scripts to load test data into Oracle test tables and performed backend validation.
• Prepared daily and weekly status reports and testing metrics covering progress, issues, risks, and outcomes.
• Participated in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and release-related QA activities.

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communications – JNTU University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India