Anee K

Senior QA Engineer with 8+ years (with 2+ years leading QA activities and mentoring engineers within Agile squads) of experience leading quality assurance initiatives across enterprise web, cloud, and SAP applications. Proven expertise in test strategy development, Agile delivery, stakeholder management, QA metrics reporting, and end-to-end quality governance. Experienced in leading cross-functional QA teams, mentoring engineers, driving process improvements, and delivering high-quality software through both manual and automated testing practices.

Senior Software Test Engineer - RIVIAN Automotive LLC (Contract) / BayOne Solutions Inc. (Contract) - USA

(2025-06)

Led end-to-end testing strategy and execution for complex business transactions, validating the complete lifecycle from front-end data entry through back-end financial reconciliation. Ensured data integrity, business rule compliance, and seamless information flow across integrated enterprise systems.

• Defined end-to-end test strategies and risk-based testing approaches for complex SAP and cloud integration projects
• Acted as QA lead across multiple Agile squads, owning quality strategy alignment with Product Owners and Engineering Leads while directly coaching automation and manual testers on execution and root-cause practices
• Championed shift-left testing practices by participating in requirement reviews, story refinement sessions, and early risk assessments, reducing downstream defect leakage
• Collaborated with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Engineering Leads to translate business requirements into comprehensive test plans and acceptance criteria
• Established release testing scope, entry/exit criteria, and quality gates to ensure production readiness
• Collaborated with automation teams to integrate regression suites into CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster feedback and improving release confidence
• Acted as the primary QA point of contact between Product, Engineering, Automation, and Business stakeholders
• Developed and maintained QA dashboards in Jira and Zephyr to track test execution, defect trends, release readiness, and quality metrics
• Presented quality metrics, release readiness status, testing progress, risks, and mitigation plans to Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and business stakeholders
• Monitored key quality metrics including defect leakage, defect density, test coverage, and sprint quality trends
• Produced release quality reports and provided go/no-go recommendations during release readiness review
• Led and mentored a team of 3 QA engineers, assigning and prioritizing test coverage across squads, reviewing test design and defect analysis, and removing blockers to keep sprint commitments on track
• Creating Test cases using AI tools like AI agents, Gemini and Glean
• Improved regression execution efficiency by 90% through Playwright automation coverage
• Developed and maintained Playwright-based automated regression test suites to improve release quality and test efficiency
• Testing complex data integrations between SAP, PLM and other Products
• Orchestrated R2 E2E Integration Testing across a complex landscape involving SAP S/4HANA (EWM, TM, and FSCM) and external cloud platforms, ensuring seamless data flow through SAP CPI middleware
• Executed Advanced O2C Workflows, specifically validating the "Order-to-Ship" cycle by synchronizing SD Sales Orders with EWM Outbound Deliveries and TM Freight Units, reducing cross-module data discrepancies
• Managed Test Data Orchestration for R2 sub-modules, utilizing SAP Gold Client to stage production-like data for "Warehouse Picking" and "Carrier Tendering" test cycles

Senior Software Test Engineer - RIVIAN Automotive LLC (Contract) / BayOne Solutions Inc. (Contract) / CareSoft global - USA & UK

(2022-02 - 2024-12)

Led the testing efforts for various modules within Supply Chain Management portal, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and quality releases.

• Held final QA sign-off authority for release readiness, leading risk assessment and defect-resolution decisions across cross-functional teams ahead of production deployment
• Collaborated on story refinement sessions to define detailed acceptance criteria and to ensure accurate estimation and prioritization of testing efforts
• Reported daily and weekly QA status updates, highlighting project risks, mitigation plans, and quality indicators to stakeholders
• Produced release quality reports and provided go/no-go recommendations during release readiness review
• Led peer review sessions for test cases and automation scripts across the team, enforcing traceability standards and raising overall test coverage quality
• Owned and Managed Confluence by documenting testing strategies and methodologies for complex integration modules
• Coordinating and Scheduling weekly Walk throughs on implemented features with automation team, Release cut-off meeting with cross functional teams, SIT sessions with integrations teams and Defect triage with core team
• Challenged and clarified ambiguous requirements with stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of project goals and preventing potential defects
• Detailed defect analysis using developer tools and conducted root cause analysis of defects, providing insights for process improvements
• Drove a QA process-improvement initiative — mandating Acceptance Criteria on every story — that cut defect leakage by 90%, then coached the wider team on adopting the new standard
• Created Test documents like Test cases, Automation feasibility checklist, Release Plan Notes and Post deployment checklist
• Monitored key quality metrics including defect leakage, defect density, test coverage, and sprint quality trends
• Built gadgets in JIRA to monitor Test case coverage, Defect tracking, Defect's RCA and Release status
• Performed various testing strategies like Functional testing, Database testing, Revalidation and Regression testing, Integration testing, API testing, UAT, ETL testing and end-to-end testing
• Test integrations with AWS services including API Gateway, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step functions and S3, ensuring seamless data flow and storage
• Tested and deployed a cutting-edge AI feature, optimizing performance and reliability

Software Test Analyst - Rishi Tech Pvt Ltd - UK

(2021-03 - 2022-02)

• Tested web applications across diverse ranges of desktop, tablet and mobile devices
• Liaising with developers
• Performed manual functional testing, Automation testing, Regression testing, integration testing, cross browser testing, End to End testing Test case creation, Test Report creation, bug reporting and closure
• Ensured data integrity and consistency through rigorous database testing, utilizing SQL in MySQL for data validation and manipulation

Software Analyst - IBM India Pvt Ltd - India

(2018-09 - 2019-03)

• Prepared test strategies and discussed testing goals for each Sprint with team, assigned User Stories to document test cases, test data
• Participating in Agile Events like Sprint planning meetings, Stand-up, Review and Retrospective
• Reported Testing status for current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings
• Liaising with developers to swiftly resolve defects
• Exploratory testing after bug fix and end of each sprint

Software Specialist - Dassault Systems - India

(2015-03 - 2018-09)

• Testing Web based applications
• Involved in requirements gathering from end users and performed feasibility study
• Worked on test scripts (using Selenium WebDriver with Java & TestNG) & execution on various scenarios
• Few of them are Login and Logout, Add/Edit/Search features for Users, Roles, Customers, License count, Handling various Alerts (simple and confirmation alert) & Pop ups
• Involved in manual functional testing, Automation testing, Regression testing, integration testing, cross browser testing, End to End testing Test case creation, Test Report creation, bug reporting and closure

Bachelor's - Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Aditya Institutions of Science & Technology (2006 - 2010)