Anitha Kn

Senior Software QA Engineer / SDET with 7+ years of experience architecting end-to-end automation frameworks and collaborating directly with cross-functional and client-facing stakeholders to ensure seamless product delivery and integration. Deep hands-on expertise across the full testing stack — API automation, UI automation, mobile automation, database testing, and performance testing — using Java, Selenium, Karate, WebdriverIO, JavaScript, RestAssured, Appium, and Gatling, with working knowledge of microservices, Kafka, AWS, PostgreSQL, SSO/authorization flows, and Maven-based build pipelines. Experienced acting as a technical point of contact for deployment and integration partners, translating stakeholder requirements into test strategy and acceptance criteria.

Known for driving root cause analysis across the SDLC, embedding quality earlier in the development cycle, and partnering closely with engineering and business stakeholders to raise release confidence. Also proficient with modern AI-assisted development and productivity tools — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, ChatGPT, and Gemini — to accelerate test script authoring, debugging, and documentation. Targeting SDET-2, Senior Test Automation Engineer, Forward Deployed QA Engineer, Test Engineer, Senior QA Engineer, and Performance Test Engineer roles at product companies and high-growth startups across India, Europe, and the US.

Senior Engineer, Quality at Yubi (Aspero) (2022-10 – Present)

• Act as the primary technical QA point of contact for the product line, interfacing directly with deployment and integration partners to define acceptance criteria, streamline integration paths, and support external release timelines.
• Architected and built automation frameworks from the ground up using Java, Karate, WebdriverIO, and JavaScript, adopted as the standard testing approach for the team.
• Extended automation coverage across Web, Android, and iOS, enabling consistent regression testing across all platforms.
• Introduced Appium-based automation for Android, reducing reliance on manual mobile testing for repeat regression cycles.
• Introduced performance testing into the QA process using Gatling, proactively surfacing scalability and response-time issues before release.
• Validated client-facing authentication systems, testing SSO-based flows and role-based access control to ensure secure, frictionless integration for external partners.
• Validated microservice-to-microservice communication and Kafka-based event flows as part of backend and integration testing.
• Design and execute comprehensive functional, integration, and regression test suites for Web and Mobile applications, translating stakeholder requirements into test coverage in partnership with developers and product owners.
• Continuously evolve automation scripts and frameworks to keep pace with product changes and improve long-term test efficiency.
• Integrated automated test suites into Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines, using Maven for build and dependency management, to run regression on every release.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) across the full SDLC — Application layer, Database layer, Web Services, and UI — to accelerate defect resolution and prevent recurrence.
• Partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to embed quality gates earlier in the development cycle, raising release confidence and supporting release governance.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Windsurf — to accelerate test automation script development and framework maintenance.

QA Engineer at Quikr (E-commerce) (2019-06 – 2022-09)

• Managed end-to-end quality and stakeholder alignment across multiple concurrent product lines — Quikr Monetization, Quikr Jobs, and Cars & Bikes — translating business requirements into robust technical test suites across parallel release cycles.
• Owned end-to-end payment flow testing for Quikr's web and mobile platforms, building API and UI automation using Selenium and Java to catch payment-critical defects pre-release.
• Extended test coverage across mobile, web, and backend layers to give the team a unified view of platform health.
• Applied black-box testing methodologies — functionality, usability, and regression — to validate features from the end-user perspective.
• Investigated ElasticSearch behavior and AWS logs to diagnose and resolve backend issues surfaced during testing.
• Authored the full suite of test artifacts — test scenarios, test cases, defect reports, and test summary reports — used by engineering and product stakeholders.
• Diagnosed and resolved Android-specific issues using Charles Proxy, improving mobile release stability.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering – Visvesvaraya Technological University (2014-08 – 2018-06)