Deol Jo Mathews

Hands-on Test Lead / Automation QA Engineer with 13+ years of enterprise QA experience spanning healthcare applications, payments and complex business-rule workflows. Leads requirements analysis, test design, functional/integration/regression testing, UAT, defect lifecycle governance, risk-based release decisions and offshore QA collaboration. Five years testing Altum workflows, including 3+ years of Subject7 automation and hands-on Selenium WebDriver, Java and Cucumber (under one year).

Skilled in REST API testing, SQL validation, test coverage metrics and daily delivery reporting. ISTQB Foundation; Certified Scrum Master.

Independent QA Consultant / QA Lead - Healthcare Web & Mobile Clients

(2025-08)

• Owned test planning, business-rule validation, traceable test cases and daily execution for HealthMesh / FETTLEQ healthcare web, Android and iOS; coordinated functional, integration, regression and release testing.
• Verified role-based clinical workflows including scheduling, patient registration, check-in, consultations, payments, prescriptions, reports and patient portal; tested REST API integration and negative paths.
• Led defect lifecycle governance, triage, RCA, retest and closure tracking; reported execution progress, defect trends, coverage gaps, blockers and release risks to stakeholders.

Delivery Manager + QA - Purplecore Software Systems

(2024-10 - 2025-07)

• Designed test scenarios from operational requirements and validated Postman/Swagger REST integrations, data consistency, error handling and end-to-end logistics workflows.
• Directed daily QA execution, regression/UAT coordination, defect triage and RCA; aligned developers and stakeholders on business-rule ambiguities, blockers and release risks.

Associate Principal Engineer – QA - Paycepaid - Australia (Remote)

(2023-10 - 2024-07)

• Executed API test scenarios and Postman collections for payment and invoicing, including authentication, transaction retries, response validation and negative paths; checked data integrity with SQL.
• Investigated duplicate-payment defects and improved regression planning with colleagues, contributing to shorter release cycles (approximately 10 to 6 days).

QA Engineer / QA Lead - QBurst - Kerala

(2012-02 - 2023-09)

• Delivered hands-on automation and functional testing for Altum over five years, including 3+ years with Subject7 plus Selenium/Java/Cucumber work; details above.
• Led hands-on test planning, functional/integration/regression execution and defect triage across enterprise projects; coached QA analysts on test coverage, evidence and release readiness.
• Served as Scrum Master for less than one year, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives; supported impediment tracking and cross-functional Agile delivery.
• Executed JMeter load/stress tests, reviewed throughput, response times and errors, and escalated performance bottlenecks.

Software Test Engineer - Accentia Technologies / Hari & Co. / Indhuniva Solutions

(2009-05 - 2012-02)

• Designed and executed functional, smoke, regression and UAT cases; documented defects, retested resolutions and supported test reports.

MBA - Total Quality Management - Sikkim Manipal University (2015)

B.Tech - Computer Science - Kerala University (2008)