Harsha Balla

QA Automation Engineer with 3 years of experience in automation and manual testing. Skilled in Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber BDD, API Testing, and CI/CD integration. Experienced in developing scalable Test Automation Frameworks, implementing Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices, and performing Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration, API, Cross-Browser, and End-to-End testing.

Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle Management, and quality assurance best practices.

Associate Consultant, QA Automation Engineer at Deloitte Consulting Services (2025-04 – Present)

• Developed a Hybrid Test Automation Framework using Playwright with JavaScript, enhancing scalability and maintainability.
• Designed and executed end-to-end and regression test suites, achieving 85%+ automation coverage across critical workflows.
• Performed functional and regression testing on Pega application, validating workflows, UI components, and case management processes.
• Identified and logged 50+ defects using JIRA, ensuring effective defect tracking and zero critical issues in production.
• Implemented automation testing best practices using Page Object Model (POM) to improve reusability and code maintainability.
• Integrated automation scripts into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Maven, reducing release cycle time by 40%.
• Conducted API testing using Postman and Rest Assured, validating REST endpoints, status codes, response payload, headers, and schema.
• Developed Cypress automation scripts using JavaScript and BDD concepts for end-to-end scenarios (login, registration, workflows), improving execution speed and test reliability.
• Built Playwright automation scripts using JavaScript for cross-browser and cross-platform UI and end-to-end testing, integrating with the existing BDD test suite and improving execution speed and reliability over legacy tooling.
• Worked in Agile/Scrum environment, participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives to ensure timely delivery.

Associate Software Engineer at Carelon Global Solutions India (2023-07 – 2025-03)

• Involved in Mainframe application testing for Medicaid enrollment and member management systems ensuring healthcare business compliance.
• Performed functional, regression, and end-to-end testing for healthcare domain workflows, documenting defects to ensure production stability.
• Validated member enrollment data against business requirements, ensuring 100% data accuracy across upstream and downstream systems.
• Worked on TSO/ISPF, executed batch jobs, performed JCL validation, and analyzed job logs to ensure successful batch processing.

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering – SRKR Engineering College (2019 – 2023)