Mallikarjun D.m

SDET with close to 5 years of experience in UI and API test automation using Java, Selenium, TestNG, REST Assured, and SQL. Experienced in building and scaling enterprise Hybrid Automation framework, CI/CD with Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Docker and Kubernetes with hands-on exposure to Playwright and GenAI/LLM API testing in Agile environments.

Senior Test Automation Engineer - Birlasoft (Via -Qualitrix Technologies)

(2025-01 - 2026-06)

• Participated in Sprint Planning, story grooming, test estimation, defect triage, release planning, and retrospective meetings, contributing throughout the SDLC and STLC in an Agile Scrum environment.
• Automated enterprise pricing and deal lifecycle workflows using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, REST Assured, and POM, covering UI, API, end-to-end functional, regression, and Swagger-based API validation.
• Developed reusable COM-based automation framework components and utility libraries, improving framework maintainability, code reusability, and execution stability.
• Improved regression stability to 90%+ through framework enhancements, parallel execution optimization, and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS CodeBuild.
• Led the migration from Eclipse to Visual Studio Code, enabling GitHub Copilot adoption and reducing flaky test failures by ~40% through improved synchronization and reusable automation components.

Test Automation Engineer / SDET - Platify Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

(2022-01 - 2025-12)

• Developed 200+ UI automation scripts using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Page Object Model (POM) for critical e-commerce workflows, reducing manual regression effort by ~60%.
• Automated 70+ REST API test scenarios using REST Assured and Postman, validating request/response payloads, schema, authentication, authorization, business rules, and backend SQL integrations.
• Implemented ThreadLocal WebDriver to enable parallel test execution and improve framework stability.
• Validated AI-powered product description and chatbot APIs through LLM prompt validation, and hallucination detection.
• Contributed across the SDLC and STLC, including test planning, automation development, defect management, root cause analysis, regression testing, and Agile release delivery.

Executive PG - Cloud Computing - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (2026-12)

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering - RYMEC, Ballari (2016-12)