Prachi Ambere

Senior QA Engineer with 7 years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing across AdTech, E-commerce, and ERP platforms. Experienced in Selenium (Java), REST Assured, API Testing, SQL, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies. Proven expertise in designing scalable automation frameworks, validating complex business workflows, and ensuring high-quality software releases.

Skilled in leveraging Generative AI tools to accelerate test design, automation development, defect analysis, and QA documentation while maintaining strong quality engineering practices.

Software QA Engineer II at Joveo Technologies (2022-05 – 2025-09)

• Owned end-to-end QA for Mojo 3.0, driving requirement analysis, test strategy, and functional validation across campaign creation, bidding, budgeting, invoicing, publisher management, and reporting workflows.
• Designed and maintained a scalable Selenium Java automation framework using TestNG, Maven, and POM, reducing regression effort by 65% while improving framework reusability and maintainability.
• Designed API test strategies and automated REST Assured suites covering authentication, payload, schema, boundary, and error validation.
• Performed backend SQL validations and test data management to ensure data consistency across UI, APIs, and reporting layers.
• Collaborated with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams during requirement grooming and sprint planning, contributing to Shift-Left Testing by identifying testability gaps, reviewing acceptance criteria, and preventing defects early, shortening defect turnaround time by 20%.
• Managed the complete defect lifecycle in JIRA, performed root cause analysis for recurring issues, collaborated with developers on resolution, and verified fixes through regression testing.
• Leveraged Generative AI tools to streamline requirement analysis, generate comprehensive test scenarios, accelerate automation development, create SQL queries, validate API payloads, assist in defect investigation, and enhance QA documentation, improving overall testing efficiency during Agile sprint cycles.

Senior Software QA Engineer at Ace Turtle Services (2020-09 – 2022-04)

• Led end-to-end QA activities for Rubicon, a multi-channel retail platform supporting product catalog, pricing, inventory, order management, payment processing, and omnichannel commerce workflows.
• Prioritized test execution using risk-based testing principles, focusing automation and regression efforts on high-impact business workflows and critical customer journeys.
• Executed functional, integration, performance, and regression testing of REST APIs (Postman, Swagger, JMeter), raising critical order-flow test coverage to 95%.
• Improved release stability using AWS CloudWatch monitoring and automated environment provisioning, achieving zero critical defects across four consecutive releases and cutting setup time by 40%.
• Validated backend data via SQL to ensure consistency across UI, APIs, and database layers.
• Supported release validation activities by executing smoke, sanity, regression, API, and database verification to ensure production readiness in collaboration with DevOps.

Software Test Engineer at Idexel Technologies Pvt Ltd (2019-01 – 2020-09)

• Tested Paper Master, a large-scale ERP application, validating user/group/project creation and role-based permission mapping, reducing UAT defects by 30%.
• Validated cross-department data flow (Sales, Purchase, production monitoring) to improve data consistency and reduce field-reported incidents.
• Executed cross-browser and cross-platform testing to ensure consistent application behavior across supported environments.
• Performed API testing in Postman for authentication, CRUD operations, and data accuracy, contributing to a 40% drop in API-related production issues.
• Worked closely with developers during feature implementation to identify potential quality risks early, contributing to defect prevention and improved release stability.
• Collaborated with DevOps to triage CI pipeline failures, cutting resolution time by 50% and improving build stability.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication – RGPV University (2010 – 2014)