Sonali Kolambe

Results-driven Senior QA Engineer with 10 years of progressive experience in Test Automation, API Testing, and End-to-End Quality Assurance across eCommerce, Payments, and enterprise web applications. Experienced in validating international payment gateways, end-to-end workflows, and scalable automation frameworks.

Senior QA Engineer - Cimpress India

(2021-09)

• Validated end-to-end payment flows for Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna, Credit Card, and PayPal, helping improve checkout stability and order completion success rates by 20% across integrated payment systems.
• Performed API testing for payment services including request/response verification, negative scenario validation, error-handling checks, and asynchronous flow validation involving redirects, callbacks, and webhooks.
• Validated localized payment methods including Cartes Bancaires, Klarna Pay Now/Later, iDEAL, and Bancontact across integrated payment gateways and multi-country checkout flows using Selenium automation, reducing manual validation effort by 25%.
• Worked on migrating Selenium automation scripts to the Playwright framework for payment flows, checkout journeys, sanity testing, and regression validation across multiple environments, improving regression execution efficiency by 30%.
• Created reusable automation components and improved test execution processes to support faster and more maintainable regression cycles for critical payment workflows.
• Contributed to Kount fraud platform integration testing and migration to Kount 360 with focused regression, integration, and production validation activities to ensure stable fraud evaluation flows.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams for defect triage, root-cause discussions, and priority-based resolution using Agile practices while supporting stable feature releases.
• Led pre-release sanity testing, regression validation, and post-release production verification, reducing defect leakage in live environments by 20% and supporting reliable PCI compliant checkout experiences.

QA Engineer - Cybage Software

(2019-07 - 2021-08)

Worked in the Media and Entertainment domain, performing mobile application testing on real iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads, to validate functionality, usability, and compatibility.

• Analyzed requirements and created detailed test scenarios and test cases for functional coverage.
• Performed functional validation and defect reporting while coordinating with client stakeholders for requirement clarifications.
• Designed and maintained test plans in Azure management which helped improve test management efficiency and reduced repetitive manual effort by around 20%.
• Created defect tracking dashboards for effective defect reporting and analysis, enabling better visibility for stakeholders. Additionally, I maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure end-to-end traceability between business requirements, test cases, and reported defects.

QA Engineer - REI Systems

(2018-05 - 2019-06)

• Worked on a Salesforce-based government application supporting customized business workflows and integrations, improving validation efficiency by 22% through QA involvement in validating user roles, functional flows, and end-to-end business processes.
• Automated test scenarios using Selenium WebDriver and created BDD test cases using Gherkin syntax. Managed test scenarios in TFS to support automation mapping and improve regression testing efficiency by 37%.

Software Test Engineer - Abell Electro-Soft Technologies

(2017-08 - 2018-04)

• Verified the mobile application for intra-city goods transportation and the billing application for a gold shop.

Software Test Engineer - CDAT

(2016-06 - 2017-08)

• Involved in testing Indian government based applications, including Inward and Outward Management Systems, developed for the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, ensuring smooth workflow validation and business process compliance.

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications - Dr. BAMU University

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer Science - Dr. BAMU University