Stimna Antony

Senior QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years of experience in software quality assurance, combining strong expertise in manual testing, UI automation, API testing, and backend validation across enterprise web applications and ERP systems. Hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript, including development of Page Object Model (POM)-based automation frameworks, reusable page components, test data models, end-to-end workflows, cross-browser testing, and Git-based automation development. Strong experience with Selenium WebDriver using Java and C#, along with functional, regression, integration, smoke, sanity, system, and end-to-end testing.

Experienced in REST API testing using Postman, SQL database validation, defect management, Agile/Scrum, Git, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD practices. Experienced in testing AI-driven application features including semantic search, document summarization, intelligent data extraction, and AI-assisted QA activities. Skilled in using AI tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to improve test-case design, automation development, debugging, and QA productivity.

Senior QA Automation Engineer at SE-MENTOR SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. (2021-09 – Present)

• Designed and executed functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, and end-to-end test scenarios for enterprise web applications.
• Developed and optimized 80+ UI automation scripts using Playwright with TypeScript, improving regression coverage and reducing manual validation effort by ~40%.
• Architected a reusable POM-based Playwright framework with shared components, accelerating script creation by ~30% and improving suite maintainability.
• Automated 15+ critical end-to-end business workflows and regression scenarios, shortening release-cycle validation time by ~35%.
• Executed cross-browser automation testing with Playwright across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, improving defect detection before UAT by ~25%.
• Developed and optimized Selenium WebDriver automation scripts in Java/C#, sustaining legacy suite coverage for 50+ regression scenarios.
• Conducted database and backend validation using SQL for 20+ workflows, verifying data integrity across UI, API, and database layers.
• Leveraged Git for source control, branching, pull requests, and team collaboration across 100+ automation code changes and reviews.
• Drove code reviews that improved automation framework maintainability, reduced script duplication, and strengthened quality across 25+ pull requests.
• Executed testing across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments, supporting stable releases for 10+ deployment cycles.
• Delivered release validation and production smoke testing for 10+ deployments, confirming application stability before business rollout.
• Leveraged AI tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to accelerate test-case design, automation debugging, and QA productivity by ~20%.

Bachelor of Computer Science in Computer Science – Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala