Venkatachalam S

SDET with 3 years of experience building and maintaining mobile & web automation frameworks (Selenium WebDriver, Appium 2.x, Java) for media and fintech applications. Reduced flaky test failures on Audible's Android/iOS suite by resolving 15+ synchronization issues. Experienced in Jenkins CI/CD pipeline integration and AWS Device Farm real-device testing. Proficient in Agile/Scrum delivery with a focus on stable, scalable, reusable test solutions.

QA Automation Engineer - Atimi Software Pvt Ltd - Bengaluru, India

(2023-08 - 2026-06)

Clients: Audible (Amazon), POLARIS Mortgage (US)

QA Automation Engineer - Audible - Atimi Software Pvt Ltd - Bengaluru, India

(2023-08 - 2026-06)

Audible – Media & Entertainment App (Android & iOS)

• Built and maintained a cross-platform Appium 2.x automation framework for Audible Android & iOS — covering login, playback, and library flows using Java, TestNG, and Maven.
• Reduced flaky test failures by identifying and fixing 15+ synchronization issues — dynamic locators, explicit waits, iframe handling, and alert management.
• Integrated automated test suite into Jenkins CI/CD pipeline; diagnosed and resolved 8+ pipeline failures to achieve reliable nightly regression runs.
• Validated real-device behaviour on AWS Device Farm across 10+ Android/iOS device-OS combinations.
• Managed test code versioning via Git, tracked defects in JIRA, and collaborated in Agile/Scrum sprints.
• Used Claude AI (Claude Code CLI) within IntelliJ IDEA to build and maintain the Appium/Java POM framework — generating reusable component libraries and consistent locator strategies (XPath, className, iOSNsPredicate).
• Leveraged Claude AI for large codebase navigation across GitHub/Bitbucket, cross-file analysis, and AI-assisted branching and PR workflows across iOS and Android projects.

QA Automation Engineer - POLARIS - Atimi Software Pvt Ltd - Bengaluru, India

(2023-08 - 2026-06)

POLARIS – US-based Mortgage Payment App (Web & Mobile)

• Authored 120+ test cases covering functional, regression, smoke, sanity, and system integration scenarios; maintained zero regression escapes across 6 sprints.
• Automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Maven; designed scripts for cross-browser compatibility and accessibility testing.
• Executed mobile tests on Android and iOS, performed API testing using Postman and traffic analysis via Charles Proxy / Proxyman.
• Participated in sprint planning, daily scrum, and retrospectives; reported and followed up on defects in JIRA with detailed documentation.

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Mechanical Engineering - Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science and Technology, Thanjavur (2018 - 2022)