Vinay K

Quality-focused Software Test Engineer with over a year of hands-on experience assuring the quality of web and mobile applications through structured Manual Testing. Skilled at understanding products end to end, owning the sign-off (GO/no-go) decision for releases, and shipping fast without compromising user experience. Comfortable working with HTTP/HTTPS, RESTful APIs, and SQL to troubleshoot and root-cause issues raised by users and internal teams.

Exposure to AWS infrastructure, strong collaboration with Engineering and Product teams, and fluent in written and spoken Hindi and English.

Software Test Engineer - GammaStack - Bengaluru

(2025-05 - 2026-06)

• Understood assigned products in depth to design test coverage across critical user flows and business logic.
• Responsible for validating release readiness and providing GO/no-go signals ahead of deployments.
• Tested the product across different app versions to ensure fast shipping without compromising user experience.
• Troubleshot issues raised by users and internal teams, performing in-depth cause analysis and research.
• Collaborated closely with Engineering and Product Management to resolve issues quickly and suggest product improvements.
• Responded to queries from users and internal teams during active release and support cycles.
• Executed Functional, Regression, Sanity, and Smoke testing across multiple release cycles for web and mobile.
• Performed Mobile Testing on iOS and Android devices covering functional, regression, and UI validation.
• Carried out API testing using Postman, validating request/response payloads, HTTP status codes, and data accuracy.
• Logged, tracked, and closed defects in JIRA with detailed reproduction steps, logs, and screenshots.
• Participated in Agile sprint ceremonies — sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and release validation.
• Performed end-to-end testing of complex modules including KYC, withdrawal flows, payment integrations, and prediction markets.
• Validated edge cases including failed transactions, duplicate requests, delayed responses, and incorrect status handling.

Manual QA Skill Enhancement - Self-Paced Learning - Bengaluru

(2026-06 - 2026-07)

• Strengthened core manual testing skills — test case design, requirement analysis, and defect lifecycle management.
• Practiced Functional, Regression, Sanity, and Exploratory Testing techniques on live sample applications.
• Sharpened root cause analysis and troubleshooting skills for user-reported and internal issues.
• Revised fundamentals of HTTP/HTTPS, RESTful APIs, and SQL for backend and API validation.

B.Sc - Computer Science - Sri Krishnadevaraya University (2021)