Yugamani Shanmugam

Senior QA Automation Engineer with 12+ years of experience in UI and API automation for Airline and Retail Domains. Specialized in Selenium, Playwright, and SoapUI, with demonstrated impact reducing manual testing effort by up to 70% and regression cycles from 18 hours to 3 hours.

Senior Test Engineer - Explorance Analytics Pvt Ltd

(2025-03 - 2026-04)

• Built and maintained a Playwright (C#) automation framework that reduced regression execution time from 18 hours to 3 hours
• Reduced manual validation effort by 60-70% while expanding end-to-end coverage across user roles and admin workflows
• Added multilingual validation testing and reusable automation components to improve maintainability and scalability
• Used GitHub for branching, commits, and pull requests to manage test code changes
• Mentored QA engineers and performed code reviews to uphold automation standards

Assistant Consultant (QA Lead) - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

(2013-07 - 2024-12)

Assistant Consultant (QA Lead) - Project: Revenue Management - British Airways - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd - UK

(2020-10 - 2024-12)

• Automated UI test cases with Selenium WebDriver (Java) and POM, reducing manual effort by 70% and integrated Extent Reports for detailed execution reporting and failure analysis
• Built API regression suites in SoapUI, reducing validation effort by 90%
• Supported requirement analysis, test strategy, and estimation with cross-functional teams
• Led QA activities including recruitment, mentoring and audit participation
• Automated rules uploader solution improving operational efficiency (awarded "Best team")
• Identified a critical defect during Nexus POU implementation (multileg flight scenarios for BA.com), contributing to a 30–60% revenue improvement

Assistant Consultant (QA Lead) - Project: Partnership Accrual Interface - Star Alliance - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd - Germany

(2015-09 - 2020-09)

• Sole QA owner for API Validation, FTP & UI Testing and Integration testing
• Designed and executed automated regression suites using SoapUI (Online Retro) along with UI and FTP applications, reducing effort by 70%
• Participated in Agile ceremonies and collaborated with developers and L3 support teams for defect resolution and enhancements
• Improved test documentation and QA Processes (awarded in ISO Audit)

Assistant Consultant (QA Lead) - Project: MCIM - Target - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd - USA

(2013-07 - 2015-08)

• Performed functional and regression testing for inventory systems
• Validated backend data using Mainframe (TSO/ISPF)
• Created user documentation to improve usability
• Designed onboarding toolkit to reduce training time

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics - Government College of Technology, Coimbatore (2013-04)