Manoj

SDET with 7+ years of hands-on experience in manual and automation testing across fintech, ecommerce, and enterprise IAM platforms. Proven expertise in Playwright, Selenium, and API testing with a track record of building scalable test frameworks from scratch. Skilled in CI/CD integration, Agile delivery, and microservice validation. Delivered 70% lift in automated test coverage, cut regression cycles by 45%, and reduced manual effort by 40% through AI-powered test frameworks.

Experienced

Technical SME who has mentored 8+ engineers and owned end-to-end test strategy for platforms serving 10,000+ users.

IT Analyst – SDET / QA Automation Engineer - Tata Consultancy Services - Bangalore

(2023-04)

• Built a Playwright + TypeScript automation suite from scratch, scaling UI test coverage from near-zero to 70% automated and cutting regression execution time by 45% across 12+ quarterly releases.
• Possess working knowledge of Python + Pytest + Playwright, including framework structure, test organisation, and execution; capable of reading, understanding, and contributing to existing Python-based test suites.
• Engineered an AI-powered test framework integrating Playwright with Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling dynamic test generation and self-healing locator recovery — reducing manual test authoring effort by 40% and improving defect-detection accuracy by 25%.
• Engineered API test automation using Playwright (TypeScript), constructing request payloads and validating HTTP status codes, response schemas, and headers across Java-based microservice endpoints and Angular-driven UI workflows to ensure end-to-end API reliability.
• Conducted functional and regression API testing in Postman, validating REST endpoint behavior, authentication flows, and data contracts to support pre-release quality gates.
• Architected a Page Object Model (POM) framework in Playwright (TypeScript) that cut suite maintenance by 60% and reduced new-engineer onboarding time by 3 weeks; also experienced with Cucumber BDD integrated into Selenium-based frameworks.
• Executed UI, sanity, smoke, regression, and patch upgrade testing for SailPoint IIQ, an enterprise cybersecurity IAM platform serving 10,000+ users; maintained 99.5% release stability across 500+ test scenarios.
• Authored detailed test cases for new requirements based on acceptance criteria defined in Azure DevOps, ensuring complete functional coverage before development sign-off.
• Collaborated closely with developers to discuss new feature changes, clarify acceptance criteria, and align testing scope — bridging the gap between development and quality assurance early in the sprint.
• Integrated test suites into Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated test triggers on check-in and real-time release dashboards; tracked all work items and defects through Azure DevOps Boards.
• Leveraged GitHub Copilot to halve script-creation time — complex automation scenarios dropped from 2 days to 1 day — lifting overall team velocity measurably.
• Performed database validation using SQL queries against PostgreSQL and Oracle to verify data integrity, API response accuracy, and backend state consistency across test scenarios.

Systems Engineer – QA / Automation Engineer - Infosys - Bangalore

(2021-03 - 2023-03)

• Designed a Selenium WebDriver + Java + TestNG POM framework for a large-scale ecommerce application, covering end-to-end functional, regression, and integration test scenarios; this framework became the team standard.
• Reduced flaky test executions by 65% through resilient locator strategies, retry logic, and data-driven test utilities across multiple environments.
• Experienced in API testing using Postman, validating 200+ REST API endpoints with custom scripts; caught 30+ critical pre-production defects and optimised query performance by 35%.
• Established a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline with automated suite triggers on check-in and instant HTML reports, cutting feedback loops from days to minutes.
• Tracked and drove resolution of all logged defects in Jira, translating functional specs and UI designs into comprehensive test suites and supporting on-time releases consistently.
• Delivered weekly/monthly quality dashboards providing leadership with data-driven release-readiness signals, directly influencing go/no-go decisions.
• Executed Selenium test suites inside Docker containers and configured Selenium Grid with Docker to enable parallel, cross-browser test execution across distributed nodes.

B.Sc - Mathematics, Electronics & Computer Science - Osmania University (2018-06)