Kalyani Bhupalam

Lead QA Engineer with 12+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, specializing in API Testing, API Automation, Manual Testing, UI Functional Testing, and Test Automation. Hands-on experience with REST Assured for 8 years and SOAP UI for 3 years, designing, developing, and executing automated test cases for REST and SOAP web services. Strong expertise in functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and performance testing, including request/response validation, JSON/XML validation, HTTP status codes, authentication, authorization, data consistency, and backend validation.

Experienced in developing and maintaining reusable API automation frameworks using REST Assured, Java, TestNG, and Maven and integrating automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines. Additionally, 4 years of hands-on experience with Playwright and JavaScript for UI functional, regression, and end-to-end automation, along with Selenium WebDriver, Postman, Cucumber/BDD, SQL, Git/GitLab, JMeter, and Gatling.

Lead QA Engineer - Evergent Technologies Private Limited - Hyderabad

(2014-01)

• Led QA engineers in planning and executing test strategies, test plans, test execution, release validation, and quality improvement activities.
• Designed, developed, and executed API test cases for REST and SOAP services covering functional, integration, regression, negative, boundary, and end-to-end scenarios.
• Developed and maintained automated API test suites using REST Assured with Java, including reusable request specifications, assertions, utilities, test data handling, and framework components.
• Applied 8 years of hands-on REST Assured experience to automate REST API validation across multiple application workflows and integration points.
• Used SOAP UI for 3 years to design and execute SOAP web-service test cases and validate XML request and response payloads.
• Used Postman for API exploration, functional testing, debugging, request/response validation, collection execution, and regression testing.
• Validated API parameters, payloads, HTTP status codes, headers, authentication, authorization, business rules, and JSON/XML response data.
• Performed API integration and regression testing and validated data consistency between APIs, backend databases, and downstream systems using SQL.
• Integrated automated API and UI test suites with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster release feedback.
• Performed manual functional, integration, regression, system, smoke, sanity, and UAT testing for web and mobile applications.
• Developed and maintained Playwright automation using JavaScript for UI functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Developed and maintained Selenium WebDriver automation using Java and TestNG; used Maven for dependency and build management.
• Implemented BDD automation using Cucumber and Gherkin and maintained reusable, data-driven automation components.
• Supported performance and load testing using JMeter, Gatling and coordinated with external performance testing teams.
• Managed defects in JIRA, conducted defect analysis, coordinated with developers, and supported verification and closure.
• Participated in Agile ceremonies, requirement analysis, RTM maintenance, test case reviews, release management, and production support.

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications - Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu (2008-12)