Vidya Shekar

• Designed and led automation strategy for web/mobile
apps with 85% test coverage using Selenium, Appium, and
Postman.
• Managed a 10-member QA team, including manual
testers and automation engineers.
• Integrated QA into CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins + GitLab),
reducing regression cycle by 45%.
• Acted as the primary point of contact for all QA
activities, collaborating with project managers,
developers, and business analysts to ensure quality
standards.
• Directed test planning, scheduling, and resource
management, ensuring optimal allocation of QA resources
across multiple initiatives.
• Owned the defect lifecycle using JIRA, from triage to
resolution, maintaining SLA compliance and stakeholder
visibility.

• Designed and implemented comprehensive test plans for
mobile and web applications, ensuring high standards
of functionality and reliability.
• Conducted functional and regression testing across
iOS, Android, API, and Web Applications.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts,
improving testing efficiency by 30%.
• Utilized BDD frameworks such as Selenium Cucumber to
streamline automated testing processes.
• Integrated QA into CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins + GitLab),
reducing regression cycle by 45%.

• Managed the end-to-end testing process, including the design of test scenarios and
execution of test cases.
• Conducted manual and automated functional tests, reporting and tracking defects.
• Maintained and updated regression test suites, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
• Provided accurate test estimates and detailed reports on platform stability and sprint status.
• Verified production issues and coordinated with relevant teams for prompt resolution.
• Reduced test execution time by 35% by implementing automated test scripts using
Selenium and Appium.

• Facilitated the team to estimate story points and measured velocity to plan future
sprints
• Facilitated and participated in Sprint planning, design, estimation, retrospective, and sprint
demos
• Utilized bug tracking systems, ticketing systems, and QA support tools to establish a
metrics-driven QA department. Regularly measured and reported on key quality metrics
to drive improvements.
• Developed automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases
of the application development using Selenium.
• Championed Agile practices throughout the QA cycles, ensuring alignment of commitments
and capacity.
• Performed performance testing using LoadRunner to verify API throughput.

• Prepared Test Plan, test Cases, Test scripts and Test Metrics for the application as well as for
the database verification based on the functional requirements, portal redesigned and test
specs.
• Involved in testing various business rules User/Customer Functionality, Change Process,
Configuration Data Requirements, Legacy Data Requirements, and Access Permissions
Requirements.
• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the
application development using Selenium.
• Developing SQL Scripts as part of test cases (ETL Testing).

• Understanding Requirement Specifications and Design Documents.
• Involvement in Test Design with respect to Test Plan and using Black box Testing
Techniques.
• Involvement in Test Execution and Defect Reporting using Hand soft
• Tested the process of extracting, cleansing, transforming, integrating and loading data into
data warehouse database. Performed Sanity, GUI, Functional and Regression Testing

• Understanding Requirement Specifications and Design Documents.
• Involvement in Test Design with respect to Test Plan and using Black box Testing
Techniques.
• Involvement in Test Execution and Defect Reporting using TFS