Purvi

QA Automation Engineer (SDET) with 9+ years of experience designing, developing, and scaling automated testing solutions across web, mobile, API, and backend systems in banking, healthcare, insurance, and fintech environments. Strong expertise in Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript for modern web automation, complemented by deep hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver and Java for enterprise regression frameworks. Experienced in end-to-end quality engineering, including functional, integration, regression, system, and API testing. Skilled in validating REST APIs using Postman and REST Assured, Kafka-based event-driven workflows, service integrations, database transactions, and business-critical data flows. Strong SQL and database validation experience across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis. Experienced in building scalable automation frameworks and integrating automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Hands-on experience with AWS test environments, cross-browser/device testing using BrowserStack and Sauce Labs, and performance testing with JMeter and LoadRunner. Strong background in security-focused testing, including authentication, authorization, input validation, negative scenarios, and API security. Experienced with Cucumber/BDD, JUnit, TestNG, TDD, Agile/Scrum, SDLC/STLC, shift-left testing, defect management, test metrics, and root-cause analysis. Currently applying AI-augmented QA practices using GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted test generation, self-healing locator strategies, and flaky-test detection to improve automation productivity, stability, and maintainability. Proven ability to collaborate with developers, product owners, QEs, and business stakeholders to improve test coverage, identify risks, and deliver reliable software releases.