Pujitha Katamreddy
Professional Summary
Senior QA Automation Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and scaling automated test solutions for finance, insurance and energy domains. Strong hands-on expertise in Java-based automation frameworks (Selenium, TestNG), API automation with REST Assured and Postman, and CI/CD pipeline integration using Jenkins and GitLab CI. Experienced validating backend systems with SQL and MySQL and conducting performance testing with JMeter. Delivered cross-browser and mobile test automation using Selenium Grid, Appium, BrowserStack and Sauce Labs while improving test reliability through logging (Log4j) and reporting (Allure/Extent). Led automation migrations into Dockerized test environments and integrated static-analysis with SonarQube. Proven at translating business requirements into robust, maintainable test suites and embedding automated testing into DevOps-driven release pipelines across enterprise-scale applications.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Architected and maintained a Java-based Selenium/TestNG automation framework to validate customer portal workflows, improving test modularity and reusability.
- Implemented API automation suites with REST Assured to validate policy management and underwriting endpoints.
- Integrated automated suites into Jenkins pipelines to enable automated regression runs during bi-weekly releases.
- Executed performance test scenarios with JMeter to validate system behavior under targeted load patterns for quoting and payment flows.
- Performed SQL validations against MySQL to verify policy state transitions and premium calculations after backend transactions.
- Implemented cross-browser test execution using Selenium Grid to ensure consistent behavior across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
- Designed a scalable BDD automation framework using Cucumber and Java to validate refinery control dashboards and trading workflows.
- Maintained Selenium-based UI automation suites to validate energy trading and logistics web applications across releases.
- Automated API contract and integration tests with REST Assured to validate data flows between upstream sensors and ERP systems.
- Integrated CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, GitLab CI and Azure DevOps to trigger regression and smoke suites on deploy events.
- Provisioned Docker-based test environments to simulate refinery process data for end-to-end validation.
- Integrated SonarQube scans into the automation pipeline to detect code-quality and security issues early in test artifacts.
- Established a hybrid Selenium/TestNG automation framework with Maven to reduce manual regression effort and improve maintainability.
- Built and automated RESTful API test suites using Java and REST Assured to validate document sharing and access-control endpoints.
- Created and published sprint QA metrics and dashboards after each demo to provide client-visible quality telemetry.
- Coordinated migration of automation code to AWS-hosted environments and scheduled pipeline jobs via Jenkins.
- Facilitated QA validation sessions with stakeholders that led to a 15% increase in reported user satisfaction.
- Authored JavaScript test helpers and Playwright checks to augment API tests for complex UI behaviors.
- Designed and implemented Selenium and TestNG based automation framework in Java to validate loan origination and syndication workflows.
- Performed backend and ETL validation by authoring complex SQL queries against relational databases to verify transaction integrity.
- Created Jenkinsfile with Groovy to parameterize test runs and auto-generate HTML/Allure reports for stakeholders.
- Developed REST Assured API automation to validate integrations between loan systems and third-party services.
- Implemented RPA test validations using Blue Prism to verify automated loan routing and reconciliation steps.
- Wrote VBScript utilities to prepare test data and seed legacy systems prior to automation runs.
- Developed Selenium/TestNG UI and regression suites in Java to validate policy management and claims processing functionality.
- Integrated Postman-based API checks to validate payment gateway and hospital network integrations for claims settlement.
- Applied Jira and ALM for defect tracking and test case management across agile teams.
- Performed manual and automated data validations using SQL to ensure accurate policy issuance and claim calculations.
- Implemented HP-UFT scripts to automate legacy insurer portals and reduce repeat manual test cycles.
- Built Excel-driven reports to analyze the end-to-end online policy purchase funnel and surface quality trends.
Education
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