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Shruti Panicker

Shruti Panicker

Tallinn

Summary

Experienced Software Quality Test Engineer with nearly 10 years in automation and manual testing across web and mobile applications. Proven track record in both senior and lead roles, successfully managing and mentoring teams. Proficient in designing, optimizing, and maintaining test automation frameworks using tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and Cucumber. Skilled in testing APIs and web services with tools like SoapUI and RESTful services. Recognized for introducing innovative test management solutions, driving process improvements, and enhancing team capabilities in dynamic, cross-functional environments.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Test Automation Engineer

SEB Bank
06.2023 - Current

Quality Assurance Competence Center (QACC)

  • Mentorship & Guidance: Mentor multiple product development teams in best practices for test automation, helping to improve skillsets and elevate the overall quality assurance standards across the organization.
  • Framework Optimization & Maintenance: Optimize and maintain a robust test automation framework developed in Selenium, ensuring efficient, reliable, and maintainable code to support continuous integration and testing workflows.
  • Innovative Tool Implementation: Introduced Playwright as a modern testing solution for our Angular applications, enhancing testing capabilities and reducing testing cycles with faster and more adaptable scripts.
  • Test Management Integration: Spearheaded the adoption and integration of Xray test management in Jira. Successfully integrated automated test results with Jira to provide real-time visibility and transparency of testing outcomes, aligning stakeholders and improving accountability.
  • Strategic Test Automation Development: Created a comprehensive test automation strategy, meticulously documented processes, and established implementation guidelines for the team, laying a solid foundation for scalable, efficient, and future-proof test automation practices.
  • Solutions Architect Forum Member: Actively participate in the Solutions Architect Forum, collaborating on cross-functional architecture discussions and sharing insights on testing strategies to ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Key Achievements:

  • Delivered a Global Tech Presentation hosted between the Baltics and Sweden, showcasing innovative test automation approaches and engaging with a diverse technical audience.
  • Conducted a Test Automation Workshop for students at Kood/Johvi, contributing to the development of future talent by sharing industry knowledge and hands-on experience with modern test automation frameworks.

Integration QA Engineer

Gamesys
05.2022 - 05.2023

Gamesys is an online casino game platform partnered with

Ballys Casinos

  • Conduct integration testing for seamless connectivity with our game aggregator on both web and mobile applications, ensuring quality and reliability.
  • Developed an automation test framework from scratch using Playwright for comprehensive game UI automation and validation.
  • Lead weekly training sessions for the QA team, providing guidance on the automation tool and Java concepts to enhance skill development and tool proficiency.

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Derivco
08.2021 - 05.2022

Derivco specializes in software for micro-gaming.

  • Support the Payments team in optimizing the PMOP (Preferred Method of Payment) withdrawal process for betting games on the Betway platform.
  • Enhance and optimize existing test automation scripts, ensuring efficiency and reliability in testing workflows.
  • Develop a robust automation framework and establish CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps to streamline testing and deployment.
  • Implement additional Tier 1 tests to support and validate Reserve Withdrawal APIs, ensuring seamless functionality and integration.

QA Chapter Lead

STANLIB
08.2019 - 07.2021
  • Validate profit and loss statements and trial balances by extracting and cross-verifying data from source inputs to final output across workflows.
  • Conduct System Integration Testing (SIT) at key integration points, including Control-M, MuleSoft, Quintessence, and QlikView, ensuring data integrity and seamless transitions.
  • Develop and standardize test automation frameworks for various systems, promoting adherence to testing standards within the team.
  • Track and report bugs in Jira and Azure, managing time efficiently per user story requirements.

Selenium Test Automation Engineer & BA

Discovery
01.2019 - 08.2019
  • Develop comprehensive automation scripts to test a wide range of scenarios for Clinical Data Repository (CDR) use cases, ensuring robustness for external partner interactions.
  • Support functional, regression, and sanity testing to validate the reliability and accuracy of CDR data processes.
  • Refine and enhance architectural diagrams, improving efficiency and clarity in business workflows related to data storage and retrieval.

Selenium Regression Test Automation Engineer

Absa Bank
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • Develop automation scripts for PANGEA, a trade management application, based on test scenarios provided by feature team manual testers.
  • Integrate automation scripts into the smoke screen process, ensuring stability by testing previous sprint builds against new deployments.
  • Conduct automated smoke tests in the development environment after each code deployment to detect and report any regressions or functional issues introduced by recent changes.

Education

Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

B.Tech - Aerospace Engineering

Karunya University
Coimbatore, India

DGCA - Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

Thakur Institute of Aviation Technology
Mumbai, India

Skills

  • Agile methodologies
  • Unit testing
  • Functional testing
  • Integration testing
  • Automation frameworks
  • Test strategy
  • Automation tools
  • Collaborative testing
  • Behavior-driven development
  • Test process improvement

Languages

Hindi
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Estonian
Elementary
A2

Timeline

Senior Test Automation Engineer

SEB Bank
06.2023 - Current

Integration QA Engineer

Gamesys
05.2022 - 05.2023

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Derivco
08.2021 - 05.2022

QA Chapter Lead

STANLIB
08.2019 - 07.2021

Selenium Test Automation Engineer & BA

Discovery
01.2019 - 08.2019

Selenium Regression Test Automation Engineer

Absa Bank
01.2018 - 12.2018

Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering

McGill University

B.Tech - Aerospace Engineering

Karunya University

DGCA - Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

Thakur Institute of Aviation Technology
Shruti Panicker