Akhil Polineni
McLean
Summary
Senior QA Automation Engineer with over 7 years of experience in designing scalable test automation frameworks for distributed microservices in Healthcare and Banking. Successfully improved regression execution time by 40% and increased automation coverage to 92%, utilizing tools such as Selenium, Playwright, and REST Assured.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior QA Automation Engineer
CareFirst
Reston
01.2025 - Current
- Built API automation suites for 200+ endpoints using REST Assured and Karate.
- Increased automation coverage to 92% across microservices systems.
- Improved regression execution time by 40% using optimized frameworks.
- Designed Selenium + Playwright automation framework with POM architecture.
- Integrated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
- Executed Appium mobile automation for Android and iOS.
- Performed SQL validation across Oracle and PostgreSQL systems.
- USA
QA Automation Engineer
BMO Financial Group
hyderabad
06.2021 - 04.2023
- Developed Selenium Java framework for banking applications.
- Built API automation using REST Assured and Postman.
- Reduced production defects by 30% through CI/CD testing integration.
- Performed AWS and Azure cloud-based testing for distributed systems.
- Conducted SQL validation for financial reconciliation testing.
- Performed RCA for production defects and system failures.
- Validated chatbot and NLP-based AI systems.
- Canada
QA Engineer
Edgerock Software Solutions
Hyderabad
06.2017 - 05.2021
- Conducted API testing with Postman and SOAP UI to ensure service reliability and performance.
- Developed Selenium automation scripts to enhance testing efficiency for web applications.
- Executed functional, regression, and integration testing to verify application quality across multiple environments.
- Performed SQL database validation.
- Used JIRA for defect tracking in Agile environment.
- Performed Linux log analysis for debugging issues.
- Worked in the USA on various projects.
Education
M.S. - Computer Science
University of Bridgeport
USA01-2024
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Osmania University
India01-2017
Skills
- Selenium
- Playwright
- Appium
- REST Assured
- TestNG
- Cucumber
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- API
- Performance Testing
- End-to-End
- Regression
- Integration
- UI
- JSON
- XML
- Git
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Maven
- End-to-End
Accomplishments
- Reduced regression time by 40%.
- Increased automation coverage from 65% to 92%.
- Automated 200+ API validations.
- Reduced production defects by 30%.
- Improved release efficiency by 25%.
Core Skills
Selenium, Playwright, Appium, REST Assured, TestNG, Cucumber, Java, Python, SQL, JavaScript, REST, SOAP, Postman, JSON, XML, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, AWS, Azure, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Maven, LLM evaluation, NLP validation, chatbot testing, UI, API, DB, Integration, Regression, End-to-End
Timeline
Senior QA Automation Engineer
CareFirst
01.2025 - Current
QA Automation Engineer
BMO Financial Group
06.2021 - 04.2023
QA Engineer
Edgerock Software Solutions
06.2017 - 05.2021
M.S. - Computer Science
University of Bridgeport
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Osmania University