Software QA Engineer LASTH Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Tested mobile, web, and native Windows applications across Sales, E-commerce, Social, Travel, Healthcare, Banking, and Gaming domains with AI integration. Analyzed and verified business and technical documentation, requirements, and specifications. Collaborated with cross-functional Agile teams to plan, design, and execute testing activities, participating in Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospectives. Performed comprehensive testing including Functional, Manual and Automated, Regression, Exploratory, Usability, Cross-Browser/Platform, Localization, UAT, and Performance testing. Reported defects in Jira, validated bug fixes, and monitored resolution status. Tested mobile apps with ADB and iTools. Utilized DevTools, HTML, Postman, SQL for enhanced testing productivity. Performed REST API testing using Java-based HTTP clients. Created and maintained Test Cases, Bug Reports, and Exploratory Notes in Jira and TestRail. Designed, developed, and maintained automated tests using Java and Selenium WebDriver, managed version control with Git/GitHub, integrated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions. Participated in review and debugging automation tests in Python. Applied BDD methodology with Gherkin syntax. Created XPath and CSS selectors, applied waits, configured Cucumber Hooks. Prepared test environments. Used Git and GitHub for version control. Performed UX and Usability testing. Collaborated with developers, product owners, and QA team members. Implemented QA best practices and optimized test automation processes, improving regression coverage by 30%, accelerating test cycles by 20%, and reducing post-release defects by 15%.