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Nivedha Raghunathan

QA / Automation Test Engineer (Entry-Level)

Coimbatore, India • +91 96770 28145 • nivedha.raghunathan.qa@gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/nivedha-raghunathan-qa • github.com/nivedha-r

Portfolio: www.eliorexa.com/portfolio/qa-automation-engineer-fresher

Professional Summary

Computer Science graduate who breaks software on purpose and proves it stays fixed. Comfortable across manual and automation testing — writes clear test cases, files reproducible defects in JIRA, and builds Selenium and Playwright suites that run green in CI. Solid grasp of API testing with Postman and REST Assured, the test pyramid, and the difference between flaky and failing. Hungry to own quality on a real product team.

Skills

Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, Pytest, Page Object Model

Manual & process: Test case design, Exploratory testing, Regression suites, Bug triage, JIRA, Test plans

API & data: Postman, REST Assured, API testing, SQL, JSON schema validation

Languages & tooling: Java, Python, JavaScript, Git, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Jenkins

Core Competencies

Selenium · Cypress · Playwright · test automation · API testing · JIRA · CI/CD · manual testing · regression testing · test cases · QA Engineer

Work Experience

QA Engineering Intern — Verityx Software

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

Remote

  • Authored 140+ manual test cases across web checkout and account flows, raising documented coverage of the billing module from 48% to 86%.
  • Built a Selenium + TestNG smoke suite of 32 cases wired into Jenkins, catching 9 regressions before release over the internship.
  • Logged 60+ defects in JIRA with steps, screenshots and severity, achieving a 92% first-pass acceptance rate from developers.
  • Cut nightly regression run time 38% by parallelising browser sessions and removing 11 redundant test cases.

Projects

SentinelQA — hybrid test framework — 115 automated checks

Open-source manual-plus-automation framework for a demo e-commerce app.

  • Designed a Playwright + Pytest framework using the Page Object Model with data-driven fixtures, covering 75 UI and 40 API scenarios.
  • Integrated GitHub Actions CI to run the full suite on every pull request and publish an HTML report, holding a green main branch.

Tech: Playwright, Pytest, API testing, CI/CD

PostFlight — API contract tests — 48 API checks

Postman + REST Assured collection validating a public payments sandbox API.

  • Wrote 48 API tests asserting status codes, JSON schemas and negative cases, surfacing 3 undocumented error behaviours.
  • Automated the collection via Newman in CI, keeping mean execution under 40 seconds per run.

Tech: Postman, REST Assured, API testing

Education

B.E. Computer Science & Engineering

2025

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

CGPA 8.5/10 · Coursework: Software Testing, DBMS, Operating Systems, Web Technologies

Certifications

  • ISTQB Certified Tester — Foundation Level (CTFL) — ISTQB (2025)
  • Test Automation with Selenium & Java — Coursera (2024)