Siva Prasad

Senior QA Engineer & Automation Leader with 11 years of experience delivering high-quality software solutions by combining hands-on test automation expertise with strategic QA governance. Proven ability to lead cross-functional and vendor-integrated QA teams, define and enforce testing standards, and integrate automation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines with robust quality gates to ensure release readiness.

Specialized in end-to-end QA processes — functional, regression, UAT, API, performance, and security testing — leveraging tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Postman, RestAssured, JMeter, and SQL. Adept at data validation and KPI verification in Big Data platforms and Power BI dashboards.

Recognized for mentoring QA teams, driving shift-left testing practices, and implementing measurable QA KPIs to reduce production defects. Experienced in release readiness reviews, ARB/CAB participation, and vendor collaboration to uphold testing standards in high-paced Agile and DevOps environments.

• Automation Tools: Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Pytest, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, Maven
• Languages: Java, Python, SQL
• Testing Types: Functional, Regression, UAT, API, Performance (JMeter), Security Testing
• Data & BI Testing: Big Data Testing, Data Migration Validation, Power BI KPI Testing
• API & Web Services: Postman, RestAssured, RESTful API Automation
• DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Docker, Selenium Grid
• Test Management: Azure DevOps, JIRA, TestRail
• Collaboration & Governance: Vendor Management, Quality Gates, KPI Reporting, Release Readiness Reviews

• Achieved Star of the Project Award by introducing In-sprint Automation for the client "Grandvision" which helped in achieving better test coverage and thus helped in fast tracking the releases on-time.
• Implemented one common framework for both web and mobile.
• On boarded close to 300 outlets on production environment using automation script for the mobile application called "Skywards Everyday" of client "Emirates"