Subba Rao V — QA Manager

Senior QA Engineer / SDET with 7+ years owning end-to-end quality across EdTech SaaS, E-commerce, and Healthcare web applications. I focus on building test automation that teams can trust — reliable, production-safe, and fast to give feedback. What I do At Univariety, I built the Playwright automation practice from the ground up. It's a four-layer suite — smoke, sanity, end-to-end, and regression — that runs directly against production safely, behind a network write-guard that blocks any request from changing live data. I also built cross-system parity checks that compare API responses against the database, so data issues get caught before they ever reach a stakeholder demo. Before automation, I spent 5+ years in disciplined manual QA — functional, regression, UAT, cross-browser, and mobile testing on BrowserStack — which still shapes how I think about coverage and edge cases. Where I add value • Test automation with Playwright and Selenium — Page Object Model, parallel execution, and a strong focus on removing flakiness instead of hiding it • API testing and automation with Postman — contract and response validation • Performance and load testing with k6 — virtual-user ramps and threshold-based pass/fail gates for latency and error rate • A solid manual QA foundation across functional, regression, and UAT cycles, managed in JIRA and TestRail • Early adoption of GenAI for testing (ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Playwright MCP) to speed up test authoring — while keeping a deterministic suite as the source of truth How I work I guard live systems first, fix race conditions rather than mask them with retries, and triage bugs with clean reproduction steps and root cause. I see AI as something that augments my work, not something that replaces good engineering judgment. Based in Hyderabad, India. Always open to connecting on test automation, performance testing, and AI-assisted QA.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior QA Engineer specializing in EdTech and SaaS automation testing.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience: 4 yrs 6 mos