Kiruthika Balakrishnan

Senior Software Engineer

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India10 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in API and Data Testing with proven results.
  • Led QA strategy, reducing defects by 30-40%.
  • Strong mentor, enhancing team performance and delivery.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance expert in SaaS with a focus on API and Data Testing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test StrategyQa LeadFunctional TestingData TestingApi TestingMobile TestingAutomation Testing

Other Skills

User Experience (UX)DebuggingTest ManagementSQLDatabase TestingAgile MethodologiesTest Strategy and PlanningDefect ManagementLeadershipJiraScrumDefining RequirementsRequirements GatheringAgile EnvironmentChange Impact Analysis

About

๐Ÿš€ Senior Software Test Engineer | QA Lead With 10+ Years of Experience ๐Ÿ’ผ ๐Ÿ” Quality Engineering & Test Strategy Expert Driving high-quality, scalable releases by embedding quality early in the SDLC and partnering closely with developers, product owners, and DevOps teams. ๐ŸŒŸ Reliable Quality Leader & Self-Starter Known for owning test strategy end-to-end, mentoring QA engineers, and enabling teams to deliver faster without compromising on quality. ๐Ÿ”น Key Skills Highlights: ๐Ÿงช Strong expertise in Functional, API, and Data Testing, ensuring end-to-end validation of complex enterprise and product applications. ๐Ÿ”— Hands-on experience in API automation using Rest Assured and TestNG, improving regression coverage and reducing manual effort by 40โ€“60%. โš™๏ธ Proven ability to integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, enabling shift-left testing and shortening release cycles. ๐Ÿ“‰ Reduced production defects by 30โ€“40% through early test involvement, risk-based testing, and stronger regression strategies. ๐Ÿค Experienced in cross-functional collaboration with Development, Product, and DevOps teams to identify risks early and improve delivery predictability. ๐Ÿ“Š Strong skills in data validation and backend testing, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across systems. ๐Ÿงญ Led and mentored junior QA engineers, conducted test case reviews, and promoted best practices in test design and defect management. ๐Ÿš€ Passionate about continuous learning, embracing new technologies and adapting to GenAI-driven testing approaches to elevate quality strategy, coach teams and drive product excellence at scale.

Experience

10 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Epam systems

2 roles

Senior Software Test Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 11 mos

Test StrategyQA Lead

Software Test Engineer

Jun 2021 โ€“ May 2025 ยท 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Integrated Test Management System: created new QA process in SDLC & managing all test documentation (in kb/in jira QA space)
  • Integrated Jira QA Space
  • Leading Test Runs of each Sprint / iteration
  • Leading Regression Testing
  • Covering Integration tests & functional tests for 3 streams of project
  • Estimation, prioritizing, planning and coordination testing activities
  • Identifying adefects, problems and creation bug reports
  • Creating, updating and optimizing existing SQL queries to test data
  • Provided functional requirements for definition of ready & done from QA perspective
  • Participation in business meetings & reporting to clients
  • Performing Smoke testing, Regression testing
  • Testing types: Functional Testing, Data Testing, UI Testing
  • Environment: AWS RDS: PostgreSQL, Jira QA Space, DBeaver ,Tableau Server, Tableau Prep Figma, PostrgreSQL, Jira
User Experience (UX)DebuggingFunctional TestingData Testing

Damac properties

Salesforce QA

Nov 2020 โ€“ Apr 2021 ยท 5 mos ยท Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Develop, execute, and maintain test designs, including test cases and test scripts. Develop and maintain test data as necessary to support testing efforts
  • Execution of Test scripts and Defects raising in Azure DevOps
  • Helping to UAT testers by giving the Screen shots of the functionalities and Test cases flow
  • Document test results and communicate to Project Management and other Project Stakeholders
  • Attend and collaborate in all stand ups, planning and design
  • Mostly worked with Cases, Contacts, Accounts, Solutions and Reports entities in Service cloud application
  • Validated the pick list vales based on the Record type layouts. Thoroughly validating the validation and business rules
  • Report and manage defects to ensure that all issues are resolved according to established guidelines and expectations
  • Assist development team in troubleshooting and determining root-cause of application defects and issues
  • Designed and deployed Custom tabs, validation rules, Approval Processes and Auto-Response Rules for automating business logic
  • Configured Profiles and Administrative permissions to grant/deny users access to platform features. Created Customized dashboards for the case team members to keep track of the cases assigned to them and to share insight across the company
  • Implemented pick lists, filed dependencies, lookups, master-detail relationships, validation and formula fields to the custom objects
  • Defined lookup and master-detail relationships on the objects and created junction objects to establish connectivity among objects
  • Worked on Service Cloud Creating of the Knowledge Base process document for Salesforce.com Customers
  • Environment: Salesforce, Web application testing, Azure Devops (VSTS) as test management tool
User Experience (UX)DebuggingFunctional TestingAPI Testing

Altkamul altiqani computers

Senior Software Test Engineer

Jan 2020 โ€“ Oct 2020 ยท 9 mos ยท United Arab Emirates

  • Testing POS machines and mobile applications
  • API testing using Postman
  • QA support across the software product life cycle
  • Developing test cases and scripts to satisfy business demand in QA
  • Execute test scenarios, analysis test results and report issues to a defect tracking system
  • Testing across multiple devices, browsers and operating systems.
  • Environment: Web application testing, Mobile testing, POS systems, Test collab used as test management tool
User Experience (UX)DebuggingAPI TestingMobile Testing

Cognizant

Software Test Engineer

Sep 2015 โ€“ Dec 2019 ยท 4 yrs 3 mos ยท India

  • Developing test cases and scripts to satisfy business demand in QA
  • Creating service based test cases (Test scripts) using Cucumber, Java, Rest Assured framework
  • Creating application based test cases (Test scripts) using Selenium, Java, TestNG framework
  • Execute test scenarios, analysis test results and report issues to a defect tracking system
  • An understanding of Retesting, Regression, Manual and Automation Testing (Cucumber, Selenium)
  • Tracking defects and performing Regression Testing.
  • Remote collaboration with Product Owner, Scrum master and Development team, Scrum meetings.
  • Planning, estimation, prioritizing tasks and working within deadlines (Sprints).
  • Good knowledge in webservices testing.
  • Black box & Gray box testing.
  • Agile fast paced environment, mixed teams.
  • Extensive knowledge of full software testing life cycle, SDLC and understanding of TDD/BDD methodology.
  • Knowledge transfer, Training, Code review, PR approval and completion.
  • Identifying end-to-end scenarios and code modularity.
  • Testing across multiple devices, browsers and operating systems.
  • Knowledge of Defect management & administration with familiarity of defect management tools such as HP ALM, TFS, VersionOne and Jira.
  • Defect Triaging with Development team during System Integration testing.
  • Knowledge and Experience of QA, UAT & Live testing.
  • Knowledge of Agile, Scrum & Waterfall methodology.
  • Knowledge of XML and HTML.
  • Requirement Analysis and raise queries to Business related to the new requirement.
  • Good knowledge in testing webservices, APIโ€™s (SOAP and REST), Middleware testing.
  • Requirement analysis, Estimation and Execution.
  • Good knowledge in Cucumber BDD.
  • Interaction with Onsite coordinators and Development team members in knowing the functionality of the system for completing the test execution without any defect leakage.
  • System testing, System Integration testing and Regression testing for Web Applications and Web services.
User Experience (UX)DebuggingAutomation TestingAPI Testing

Education

Karpagam Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE โ€” Computer Science

Jan 2011 โ€“ Jan 2015

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