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

🚀 Senior Software Test Engineer | QA Lead With 10+ Years of Experience 💼 🔍 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. 🌟 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. 🔹 Key Skills Highlights: 🧪 Strong expertise in Functional, API, and Data Testing, ensuring end-to-end validation of complex enterprise and product applications. 🔗 Hands-on experience in API automation using Rest Assured and TestNG, improving regression coverage and reducing manual effort by 40–60%. ⚙️ Proven ability to integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, enabling shift-left testing and shortening release cycles. 📉 Reduced production defects by 30–40% through early test involvement, risk-based testing, and stronger regression strategies. 🤝 Experienced in cross-functional collaboration with Development, Product, and DevOps teams to identify risks early and improve delivery predictability. 📊 Strong skills in data validation and backend testing, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across systems. 🧭 Led and mentored junior QA engineers, conducted test case reviews, and promoted best practices in test design and defect management. 🚀 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 – Present · 11 mos

Test StrategyQA Lead

Software Test Engineer

Jun 2021 – May 2025 · 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 – Apr 2021 · 5 mos · 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 – Oct 2020 · 9 mos · 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 – Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos · 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, API’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.