Pooja Biradar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Quality Assurance Engineer and Developer
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Toptal member since June 3, 2026
Pooja is a QA engineer with 5 years of experience in manual and automation testing for web and mobile applications in Agile/Scrum environments. She is skilled in functional, regression, smoke, API, UI, cross-browser, and end-to-end testing. She also has hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Java, TestNG, Postman, SQL, Jenkins, Git, and CI/CD workflows. Pooja's expertise extends to defect management, release validation, test execution, and quality assurance processes.
Portfolio
Experience
- Agile - 5 years
- Test Cases - 5 years
- Test Planning - 5 years
- Bug Life Cycle - 5 years
- Manual QA - 5 years
- Black Box Testing - 5 years
- Regression Testing - 5 years
- AI Copilots - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Windows 11, Jira, SQL, Manual QA, Selenium, Jenkins, Postman
The most amazing...
...work I've done is contributing to the TADS app—ensuring stable releases, validating critical workflows, and minimizing defects through strong QA practices.
Work Experience
QA Engineer
VenturEd solutions
- Delivered multiple sprint releases with zero critical production defects through strong validation and release verification practices.
- Executed 800+ test scenarios covering UI workflows, API validation, integration coverage, browser compatibility, and business functionality.
- Strengthened QA processes through effective defect tracking, requirement analysis, and testing documentation.
QA Engineer
Toddle school
- Contributed to stable deployments by collaborating closely with development and product teams during release cycles.
- Improved release efficiency by supporting automation execution for repetitive regression and smoke validation scenarios.
- Delivered multiple sprint releases with zero critical production defects through strong validation and release verification practices.
Junior Quality Analyst
Split Vision Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Learned how to perform manual testing and test cases design, planning, and execution.
- Identified bugs and raised a ticket in the Azure DevOps.
- Contributed to stable deployments by collaborating closely with development and product teams during release cycles.
Experience
TADS Web & Mobile Application Testing
• Performed end-to-end manual testing, including functional, regression, smoke, integration, UI, API, and cross-browser testing in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Created and executed 800+ test scenarios covering critical business workflows, user validation, back-end integrations, and release verification activities.
• Collaborated closely with developers, product owners, and business analysts during sprint planning, requirement analysis, defect triaging, and production release cycles. Identified, documented, and tracked defects using Jira, helping reduce production issues and improve release quality.
• Supported entry-level automation activities using Selenium WebDriver and Playwright for repetitive regression and smoke test scenarios, contributing to faster validation cycles and improved QA efficiency.
Tools and technologies used include manual testing, Jira, Postman, SQL, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Java, TestNG, Git, Jenkins, and Agile/Scrum.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications
TKR College of Engineering and Technology - Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Intermediate Program in Mathematics and Computer Science
Narayana Junior College - Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, TestRail, ChatGPT, Jenkins, Postman
Paradigms
Functional Testing, Agile, Azure DevOps, Scrum
Languages
Java, SQL
Frameworks
Selenium
Other
Manual QA, Test Cases, Test Planning, Bug Life Cycle, Black Box Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, AI Copilots, Cross-browser Testing, Scrum Master, cross bowser testing, test summary report, electronics and communicatin, Windows 11, electronics and communication, Mathematics
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