Vaishnavi A K
Verified Expert in Engineering
Quality Assurance Developer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since January 13, 2020
Vaishnavi is a senior QA professional with 12 years of experience working with startups and corporate organizations at all levels of testing and automation in various time zones. Beyond her core mastery of functional, integration, and performance testing, she is actively upskilling in popular frameworks, such as AI, to deliver cutting-edge efficiency in modern software development cycles. She is dedicated to consistently integrating the latest technological advancements into her workflow.
Portfolio
Experience
- QA Automation - 8 years
- Agile Software Development - 8 years
- REST API Automation - 5 years
- JavaScript - 5 years
- Jest - 3 years
- TypeScript - 3 years
- Cucumber - 2 years
- Cypress - 1 year
Preferred Environment
PostgreSQL, Jenkins, CircleCI, Jira, Postman, Cypress, Cucumber, Protractor, TypeScript, MongoDB, Claude, Playwright
The most amazing...
...performance framework I've developed used k6, integrated with InfluxDB and Grafana, to produce a self-explanatory graphical representation of the run metrics.
Work Experience
QA Engineer
NALYZE SOLUTIONS INC.
- Discovered 40 bugs in the client's application on the first round of testing. Tracked and reported using Jira as a reporting tool.
- Accelerated technical onboarding by mastering the Hardhat and Ethereum development environment within two weeks.
- Conducted comprehensive exploratory testing and successfully set up a local trading environment integrated with MetaMask.
- Explored the existing unit test automation framework in Python.
- Became the first and only QA hire on the team. Created the first test suite and documented all UX workflows.
QA Automation Engineer
Arizona State University
- Contributed to a digital wallet blockchain app that captures the real-time achievements of learners. Users received course completion and work experience-related credentials. Also handled the corresponding admin app to manage users and credentials.
- Served as the sole QA person on a team of eight developers. Worked in sprints, tracking and managing tickets on Jira. Documented test cases for all workflows.
- Handled PSQL and set up data for fellow developers to test with. Ran SQL queries to check data correctness.
- Ran tests on iOS, Android, the web app, and the API for credential issuance. Set up the Appium framework and WebdriverIO for automated mobile app testing.
- Created a Postman API test suite, which chains the different APIs in the workflow together for quick sanity testing of back-end APIs.
- Tasked with setting up and managing data on production. Became the go-to person for any questions on workflow and functionality.
- Coordinated with developers to get features ready and tested on time for releases.
- Managed the timely delivery of tests as the sole QA, even though there were eight developers.
QA Functional Analyst
Mahi Services (UK) Ltd
- Defined QA processes and introduced developers to additional QA practices that they can look to for confidence in the product as the only QA on the team.
- Tested three different products that the company created singlehandedly. Created the tests, documented the workflows from scratch, and communicated results and problems with the development team.
- Worked with teams located in New Zealand, Italy, and London. Comfortably handled all the different time zones and had no delays resulting from the time difference.
- Managed the QA team when new folks joined and guided them through the products and releases.
- Tracked and tested features using Jira. Jira tickets were additionally created to address any problems that were seen. Met every single deadline for the product.
Software Test Engineer IV
Jumpcut YC S16 USA
- Implemented UI automation from scratch with frameworks like Cypress, Protractor, and Cucumber in JavaScript, reducing manual testing by 90%.
- Discovered API slowness by implementing Kubernetes, Grafana, and InfluxDB performance tests and the Gatling framework.
- Automated GraphQL API Testing framework using Mocha and created hooks to clean test data from PostgreSQL.
- Reduced revenue leakage in incorrect ad spending by rigorous testing of Google Tags and Analytics.
- Mastered interactions with third-party tools like Maropost, Braintree, ClickFunnels, and Zabbix.
- Acquired know-how in A/B testing, marketing and sales tactics, and ad campaigns.
Senior QA Engineer
Akamai Technologies
- Automated back-end server communication of streaming networks (HLS/DASH) using Python.
- Led the QA team in testing major streaming events like the Winter Olympics, Super Bowl, and IPL.
- Reduced COGS by $1 million in testing a Mammoth project converting servers from Windows to Linux.
- Solved the team's problem of inaccurate testing due to limited resources by spawning multiple virtual test environments.
- Acquired extensive knowledge of streaming protocols like RTMP, HLS, and HDS and networking protocols like TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS.
Experience
Media Origin Streaming Services
UI Automation
Test 3 Financial Product Solutions for Trading Platform
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science
M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology - Bangalore, India
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Chai, React, Web3.js, Playwright
Tools
TestRail, Grafana k6, Cucumber, Jira, GitHub, Postman, Codeship, Grafana, CircleCI, Git, Apache JMeter, Figma, Bugzilla, Maropost, Pytest, Wireshark, Jenkins, Mocha, MetaMask, Claude
Frameworks
Protractor, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, Appium
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Manual Testing, Automation, Automated Testing, Test Automation, Compiler Design, Agile
Storage
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PSQL
Languages
JavaScript, Python 3, SQL, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, Java, Groovy, Perl, Solidity
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), HubSpot, Docker, Blockchain, WordPress
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Other
REST API Automation, QA Testing, Test Management, QA Automation, Software Development, Quality Assurance (QA), Manual QA, Manual Software Testing, Okta, CI/CD Pipelines, Performance Testing, APIs, Device Testing, BrainTree, Metabase, Amplitude, Forex, FIX Protocol, Analytics, Mobile App Testing, Trading, Fintech, Investment Banking, Finance, Computer Science, Data Structures, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Smart Contracts, Privy.io
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