Ruchi Malik
Naas,Ireland
Summary
Results-oriented Senior Quality and Automation Engineer with 9 years of experience in software quality assurance and test automation. Proficient in Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Rest Assured, with a strong track record of building scalable automation frameworks, integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and championing shift-left testing practices. Experienced in API testing, SQL data validation, and cloud-native testing approaches. Skilled in mentoring teams, promoting best practices in BDD, accessibility testing, and Agile methodologies. Known for proactively identifying risks, optimising test strategies, and ensuring delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable software solutions.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2015
2015
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior QA Analyst
Version1
Dublin
02.2020 - 09.2025
- Lead the design and implementation of a robust automation framework using Selenium, Java, TestNG, and Page Object Model (POM) to deliver scalable and maintainable UI test coverage across multiple modules.
- Integrate TestNG with BDD (Cucumber) to drive behaviour-driven development and ensure clear alignment of acceptance criteria between business and technical teams.
- Automate end-to-end regression and smoke test suites, reducing manual testing effort and accelerating release cycles.
- Perform REST API testing using Rest Assured, building automated test suites for service layer validation, response schema verification, and API call chaining.
- Conduct database testing using SQL queries, validating data integrity, back-end processes, and ensuring accuracy of data flow between APIs, UI, and DB.
- Validate APIs manually using Postman and Swagger to explore endpoints, create collections, and document test scenarios before automation.
- Configure the automation suite to run in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), enabling scheduled and on-demand execution with detailed reporting through Extent Reports and dashboards.
- Implement post-deployment validation tests using Jenkins jobs to verify application stability in OpenShift hosted environments, minimizing production defects.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and DevOps engineers in an Agile/Scrum environment, contributing to story grooming, risk analysis, and test strategy.
- Mentor junior testers on best practices for automation coding standards, API testing, and BDD principles.
- Documented QA activities and metrics using JIRA, Zephyr, and Confluence for tracking and transparency.
- Actively participated in Agile processes, ensuring QA deliverables aligned with sprint goals and business priorities.
- Projects: National Asset Management Agency (Finance/Banking), and Department of Agriculture, Food, & Marine.
Quality Analyst
Lepide Software Pvt Ltd
04.2017 - 07.2019
- Analysis of Business Requirement Specifications to formulate test plans.
- Developed test cases based on the user stories and functional requirement specification document.
- Prepared a test Suite for Smoke, Sanity, and Regression testing.
- Create the automation script using Selenium WebDriver in the TestNG framework.
- Run the automated regression suit during the regression testing cycle.
- Analyse the failed script and log defects if required.
- Conducted REST-API testing using Postman; validated request/response payloads, headers, status codes, and error handling.
- Analysed API documentation (Swagger) and collaborated with developers to clarify endpoints.
- Testing at all Levels i.e. Component, Integration, System, and Regression testing.
Test Analyst
HCL Technologies
01.2017 - 01.2017
- Designed and executed end-to-end test cases for Microsoft Windows Server patching cycles, ensuring system stability and application availability after patch deployment.
- Performed pre- and post-patching validation, including service health checks, log reviews, and application smoke testing.
- Designed and deployed automated tests for UI and API using Selenium and Java achieving a 25% improvement in testing productivity.
- Monitored Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) ETL jobs, validated data load processes, and coordinated with the data engineering team for error resolution.
Education
Bachelor's in technology - Information Technology
Rajasthan Technical University
Diploma in Engineering - Information Technology
Birla Technical Training Institute
Skills
- Selenium
- Java
- Cucumber
- TestNG/Junit
- REST API
- Rest Assured
- POSTMAN
- GitLab
- Git
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- Maven
- OpenShift
- AWS
- Oracle database
- SQL
- TSQL
- Eclipse
- JIRA
- Confluence
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior QA Analyst
Version1
02.2020 - 09.2025
Quality Analyst
Lepide Software Pvt Ltd
04.2017 - 07.2019
Test Analyst
HCL Technologies
01.2017 - 01.2017
Diploma in Engineering - Information Technology
Birla Technical Training Institute
Bachelor's in technology - Information Technology
Rajasthan Technical University