QA Automation Engineer

Test Planning & Strategy

Why: You can write a test plan with scope and exit criteria that lets the team agree when a release is ready, instead of arguing at the deadline.

Risk-Based Testing

Why: You can pick which flows to test first when time is short, ranking by failure likelihood and business damage, for instance checkout before settings.

API Testing (Postman/REST Assured)

Why: You can verify an endpoint's status codes, payload schema and auth failures in automation, catching a broken contract before the front end does.

UI Automation (Playwright/Cypress/Selenium)

Why: You can write browser tests with stable selectors and proper waits, so the checkout test stops failing whenever the page loads slowly.

Tests in CI Pipelines

Why: You can place fast checks early in the pipeline and publish readable reports, so a failing build tells the developer what broke within minutes.

Test Parallelization

Why: You can split a forty-minute suite across runners and fix shared-data collisions, bringing feedback time down without adding flakiness.

Test Architecture & Pyramid

Why: You can explain why a suite weighted toward end-to-end tests is slow and fragile, and move checks down toward the pyramid base.