Karthikeya Reddy

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ABOUT KARTHIKEYA REDDY

I build test automation frameworks that actually hold up not just the happy path, but fraud edge cases, payment retries, auth failures, and schema contracts across distributed microservices.Over the past 5+ years I\'ve worked across fintech (HDFC Bank), e-commerce (Etsy), and automotive (General Motors), and the thread connecting all of it is the same: teams shipping fast need quality baked in early, not bolted on at the end.My day-to-day involves Selenium + Java for UI automation, Spock (Groovy) and Rest-Assured for API testing, Cucumber/Gherkin for BDD, and GitHub Actions for keeping it all running in CI. I care a lot about pipeline reliability flaky tests, bad coverage gates, and ignored dashboards are things I actively fix, not tolerate.At Etsy I cut regression runtime by ~40% with parallel matrix builds and built data strategies that let any environment spin up clean. At HDFC Bank I was testing fraud detection and loan approval APIs on systems where data accuracy wasn\'t optional. At General Motors I designed the Selenium framework from scratch and got it to ~70% coverage of critical user journeys while mentoring two junior engineers along the way.I\'m especially interested in high-stakes API environments real-time payments, financial transaction integrity, compliance-sensitive releases the kind of work where a missed edge case actually matters.Tools I use regularly: Selenium WebDriver, Java, Groovy, Spock, Cucumber, Rest-Assured, Postman, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, JMeter, Allure, JaCoCo, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, TestNG, JIRA.Open to senior QA/SDET roles in fintech and payments.