Lalitha Mittapalli

Qa Automation Engineer @Verizon

Baskingridge, NJ, US

Actively involved in all phases of the Agile/Scrum development lifecycle, contributing to sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivering high-quality automated test coverage across iterations.• Analyzed Jira stories and acceptance criteria, translated them into comprehensive test plans, and designed scalable, maintainable automated tests using Playwright for web applications.• Designed and implemented a Playwright-based automation framework using TypeScript/JavaScript, integrated with Jenkins and Git for continuous testing in a DevOps pipeline.• Developed and maintained end-to-end UI test scripts with Playwright, ensuring full regression coverage for new and existing functionalities across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, WebKit).• Built modular, reusable test components leveraging Playwright\'s Page Object Model (POM) to improve code maintainability and reduce test flakiness.• Executed parallel test runs and integrated them with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ensuring fast and reliable feedback during each build and release cycle.• Collaborated closely with developers to automate features early using local development URLs, enabling test readiness ahead of QA handoffs.• Built dynamic test data using Node.js scripts and integrated REST API validation alongside UI tests to ensure frontend-backend synchronization.• Maintained critical test cases for production smoke and regression testing, minimizing post-release issues by proactively identifying defects in staging and pre-prod environments.• Created detailed test documentation, logs, and defect reports in JIRA and tracked test execution progress in qTest, ensuring traceability from requirements to release.• Reduced production defect rates by building a robust Playwright-based regression suite across critical user journeys in POS applications.Environment: Playwright, JavaScript/TypeScript, Jenkins, GitHub, Node.js, REST APIs, MongoDB, SQL, Jira, qTest, Maven, Agile/Scrum, UNIX, AWS

Acharya Nagarjuna University

Master's degree

Osmania University

Bachelor of Science - BSC