ANKIT KUMAR
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
QA Automation Engineer with 5 years of experience across manual and automation testing, including 1.5 years of hands-on Playwright automation with TypeScript. Experienced in end-to-end UI testing, API testing, performance testing, database validation, regression testing and CI/CD quality workflows across healthcare, legal-tech, infrastructure management, social media and inventory-management domains.
Hands-on with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured, Postman, JMeter, Grafana, Robot Framework and Locust, with experience using SQL and MongoDB for backend validation. Practical experience using Claude, OpenAI Codex, Anti-Gravity and AI coding agents to accelerate test development, debugging, code analysis and engineering workflows.
CORE SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Design, develop and maintain end-to-end automated tests using Playwright with TypeScript for modern web applications.
- Build and execute functional, regression and cross-browser test coverage, investigate failures and validate fixes across environments.
- Use AI engineering tools including Claude, OpenAI Codex, Anti-Gravity and other AI agents to assist with automation development, debugging, code analysis and workflow acceleration.
- Collaborate with developers, product stakeholders and clients in Agile/Scrum workflows to analyze requirements, identify quality risks and drive defect resolution.
- Contribute to API, backend and integration validation where required, using existing QA tooling and database checks.
- Performed manual and automation testing across web applications, including functional, regression, smoke, system and cross-browser testing.
- Created and maintained test cases, automation scripts and defect reports; re-tested fixes and participated in Scrum/client discussions.
- Worked with UI automation, API testing, performance testing and CI/CD tooling across multiple projects and technology stacks.
- Conducted functional, regression, smoke and sanity testing for high-compliance enterprise web applications.
- Executed API validation using Postman and backend database validation with SQL.
- Authored test plans, test scenarios and defect lifecycles across diverse web platforms; automated repetitive regression test cases.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Automated and validated web workflows for a cloud-based law-practice management platform covering case/matter management, timekeeping, billing, accounting, client intake, documents and workflow automation. Developed Playwright test scripts, executed regression/cross-browser testing, analyzed requirements and tracked defects.
Tested healthcare APIs across environments, created test scenarios, performed functional/load/regression validation, re-tested defects and collaborated with clients during Scrum activities.
Validated an inventory-management platform operating across 50+ locations between Austin and Houston. Automated web test scenarios with Selenium, performed regression/cross-browser testing and supported defect tracking and client Scrum calls.
Tested a real-time infrastructure-management application across browsers and environments, maintained test cases and supported defect identification, regression validation and Agile collaboration.
Performed manual and automation testing for social networking features including accounts, connections, groups, business pages and events; created test cases and validated defect fixes.