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Overview
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Education
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Certification
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MURALIDHARAN K

Chennai

Summary

Accomplished QA Engineer with 3+ years of experience in automation and manual testing, specializing in Tosca frameworks across UI, DI, and API layers. Proficient in testing Workday, Dynamics 365, mainframe, and web-based applications with strong exposure to DevOps practices. Proven leadership in guiding teams, mentoring peers, creating test plans, and driving automation initiatives and framework development. Detail-oriented, highly organized, and a fast learner, committed to delivering reliable, high-quality software solutions.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Pursuit Software
04.2022 - Current

Workday Project – Manual & Automation Engineer

  • Created functional test cases and maintained regression suites.
  • Automated key workflows with Tosca UI, cutting the manual effort.
  • Collaborated with the client to refine requirements and deliver on time.

SETF BAU – Offshore BUIT Lead

  • As part of South East Toyota Finance BAU (Business as Usual), managed offshore team through multiple initiatives (CWS, Payment Optimization, LGI, Digital Retail, Dealer Portal), coordinating deliverables.
  • Led ADM automation, optimizing DI scripts to cut execution time by 80%.
  • Oversaw critical upgrades with zero downtime and ensured high data quality.

SPARK – Portfolio Conversion Team Lead

  • Led a team of two, defined the test plan and set up the automation framework.
  • Automated database validations for legacy and new systems to ensure data integrity.

VSC Core – Offshore Team Lead

  • Managed a five‑member offshore QA team supporting Microsoft Dynamics 365, overseeing manual API testing and subsequent automation efforts.
  • Built and rolled out a scalable automation framework that standardized testing practices and improved release velocity.

ML Data Associate 1

AMAZON ADCI
02.2022 - 04.2022
  • Participated in process improvement to increase the quality, efficiency, and accuracy of team’s goal.
  • Executed tasks assigned on daily basis with high accuracy by adhering to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and predefined guidelines.
  • Learned and Adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
  • Delivery of performance metrics in an operational environment.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Amrita University
Coimbatore, India
05-2017

Skills

  • Software Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile
  • Environments: Salesforce, D365, Mainframe, Workday
  • Agile Management Tool: Azure DevOps
  • Test Management Tool: qTest
  • Automation Tool: Tosca (UI, DI and API), Jenkins
  • API Testing: Postman
  • Database Testing: Azure Cosmos, SQL

Accomplishments

  • Certificate of Achievement - Received for Excellent and Outstanding Performance from January 2025 - March 2025
  • Certificate of Participation - InnovationBlitz 2025, Pursuit Hackathon held on February 2025.

Certification

  • Salesforce Associate certified (Certificate No: 4848546)
  • qTest Fundamentals - Managing and Executing test projects (Certificate No: 74jqwi3fxuyx)
  • qTest Specialist Level 1 (Certificate No: dgav7umq6s3y)
  • Automation Specialist Level 1 (Certificate No: 7opuorqrh5mb)
  • Automation Specialist Level 2 (Certificate No: 4fiwnkjb4oho)
  • Automation Engineer Level 1 (Certificate No: 44p2r4trvkrc)
  • Tricentis is Tosca Deep Dive - Structuring your test cases and test data (TDS1) (Certificate No: ix6vwpns37cm)
  • Tricentis is Tosca Deep Dive - Managing your stateful data (TDS2) (Certificate No: pvjdbzfyjkoj)
  • Tricentis is Tosca Deep Dive - Automating API test cases (Certificate No: r5zpfwh6aqs8)
  • Tricentis Data Integrity Fundamentals - end-to-end data warehouse testing (Certificate No: fumsrzqbdm2r)
  • Tosca Product Consultant Certification (Certificate No: smtrn564ekh5)

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Pursuit Software
04.2022 - Current

ML Data Associate 1

AMAZON ADCI
02.2022 - 04.2022

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Amrita University
MURALIDHARAN K