QA Automation Engineer & Tech Lead with 8 years of experience in manual and automation testing, test strategy design, and quality leadership across startups and global hi-tech environments. Skilled in building and maintaining test automation frameworks (Java, Selenium) and executing end-to-end, regression, integration, performance, cross-browser, and REST API testing using Postman and RestAssured. Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and cloud-based systems (AWS), ensuring reliable and fast