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This is VIGNESH AMBALAM SURESH, I'm a Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

"9+ years turning manual chaos into automated confidence."

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Who am I?

Senior Test Automation Engineer / SDET /QAE Specialist with 9+ years of experience developing automation solutions for UI, API, and cross-browser applications. Hands-on expertise in Playwright with TypeScript, Selenium with Java, and Rest Assured for REST API automation. Proven experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines, performing SQL-based backend validation on RDBMS platforms, and implementing accessibility testing using Axe-core. Frequently leads automation design and execution across Agile, multi-team environments in Europe.

What I bring?

Based in Budapest, with Hungarian Permanent Residency — no visa sponsorship needed, available to work in Hungary and anywhere within EEA remotely.
Accessibility-First Tester — hands-on experience implementing WCAG compliance using axe-core, with a 30% measurable improvement in accessibility scores on production applications.
AI-Augmented QA — actively integrating AI tools and MCP agents into test automation workflows, bridging traditional QA with the next generation of intelligent testing.

Experience

Built and published a Playwright + TypeScript framework with MCP integration on GitHub, with live HTML reports on GitHub Pages.
Created reusable AI skills (functional tester, business analyst, SQL) via MCP to generate test cases from user stories, pruning AI output by risk.
Built Playwright-based web scraping and automation against a Shopify e-commerce storefront.

Client-facing on banking and wealth management engagements, owning test strategy, test plans and risk-based coverage decisions, with P0 business-critical journeys automated first.
Won EPAM Hackathon 2025 with an AI Chrome extension that generates cross-framework test scripts.
Designed a scalable Playwright automation framework, reducing test case duplication by 60% and improving long-term maintainability using Playwright + TypeScript.
Spearheaded the creation of 11+ reusable Page Object Models, Service Object Models, fixtures and utilities, shortening release cycles by 15%.
Owned the design and implementation of modular CI/CD automation pipelines using GitHub Actions, driving higher release confidence and cutting manual QA effort by 70%.
Owned production defect investigation: reproduced issues, analyzed application logs in Splunk, led root cause analysis with developers and validated fixes with targeted regression.
Developed Rest Assured and Postman API suites covering auth flows, error handling, payload validation and third-party integrations (webhooks, payment callbacks), with Zod and Faker.
Integrated API checks into Playwright UI flows for E2E coverage, mocking external dependencies and API responses via CDP network interception.
Collaborated with developers, architects, and product owners to refine acceptance criteria and flag testability gaps before development.
Performed SQL-based data validation on MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server, validating UI/API results against backend records.
Integrated Axe-core accessibility checks into the regression suite, ensuring WCAG compliance.

Mentored junior QA engineers in test automation practices.
Implemented BDD-based API automation using Cucumber feature files and an enhanced Rest Assured framework to validate RESTful APIs and service responses.
Integrated Cucumber BDD into an existing Selenium/TestNG framework, improving test readability, maintainability, and stakeholder collaboration.
Enhanced and refactored Selenium automation by introducing reusable WebDriver wrapper utilities, reducing flaky tests and maintenance effort.
Managed source control, branching strategies, and pull requests using Git and Bitbucket, supporting stable CI workflows.
Applied Cypress for modern UI automation and Appium for mobile banking testing on Android and iOS.

Skills

Projects That Matter

Wealth Management Application

Built a Playwright + TypeScript automation framework for a Wealth Management app that eliminated 3 days of manual regression, cut QA effort by 70%, and boosted accessibility compliance by 30%.

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Impact: Reduced manual QA effort by 70% and manual QA time by 80% through automation of complex E2E UI + API workflows, leading to faster release cycles and improved software quality. Enhanced accessibility compliance, resulting in a 30% increase in accessibility score and a more inclusive user experience.,
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Playwright with TypeScript - Cross Browser Testing

Accessibility Passed

Delivered a cross-browser Playwright + TypeScript test suite with built-in accessibility audits and live HTML reports, guaranteeing zero-regression releases across all major browsers via GitHub Actions CI/CD.

Playwright UI HTML Report Playwright A11Y ♿ HTML Report

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Selenium with Java - Hybrid Test Automation Framework

Architected an enterprise-grade Hybrid Framework (Selenium 4 + Java + BDD + REST Assured) with thread-safe parallel execution and Allure reporting, replacing fragile manual test cycles with a fully automated, CI/CD-integrated solution.

Allure TestNG Report Allure Cucumber Report

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Groq API Testing — Postman & Newman

Built an automated API testing suite for Groq AI endpoints using Postman collection, Newman CLI, and GitHub Actions CI/CD — covering chat completions, multilingual translation, audio transcription, and image OCR with scheduled runs every 8 hours and secure HTML reports on GitHub Pages.

Groq API - Postman HTML Report

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Description: Designed and implemented an automated API testing suite to validate Groq AI endpoints across LLM chat completions, multilingual translation (Tamil, Japanese, German), audio transcription via Whisper models, and image OCR. Organized 15 requests across 4 test groups with JSON schema validation and language-specific keyword assertions. Integrated Newman CLI runner with GitHub Actions for scheduled execution every 8 hours and on every push/PR. API keys and tokens are secured as GitHub Secrets and are never exposed in the codebase. Implemented automatic redaction of API keys, bearer tokens, and authorization headers from both request headers and request body in the published HTML reports on GitHub Pages.,
Impact: Automated validation of 6 Groq AI models across 15 API requests with scheduled CI/CD runs every 8 hours, ensuring continuous reliability of AI endpoints. API tokens and credentials are never displayed in the published HTML reports — all sensitive values are automatically masked, keeping reports safe to share publicly.,
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AI Test Script Generator – Chrome Extension (EPAM Hackathon 2025 Winner)

Won the EPAM Hackathon 2025 with an AI-powered Chrome extension that captures the live DOM and auto-generates test scripts for Selenium, Cypress and Playwright.

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Blogs

7 months ago

Cypress vs Playwright: 🎯Choosing the Right E2E Testing Framework in 2026

1 Min Read

After working extensively with both frameworks, here's my perspective on when to use each ...

7 months ago

🎯 Mastering Alert Handling in Playwright: A Quick Guide

2 Min Read

When automating web applications, handling JavaScript alerts, confirms, and prompts is essential....

7 months ago

🎯 Why Your AI-Generated Tests Keep Missing the Mark

1 Min Read

Mastering AI Prompts for Test Automation: A 9+ Year Veteran's Guide After 9+ years in test...

7 months ago

🔙 STEP-BACK Prompting Technique

4 Min Read

Step-back prompting is a technique developed by Google DeepMind where instead of directly tackling a...

7 months ago

🤖Setting Up MCP Agents with Playwright

4 Min Read

A Comprehensive Guide for Test Automation Engineers What is the Model Context Protocol...

Education

2007 - 2011

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Anna University, Chennai, India

2005 - 2007

Higher Secondary Certificate

Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, India

1995 - 2005

Secondary School Certificate

St. Joseph's Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Hosur, India

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