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✓ all tests passing · London, UK

Pramod Poojary

Senior Software Test Engineer

9+ years delivering end-to-end quality across UI, API, microservices and financial-services platforms — currently at Booking.com, building maintainable automation for faster feedback and reliable releases.

9+
years in testing
90%
less manual data setup
500 rps
load tested @ 200ms
450+
BDD scenarios automated

// Experience

Aug 2025 — Present

Booking.com

Senior Software Test Engineer

  • ✓Built an on-demand test-data seeder (Java, REST Assured) designed to cut manual data setup by up to 90%.
  • ✓Enhance the data-driven REST Assured framework for repeatable validation of finance workflows.
  • ✓Support finance testing and UAT for business-critical workflows.
  • ✓Work across API (Java/REST Assured) and UI/E2E (TypeScript/Playwright) automation layers.
  • ✓Integrating SonarQube and contributing to GitLab CI/CD pipelines for consistent quality checks.
  • ✓Use Claude and Cursor for AI-assisted test development and troubleshooting.
May 2023 — Aug 2025

Global Media & Entertainment

  • ✓Developed a Java REST Assured framework for REST and GraphQL, running in Jenkins deployments.
  • ✓Added 120 automated tests to the TypeScript Playwright UI framework.
  • ✓Built Gatling performance tests reaching 500 requests/sec at 200ms average response.
  • ✓Investigated root causes via Grafana logs; mentored junior engineers and led code reviews.
Nov 2021 — Mar 2023

BNP Paribas

Senior Test Analyst

  • ✓Built a Selenium + Java automation framework from scratch — coverage up 82%, testing time down 40%.
  • ✓Automated 450+ UI and API BDD scenarios for an investment banking app with Serenity BDD.
  • ✓Halved suite runtime (4h → 2h) by combining API and UI automation with REST Assured.
  • ✓Contributed to a 99.95% test effectiveness score; supported onboarding of new team members.
May 2020 — Nov 2021

Merkle, Inc.

Software Test Engineer

  • ✓Designed and maintained Selenium and REST Assured automation for marketing technology apps.
  • ✓API testing with Postman; SQL scripts to compare data across systems.
  • ✓Built a Katalon Studio POC with BrowserStack; led Salesforce Interaction Studio campaign testing.
  • ✓Awarded “QA Star of the Bi-Month”.
Dec 2016 — May 2020

LTI

Software Test Engineer

  • ✓Extended a framework with custom reporting and Jenkins — 20% fewer bug reports, 25% faster runs.
  • ✓Automated regression testing; tested backends with Postman, MongoDB and AWS.
  • ✓Received the “Pride of LTI” award.

// Toolkit

JavaTypeScriptJavaScriptPlaywrightREST AssuredSeleniumGraphQLMicroservicesPostmanGatlingFinance testingUATBDDJenkinsGitLab CI/CDSonarQubeDockerAllureGrafanaGitMavenGradleBrowserStackJiraJUnitTestNGSerenity BDDCucumberSQLMongoDBAWSClaudeCursor

// Education

B.E. Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) · 2016

// Core expertise

  • Automation framework design
  • UI, API and GraphQL testing
  • Gatling performance testing
  • Finance testing and UAT
  • AI-assisted development (Claude, Cursor)

Let's ship quality software.

Based in London — happy to connect.