Neha Bali
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Berlin,BE
Summary
Senior Test Automation Engineer with 8 years of experience in automation and manual testing for Insurance, Banking and Telecommunication domain. Worked with clients such as British Telecom, StateFarm Insurance, Fiserv, Johnson Control.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Globant
07.2021 - 11.2024
- Drove the automation roadmap for financial clients, designing and scaling robust UI/API test frameworks (Playwright/TypeScript and Rest Assured, Postman), achieving 85%+ functional test coverage for critical workflows.
- Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), ensuring stability and performance monitoring via Allure reporting.
- Applied a keen analytical mindset to validate product functionality and complex data flows, leveraging PostgreSQL checks for precise End-to-end Data Validation and large-scale integration testing in API-based environments.
- Fostered a quality-first mindset in the cross-functional team, collaborating closely with developers and product to define acceptance criteria and drive QA best practices.
- Tracked, documented, and communicated test results, defects, and quality metrics to relevant stakeholders, ensuring clear alignment on priorities and risk.
Application Development Analyst
Accenture
09.2019 - 07.2021
- Designed, wrote, and executed manual and automated UI and API test cases to validate product functionality, primarily using Selenium and Java.
- Developed and maintained core automation scripts, achieving improvement in testing efficiency by refactoring and implementing reusable components (POM).
- Collaborated with Product and Engineering to understand complex requirements and align on priorities, actively analyzing business needs (Zephyr) to ensure testability.
- Executed functional, regression, and end-to-end testing; rigorously tracked and logged defects using JIRA.
Associate Consultant
Capgemini
02.2016 - 09.2019
- Implemented foundational automation using Selenium and Java for complex insurance applications, emphasizing cross-browser testing (BrowserStack).
- Served as Team Lead, coordinating daily QA activities and conducting client demos to showcase the value and capabilities of the automation solutions.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Walchand Institute of Technology
Solapur, India06-2015
Skills
Automation Stack (UI/API): Java Selenium Rest Assured TestNG, Postman Playwright (TypeScript) BDD (Cucumber)
CI/CD & Back-End: Jenkins Git Maven PostgreSQL End-to-end Data Validation
Quality & Analysis: Analytical Mindset Large-scale Integration Testing Agile/Scrum JIRA Zephyr Allure Reporting
Timeline
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Globant
07.2021 - 11.2024
Application Development Analyst
Accenture
09.2019 - 07.2021
Associate Consultant
Capgemini
02.2016 - 09.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Walchand Institute of Technology