Girish Kumar S
Quality Assurance Engineer
Results-driven QA Engineer with over 5 years of experience delivering high-quality releases across embedded systems, platform firmware, and websites. Skilled in test strategy, end-to-end automation, and AWS-based tooling.
Career Highlights
Key metrics that showcase my impact and dedication.
5+
Years of Experience
4
Firmware Releases Owned
97%
P0 Automation Coverage
37
Critical Defects Found
Professional Experience
An interactive timeline of my career journey. Click on a role to see details.
Quality Assurance Engineer 2
Amazon | Chennai, Tamil Nadu
April 2023 - Present
- Took full QA ownership of Good Tier Platform devices, quickly mastering device architecture, CLI commands, flashing techniques, and automation workflows.
- Successfully onboarded and enabled the manual testing team to independently execute regression cycles through comprehensive documentation and hands-on training.
- Served as QA Release Owner for four quarterly firmware (FW) releases, collaborating with partners to define test strategy, scope, and priorities.
- Contributed to two medium-sized security certification projects, owning test planning, execution, and bug triaging for successful on-time delivery.
- Mentored two new QA Engineers as an onboarding buddy, accelerating their integration into the team.
- Initiated and maintained the QA Deliverables Tracker and defined bug templates to improve team coordination and process.
- Led test case reclassification for 144 test cases and added Pytest markers to 253 P1 test cases to normalize priorities and improve coverage.
Quality Assurance Engineer 1
Amazon | Hyderabad, Telangana
October 2020 - March 2023
- Successfully contributed to 2 small, 3 medium, and 1 large-scale project, owning responsibilities across test planning, end-to-end testing, and on-time delivery.
- Designed and implemented the ASIN Data Store, a dynamic AWS-based solution to supply product IDs for test automation, significantly improving coverage.
- Ensured automation coverage of 97% for P0 test cases related to feature launches.
- Maintained a high-quality coding standard with an average of 1.3 revisions per review across 74 code submissions and reviewed 36 peer code changes.
- Proactively identified 37 defects during the QA phase, contributing to a zero customer-facing issue record for owned features in 2021-2022.
Featured Project: ASIN Data Store
A dynamic AWS solution to improve test automation data.
This project involved building an AWS pipeline to dynamically fetch and serve product IDs (ASINs) for test automation, reducing reliance on static data and improving test reliability. The architecture was widely adopted by partner teams.
Data Source
Raw Data Storage
Process & Transform
Dynamic Data Consumer
Test Priority Normalization
Led an initiative to improve test cadence consistency by reclassifying test cases and adding Pytest markers, reducing ambiguity in bug classification and coverage.
Technical Skills
A collection of my professional abilities and tools.