Mary Joseph

Background

About Mary Joseph

Principal QA Engineer with 15+ years of experience driving quality strategy, automation, and process improvement in Agile environments across Sales and Use Tax, Insurance, Managed Services, Security Systems domains. • Motivating leader, fast learner and committed self-starter with proven success leading QA efforts for microservices-based compliance platforms, enterprise reporting systems, and modernized data pipelines. • Skilled in building robust automation frameworks using Robot Framework, Selenium, and AI-assisted tools like Cursor and Co-Pilot. • Adept at translating complex business requirements into scalable test strategies, collaborating with product-owners, developers and analyzing the requirements, and ensuring full SDLC quality coverage. • Detail-oriented with a strong emphasis on quality, accuracy, and continuous improvement. • Adept at prioritizing and multitasking in fast-paced environments without compromising standards. • Experienced in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, with a strong grasp of SDLC, CI/CD and QA best practices. • Deep expertise in backend testing across Snowflake, Oracle and SQL Server. • Proficient in automated and manual test case development, documentation using Zephyr. • Led creation and execution of test plans, bug tracking, regression testing, and requirements analysis. • Conducted comprehensive testing including API, GUI, cross-browser, functional, backend (SQL), regression, system, integration, end-to-end, and UAT. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and integrate application modules. • Evaluated application performance and stability under various conditions including performance testing using JMeter. • Generated reports and status updates tailored to business and technical stakeholders. • Strong communicator with the ability to bridge gaps between technical teams and business users.