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QA Resume Samples 2026: Fresher, 3 Years Experience & SDET
Three complete, ATS-friendly software testing resume samples — fresher, 3-year manual + automation tester and SDET — plus summary lines, skills sections, project bullets and the mistakes that get resumes rejected.
Recruiters spend seconds on a first look, and most companies pass resumes through an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) before a human sees them. A QA resume that gets shortlisted is simple in layout, rich in the right keywords and full of measurable results.
Below are three complete sample resumes you can adapt. Replace the brackets with your details — and keep everything true; interviewers will ask about every line.
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ATS rules for every QA resume
- One column, standard headings (Summary, Skills, Experience, Projects, Education, Certifications). No tables, text boxes, icons or photos.
- Save as PDF (or DOCX if asked) named
FirstName_LastName_QA_Resume.pdf. - Mirror keywords from the job description exactly (e.g. “Selenium WebDriver”, “REST Assured”, “Postman”, “JIRA”, “Agile”).
- Start each bullet with an action verb and add a number: tests written, defects found, time saved, coverage gained.
- Fresher: 1 page. 2–6 years: 1–2 pages. Senior/SDET: up to 2 pages.
Sample 1: Fresher QA / Software Tester
[YOUR NAME]
Pune, Maharashtra · +91-XXXXXXXXXX · you@email.com · linkedin.com/in/yourname · github.com/yourname
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Detail-oriented B.E. (Computer Engineering) graduate with hands-on training in manual and automation testing. Wrote 120+ test cases and 25 defect reports for two web applications; built a Selenium + TestNG framework using Page Object Model. Familiar with Agile, JIRA, SQL and API testing with Postman. Seeking a QA / Software Tester role.
SKILLS
Testing: Manual Testing, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Exploratory, Test Case Design (BVA, EP), Defect Life Cycle, STLC, SDLC, Agile/Scrum
Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Page Object Model, Maven
API & DB: Postman, REST, JSON, SQL (MySQL)
Tools: JIRA, Git, GitHub, Chrome DevTools
PROJECTS
E-commerce Web App Testing (Manual) — Wrote 80 test cases for login, search, cart and checkout; logged 18 defects in JIRA with steps, severity and screenshots; prepared RTM covering 22 requirements.
Selenium Automation Framework — Automated 30 scenarios on a demo shop using Java, Selenium 4, TestNG and POM; data-driven login tests with Excel; Extent report with failure screenshots; code on GitHub.
API Testing with Postman — Created a collection of 25 requests (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE) for a public REST API with environment variables and status/body assertions.
EDUCATION
B.E. Computer Engineering — [College], Pune — 2025 — CGPA 7.8
CERTIFICATIONS
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) · QA Jobs India Free Course Certificate — Manual Testing
STRENGTHS
Analytical thinking · Clear bug reporting · Quick learner · Team collaboration
Pune, Maharashtra · +91-XXXXXXXXXX · you@email.com · linkedin.com/in/yourname · github.com/yourname
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Detail-oriented B.E. (Computer Engineering) graduate with hands-on training in manual and automation testing. Wrote 120+ test cases and 25 defect reports for two web applications; built a Selenium + TestNG framework using Page Object Model. Familiar with Agile, JIRA, SQL and API testing with Postman. Seeking a QA / Software Tester role.
SKILLS
Testing: Manual Testing, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Exploratory, Test Case Design (BVA, EP), Defect Life Cycle, STLC, SDLC, Agile/Scrum
Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Page Object Model, Maven
API & DB: Postman, REST, JSON, SQL (MySQL)
Tools: JIRA, Git, GitHub, Chrome DevTools
PROJECTS
E-commerce Web App Testing (Manual) — Wrote 80 test cases for login, search, cart and checkout; logged 18 defects in JIRA with steps, severity and screenshots; prepared RTM covering 22 requirements.
Selenium Automation Framework — Automated 30 scenarios on a demo shop using Java, Selenium 4, TestNG and POM; data-driven login tests with Excel; Extent report with failure screenshots; code on GitHub.
API Testing with Postman — Created a collection of 25 requests (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE) for a public REST API with environment variables and status/body assertions.
EDUCATION
B.E. Computer Engineering — [College], Pune — 2025 — CGPA 7.8
CERTIFICATIONS
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) · QA Jobs India Free Course Certificate — Manual Testing
STRENGTHS
Analytical thinking · Clear bug reporting · Quick learner · Team collaboration
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See today’s QA jobs →Sample 2: QA Engineer — 3 years (manual + automation)
[YOUR NAME] — QA Engineer
Bengaluru · +91-XXXXXXXXXX · you@email.com · linkedin.com/in/yourname
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
QA Engineer with 3 years of experience testing web and mobile applications in the fintech domain. Skilled in functional, regression and API testing, with automation in Selenium WebDriver (Java) and REST Assured. Built and maintain a regression suite of 350+ tests that cut release testing time from 3 days to 6 hours. Experienced in Agile/Scrum, JIRA and CI with Jenkins.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Automation: Selenium WebDriver 4, Java, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), POM, Maven
API: Postman, REST Assured, JSON schema validation
Mobile: Android & iOS manual testing, Appium (basic)
Database: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
CI/CD & Tools: Jenkins, Git, JIRA, Zephyr Scale, BrowserStack, Allure
Process: Agile/Scrum, STLC, risk-based testing, test planning
EXPERIENCE
QA Engineer — [Company], Bengaluru — Jul 2023 to Present
• Test web and Android/iOS apps for a digital payments product used by 2M+ users in 2-week sprints.
• Automated 350+ UI and API regression tests (Selenium + REST Assured, TestNG); suite runs nightly in Jenkins with Allure reports.
• Reduced regression cycle from 3 days to 6 hours and flaky tests from 12% to under 2%.
• Logged 400+ defects with clear steps and evidence; 30% were found in API testing before UI was ready.
• Wrote test cases in Zephyr linked to stories; maintained traceability for audit.
• Validated transactions and reconciliation data with SQL queries.
Junior Software Tester — [Company], Pune — Aug 2022 to Jun 2023
• Executed functional, regression and cross-browser testing for an e-commerce site.
• Created 600+ test cases; trained two new joiners on the defect workflow in JIRA.
EDUCATION
B.Tech Information Technology — [University] — 2022
CERTIFICATIONS
ISTQB CTFL
Bengaluru · +91-XXXXXXXXXX · you@email.com · linkedin.com/in/yourname
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
QA Engineer with 3 years of experience testing web and mobile applications in the fintech domain. Skilled in functional, regression and API testing, with automation in Selenium WebDriver (Java) and REST Assured. Built and maintain a regression suite of 350+ tests that cut release testing time from 3 days to 6 hours. Experienced in Agile/Scrum, JIRA and CI with Jenkins.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Automation: Selenium WebDriver 4, Java, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), POM, Maven
API: Postman, REST Assured, JSON schema validation
Mobile: Android & iOS manual testing, Appium (basic)
Database: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
CI/CD & Tools: Jenkins, Git, JIRA, Zephyr Scale, BrowserStack, Allure
Process: Agile/Scrum, STLC, risk-based testing, test planning
EXPERIENCE
QA Engineer — [Company], Bengaluru — Jul 2023 to Present
• Test web and Android/iOS apps for a digital payments product used by 2M+ users in 2-week sprints.
• Automated 350+ UI and API regression tests (Selenium + REST Assured, TestNG); suite runs nightly in Jenkins with Allure reports.
• Reduced regression cycle from 3 days to 6 hours and flaky tests from 12% to under 2%.
• Logged 400+ defects with clear steps and evidence; 30% were found in API testing before UI was ready.
• Wrote test cases in Zephyr linked to stories; maintained traceability for audit.
• Validated transactions and reconciliation data with SQL queries.
Junior Software Tester — [Company], Pune — Aug 2022 to Jun 2023
• Executed functional, regression and cross-browser testing for an e-commerce site.
• Created 600+ test cases; trained two new joiners on the defect workflow in JIRA.
EDUCATION
B.Tech Information Technology — [University] — 2022
CERTIFICATIONS
ISTQB CTFL
Sample 3: SDET / Senior Automation Engineer — 6+ years
[YOUR NAME] — SDET
Hyderabad · +91-XXXXXXXXXX · you@email.com · github.com/yourname
SUMMARY
SDET with 6+ years designing automation frameworks and quality pipelines for SaaS products. Led migration of a 1,200-test Selenium suite to Playwright (TypeScript), cutting run time by 65% and flakiness to under 1%. Strong in API, UI and contract testing, CI/CD on GitHub Actions and AWS, and mentoring QA teams.
CORE SKILLS
Languages: Java, TypeScript, Python, SQL
UI: Playwright, Selenium 4, Appium 2
API & services: REST Assured, Playwright request, Postman/Newman, Pact (contract testing), Kafka message validation
Performance: k6, JMeter
CI/CD & cloud: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch)
Practices: Framework design, test strategy, shift-left, code reviews, observability
EXPERIENCE
Senior SDET — [Company], Hyderabad — 2022 to Present
• Designed a Playwright + TypeScript framework (fixtures, POM, API-seeded data) for 4 product teams; 1,500+ tests sharded across 8 runners.
• Introduced contract tests with Pact for 12 microservices, catching breaking API changes before deployment.
• Built quality gates in GitHub Actions: smoke on every PR (under 7 minutes), full regression nightly.
• Ran k6 load tests for checkout APIs at 2,000 RPS; found a connection-pool bottleneck that improved p95 latency by 40%.
• Mentor 6 QA engineers; run weekly automation code reviews.
Automation Engineer — [Company], Pune — 2019 to 2022
• Built a Selenium + TestNG + Cucumber framework from scratch; grew coverage from 20% to 75% of regression.
• Integrated BrowserStack for cross-browser runs and Appium for Android smoke tests.
EDUCATION
B.E. Computer Engineering — [College] — 2019
Hyderabad · +91-XXXXXXXXXX · you@email.com · github.com/yourname
SUMMARY
SDET with 6+ years designing automation frameworks and quality pipelines for SaaS products. Led migration of a 1,200-test Selenium suite to Playwright (TypeScript), cutting run time by 65% and flakiness to under 1%. Strong in API, UI and contract testing, CI/CD on GitHub Actions and AWS, and mentoring QA teams.
CORE SKILLS
Languages: Java, TypeScript, Python, SQL
UI: Playwright, Selenium 4, Appium 2
API & services: REST Assured, Playwright request, Postman/Newman, Pact (contract testing), Kafka message validation
Performance: k6, JMeter
CI/CD & cloud: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch)
Practices: Framework design, test strategy, shift-left, code reviews, observability
EXPERIENCE
Senior SDET — [Company], Hyderabad — 2022 to Present
• Designed a Playwright + TypeScript framework (fixtures, POM, API-seeded data) for 4 product teams; 1,500+ tests sharded across 8 runners.
• Introduced contract tests with Pact for 12 microservices, catching breaking API changes before deployment.
• Built quality gates in GitHub Actions: smoke on every PR (under 7 minutes), full regression nightly.
• Ran k6 load tests for checkout APIs at 2,000 RPS; found a connection-pool bottleneck that improved p95 latency by 40%.
• Mentor 6 QA engineers; run weekly automation code reviews.
Automation Engineer — [Company], Pune — 2019 to 2022
• Built a Selenium + TestNG + Cucumber framework from scratch; grew coverage from 20% to 75% of regression.
• Integrated BrowserStack for cross-browser runs and Appium for Android smoke tests.
EDUCATION
B.E. Computer Engineering — [College] — 2019
Summary lines you can adapt
- Fresher: “Computer Science graduate trained in manual and automation testing, with hands-on projects in Selenium, Postman and SQL, seeking a QA Engineer role to deliver high-quality releases.”
- Manual tester: “Software tester with 2 years in healthcare web applications, strong in test design, regression and API testing, known for clear defect reports and on-time sprint sign-offs.”
- Automation: “Automation engineer with 4 years building Selenium and Playwright frameworks, CI pipelines and API suites that cut regression time by 70%.”
- Mobile: “Mobile QA engineer with 3 years testing Android and iOS banking apps, including Appium automation on real-device clouds.”
Strong bullet points (copy the pattern, not the numbers)
| Weak | Strong |
|---|---|
| Did manual testing of the application | Executed 450 functional and regression test cases per release for a 5-module insurance portal, finding 60+ defects before UAT |
| Worked on Selenium | Automated 180 regression scenarios with Selenium 4, Java and TestNG, reducing manual effort by 40 hours per sprint |
| Did API testing | Validated 70 REST endpoints with Postman and REST Assured, including auth, negative and schema checks |
| Used JIRA | Tracked 300+ defects in JIRA and built JQL dashboards for sprint quality reviews |
| Responsible for testing | Owned end-to-end testing for the payments module, achieving zero critical production defects for 4 releases |
Mistakes that get QA resumes rejected
- Listing tools you cannot explain in an interview.
- Copying the same project description as thousands of others (“tested login page of e-commerce site”) without numbers or details.
- Fancy two-column templates, graphics and skill bars that ATS cannot read.
- Spelling mistakes — a tester’s resume is judged harder for attention to detail.
- Missing links: GitHub for automation roles and LinkedIn for everyone.
- Very long resumes with responsibilities but no results.
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FAQs
Should a fresher QA resume be one page?
Yes. One page with skills, two or three detailed projects, education and certifications is ideal.
Should I put a photo on my resume?
No. Photos, tables and graphics can confuse ATS systems and are not required by most Indian IT companies.
How do I show automation on my resume without job experience?
Add GitHub projects with clear READMEs and mention the framework, number of tests, reports and CI. Interviewers often open the repository.
Can I build an ATS resume on QA Jobs India?
Yes — the ATS Resume Builder lets you upload your old resume, add a job description and download a recruiter-ready PDF.
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