Surya Prabhakar

Key Project: Identity & Access Management (IAM) Platform Validation | Client: Gilead Sciences | Team Size: 6 • Owned release validation for enterprise IAM deployments, covering test planning, regression execution, authentication testing, and production readiness across multiple releases. • Designed, executed, and maintained functional, regression, integration, system, and authentication test suites for enterprise IAM platforms, ensuring complete coverage of business requirements and customer use cases. • Performed validation of IAM Workflows including Authentication, Authorization, SSO, MFA, Passwordless Authentication, Federated SSO Scenarios. Conducted extensive testing of Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA), Kerberos, smartcards, digital certificates, and FIDO2 authentication (Passkeys, YubiKeys), identifying and resolving 25+ critical security defects. • Validated multi-factor authentication (MFA) flows at scale ensuring high system reliability, performance, and security compliance across authentication scenarios. • Collaborated with stakeholders and development teams to ensure complete test coverage, requirement traceability, and release quality. • Mentored junior QA engineers on both manual validation techniques and automation scripting practices, contributing to team-wide quality engineering standards. Key Highlights • Spearheaded validation of Passwordless Authentication solutions across macOS, Windows, Domain-Joined, Entra ID (Azure AD), and Hybrid environments, enabling secure access for 10,000+ enterprise users. • Designed and executed 200+ regression, negative, and edge-case test scenarios covering offline authentication, expired credentials, token replay attacks, session management, and access control violations. • Validated Primary Refresh Token (PRT) lifecycle including issuance, renewal, expiration, and revocation, achieving approximately 99.9% authentication reliability. • Executed deep validation of Conditional Access Policies and authentication workflows, reducing authentication failures by approximately 40% and improving overall user experience. • Diagnosed and resolved complex authentication and enrolment issues using logs, Event Viewer, Registry analysis, and monitoring tools, improving MTTR by approximately 35%.

• Built and maintained UI and API automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and REST Assured, supporting test coverage for critical business workflows on a fast-moving digital media platform. • Automated regression test suites for critical business workflows, improving test efficiency and release quality. • Enhanced automation frameworks to improve scalability, maintainability, and execution performance.

• Designed and implemented Web and Mobile Automation Frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Appium, and Java, achieving 85%+ automation coverage. • Developed a BDD Automation Framework using Cucumber, improving collaboration between QA and business stakeholders and increasing test maintainability. • Enhanced automation frameworks to improve scalability and maintainability. • Built reusable automation libraries and framework components, improving test maintainability and accelerating automation development. • Integrated Jenkins and Maven into CI/CD pipelines, reducing release cycle time by 30%. • Automated functional, regression, and mobile testing processes across Web and Mobile platforms, improving product quality, delivery efficiency, and release consistency. • Performed Root Cause Analysis, automation code reviews, and mentored junior engineers.

• Automated 75% of regression test cases using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG, reducing manual testing effort by 40%. • Configured and maintained Jenkins CI pipelines for automated test execution and continuous integration. • Utilized Git for source code management, version control, and team collaboration. • Performed backend, API, and integration testing - including SQL-based data validation - to ensure application stability and data consistency Managed defect lifecycle using Jira, achieving ~95% on-time defect resolution. • Contributed to automation framework development using Page Object Model (POM), participated in code reviews, and supported quality engineering initiatives.