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title: "Devanand Gowda - QA Engineer II in Mandya | Tal"
description: "Meet Devanand Gowda, QA Engineer II at 42Gears based in Mandya. AI stack includes openai and opencode."
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# Devanand Gowda on Tal

## Headline

QA Engineer II at 42Gears

## About

Senior QA Engineer with 5 years of experience in Automation & Manual Testing across Web and Mobile applications\. Experienced in Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Integration, UAT, API, and Database Testing\. Skilled in Postman, SQL, Jira, Agile Scrum, Release Validation, Production Support, and Defect Management\. Currently expanding my automation testing expertise with Java and Playwright\. Passionate about delivering high\-quality software through strong analytical skills, collaboration, and continuous learning\.

## Location

Mandya

## AI stack

openai

opencode

## Work experience

QA Engineer II at 42Gears, Oct 2026 \- Present · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Test Engineer at 42Gears, Feb 2025 \- Sep 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, ✔ Executed 1000\+ test cases across multiple product releases\. ✔ Logged and tracked 1,000\+ defects using Jira, improving product quality\. ✔ Supported 50\+ sprint and production releases, including release validation and hotfix verification\. ✔ Performed API testing using Postman and database validation using SQL\. ✔ Investigated production issues using Chrome DevTools and Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\)\. ✔ Mentored a junior QA engineer and collaborated with cross\-functional Agile teams\. ✔ Currently building automation testing skills using Java and Playwright\.

Senior Associate at Wolken Software, Apr 2024 \- Jan 2025 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate Engineer at Wolken Software, Aug 2021 \- Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, East west institute of technology

Bachelor's Degree, PuC, Bharathi composite pu college

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