QA Consultant at Self-Employed (2024-10 – Present)
- Conducted automation maturity assessments for client teams, identifying coverage gaps and delivering actionable improvement roadmaps.
- Designed and implemented Playwright-based automation frameworks and BDD test suites, improving regression coverage and reducing manual effort.
- Delivered hands-on mentoring to QA engineers on Playwright, SpecFlow BDD, Azure DevOps pipeline integration, and Page Object Model design patterns.
- Advised on shift-left QA practices and evaluated AI-powered testing tools and modern CI/CD architectures to improve delivery speed and reliability.
QA Tester (SDET) at Version1 (2023-01 – 2024-04)
- Designed and built a BDD automation suite (Playwright, Selenium, SpecFlow, C#) covering 250+ scenarios — reducing manual regression effort by 60% within the first quarter.
- Owned release quality gates across Dynamics 365, Power Apps, and Power Automate: defined go/no-go criteria and maintained 95%+ test coverage before every production deployment.
- Built reusable Playwright scripts for D365 canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Dataverse-backed entities, establishing a shared component library that reduced future build time significantly.
- Reduced average defect resolution time by 30% by embedding QA earlier in sprint cycles and collaborating directly with developers via shared Jira and Azure DevOps workflows.
- Conducted REST API testing using Postman — validating service integrations, response payloads, and error handling across Power Platform connectors.
Senior SDET at RLabs (Dell Technologies) (2018-12 – 2019-06)
- Delivered backend test suites for distributed Dell enterprise systems, reducing post-release defect density by 25%.
- Led root cause analysis sessions across engineering teams, driving systematic defect prevention and reducing repeat failure rates.
Career Development Break at Self-Employed (2019-06 – 2022-12)
Planned break for graduate-level policy research, including a professional development programme at Harvard Kennedy School. Developed analytical, stakeholder communication, and requirements translation skills now applied directly to QA work in regulated environments.
QA Engineer at S.N Ventures Pvt Ltd (2017-08 – 2018-11)
- Built the QA function from scratch for a blockchain-enabled e-governance platform delivered to the Government of Karnataka — defining test strategy, quality standards, and release gates.
- Delivered the Ashadeepa platform on time across all milestones; QA delivery directly contributed to winning further government contracts.
QA Engineer at NTT Data Global Delivery Services (2015-09 – 2017-02)
- Designed Selenium/C# automation frameworks reducing manual testing overhead by 40% across multiple product lines.
- Led QA for the Swinton Insurance large-scale database migration — translating complex business requirements into functional, integration, and data validation test scenarios.
QA Engineer at Sonata Software (2014-12 – 2015-09)
- Delivered functional and UAT testing across the REZOPIA travel platform; reduced post-UAT defect leakage by 20% through structured smoke and regression checkpoints.
QA Engineer at iNube Software Solutions (2011-07 – 2014-12)
- Designed and executed comprehensive test coverage for IRPAS, IMD Dashboard, and MACP insurance portals across complex multi-module workflows.
