Pallavi Patil

Lead SDET with 12+ years of experience building scalable test automation frameworks across banking, financial, and enterprise platforms. Reduced regression effort by 60-70%, saved 90 QA hours per month through automation, and improved defect detection by 30%. Expert in Selenium, Playwright, Java, and API testing, with hands-on experience delivering AI-driven testing systems using LLMs.

Lead SDET at Publicis Sapient (2022-02 – Present)

• Designed scalable automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, Java, Typescript, and BDD, improving test execution efficiency by up to 40% and accelerating delivery across multiple applications.
• Led QE across banking and financial systems, strengthening early defect detection and significantly reducing production escapes through shift-left automation.
• Managed and mentored QA teams of 5–11 engineers at Lloyds Banking Group, driving technical leadership, onboarding, and improving team productivity and ramp-up time by 30%.
• As an Individual Contributor (IC), I owned End-of-Test Reports (EOTR) and release quality sign-offs across environments, ensuring 100% release governance compliance for critical banking deliveries.
• Built an AI-based LLM evaluation framework using DeepEval and Claude Sonnet, automating Answer Relevancy and Faithfulness checks and reducing manual effort by 60%.
• Monitored system health using Dynatrace and GCP metrics (CPU, memory, availability), improving early anomaly detection and performing root cause analysis using Spanner and Kubernetes logs.
• Developed robust UI automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript, implementing scalable page object models and reduced execution time, and increased regression coverage across web applications.
• Collaborated with product, DevOps, and development teams in Agile environments to implement shift-left testing, improving sprint quality and reducing defect leakage.
• Led performance testing using Gatling and Scala for Kafka-based systems, simulating millions of events per day and validating the scalability of GCP services under peak load.
• Leveraged Linux extensively for system navigation, log analysis, and environment troubleshooting during test automation and release validation.

Senior SDET at Persistent Systems (2021-02 – 2021-11)

• Reduced manual testing effort by 50% with desktop application automation using Selenium WebDriver and Java.
• Led QA delivery for a car park reservation management platform, owning test strategy, execution, and sign-off end-to-end.
• Designed and developed a BDD automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and Cucumber.
• Reduced build time by 30% through automation system migration from Maven to Gradle.

Senior Automation Engineer at Bentley Systems (2017-09 – 2019-05)

• Reduced regression cycles by 40% through test automation.
• Collaborated with developers and product stakeholders to define test coverage, support testing activities, and align quality goals with delivery timelines.
• Implemented test reporting and defect tracking using Jira and Xray, improving visibility of release health across teams.

Senior QA Engineer at gloStream (2014-08 – 2017-06)

• Led functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, and end-to-end testing for complex applications.
• Performed database testing using SQL and performance testing using Apache JMeter.
• Performed sprint effort estimation for QA tasks, including individual and team deliverables using Kanban methodology.

QA Engineer at MAPT IT Solutions (2013-01 – 2014-07)

• Supported senior engineers in test automation activities and framework execution.
• Created and maintained test cases, test scenarios, and test data as per requirements.
• Executed manual testing including functional, regression, smoke, and sanity testing.
• Participated in Agile ceremonies including stand-ups and sprint planning.

Master of Computer Applications in MCA – Pune University (2013)

Bachelor of Computer Applications in BCA – Pune University (2010)