Kajol Chhabada

Senior Test Automation Engineer with 8+ years across web and mobile test automation. Built and scaled hybrid automation frameworks for banking, logistics, and enterprise products using Java, TypeScript, Selenium, Appium, and Playwright. Mentored junior engineers, coordinated offshore-onshore delivery, and owned QA strategy from development to release. Comfortable working with product managers, developers, and leadership to drive quality at scale.

Senior Test Automation Engineer - GLOBANT - Pune, India

(2021-05)

Senior Test Automation Engineer - GLOBANT - Pune, India

(2022-04)

Project: AIB (Allied Irish Banks)

• Developed and maintained hybrid automation frameworks for Android and iOS banking applications, cutting regression cycles from 5 days to under 2.
• Mentored 4 junior QA engineers on framework design, code review practices, and debugging, raising team test reliability scores quarter over quarter.
• Partnered with developers and product owners during sprint planning to shift testing left, catching 40% more defects before UAT.
• Owned Postman API test suites covering authentication, services, and transaction flows for the AIB mobile platform.
• Integrated automated suites with Jenkins pipelines, enabling nightly runs and same-day defect triage.

Senior Test Automation Engineer - GLOBANT - Pune, India

(2021-05 - 2022-03)

Project: E&Y Helix

• Automated end-to-end test cases for the E&Y Helix audit platform using the CTE-QA scriptless tool layered on Selenium and Python.
• Reviewed automation scripts authored by peers, raising defect catch rate during code reviews.
• Logged and triaged production-impacting bugs in Azure DevOps, working directly with developers on fix verification.
• Earned Globant's "Pat on the Back" Award for project contribution and ownership.

Test Automation Engineer - Atos-Syntel Private Limited

(2017-09 - 2021-05)

Test Automation Engineer - Atos-Syntel Private Limited

(2017-11 - 2021-05)

Project: FedEx Shipping Platform

• Designed a hybrid automation framework in Java and Selenium WebDriver with TestNG, scaled across 200+ regression scripts for FedEx shipping workflows and mentored new joiners on framework usage and Selenium.
• Coordinated offshore-onshore delivery on weekly client calls, owning status reporting to FedEx stakeholders.
• Managed defects across the full lifecycle in HP ALM, from discovery through fix verification.
• Received Syntel "Value Award" for Leadership and the Syntel "Kudos Award" for project impact.
• Completed SAFe Agile Certification (SAFe 4 Practitioner).

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering - Jawaharlal Darda Institute of Engineering and Technology (2013-06 - 2017-06)