Purushottam Prabhakar

SDET and Test Automation Architect with 5+ years of end-to-end ownership across automation framework design, backend API engineering, and CI/CD pipeline architecture — primarily in mission-critical embedded software environments.

Delivered measurable outcomes: 60% regression effort reduction, 200+ boards automated, and 3× test coverage expansion. Builds reusable quality infrastructure that teams depend on, release after release. Currently based in New Delhi; open to remote roles and relocation.

Software Development Engineer in Test II (SDET II) - Lynx Software Technologies - New Delhi, India

(2023-11)

• Owned end-to-end quality engineering for the release pipeline — designed a pytest-driven test harness and Flask backend with RESTful APIs from scratch, eliminating recurring late-cycle defect escapes and giving every commit production-level confidence.
• Identified repetitive Linux environment provisioning as a productivity bottleneck — automated end-to-end workflows with Bash scripts, eliminating 2–3 hours of manual setup overhead per sprint and removing human error from critical provisioning steps.
• Solved an untested storage performance problem under production load — took full ownership of RAID benchmark design and storage architecture redesign, delivering measurable I/O throughput gains and increased resilience under high-load conditions.
• Diagnosed authentication failures degrading system uptime — led cross-functional investigation, redesigned login algorithms, and significantly reduced auth failure rates, directly improving production reliability metrics.
• Drove automation-readiness improvements across the stack — enabling continuous quality validation on every commit and reducing release friction across multiple product lines.

Automation Test Engineer (SDET) - Lynx Software Technologies - New Delhi, India

(2020-11 - 2023-10)

• Solved the manual regression bottleneck blocking deployment velocity — designed, architected, and led full development of a Python + Selenium POM framework that reduced manual regression effort by ∼60% across two product lines.
• Integrated functional, regression, and smoke test suites into GitLab CI/CD pipelines — enabling shift-left testing and early defect detection on every commit, shrinking QA cycle time significantly.
• Engineered automated debugging tools for storage fault diagnosis — increased fault detection rate by 30% and cut mean time-to-diagnose on storage incidents.
• Designed data-driven, parameterised automation scripts using pytest fixtures — expanded test coverage 3× without proportional effort increases, improving framework reusability.
• Scaled and deployed automation suites onto AWS EC2 Linux infrastructure, establishing reliable, environment-independent cross-platform test execution.

Engineering Intern — SDET (EBF Project) - Lynx Software Technologies - New Delhi, India

(2020-05 - 2020-10)

• Expanded functional test coverage and resolved targeted defects — improved system reliability by 15% across the EBF product.
• Profiled embedded modules achieving a 10% performance gain and streamlined QA workflows, reducing issue resolution time by 20%.

Master of Computer Applications - MCA - Pondicherry University