Purushottam Prabhakar

SDET and QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of end-to-end ownership across automation framework design, API testing, and CI/CD pipeline architecture.

Delivered measurable outcomes: 60% regression effort reduction, 200+ boards automated, and 3× test coverage expansion. Experienced in Selenium, pytest, and data-driven frameworks with strong manual testing and defect lifecycle management. Builds reusable quality infrastructure that teams depend on, release after release.

SDET II at Lynx Software Technologies (2023-11 – Present)

• Eliminated recurring late-cycle defect escapes by designing a pytest-driven test harness + Flask REST API backend from scratch — owning end-to-end quality engineering for the entire release pipeline.
• Saved 2–3 hours of manual setup overhead per sprint by automating Linux environment provisioning with Bash scripts, removing human error from critical provisioning steps.
• Enabled continuous quality validation on every commit across multiple product lines, reducing release friction through CI/CD automation improvements.
• Prepared and maintained test plans, test scripts, test data, and quality metrics reports for every release cycle.

Automation Test Engineer (SDET) at Lynx Software Technologies (2020-11 – 2023-10)

• Reduced manual regression effort by ∼60% across two product lines by designing a Python + Selenium POM framework — solving the regression bottleneck blocking deployment velocity.
• Achieved shift-left testing and early defect detection on every commit by integrating functional, regression, and smoke test suites into GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Expanded test coverage 3× without proportional effort increases by designing data-driven, parameterised automation scripts using pytest fixtures.
• Increased fault detection rate by 30% and cut mean time-to-diagnose on incidents by engineering automated debugging and diagnostic tools.
• Logged, tracked, and documented defects, test results, and resolution steps; collaborated closely with developers and BAs to resolve issues efficiently.

Engineering Intern — SDET at Lynx Software Technologies (2020-05 – 2020-10)

• Improved system reliability by 15% by expanding functional test coverage and resolving targeted defects. Achieved 10% performance gain profiling embedded modules; reduced issue resolution time by 20%.

Master of Computer Applications in MCA – Pondicherry University

Bachelor of Computer Applications in BCA – CSJM University, Kanpur