Sampada Raut

Senior QA Engineer with 8 years in automation and quality leadership, with a strong focus on AI-driven testing. Proficient in Playwright, Selenium, and Testim. Proven track record of owning end-to-end releases, mentoring QA teams, and scaling test coverage.

Senior QA Engineer at Talentica Software (2021-03 – Present)

Client: Autodesk

• Building AI-powered multi-agent QA solutions leveraging LLMs and CrewAI to streamline requirement analysis, QA planning, test strategy development, and automated test case generation.
• Architected and implemented a Playwright automation framework from scratch using CursorAI, migrating 100% of existing Testim tests (120 tests); integrated with Jenkins and Git to trigger automated regression on every commit, ensuring continuous integration.
• Performed manual and automated UI testing of new features across Android and iOS platforms using Appium for end-to-end flow automation, ensuring cross-platform consistency and adherence to acceptance criteria.
• Solely responsible for QA sign-off on all new feature releases ensuring zero critical defects reach production.
• Developed and maintained manual and automated regression suites; led weekly regression cycles aligned with release schedules.
• Analysed automation failures, debugged flaky tests, and improved overall test reliability.
• Mentored new team members and led knowledge-sharing sessions on Playwright and automation best practices.
• Collaborated with developers to identify defects early in the lifecycle and validate bug fixes.

Associate QA Engineer at Magic Software Enterprises (MSE) (2018-07 – 2021-02)

Product: Magic XPA

• Developed, executed, and maintained automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver for the Magic XPA LowCode Platform; contributed to improving automation strategy and framework standards.
• Performed cross-platform, functional, regression, UI, cross-browser, and installation testing across multiple environments.
• Logged, tracked, and debugged defects in JIRA; collaborated with developers for resolution and conducted postfix regression testing to prevent regressions.

QA Engineer Intern at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) (2016-07 – 2017-06)

Product: Windchill

• Executed manual and automated test cases for the Windchill Change Management System; automated scenarios using Selenium WebDriver & Java and maintained scripts via GitHub.
• Performed failure analysis and debugging for failed tests; reported and verified defects.

Master of Technology in MTech – Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune (2015 – 2017)

Bachelor of Engineering in B.E. – Cummins College of Engineering, Pune (2011 – 2015)