Usha Mahinderkar l

Test Automation Leader with 19+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, automation strategy, and architecture for large-scale enterprise applications. Expert in UI and API automation, CI/CD-driven testing, and Agile/DevOps quality transformation. Proven in building scalable automation frameworks, integrating continuous testing pipelines, leading high-performing teams, and driving standards through Automation CoEs.

Strong hands-on expertise across leading tools and active adoption of GenAI to accelerate test design, automation, and documentation.

Senior Manager – Test Automation - Capgemini India Pvt Ltd - Hyderabad

(2022-10)

• Defined and executed enterprise-wide test automation strategy across multiple P&C Insurance programs, improving regression coverage by 80% and reducing release defects by 45%.
• Architected scalable Selenium-Java and Cypress automation frameworks with BDD (Cucumber), enabling reuse across projects and reducing automation development effort by 40%.
• Integrated UI and API automation suites into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub/Azure DevOps, enabling unattended execution and shortening release cycles by 35%.
• Led API test automation using REST Assured, achieving over 85% API coverage and early detection of integration issues.
• Championed GenAI adoption by leveraging GitHub Copilot for test script acceleration and Microsoft Copilot for scenario design and documentation, improving team productivity by 25%.
• Managed and mentored a team of 15 QA engineers, establishing automation standards, coding guidelines, and review mechanisms.
• Collaborated with DevOps and development teams to implement shift-left testing and quality gates, improving build stability and deployment success rate.
• Developed Excel-based automation utilities and macros, reducing manual testing effort by 80% for data-heavy test scenarios.
• Delivered executive-level quality metrics, automation ROI reports, and risk assessments to senior stakeholders.

Manager – Test Automation - Capgemini India Pvt Ltd - Pune

(2019-10 - 2022-09)

• Led end-to-end test planning, automation strategy, and execution for large-scale enterprise applications, supporting quarterly and monthly releases.
• Designed and implemented Selenium-Java automation frameworks, increasing regression automation coverage from 30% to 80%.
• Analyzed functional requirements and translated them into robust automated test scenarios, reducing manual regression effort by 50%.
• Identified root causes of test failures through log analysis and collaborated with developers to reduce defect leakage into UAT by 40%.
• Prioritized automation execution based on business risk, ensuring critical workflows were validated early in the sprint cycle.
• Presented automation execution results, quality dashboards, and defect trends to project and client leadership.
• Actively contributed to CI readiness by stabilizing automation suites and improving execution reliability to over 95% success rate

Senior Consultant – Automation Lead - Capgemini India

(2009-07 - 2019-10)

• Led onsite-offshore automation teams of up to 10 members, acting as test coordinator for UK-based clients.
• Designed and implemented hybrid automation frameworks using UFT for SAP applications, significantly improving test execution reliability.
• Defined automation coding standards and performed regular code reviews to ensure maintainability and quality.
• Reviewed and approved manual and automated test scenarios to ensure comprehensive functional coverage.
• Interfaced directly with clients during SIT and UAT phases, providing test status, risk assessments, and resolution strategies.

Senior Software Engineer - Test - Mindtree Ltd

(2006-07 - 2009-12)

• Executed functional, regression, compatibility, and installation testing for enterprise applications.
• Automated regression test suites using QTP and SilkTest, reducing manual regression cycles by approximately 30%.
• Collaborated closely with development teams to validate defect fixes and ensure release readiness.

ISTQB Advance Test Manager Certified

ISTQB Advance Automation Test Engineer Certified

Diploma in Software Testing from Seed Infotech

Bachelor of Engineering from Nagpur University in 2005