Vivek Nangre

Senior SDET / QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, and end-to-end testing of enterprise web applications across healthcare, finance, insurance, e-commerce, and investigation platforms. Strong expertise in designing and maintaining scalable Playwright automation frameworks using TypeScript and JavaScript, with hands-on experience across UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing. Experienced in Page Object Model, reusable fixtures, utilities, test data management, API automation, network interception, parallel execution, retries, cross-browser testing, CI/CD, and failure analysis.

Strong manual testing background covering functional, exploratory, smoke, sanity, regression, integration, and usability testing. Experienced in Agile/Scrum, Shift-Left testing, automation strategy, defect prevention, code review, and mentoring QA engineers.

Senior SDET at Alp Consulting Ltd. (2025-09 – Present)

• Developed scalable Playwright automation frameworks using TypeScript and JavaScript for modern web applications.
• Implemented Page Object Model, reusable fixtures, utilities, hooks, data-driven testing, dynamic locators, assertions, and reusable components.
• Automated UI, API, smoke, sanity, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios; configured parallel execution, retries, browser projects, and environment-specific configurations.
• Integrated Playwright automation with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for automated validation during builds, deployments, and releases.
• Implemented HTML/Allure reports, screenshots, videos, traces, and logs; investigated flaky tests, locator failures, synchronization issues, and CI/CD failures.
• Performed manual functional, exploratory, UI, integration, and regression testing and applied Shift-Left testing early in the sprint.

Senior Software QA Engineer at Technossus - India (2021-02 – 2025-02)

• Designed and maintained scalable UI automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, and Katalon Studio.
• Developed Playwright automation using JavaScript/TypeScript with POM, reusable fixtures, dynamic locators, assertions, auto-waiting, retries, parallel execution, and cross-browser testing.
• Built automated web, API, and end-to-end suites using Katalon Studio and Playwright; integrated automation with Azure DevOps CI/CD for smoke, sanity, and regression execution.
• Performed API validation with Playwright and Postman, SQL/backend validation, manual testing, and JMeter performance testing for critical workflows.
• Used screenshots, videos, traces, logs, and Allure reports for failure analysis; improved stability through locator, synchronization, test isolation, test-data, and retry improvements.
• Integrated results with Zephyr, Azure DevOps, and Jira; also automated repetitive testing activities using UiPath RPA.

Software QA Engineer at OASIS HR CORPORATE SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED (2017-01 – 2021-01)

• Designed and maintained hybrid and data-driven Selenium WebDriver automation frameworks using Java and TestNG.
• Automated functional, smoke, sanity, regression, and end-to-end scenarios and performed comprehensive manual functional, UI, integration, usability, exploratory, and negative testing.
• Performed extensive API testing using Postman and validated backend functionality and data integrity using MySQL, including UI/API-to-database verification.
• Managed automation code with GitHub, tracked defects in Jira, and collaborated with developers and product managers on acceptance criteria, automation scope, and release readiness.
• Implemented Shift-Left testing and supported Agile sprint planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and regression cycles.

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Digital Communications – College of Engineering Ambajogai (2012 – 2015)

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in E & TC – College of Engineering Ambajogai (2008 – 2012)