Progression: SDET, SDET Lead, QE Manager. Locations: India, USA, Canada (Toronto office, hybrid from BC)

Client: Global investment bank (wealth management & banking division)

• Architected and migrated legacy Selenium BDD automation framework to Playwright, scaling coverage across 3,000+ test cases across 12 banking microservices including Salesforce CRM, financial transaction processing and complete onboarding workflow. Cut regression execution from 5 days to 4 hours.
• Led end-to-end quality engineering and automation for wealth management customer onboarding, from lead creation and prospect qualification through client conversion; validated Salesforce CRM, APIs, downstream services, data propagation, and financial workflows.
• Shifted testing into PR pipelines on 12 banking repos: PR-gated unit and contract tests, pre-merge static checks. Cut production defects 25% and mean-time-to-detect on critical issues 60%.
• Implemented REST Assured API automation with Pact contract testing across 12 banking microservices; integrated into Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD with parallel execution, Allure reporting, and Slack-based alerting.
• Architected and configured a scalable cloud test execution environment using Docker, Kubernetes, and Selenium Grid, enabling distributed parallel and cross-browser execution through CI/CD pipelines.
• Built a dynamic test data service (Java + REST) replacing shared QA databases; enabled isolated parallel test runs across 8 feature suites.
• Designed the enterprise load and performance testing strategy (JMeter, Gatling) validating 5,000+ concurrent users; identified bottlenecks that improved API response time 30% and held SLA under peak transaction volumes.
• Delivered the weekly quality dashboard (Allure + executive scorecard) consumed by 4 engineering directors; the release readiness scorecard gated 30+ production deployments.

Leadership

• Led and mentored a 12-engineer SDET team across Canada, USA, and India. Owned hiring, structured onboarding, 1:1s, and performance reviews; partnered with engineering and product leadership on quarterly quality OKRs and release readiness.
• Authored QE coding standards (POM patterns, naming conventions, linting rules, SonarQube gates) adopted by 4 squads; cut code review iteration ~35% and new SDET onboarding from 3 weeks to 10 days.

Prior clients: Global hospitality company, large home-improvement and home-goods retailers (Retail & Digital Commerce)

• Built cross-platform Appium + Selenium frameworks (iOS, Android, responsive web) covering 1,200+ test cases for cart, payments, order management, and account workflows with dynamic test data generation.
• Engineered CI/CD pipelines on AWS (CodePipeline, EC2) with Report Portal dashboards; led flaky test remediation reducing test suite instability from 18% to under 3%.

• Built Selenium + TestNG automation and reusable utilities for an aviation system; reduced test development time 30%.

• Led API test automation (REST Assured + Postman) for content management platform - 60+ endpoints across 4 microservices. Jenkins integration cut manual regression effort 50%. Mentored 3 junior QA engineers.

• Functional and regression testing for BancTec document capture and workflow processing platform; authored test cases for enterprise document workflows.

• Functional, regression, and UAT testing for survey/panel SaaS platform serving 4M+ users; introduced initial Selenium IDE automation that reduced manual regression cycle from 3 days to 8 hours.