Senior Test Automation and Quality Engineering Leader with 10+ years of experience designing, scaling, and governing enterprise-grade UI automation frameworks. Expert in Playwright with strong Selenium background, driving CI/CD-integrated, self-healing, data-driven automation strategies while mentoring teams and partnering cross-functionally to enable continuous quality and reliable releases.
10+ years of experience in Test Automation and Quality Engineering with deep expertise in Playwright (Expert level) using JavaScript/TypeScript, and strong hands-on experience with Selenium for maintaining and modernizing legacy E2E automation suites.
Own the end-to-end automation strategy by defining, architecting, and scaling a Playwright-based regression framework with 85%+ functional coverage across business-critical workflows.
Lead UI automation architecture and best practices, ensuring framework scalability, stability, reusability, and long-term maintainability.
Drive implementation of predictive, self-healing automation mechanisms to reduce flaky tests and significantly lower automation maintenance overhead.
Embed smoke and regression test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI), enabling automated quality gates and faster, risk-mitigated releases.
Establish advanced automated reporting, analytics, and quality dashboards (Allure, Playwright Reports, custom metrics), enabling data-driven quality and release decisions.
Mentor, coach, and lead automation teams, conduct code reviews, define coding standards, and enforce framework governance across projects.
Partner closely with Dev, DevOps, Product, and Architecture teams to drive shift-left testing, testability improvements, and continuous quality practices.
Evaluate, recommend, and onboard modern automation tools, AI-driven testing solutions, and cloud execution platforms to improve efficiency and coverage.
Act as a technical escalation point for automation challenges, framework optimizations, and cross-team quality initiatives.
Playwright, Test Automation, Quality Engineering, JavaScript, TypeScript, Selenium, UI Automation, Automation Framework Design, End To End Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Self Healing Automation, CI CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Allure Reporting, Test Analytics, Quality Dashboards, Agile Testing, Shift Left Testing, DevOps Collaboration, Test Strategy, Automation Governance, Code Reviews, Team Mentoring