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Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
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Deepak Thorecha

Deepak Thorecha

Software Development Engineer In Test
Pune

Summary

Accomplished Test Automation Engineer with extensive experience in SDLC/STLC, adept at modernizing quality assurance through cutting-edge automation. Proficient in developing and executing automated tests for web (Playwright, Selenium), native mobile (Android/iOS with Appium), and API (Rest Assured) applications. Skilled in microservices architecture testing (RESTful APIs, contracts, ActiveMQ/Kafka) and streamlining deployments via CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Gradle), consistently delivering high-quality, resilient software.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead - Quality Engineering

Altimetrik
06.2025 - Current
  • Working as part of Citibank TRIMS Application Testing team.
  • Execute and maintain the monthly regression suite, and drive issues to closure within timelines.
  • Mentoring junior QA engineers, providing guidance on best practices, coding standards
  • Coordinating with cross-department teams, like Devs and Support, to ensure a seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
  • Working with the backend data team to validate JSON data transformation to share across teams. This involves the schema, and data adherence to structure defined in an Excel ICD.

R&D Software Engineer

Broadcom Inc
05.2023 - 06.2025
  • Validated inter-node communication and data consistency across distributed GemFire clusters by developing and executing Java-based test suites.
  • Enhanced test coverage and efficiency by developing and executing automated test scripts for the GemFire Management Console (GMC) with Playwright, Cucumber (BDD), and Java & implemented daily execution on Councourse CI.
  • Validated the implementation of diverse authentication mechanisms (SAML, LDAP, OAuth 2.0) within the GemFire Management Console (GMC) to ensure secure system access.

Tech Lead - Software Engineer

Hilti Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
09.2020 - 05.2023
  • Proficient in service-based test automation for AM 3.0 (OT3), utilizing a technology stack including Cucumber/Serenity BDD, Rest-Assured, and Gradle within a microservices architecture.
  • Provided technical guidance and leadership within the Scrum team, offering support, conducting code reviews, and suggesting technical enhancements.
  • Skilled in managing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, with practical experience in JIRA, Postman, JUnit, IntelliJ IDEA, and GitLab CI/CD for seamless automation and testing integration.

Snr Software Engineer

Trimble
08.2019 - 08.2020

Internal transition from Innominds (vendor) to Trimble (client). Shared similar responsibilities held at Innominds.

Snr Software Engineer

Innominds Software Private
03.2018 - 07.2019
  • Automated UI regression suite for HILTI On!Track & Trimble AllTrak (AM 2.0), creating scripts for backlog features and leveraging backend APIs for test data creation.
  • Maintained and enhanced the automation regression suite for AM 2.0, analyzing and fixing failing scripts.
  • Complete ownership of User Stories in a Sprint

Functional/Automation-QE

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2012 - 03.2018
  • Led the E2E quality assurance for the strategic BOPIS (Buy Online & Pickup In-Store) project for eBay AU and to the PUDO (Pick-Up & Drop-Off) project, ensuring robust functionality across diverse user scenarios.
  • Innovated test efficiency by creating a base regression suite from scratch and a specialized price change regression suite leveraging REST APIs (Postman), substantially reducing manual testing efforts; managed CI/CD via Jenkins and version control with GitHub.
  • Executed testing for critical insurance policy lifecycle functionalities (creation, quoting, rating, submission) on the Chubb Specialty Insurance project.
  • Spearheaded test execution and defect lifecycle management within HP Quality Center (QC), encompassing test case organization, system testing, three full regression cycles, and rigorous defect tracking from identification to closure.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Sciences

Jaipur National University
Jaipur
07-2007

AISSCE-2007 -

Aditya Birla Public School
Distt. Jodhpur
03-2006

Skills

Automation Architecture Java Selenium Playwright Appium Microservices & REST Testing Github Maven/Gradle JUnit/TestNG Cucumber BDD TDD RestAssured Python

CI/CD Docker Concourse GitLab CI Jenkins CI Contract Testing ActiveMQ Kafka

Accomplishments

  • Participated in Hackathon and created a Slack-Bot named 'cigenie' that could communicate to Jenkins CI & perform certain specified tasks as per commands.
  • ISTQB Certified - Foundation Level.
  • Awarded 'Engineering Excellence' for contributions as QA.
  • Certified Professional Selenium Tester by GAQM
  • Generative AI for Everyone by Deeplearning.ai (Coursera)
  • Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) by University of Michigan (Coursera)

Timeline

Technical Lead - Quality Engineering

Altimetrik
06.2025 - Current

R&D Software Engineer

Broadcom Inc
05.2023 - 06.2025

Tech Lead - Software Engineer

Hilti Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
09.2020 - 05.2023

Snr Software Engineer

Trimble
08.2019 - 08.2020

Snr Software Engineer

Innominds Software Private
03.2018 - 07.2019

Functional/Automation-QE

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2012 - 03.2018

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Sciences

Jaipur National University

AISSCE-2007 -

Aditya Birla Public School

Personality Traits

  • Effective Organizational & Presentation skills
  • Strong Verbal & written communication

Leadership Impact

  • Led cross-functional QA team of 12–14 engineers at HILTI
  • Designed GitLab CI parallel execution reducing regression to less-than 30 minutes at HILTI
  • Owned monthly production release cycles in HILTI
  • Reduced pricing verification test execution cycle from 30 days to 7 days in eBay at Cognizant

Personality Traits

  • Effective Organizational & Presentation skills
  • Strong Verbal & written communication
Deepak ThorechaSoftware Development Engineer In Test