SHUBHAM DEWULKAR
Specialist
Mumbai
Summary
Accomplished Senior SDET with 8 years of experience in building and optimizing test automation frameworks. Specialized in Playwright, JavaScript, CI/CD pipeline integration, and Page Object Model design. Led QA teams and delivered automation solutions that enhanced regression coverage and mitigated release risks. Seeking Automation Lead / Architect roles to leverage extensive technical skills and strategic quality engineering.
Overview
1
1
Certification
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) / Specialist (P3)
LTIMindtree
Mumbai
12.2021 - Current
- Architected and maintained a 1,200+ test Playwright/JavaScript automation suite, achieving 85%+ regression coverage across Southwest Airlines web applications.
- Drove automation framework enhancements and reporting upgrades that reduced test triage time by ~30%, enabling faster release sign-off cycles.
- Designed and implemented cross-browser parallel execution strategy using Playwright, reducing full regression suite runtime by over 50% and enabling same-day release validation.
- Owned end-to-end regression and certification test execution for major releases, coordinating scope analysis across 10+ test modules to ensure zero critical defect escapes to production.
- Led a team of 5 offshore QA engineers — assigning tasks, tracking deliverables, and consistently meeting sprint commitments across quarterly release cycles.
- Managed sprint boards and defect tracking in Jira, maintaining 95%+ sprint completion rate and ensuring defect SLA adherence across all active releases.
- Create comprehensive test plans, test execution reports, and release validation documentation.
- Participate in defect triage meetings and collaborate with development teams for issue resolution.
- Integrated Playwright test suites into Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines, enabling automated test execution on every code merge and reducing manual QA intervention by 60%.
- Mentored 4 junior QA engineers through structured code reviews and framework walkthroughs, improving team code quality and onboarding time.
- Support sprint planning, estimation activities, and requirement analysis discussions.
- Project: Southwest Airlines
- Domain: Travel & Aviation
- Environment: Playwright, JavaScript, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git, SQL Server, Jira, Agile Scrum
Automation Test Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Mumbai
07.2018 - 12.2021
- Developed and maintained Selenium WebDriver automation scripts using Java.
- Executed functional, regression, smoke, and sanity testing for enterprise banking applications.
- Performed pre-implementation and post-implementation testing for production releases.
- Participated in requirement analysis, test design, and test case preparation.
- Maintained automation suites and executed scheduled regression cycles.
- Performed defect logging, defect validation, and retesting activities.
- Collaborated with developers, business analysts, and QA teams to ensure application quality.
- Conducted database validation using SQL queries and data verification techniques.
- Project 1: Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)
- Project 2: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
- Domain: Banking / BFSI
- Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Maven, UFT, SQL Server, MySQL, Jira
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
KJ Somaiya College of Science and Commerce
Vidyavihar, Mumbai01-2018
Skills
Test Automation Framework Development
End-to-End Testing (E2E)
Functional Testing
Regression Testing
Smoke Testing
Sanity Testing
Cross-Browser Testing
Parallel Test Execution
Test Planning & Strategy
Defect Lifecycle Management
Root Cause Analysis
Deployment Verification
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Agile Scrum Methodology
Requirement Analysis
Sprint Planning & Estimation
Automation Tools
Selenium WebDriver
Playwright
UFT (Unified Functional Testing)
Java
JavaScript
TypeScript (actively upskilling)
VBScript
Python (Working Knowledge)
Technical Leadership
Quality assurance
Certification
Selenium Professional Certification – VSkills
Timeline
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) / Specialist (P3)
LTIMindtree
12.2021 - Current
Automation Test Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
07.2018 - 12.2021
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
KJ Somaiya College of Science and Commerce