HARSHAL ERI
Pune
Summary
10+ year Senior Lead SDET/Software Engineer specializing in the design and optimization of high-performance test automation frameworks and scalable Java Spring Boot backend development.
- Dual Expertise: Deep technical proficiency in Python (Pytest, Selenium) for robust API/E2E quality engineering and Java for microservices development.
- GenAI Leadership: Proven success leading cross-functional teams, leveraging GenAI tools (Copilot, Windsurf, Cursor) to champion next-generation coding practices, significantly boosting team productivity and accelerating delivery.
- Full-Stack Quality: Command over comprehensive testing domains: API (Rest Assured), UI/E2E (WebDriverIO), and Performance (JMeter), consistently ensuring application stability and reducing defect leakage.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Lead SDET
PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd
01.2021 - Current
- Spearheaded development and QA teams, mentoring members,facilitating Agile ceremonies, and driving best practices across cross-functional squads.
- Championed the integration of GenAI tools (GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cursor) in daily engineering, boosting code quality and developer productivity.
- Designed and implemented scalable microservices and distributed backend solutions with Java and Spring Boot, enhancing performancefor large-scale ad-tech platforms.
- Engineered CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Docker to enable smooth and continuous code integration and deployment across environments.
- Developed and maintained test automation frameworks for web and API applications integrating Rest Assured, Selenium, PyTest, Robot, WebDriverIO.
- Designed and managed Grafana dashboards for monitoring application performance, tracking automation usage, and measuring code coverage, while implementing best practices to enhance code coverage and overall application quality.
Senior QA Engineer
DKatalis Labs LLP
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Automated REST API & mobile workflows (Android/iOS).
- Enhanced coverage with Postman collections & regression testing.
Lead SDET
AFour Technologies Pvt. Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2020
- Understanding of new features / enhancements and test case writing for the same and manual testing of new features right from the scratch
- Regression testing and execution of automated tests.
- Automation Framework developement and writing test scripts on mobile (android + iOS),Web services automation using rest assured framework
- Designed and maintained automated test suites for web applications, improving test coverage and reducing manual testing efforts.
- Automated performance testing scenarios to evaluate system behavior under load, identifying bottlenecks and optimizing response times.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Advanced Computing
CDAC
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic and Telecommunications
Skills
- Test automation framework development
- Spring Boot, microservices architecture
- API testing (Pytest, Rest Assured f/w, Robot)
- UI automation (Selenium, WebDriverIO)
- Performance testing (JMeter)
- Docker, Kubernetes
- MySQL
- CI/CD, Jenkins
- Languages - Python, JAVA, Typescript
Accomplishments
Biased Towards Action Award - rewarded for successfully implementing QA code coverage practise for all UI applications in organisation
Timeline
Senior Lead SDET
PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd
01.2021 - Current
Senior QA Engineer
DKatalis Labs LLP
01.2020 - 01.2021
Lead SDET
AFour Technologies Pvt. Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2020
Post Graduate Diploma - Advanced Computing
CDAC