LOKESHWARAN SIVAKUMAR

Playwright & Framework Leadership

• Built and scaled a Playwright TypeScript automation suite covering 300+ regression and sanity tests across critical customer journeys.
• Migrated 150+ high-value UI test cases from Robot Framework & Selenium to Playwright, cutting execution time by ~40% and significantly reducing flaky failures.
• Designed and maintained a modular POM-based framework with reusable utilities, environment handling, and API-driven test setup.

Stability, CI & Performance

• Reduced flaky failures by 60%+ by rewriting unstable locators, replacing static waits with Playwright auto-waiting and API-based preconditions.
• Integrated Playwright into Jenkins Actions pipelines, enabling parallel execution across multiple workers, reducing regression runtime from ~4 hours to under 2 hours.
• Implemented Playwright trace, video and screenshot capture, cutting failure triage time by 50% for the team.

API-driven Test Strategy

• Replaced fragile UI setup flows with REST API-based test data creation and cleanup, improving suite reliability and speeding up test execution.
• Validated backend responses and business logic via API checks before UI validation, preventing false UI failures.

Team & Delivery Impact

• Functioned as the senior Playwright engineer in a 4-member team, owning framework quality, code reviews, and test stability across releases.
• Owned sprint-level automation planning, ensuring >90% regression coverage for every release cycle.
• Supported production releases with smoke, sanity and post-deployment validation, preventing automation-missed defects.

• Built a Robot Framework (Python) automation framework from scratch, supporting 200+ UI & API test cases.
• Stabilized Selenium-based execution by improving locator strategy and data-driven design, reducing failures by ~35%.
• Integrated automation into Jenkins CI, enabling scheduled regression and faster defect feedback.
• Automated billing, quoting, BI dashboards and internal tools across multiple enterprise systems.