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Manpreet Bhikhe

Summary

Spirited QA Engineer with 11 years of experience building quality engineering teams, establishing QA strategy, scaling automation frameworks, and leading distributed QA teams across SaaS, fintech, hospitality, e-commerce, and government domains. Proven track record of implementing quality processes, driving shift-left testing, improving release quality, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver enterprise-grade software. Deep expertise in Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, CI/CD integration, and Agile delivery practices.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Tester

INTO University Partnerships
Bengaluru
07.2026 - 09.2026

Role & Responsibilities

  • Designing and executing automated tests
  • Maintaining and enhancing test automation framework
  • Leading internal QA team on testing process and automation framework development

QA Manager

Carnera Technologies
Pune
01.2024 - 06.2026

Contributions

  • Acted as primary representative for US-based clients, participating in requirement discussions, sprint planning, weekly progress reviews
  • Presented QA progress, defect status, and delivery updates during recurring stakeholder meetings
  • Worked closely with engineers to translate customer feedback into actionable quality improvements
  • Mentored QA team of 7 engineers, enabling them on coding standards, review processes, test strategy, and sprint governance
  • Revamped Cypress framework for ecommerce pricing engine, improving test reliability and maintainability
  • Reduced execution time by up to ~60% per spec
  • Implemented dynamic test generation using xlsx and webpack preprocessor, streamlining test creation process
  • Integrated path alises, jsdoc intellisense for Automation Developer Experience
  • Added custom commands with custom logging, smart fixtures and dynamic waits on network intercepts
  • Implemented UI and API tests using Playwright & TypeScript for enterprise product and pricing management system
  • Customized test framework in accordance to business domain using custom fixtures and steps
  • Enhanced Playwright reporting with custom logger functions, providing clearer insights into test results
  • Devised coding conventions and formalized testing process
  • Led migration of 500+ Selenium tests to Playwright, reducing execution time by 70% and improving test maintainability across multiple product teams. for e-learning platform
  • Implemented DB testing & integrated AWS Cloudwatch into playwright
  • Revived performance testing with Jmeter & Blazemeter
  • Gathered and refined requirements for B2B CRM app with assistance of ChatGPT
  • Built internal CRM and generated playwright test scripts using OpenAI Codex

Role & Responsibilities

  • Performing functional and performance testing
  • Designing and executing automated tests
  • Maintaining and enhancing test automation framework
  • Leading internal QA team on testing process and automation framework development
  • Conducting Scrum ceremonies like sprint planning and retrospective

Software Engineer Test

BuyerAssist.io
Pune
02.2023 - 09.2023

Building sales tech platform that provides relationship maps and mutual success plans for AMs, AEs and BDRs.

Contributions

  • Pilot testing of existing SAAS product
  • Designed test cases and regression suite
  • Developed test framework with Playwright JavaScript
  • RCA via AWS CloudWatch and AWS S3
  • Built internal applications with Retool to streamline team processes
  • API testing using Postman

Role and Responsibilities

  • Setup QA process from scratch
  • Report bugs and facilitate fixes
  • Develop and maintain test automation framework

Sr. Test Automation Engineer

Tillpos Technologies
Hyderabad
11.2021 - 01.2023

Description

Building hospitality platform that provides POS service, online store, QR pay, Kiosk etc. Familiar with Payment Aggregator and Sub-Merchant workflows.

Contributions

  • Developed automation suite with Playwright JavaScript for online store and kiosk applications, improving test coverage and reliability
  • Refactored and enhanced Cypress JavaScript test framework for POS, streamlining testing process and increasing efficiency
  • Setup CI/CD pipeline using Github Actions
  • Automated regression reporting to Slack channel, enabling real-time visibility of test results and quicker response to issues
  • API testing with Postman
  • Manual testing of mobile apps on Android and iOS devices
  • Performed root cause analysis using AWS CloudWatch and AWS S3 for issue resolution
  • Implemented shift left testing in delivery process
  • Setup Jira projects and workflows
  • Introduced XRay for test management
  • Introduced story grooming and estimation
  • Managing QA team of 5 members

Role & Responsibilities

  • Integration & maintenance of test frameworks
  • Test design, review, execution and reporting
  • Defect tracking in Github & Jira
  • Requirement analysis and refinement

Test Automation Engineer

Honest Food (Delivery Hero)
Panaji
08.2020 - 11.2021

Contributions

  • Automated tests using Cypress Javascript
  • Implemented automated test execution using GitHub Actions
  • Implemented reporting using Mochawesome reports
  • Implemented selective execution using cypress-grep
  • API Testing using Postman

Role and Responsibilities

  • Integration and maintenance of test frameworks
  • Test design, execution and reporting
  • Test management using XRay
  • Defect tracking in Jira

Associate QA

Publicis Sapient
Gurugram
09.2019 - 07.2020

Contributions

  • Implementation of Selenium (Python) wrappers for react components
  • Implementation of API schema validation
  • Implementation of .doc reader for content validation
  • Implementation of .xls reader and parameterization for data testing
  • Enhanced Selenium Python Pytest framework
  • API testing with Postman and Python Requests

Role and Responsibilities

  • Enhancement & maintenance of test framework
  • Test design, execution and reporting
  • Defect tracking in Jira

Associate QA

Publicis Sapient
London
01.2019 - 09.2019

Contributions

  • Implementation of Chrome DevTools Protocol based automation
  • Implementation of Cucumber DocStrings for content validation
  • Implementation of dynamic waits
  • Documentation for QE coding guidelines
  • Implementation of JS form fillers to speed up manual testing
  • Collaboration with DevOps team to fix Jenkins pipelines and Sauce Labs issues
  • Integration of parallel execution (feature slicer) into framework
  • Refactored and enhanced WebDriverIO JavaScript framework
  • API testing using Postman and Supertest

Role and Responsibilities

  • Enhancement and maintenance of test framework
  • Test design, execution and reporting
  • Defect tracking in Jira
  • Participate in story refinement and estimation

Associate QA

Publicis Sapient
Gurugram
06.2015 - 01.2019

Contributions

  • Migration of SilkTest framework to Cucumber Selenium Java framework
  • Delivering training sessions
  • Driving iteration retrospectives and client connects
  • Trained interns and junior team members in Java

Role and Responsibilities

  • Enhancement and maintenance of test framework
  • Test design, execution and reporting
  • Defect tracking in IBM RTC / Jira

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Rayat Institute of Engg. & I.T.
SBS Nagar, PB, IN
06-2015

Skills

  • Test Strategy
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • Jmeter
  • Blazemeter
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • Github Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • XRay
  • Postman
  • React
  • NestJS
  • Leadership
  • Adaptability
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Empathy

Timeline

Lead Tester

INTO University Partnerships
07.2026 - 09.2026

QA Manager

Carnera Technologies
01.2024 - 06.2026

Software Engineer Test

BuyerAssist.io
02.2023 - 09.2023

Sr. Test Automation Engineer

Tillpos Technologies
11.2021 - 01.2023

Test Automation Engineer

Honest Food (Delivery Hero)
08.2020 - 11.2021

Associate QA

Publicis Sapient
09.2019 - 07.2020

Associate QA

Publicis Sapient
01.2019 - 09.2019

Associate QA

Publicis Sapient
06.2015 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Rayat Institute of Engg. & I.T.
Manpreet Bhikhe