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PAVAN PESHVE
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced Software Test Engineer and QA Lead specializing in scalable automation frameworks and CI/CD pipeline optimization for high-volume e-commerce and enterprise banking applications. Reduced manual validation efforts significantly through custom architecture and workflow automation. Currently enhancing skills in LLM and RAG pipeline evaluation.
Overview
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1
Certification
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Test Lead (APPLY & BDS Applications)
HCLTech
Bengaluru
01.2025 - Current
- Test Suite Stabilization & CI/CD Optimization: Revamped a volatile legacy page-validation suite, refactoring and expanding coverage to 230+ Playwright and TypeScript automated tests. Achieved a 99% pass rate in daily CI/CD pipeline executions, virtually eliminating 100+ flaky test failures.
- Engineered robust automation for critical path regression suites, expanding coverage from 14 outdated tests to 22 reliable scripts, cutting manual execution time from 2 days to 3 hours per cycle.
- Automated Production Build Verification Testing (BVT) suite across 4 major banking domains (Personal Loans, Credit Cards, Business, Savings), replacing manual processes with automated Excel reporting, optimizing resource allocation by reducing on-call QA roster from 4 engineers to 1.
- Spearheaded root-cause analysis using Splunk logs and engaged downstream teams; applied IT Service Management (ITSM) principles to isolate internal vs. downstream failures, streamline incident reporting, orchestrate triage calls.
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Convergint India
Bengaluru
06.2023 - 11.2024
- Framework Architecture & Scalability: Created a reusable automation framework structure for adoption across 5 enterprise applications. Optimized test architecture to reduce execution time from 15 minutes to under 90 seconds per test across a 380+ test suite.
- RPA & Data Migration Tooling: Developed UI-driven data migration automation suite as a standalone .exe tool, bypassing backend database compatibility constraints during legacy DB to D365 migration.
- Business Impact: The custom migration tool cleared 2 quarters' worth of data backlog in under a month and significantly optimized operations, reducing the required manual data entry headcount from 20+ operators to just 8.
- Team Leadership: Hired, mentored, and managed six-member automation engineering team; established coding standards and integrated automated execution into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Received the 2023 ACE Award for rapidly delivering impactful automation implementation.
QA Engineer (Offers Experience)
Amazon Development Center India Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
11.2020 - 02.2023
- Led QA delivery for Offers Experience teams in Bengaluru and Berlin, coordinating onboarding, training, UAT tracking, and QA on-call operations for 16 partner teams.
- Risk Mitigation & Shift-Left: Integrated GDPR compliance requirements into automated pre-flight checks, proactively preventing high-severity defects from reaching production and reducing overall manual regression effort by over 50%.
- Refactored and expanded legacy automation suite of 130+ tests, increasing cross-browser test coverage across 11 non-English Amazon marketplaces.
QA Engineer
Alten Calsoft Labs
Bengaluru
12.2019 - 11.2020
- Led QA activities for launch of All Offers Display feature on Amazon product detail pages, developed comprehensive test plans and environments, validated system integration to ensure seamless user experience.
- Developed test plans and test cases for software applications.
- Executed manual and automated tests to identify defects.
- Collaborated with developers to resolve issues and improve quality.
Manual Test Engineer
Test Yantra Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
08.2017 - 05.2019
- Executed manual testing for multiple customer projects, designed test cases using boundary value analysis, and performed GUI, integration, system, and usability testing to ensure product quality.
- Designed test cases based on project requirements and specifications.
- Executed manual tests for functional, regression, and integration testing.
- Collaborated with development teams to identify and resolve defects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Kalinga University
Raipur01-2016
Skills
- Languages & Scripting: TypeScript, Core Java, C#, Python
- Automation & Frameworks: Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, API testing (Postman), Data-driven testing
- DevOps & Infrastructure: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Git, Splunk
- Methodologies & Architecture: Shift-Left Testing, Root-cause analysis, Defect management, ITSM/Incident Management, Production BVT, Test Automation Frameworks
- Test strategy development
Certification
Gen AI Certification | In Progress
Accomplishments
- ACE Award | Convergint India | 2024
Recognized for building automation capabilities for the team and strengthening automation-driven quality delivery.
Timeline
Senior Test Lead (APPLY & BDS Applications)
HCLTech
01.2025 - Current
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Convergint India
06.2023 - 11.2024
QA Engineer (Offers Experience)
Amazon Development Center India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2020 - 02.2023
QA Engineer
Alten Calsoft Labs
12.2019 - 11.2020
Manual Test Engineer
Test Yantra Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
08.2017 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Kalinga University