Pratiek Gaonkar

•Design and perform functional testing, load testing, integration testing, API testing and end to end testing to

verify product quality and release readiness.

•Proactively identified, debugged, and resolved automation issues; raised pull requests (PRs) in developer

repositories, ensuring code quality and application stability.

•Utilized Grafana dashboards for real-time debugging and root-cause analysis, ensuring faster issue resolution

across distributed systems.. Set up alerts on signalfx.

•Analyzed and fixed UI element locators in the automation framework, minimizing test flakiness, enhancing

Selenium script reliability, and improving CI/CD test success rate.

•Adopted AI-driven testing practices using Augment, Copilot Chat, and Cursor AI to accelerate automation

development and reduce manual effort by ~30–40%.

•Used Intent-based analysis tools (Intent by Augment) to derive test scenarios directly from feature requirements,

improving test coverage and reducing missed edge cases.

•Leveraged GitHub Copilot Chat for intelligent debugging, code refactoring, and faster PR reviews, reducing

review cycles.

•Integrated AI tools into daily QA workflows for: Generating API test scripts Debugging flaky Playwright tests, Improving locator strategies.

•Improved automation efficiency by combining AI-assisted scripting with reusable framework utilities.

• Participating in Design and Architectural discussion.
• Responsible for developing and managing test automation framework for UI and API's.
• Currently handling warehouse management system project. Gathering all feature requirements and testing it manually and once that done build Automation scripts for the same.
• Review the development code to build an effective automation suite to cover technical and business integration automation coverage.
• Design & develop pipeline as a code for Continuous testing & continuous integration
  pipeline to integrate automation scripts into CI/CD pipeline.
• Log defects with the proper severity/priority based on risk and impact to the feature under test.
• Give support to development team during any deployment. And perform Build verify testing.
• Estimates own testing tasks and works productively with minimum supervision while showing excellent team attitude.
• Represents team leadership and provides technical guidance and training to junior test personnel
• Tools & Technologies : Java, JavaScript, Postman, Jira, Corologix, TestNG, REST Assured library (API Testing ), J-meter, Cypress, Protractor,Azure, Visual Studio.

• Involved in the preparation of hybrid UI framework design.
• Tests complex API, web and mobile based applications that reference database back-end systems.
• Worked on Sodexo Vietnam Meal pass and Philippines Benefits and Rewards app projects.
• Designs, develops, maintains, and troubleshoots automated suites of tests through continuous integration.
• Perform database testing including designing and manipulating test data, validating stored procedures, jobs, triggers and replication.
• Participate in design and code inspections.
• Participates in the performance testing and analysis framework for a web services architecture.
• Tools & Technologies :Selenium, Java, Postman, Dbeaver, Jira, Kibana, TestNG, REST Assured library (API Testing ).

• Creates and maintains automated test cases, executes test suites, reviews and diagnoses reported bugs, and ensures overall system quality prior to a customer release.
• Worked on 3D Secure security layer testing for online credit and debit card transactions.
• Worked closely with network payment processors like Visa and MasterCard while doing UAT.
• Built UI and API scripts for complete end to end user transaction.
• Reproduces, debugs, and isolates problems and verify fixes.