Ratul Pramanik
Bengaluru
Summary
Proficient QA leader with 7 years in Enterprise SaaS quality engineering and test automation. Led teams in end-to-end test strategy and production quality governance for over 40 releases in regulated cloud environments. Developed a Playwright and TypeScript automation framework, achieving 88% regression automation coverage and reducing smoke-test cycle time by over 85%. Skilled in Agile QA, API testing, security validation, and AI-driven QA workflows.
Overview
4
4
Certifications
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Engineer Grade 3 (Team/Test Lead responsibilities)
Exostar India Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - Current
- Directed a QA team of 4 engineers while partnering with 6 developers per sprint; owned sprint planning, story estimation, task assignment, test case/automation script review, and defect triage end-to-end.
- Directed QA team of 4 engineers, collaborating with 6 developers per sprint; owned sprint planning, story estimation, task assignment, test case/automation script review, and defect triage.
- Designed and built a Playwright automation framework from scratch using TypeScript and Page Object Model (Hybrid architecture) with multi-environment support, data-driven execution, parallel execution, retry logic, and CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
- Authored 80+ Playwright automation scripts and 200+ Functionize AI automation scripts, growing the regression suite to 120 scripts and reaching ~88% automation coverage (112/127 scenarios).
- Reduced smoke-test execution time from ~8 hours (manual) to 30–60 minutes, and core regression cycle from ~2 person-days to ~1.5 hours through automation.
- Pioneered AI-driven QA workflow using Claude AI, ChatGPT, and VS Code for automated test case generation, Playwright script generation/enhancement, and Jira defect creation.
- Performed RBAC, MFA, SSO, and identity/access validation for enterprise identity platforms (MAG, SAM), ensuring compliance and security governance for regulated customers.
- Delivered 858 documented test cases, logged 345 defects, and validated 380 user stories, supporting multiple production hotfix releases.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Acendre India Pvt Ltd
07.2019 - 08.2021
- Owned manual QA for cloud recruitment platform, gathering and analyzing requirements, conducting business analysis, and communicating directly with clients to ensure test coverage met business needs.
- Drove UAT cycles and production validation, partnering with stakeholders on defect reporting and test documentation across all three platforms.
- Owned manual QA for a cloud recruitment platform, performing requirement gathering/analysis, business analysis, and direct client communication to align test coverage with business needs.
- Validated approval workflows and business rules for the Position Description Library (PDL), ensuring compliance with enterprise position-management processes.
- Led UAT cycles and validated production readiness, collaborating with stakeholders on defect reporting and maintaining test documentation across all three platforms.
- Cloud-based Enterprise Recruitment Platform for Federal Govt; Position Description Library (PDL); Survey Portal
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
Camellia Institute of Technology
Kolkata, India06-2018
Skills
QA Leadership — QA team leadership, test lead ownership, mentoring & hiring, technical interviewing, cross-functional team building
Test Strategy & Planning — Test plans, test methodologies, test planning, quality governance, release readiness & sign-off, risk/impact analysis
Requirements Analysis — Product requirements, client requirements, business requirement gathering, new feature testing, user story validation
Functional & Manual Testing — Functional testing, manual testing aptitude, cross-browser testing, black box testing, exploratory & regression testing, Integration testing
Test Automation Framework — Automation architecture, Playwright, TypeScript, Page Object Model (POM), hybrid framework design, multi-environment & data-driven execution
API Testing — Postman, REST, OAuth
AI-Driven QA — Functionize AI, Claude AI, ChatGPT, AI test case generation, AI script generation/enhancement, AI-assisted documentation
Test Case Development — Test case creation, test script writing, test implementation, test plan development
Defect Management — Defect tracking, defect triage, defect monitoring, root-cause analysis, Jira defect creation
QA Reporting & Efficiency — QA reporting, quality assurance analysis, testing efficiency, usability testing, security/compliance validation
Agile & CI/CD — Agile methodology, sprint planning & story estimation, continuous integration, GitHub Actions, SDLC ownership
Collaboration & Tools — Cross-functional collaboration, collaborative team player, JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, VS Code, MS Teams, Functionize AI, Zephyr, TestLink
Certification
Generative AI Foundations (collab Microsoft) — January 2026
Timeline
QA Engineer Grade 3 (Team/Test Lead responsibilities)
Exostar India Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - Current
Quality Assurance Engineer
Acendre India Pvt Ltd
07.2019 - 08.2021
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
Camellia Institute of Technology
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- Best Release QA Award — awarded twice - Exostar India Pvt Ltd
- Best QA Employee of the Month - Exostar India Pvt Ltd
- Promising Debutant Engineer - Acendre India Pvt Ltd
Hobbies
Listening Music, Watching Movies, Cooking