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Sanjukta Hazarika

Sanjukta Hazarika

Engineering Manager SDET
Bangalore,KA

Summary

Passionate SDET Engineering Manager with a proven track record of leading SDET teams to enhance product quality and efficiency. Skilled in team leadership and innovative problem-solving, effectively reducing manual efforts within the team. Experienced in Python and Selenium WebDriver, test automation frameworks like Pytest, Behave, Playwright, refined over 2.5 years as Engineering Manager and prior experience as Lead SDET.


Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager, SDET

Acko General Insurance
04.2022 - Current
  • Successfully built a 10 member team of strong SDETs.
  • Led quality initiatives for two 0-1 product launches (Retail Health & Life) at Acko.
  • Improved SDLC processes within the team by incorporating industry standard best practices.
  • Reduced Go To Market time for any feature by adopting test automation.
  • Successfully reduced manual QA effort during releases by leveraging test automation using open source automation libraries like Playwright, UI Vision etc.
  • Enabled a team for building tools and capabilities that can enable faster SDLC (Eg: Built an Amplitude event automation tool that helps in faster validation of events and events properties enabling analytics event funnel automation).
  • Reduced manual efforts in the team by almost 80%.
  • Streamlined communication between multiple stakeholders like Design, Product, Engineering, Business team by sending crisp status reporting for critical projects.
  • Optimized resource allocation and effectively managing a team with 1:7 SDET to Dev ratio.
  • Evaluated project requirements to identify and mitigate risks for app releases.
  • Increased automation coverage from 0-80% in a span of 1 year.
  • Enabled the team to use Katalon for app regression during the app releases.

Lead SDET

Acko General Insurance
01.2021 - 03.2022
  • Built an SDET team from the scratch.
  • Led quality initiatives for one 0-1 product launch - Group Medical Insurance for corporate.
  • Increased overall test efficiency by maintaining an organized repository of test cases, scripts, and supporting documentation.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, tools, and techniques to ensure continued excellence in SDET practices.
  • Optimized test coverage for better product performance and reliability.
  • Performed performance testing for critical timelines and created jenkins pipelines for performance test runs.
  • Created and scheduled jenkins pipelines for regression and sanity purposes.

Senior SDET Engineer

HackerEarth
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Developed a strong automation framework to give
    continuous effective feedback to developers.
  • Drove bug triaging calls with Developers and the
    Product team.
  • Continuously improving automation scripts to catch issues in lower environments.
  • Trained junior SDET Engineers on best practices for software testing, contributing to overall team growth and development.
  • Maintained detailed documentation of test plans, results, and recommendations for future improvements in an organized manner.

Consultant

Capgemini
10.2017 - 01.2019
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to successfully deliver comprehensive solutions for clients.
  • Managed client relationships through regular check-ins and updates on project progress.
  • Work in collaboration with the developers on the features’ tests
  • Work in collaboration with the manual
    testers to include better coverage of automation tests
  • Complete assigned stories as per sprint timeline
  • Write automation test cases for APIs at component level ∙
  • Build mocks using SOAP UI
  • Automate Bugs

QA Engineer

Trakstar
06.2016 - 10.2017

● Add automation coverage to any new
feature implemented.

● Write test cases from design mock ups for the developers

● Write smoke/regression tests in Selenium-Python in Behave (increased the smoke test coverage by 90%)
● Do exhaustive manual testing and find product gaps

● Do bug triaging and assign bugs from Freshdesk to
responsible developers in the team

Senior Tech Associate

Bank of America
07.2013 - 06.2016

●Design test plan and test cases
● Execute test scripts manually and using automation
scripts in QTP

● Set up Triage calls with the developers
● Doing cost estimation for team
● Send daily status reports
● Log defects in QC

Education

B Tech - Computer Science

Vellore Institute of Technology
04.2001 -

Skills

Programming Languages :: Python, JavaScript

Timeline

Engineering Manager, SDET

Acko General Insurance
04.2022 - Current

Lead SDET

Acko General Insurance
01.2021 - 03.2022

Senior SDET Engineer

HackerEarth
01.2019 - 01.2021

Consultant

Capgemini
10.2017 - 01.2019

QA Engineer

Trakstar
06.2016 - 10.2017

Senior Tech Associate

Bank of America
07.2013 - 06.2016

B Tech - Computer Science

Vellore Institute of Technology
04.2001 -
Sanjukta HazarikaEngineering Manager SDET