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SAURAV RANJAN PUROHIT
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SAURAV RANJAN PUROHIT

Bengaluru

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Job Search Status

Open to work
Desired start date: Open to discussion

Desired Job Title

Principal Quality Engineer (Consultant)Tech Lead (Quality Engineering)QA Automation LeadSenior Software Engineer(QA)Senior Product Engineer

Work Type

Full TimeContract Work

Location Preference

Hybrid
Location: Bengaluru, India
Open to relocation: Yes

Salary Range

₹3500000/yr - ₹5000000/yr

Important To Me

Company CultureFlexible work hoursCareer advancementStock Options / Equity / Profit Sharing

Summary

Strategic Tech Lead with 15 years in software testing, test automation, and quality engineering for enterprise applications. Led end-to-end QA for complex microservices in agile settings. Designed and implemented scalable test automation solutions integrated into CI/CD pipelines, enhancing release cycles. Mentored quality engineering teams, refined testing strategies, and drove continuous improvements in efficiency and coverage across large-scale systems.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Quality Engineer (Consultant)

Publicis Sapient
Bangalore
07.2025 - Current
  • Project: Card Payment Gateway - Lloyds Banking Group, one of the largest VISA debit card issuers in Europe (≈30M cards), is migrating from BASE24 to NCR Authentic - a modern payment processing system that supports authentication, authorization, routing, and switching of debit card transactions.
  • Coordinated stress testing strategy for large-scale payment systems, enhancing reliability and performance.
  • Executed and optimized stress tests, achieving target throughput of 3000 TPS across critical payment journeys.
  • Led evaluation and selection of tools to ensure scalable and accurate performance testing, supporting project goals.

Tech Lead (Quality Engineering)

Gupshup Technology India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
11.2021 - 02.2025
  • Project: AI Powered Agent Assist platform for real-time communication between user and agent over different channels (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram) for sales and services related query and requirement.
  • Spearheaded testing of microservices-based SaaS system resulting in a 60% improvement in system quality and a 80% reduction in critical production issues.
  • Orchestrated test plans, strategies, and end-to-end testing to achieve ~95% test coverage, resulting in a reliable and stable product.
  • Designed scalable test automation framework using Selenium and RestAssured, resulting in $700K in annual savings by reducing manual testing efforts and accelerating release cycles.
  • Designed and executed CI/CD pipelines for automated testing using GitHub Actions, integrated with AWS services.
  • Conducted performance testing for high-traffic features using JMeter, validating scalability under peak loads of 4,000 concurrent users and 20,000 chats.
  • Enabled continuous testing within agile sprints by integrating automation suite into CI/CD pipelines, providing early and actionable feedback on pull requests.
  • Mentored junior SDETs on testing methodologies, automation best practices, and performance optimization strategies, fostering skill development and improving overall team effectiveness.

QA Automation Lead

Mitratech India LLP
Bengaluru
04.2019 - 11.2021
  • Project: INSZoom Case Management is a comprehensive, compliant, cloud-based immigration software solution.
  • Led the development of end-to-end regression test suites across UI and API layers, increasing test coverage by 70% and reducing post-release defects by 90%, significantly improving release confidence and speed.
  • Designed and created robust automation framework using Selenium with Java for UI testing and Rest Assured for API automation, leading to significant reduction in manual testing effort and accelerating regression cycles by 70%.
  • Instrumental in setting up on-premise automation infrastructure using Selenium Grid and Jenkins, enabling parallel test execution and reducing overall test execution time by 65%.
  • Automated and executed performance and load tests using JMeter, identifying system bottlenecks and establishing performance benchmarks that improved response times by 65%.
  • Developed automation scripts, conducted code reviews, and logged and tracked defects, resulting in considerable reduction in defect leakage and faster turnaround in test cycles.

Senior Software Engineer(QA)

Altair Engineering Inc
Bengaluru
06.2013 - 03.2019
  • Project : Altair Simulation Cloud Suite is gateway to secured, centralized simulation process and data management, delivering a smooth digital transformation in product development life cycle.
  • Developed over 700 automated UI test cases using Selenium and built a scalable API testing framework using RestAssured.
  • Designed and maintained UI automation framework using Selenium, Java, and TestNG, enhancing automation coverage to 70%.
  • Developed reusable utilities that improved script maintainability and reduced automation maintenance overhead by 80%.
  • Verified 300+ user stories across multiple sprints and authored detailed test cases, improving product quality and accelerating release speed.

Senior Product Engineer

Harman International
Bengaluru
04.2010 - 05.2013
  • Project : Shutterfly is an American photography, photography products, and image sharing company.
  • Automated regression test scripts using Selenium IDE and RC for key functional modules, increasing coverage of regression tests.
  • Contributed to batch execution, failure triaging, and maintenance of automated test suites, enhancing overall test stability.

Education

Btech - Computer Science

Silicon Institute of Technology
Bhubaneswar

Skills

  • Test automation
  • Framework development
  • Microservices architecture
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Performance testing
  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • RestAssured
  • JMeter
  • Java
  • SQL
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Agile methodologies
  • Technical mentoring
  • CI/CD integration

Websites

Timeline

Principal Quality Engineer (Consultant)

Publicis Sapient
07.2025 - Current

Tech Lead (Quality Engineering)

Gupshup Technology India Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - 02.2025

QA Automation Lead

Mitratech India LLP
04.2019 - 11.2021

Senior Software Engineer(QA)

Altair Engineering Inc
06.2013 - 03.2019

Senior Product Engineer

Harman International
04.2010 - 05.2013

Btech - Computer Science

Silicon Institute of Technology

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