Swanand Kulkarni
QA Lead
Summary
QA Lead with 17+ years of experience across Manual and Automation Testing .Proven in leading QA teams, release ownership,
and end-to-end quality delivery. Hands-on with Playwright, Selenium, and Appium for web and mobile automation. Strong background
in Agile/Scrum, stakeholder communication, and defect governance. Domain expertise across BFSI, Healthcare (Clinical Trials), Automobile diagnostics.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
QA Lead
Visaero India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2023 - Current
- Solely responsible for release (QA perspective).
- Designing the QA processes.
- Test estimation for upcoming features.
- Involved in scrum planning and execution.
- Demonstration of functionality to stakeholders or clients.
- Handling the team of 6 QAs.
- Grooming the junior team members or providing training to new joiners.
- Inoroduced automation in organization & saved the 10% of manual efforts in 1st two months.
- Client: Ethiopian Airlines, BirdRes, MTN (Bayobab)
QA Lead
Anzu Software Pvt. Ltd.
07.2021 - 12.2022
- Test case writing and execution
- Review test scenario and test cases.
- Involved in scrum planning and execution.
- Regression and UAT test suit creation by collaborating with onsite client.
- Handling the team of 5 people.
- Defect Prioritization and triage.
- Test case automation for regression suite using selenium.
- EDC: EDC stands for Electronic Data Capture; basically, EDC is an end to end ecosystem for conducting the clinical trials for newly developed molecule. It includes patient consent forms, physician forms, Visit forms, electronic data capture like videos, images and it approvals and submitting this data to FDA.
- Client: jaguar gene therapy
Tech Lead V&V
KPIT Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
03.2018 - 11.2020
- Weekly Status Communication with onsite stakeholders
- Demonstration to stakeholders/client before release.
- Handling the team of 4 people.
- Release report creation.
- Test estimation for upcoming development and Defects.
- Test case creation ,review and execution
- Automation using in house tool named KITE/Selenium.
- I-HDS (Honda Diagnostic System): i-HDS is used for the diagnosis and repair of electronic systems for Honda automobiles and for the reprogramming of electronic control units, which supports CAN and KWP protocols.
- Client: Denso Corporation, Japan
QA Lead
Anzu Software Pvt. Ltd.
03.2015 - 02.2018
- Writing and executing test cases and test scenarios.
- Working on Automation POCs such as Browser Extension, No-SQL DB connection, Android automation.
- Status Communication with onsite stake holders
- Demonstration of functionality to stakeholders at end of the sprint.
- Klooji: Klooji is a social media platform. Klooji makes it possible to effortlessly create a clip inside a video, while casually browsing the Internet. Users can comment, tag, save, share, and even discuss the clips. Instead of bringing your video to a social network, Klooji brings social networking to each video no matter where it lives.
Senior Engineer-QA
FIS (SunGard Global Services)
02.2014 - 03.2015
- XSP: SunGard’s XSP provides a complete end-to-end solution suite that automates the corporate actions process, from cleansing and standardizing data and providing firms a global, “golden copy” to downstream notification as well as the automation of response capture.
- Client: JPM, USBI And UBS
Consultant
FIS (SunGard Global Services)
03.2011 - 01.2014
- Creation of Business scenarios/test cases/test scenarios.
- Test Cases creation, execution and Defects Reporting.
- Communication with Business Analysts and/or Developers and/or Onsite team members for completion assigned tasks.
- Communication with onsite stake holders for testing status report.
- Automation of New Functionalities.
- Cost Basis: It is a tax lot accounting engine which connects to your backend and provides systematic calculations of both realized and unrealized gain loss information. It offers automatic processing of cost basis calculations for corporate actions, wash sale, options and Short Sales. It also supports IRS (Internal Revenue Service) regulatory requirements 2012 Average Costing for mutual fund and 1099B reporting.
- Client: JPM, UBS
Associate consultant
CapGemini Software India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2010 - 02.2011
- Automation test cases using QTP.
- Test cases execution and defects reporting.
- FID – Credit one is a Credit Derivatives trading application which is used by Morgan Stanley for trading Credit Derivative products like Credit Default Swap, FIDQA. Traders of Morgan Stanley can manage risk and/or portfolios, mark the bonds etc.
- Client: Morgan Stanley
Quality Control Engineer
Magic Software Enterprises (I) Pvt. Ltd.
02.2007 - 06.2010
- Automation of Customer Bugs and Test Cases.
- Test Cases creation, execution and defects reporting.
- Review of Test Cases, automation scripts of other team members.
- Magic eDeveloper: is a unique application development environment that allows rapid creation and customization of large-scale and complex distributed applications. It’s 4th gen. programming language/tool.
Education
B.E -
Shivaji University
01.2005
H.S.C - undefined
Kolhapur Board
01.2000
S.S.C - undefined
Kolhapur Board
01.1998
Skills
Test Estimations
Test strategy development
Agile
Scrum
Jira
Playwright
Python
Accomplishments
- NCFM Financial markets- Beginners Module, 96%
- Laureate Award, For Exemplary contribution in project in SunGard
- Kudos Award, For Key Contribution in SunGard
- Spot Award, For Extra efforts on Delivery in SunGard
Timeline
QA Lead
Visaero India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2023 - Current
QA Lead
Anzu Software Pvt. Ltd.
07.2021 - 12.2022
Tech Lead V&V
KPIT Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
03.2018 - 11.2020
QA Lead
Anzu Software Pvt. Ltd.
03.2015 - 02.2018
Senior Engineer-QA
FIS (SunGard Global Services)
02.2014 - 03.2015
NCFM - Financial Markets beginners module
06-2013
Consultant
FIS (SunGard Global Services)
03.2011 - 01.2014
Associate consultant
CapGemini Software India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2010 - 02.2011
Quality Control Engineer
Magic Software Enterprises (I) Pvt. Ltd.
02.2007 - 06.2010
H.S.C - undefined
Kolhapur Board
S.S.C - undefined
Kolhapur Board
B.E -
Shivaji University
Phone
91, 7720043068
Certification
NCFM - Financial Markets beginners module
Key Contributions
- Enabled first-ever Customer Satisfaction Rating (CSR) – 2.19/5 for a 10-year-old product by establishing QA processes
- Avoided legal penalties by validating and processing millions of financial transactions within 3–4 weeks at SunGard (FIS)
- Scaled QA teams from 2 → 5 and later 1 → 6 across different products
- Reduced regression cycle time by 10% within first 2 months