Aritra Sasmal

I’m an accomplished SDET and software engineer with about 11 years of proven leadership and excellence in automation testing. I lead end-to-end QA and engineering initiatives, translating BRD/PRD into FRS/HLD with a focus on developer-first quality practices.

At Staff SDET, I led two product teams and owned the 2eE QA delivery. I accelerated outcomes by developing and delivering 6 product features and 1 entire product, and by building a language-agnostic unified test engine to strengthen automation across products.

I also drove measurable operational and quality improvements: I reduced on-call efforts by 30% through data scope limitation and timeout recalibration. I reduced AWS operational costs by 30% ($21K monthly) by revising S3 data retention policies and introducing dynamic EMR policies, while a service-level test framework reduced developer debugging efforts by 50%.

Earlier, as Senior SDET/Software Engineer QA, I spearheaded QA communities, mentored teams, built automation frameworks, and streamlined release management. I established CI/CD workflows (Jenkins CI/CD to GitHub Actions; AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline) and delivered automation for web, mobile, and API workflows, including feasibility assessments, migration to new frameworks, and cross-browser/device compatibility testing.