# Ashutosh Bapat

Ashutosh Bapat is a remote worker on Himalayas, Quality Assurance Lead at Planoly, based in Canada.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@ashutoshbapat

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Quality Assurance Lead at Planoly who cut regression testing from two days to six hours with Cypress automation.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Canada |
| Authorized to work in | Canada |
| Salary expectations | 131k+ CAD |
| Job categories | Quality Assurance Engineer, Test Lead |
| Skills | Testing Automation, Playwright, Cypress, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, API Testing, Test Strategy, Risk Based Testing, CI CD, GitHub Actions, Selenium Webdriver, Selenide, TestProject.Io, Rainforest QA, JMeter |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/ashutosh-bapat-4004bb56 |
| GitHub | https://github.com/ashutester |

## About

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At Planoly, I built a Cypress automation suite of 600+ test cases that cut regression time from two days to six hours, then transitioned the organization to Playwright. I integrated Playwright into a monorepo with GitHub Actions so quality gates ran on every pull request.

I also served as the sole QA owner across web, iOS, and Android, covering the product lifecycle from test planning through release and production sanity. At Mindtree (now LTIMindtree), I led QA efforts for enterprise testing engagements, and at e-Zest Solutions I supported Windows Server administration.
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## Experience

### Quality Assurance Lead

Planoly. Sep 2019 - Apr 2026

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Architected and executed a Playwright-based web automation framework integrated into a monorepo and running via GitHub Actions CI/CD on every PR submission. Served as the sole QA owner across the full product feature lifecycle including test planning, strategy, design, execution, beta testing, release strategy, and production sanity across web, iOS, and Android.
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Skills: Playwright, Cypress, TestProject.Io, GitHub-Actions, Monorepo, CI-CD, Postman, Chrome-DevTools, Proxyman, MySQL, DBeaver, Jira, TestRail, TestLink, Agile-Scrum, Test-Strategy, Risk-Based-Testing, Bug-Triage, Release-Management

### Test Lead

Mindtree (now LTIMindtree). Oct 2007 - Sep 2019

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Led QA efforts across enterprise testing engagements for Fortune 500 clients, delivering functional, regression, and integration testing for web and mobile applications. Developed test strategies, test plans, and execution roadmaps while coordinating with cross-functional development and product teams.
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Skills: Selenium-Webdriver, Selenide, JMeter, Test-Management, Functional-Testing, Regression-Testing, Integration-Testing, Team-Management, Mentorship

### System Administrator

e-Zest Solutions. Feb 2006 - Sep 2007

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Managed Windows Server infrastructure and provided systems administration support in an enterprise IT environment.
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Skills: Windows-Server, Systems-Administration, IT-Infrastructure

## Education

### Institute of Management and Career Course (IMCC)

Master of Computer Management, Computer and Information Technology Administration and Management. 2003 - 2005

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Pursued a Master of Computer Management with a focus on Computer and Information Technology Administration and Management.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- Selenide
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- DBeaver
- MySQL
- Chrome DevTools
- Jira
- Cypress
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- TestLink
- Docker
- SQL
- TestRail
- Playwright
- k6
- Proxyman
- Rainforest QA
- Selenium WebDriver
- AWS

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