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Ashwin Naik

@ashwinnaik

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Senior Quality Assurance Engineer focused on automation frameworks that improve product quality and release speed.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a QA/automation role where I can build and scale test frameworks, improve release quality with measurable results, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to prevent defects early.

I’m a Quality-focused automation tester with 15 years of experience in web, API, and mobile app testing. I specialize in finding and isolating defects through comprehensive exploratory testing, and I’ve consistently driven measurable improvements in traceability and overall product quality.

In my most recent role, I led a QA team of six and planned and executed test strategies for AI-powered applications. I implemented Shift-Left and grey-box testing to enable early model testing and helped reduce post-release defects by 35%, while building robust Playwright UI and JMeter performance testing frameworks that reduced manual effort by 40%.

Across my career, I’ve created and scaled automation for regression and contract testing using tools like Karate, Playwright BDD, Pact-js, and BDD-Cucumber frameworks, including API testing from scratch. I’m known for designing frameworks that speed up regression cycles, reduce ambiguous requirements, and strengthen end-to-end quality—whether for finance, retail, or medical domains.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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Presight

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Led a QA team of six to plan and execute comprehensive test strategies for AI-powered applications, improving release quality and delivery timelines. Implemented shift-left/grey-box testing for ML models and built Playwright UI and JMeter performance frameworks, reducing post-release defects by 35% and manual effort by 40%.

Playwright JMeter Testing Frameworks Performance Testing UI Testing

Senior Quality Analyst

Rest Super

Apr 2024 - Nov 2025 (1 year 7 months)

Implemented API testing automation from scratch using a Playwright framework and added Pact-js contract testing for the CIAM (Okta) project. Improved contract coverage and strengthened CI test reliability.

Playwright API Testing CIAM Okta Test Automation Regression Testing Framework

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Woolworths Group

Oct 2023 - Apr 2024 (6 months)

Orchestrated end-to-end backend API testing with a BDD-Cucumber-Rest Assured framework, reducing regression testing time by 25%. Delivered comprehensive iOS and Android UI regression automation using Real devices, BrowserStack, Firebase, and platform-specific frameworks, cutting bug reports by 30% and accelerating releases by 60%.

Rest Assured Java Playwright Cucumber XCUITest Espresso BrowserStack Firebase

Senior Quality Analyst

Rest Super

Jun 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 3 months)

Managed defect lifecycle for 100+ issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimizing customer impact. Created 3,000 regression tests using Karate and implemented Playwright BDD, improving efficiency by 45% and reducing ambiguous requirements by 24%.

Karate Framework Regression Testing API Testing Integration Testing Functional Testing Test Automation Playwright Bdd

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Australian Stock Exchange

Dec 2020 - Jun 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Documented non-functional test cases for recoverability, high availability, and auditability across trading channels and platforms. Executed AMQP/FIX/SWIFT/Direct Ledger tests and built performance scripts with Gatling and JMeter, adding dashboards in Grafana and ELK to visualize historical test executions.

Gatling JMeter Fixed Swift Direct Ledger Performance Testing Grafana

Senior Automation Tester

Infomedix

Jul 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 5 months)

Architected a scalable Selenium automation framework using BDD principles with Cucumber, Selenium, Appium, and Rest Assured across web, mobile, and API testing. Improved load-testing performance by 34% using Locust and reduced user-reported issues by 40% via Sauce Labs browser compatibility testing.

Selenium Cucumber Appium Rest Assured BDD Locust Python Sauce Labs Extent Reports Extent Report

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Itree

Aug 2016 - Jul 2017 (11 months)

Led a team of three to document and automate regression test cases, achieving a 75% reduction in production bugs. Built parallel-running Selenium/Rest Assured automation with Cucumber and developed a Protractor/Jasmine framework for AngularJS, reducing manual testing time by 75% and increasing coverage by 85%.

Selenium Rest Assured Cucumber Protractor Jasmine AngularJS Parallel Testing Jira Extent Report

Software Tester

Cognizant

Sep 2010 - May 2016 (5 years 8 months)

Developed and maintained Selenium automation frameworks using Page Object Model patterns, reducing manual regression testing by 9 hours with custom HTML reporting. Built data-driven and keyword-driven Selenium frameworks with TestNG, executing 2,500+ regression tests and reducing full regression execution time by 90%.

Selenium Java TestNG Page Object Model Page Factory Keyword Driven Testing Cross Browser Testing Custom Reports