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Azharuddin Shikalgar

@azharuddinshikalgar

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Senior Test Lead and SDET driving automation-first QA and DevOps-ready testing.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek Senior QA/SDET roles with automation-first, DevOps-integrated teams where I can lead test strategy, mentor engineers, and drive CI/CD quality improvements.

I am a Senior Test Lead and SDET with 14.6+ years of end-to-end QA experience across web, mobile, data, and enterprise applications, focused on automation-first delivery and strong leadership in Agile environments.

I have designed and implemented scalable automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, WebDriverIO, and integrated CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Jenkins and Azure DevOps, while leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Azure for cloud-native testing and dynamic environments.

I drive QA teams with mentoring, skill development, and data-driven decision making, applying API testing (Postman, REST Assured, Karate), performance testing (JMeter, k6), ETL validations (Databricks, ADF, PySpark), and AI/ML-assisted testing tools to improve coverage, reduce execution time, and prioritize high-risk areas.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Test Lead

Current

Sygnius Infotech Pvt Ltd

Feb 2017 - Present (8 years 9 months)

Led QA strategy and delivery for web, mobile, API, and performance testing, building automation-first frameworks and CI/CD pipelines that improved test coverage and accelerated releases across multiple projects.

Playwright Cypress Appium Selenium Webdriver GitHub Actions Docker Postman Java

Test Lead

Extentia Information Technology

Nov 2016 - Jan 2017 (2 months)

Owned sprint QA cycles, created structured functional test plans and automation for high-priority scenarios, and integrated test status with JIRA dashboards to improve visibility and defect metrics.

Java Jira Oracle Test Automation Test Planning

Senior Software Test Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Dec 2014 - Jul 2016 (1 year 7 months)

Automated core payment processing test flows using Selenium and Playwright, designed API workflows for payments (CHAPS/BACS/SWIFT), and validated backend transactions to improve coverage and stability.

Playwright Postman REST APIs Oracle TestNG Python T24

Software Test Engineer

Anaxturia IT Services

Jul 2011 - Dec 2014 (3 years 5 months)

Automated mobile and web test suites for a unified media library using Appium and cross-browser tools, improving cross-platform stability and regression coverage across Android and iOS.