Chandan Dungarwal

I’m a Quality Engineering Manager and Test Automation Architect with 15+ years of experience building scalable QA, test automation, and CI/CD practices across SaaS, HCM, banking, and CRM products. I lead with clarity and measurable outcomes—architecting quality systems that teams can reliably ship with.

As Engineering Manager at HackerRank, I directed a team of 8 engineers, setting OKRs and driving Agile execution that delivered a 30–40% increase in sprint velocity. I orchestrated end-to-end delivery across multiple enterprise products, partnering with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to achieve an 80–85% on-time release rate.

I’ve unified automation across Playwright, Serenity.js, Serenity BDD, and Ruby frameworks using a layered architecture (DSLs, page objects, data builders, fixtures) and improved observability with traces, videos, and HAR-based debugging. I also implemented an AI-powered test failure triage system with LLMs that reduced manual debugging effort by 4–5 hours per week, and I built a shift-left testing platform to automate feature branch deployments and regression testing—reducing release turnaround time.

Across my work, I focus on enterprise reliability and “smart” automation: optimizing Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to cut build execution times by 50% and improving deployment reliability, driving flakiness down from 30% to <5%, and boosting automated coverage to 95%. I’ve integrated GenAI/LLM-powered testing solutions such as an AI Assistant evaluation framework and MCP-based test-case generation to compress release turnaround times, increase coverage, and raise throughput—while keeping teams aligned to delivery excellence.