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Dhirendra Thakur

@dhirendra_senior_qa

Message

I am a Senior QA Engineer based in Bengaluru

India

Message

What I'm looking for

I seek senior SDET/automation roles where I can lead test architecture, mentor engineers, drive CI/CD automation, and improve product quality in fintech or consumer platforms.

I am Senior QA Engineer with 9+ years of experience in manual and automation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior SDET Engineer

Current

Grid Dynamics

Oct 2024 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Led QA for a B2B virtual card automation platform for Visa, designing test architecture and CI/CD-integrated automation that reduced release validation time from 2 days to under 3 hours and cut critical customer-reported issues by 30%.

Java Rest Assured Appium Selenium TestNG CI CD PostgreSQL API Testing

Senior SDET

Glance

Oct 2021 - Sep 2024 (2 years 11 months)

Owned full SDLC quality lifecycle for high-visibility Android Lock Screen product, created test strategies and automation, and reduced user-reported crash rates by 40% in the first month post-release.

Java Appium Rest Assured Selenium Maven Mobile Testing Test Planning

Senior SDET

InMobi

Aug 2016 - Jul 2019 (2 years 11 months)

Built and executed automation suites for ad-serving systems and core ad network logic, authored Appium/TestNG scripts and participated in release QA leading to improved release readiness.

Appium TestNG Selenium Java Maven Functional Testing Jira

Automation Engineer

InMobi

May 2011 - Sep 2014 (3 years 4 months)

Worked on automation and functional testing for InMobi ad formats and network logic, tracked defects in Jira and validated multiple releases to ensure QA readiness.