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Nilesh Ugale

@nileshugale

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Senior Principal QA Engineer specializing in automation, performance, and team leadership.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior QA roles focusing on automation and performance testing, mentoring teams, and leveraging GenAI to improve test efficiency.

I am a Senior Principal QA Engineer with over 18 years of hands-on experience in software testing and quality assurance, specializing in automation with Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Robot Framework and API testing using Rest Assured and Postman. I have led and mentored teams, built robust automation frameworks, driven performance testing initiatives with JMeter, and ensured end-to-end quality across web and mobile platforms.

I excel in Agile/Scrum environments, collaborate closely with engineering teams to resolve complex issues, and have delivered successful projects at enterprise scale while leveraging cloud and container technologies like AWS, Kubernetes and Docker. I am committed to continuous improvement, coaching QA engineers, and applying GenAI/Agentic AI techniques to streamline testing workflows.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Sr. Principal QA Engineer

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Cornerstone OnDemand Enterprise India Pvt. Ltd

Jan 2022 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Lead a QA team for SkyHive Ent2.0, designing and implementing automation frameworks with Selenium, Playwright and Robot Framework and driving API and performance testing to improve release quality and delivery.

Selenium Webdriver Playwright Robot Framework Java C++JMeter Rest Assured AWS Kubernetes

Senior Member Technical Staff QA

Tibco Software India Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 2015 - Jan 2022 (6 years 7 months)

Led automation testing for Tibco Rewards and related projects using Katalon and MySQL, executing backend, ETL and functional tests and improving test strategies to increase efficiency and reliability.

Katalon MySQL Automation Testing ETL Backend Testing Performance Testing Selenium SQL Test Strategy

Senior Test Engineer

WhiteHedge Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Apr 2014 - Jun 2015 (1 year 2 months)

Designed and implemented Selenium C# automation frameworks for projects including weather.com, configured schedulers and reporting, debugged cross-browser failures and mentored new testers.

Selenium C++PowerShell Cross Browser Testing SQL Server Test Automation CI CD Agile Debugging

Senior QA Engineer

Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd.

Dec 2011 - Apr 2014 (2 years 4 months)

Executed functional, regression, API and ETL testing for clients like Lotame and iCrossing, introduced automation in agile pipelines and led mobile and Hadoop-related testing to improve system reliability.

API Testing ETL Hadoop Mobile Testing Selenium SQL Agile Regression Testing

Sr. Software Test Engineer

United Software Associates Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 2007 - Jul 2011 (3 years 11 months)

Performed comprehensive software testing across functional and regression areas, contributing to test planning and execution for enterprise applications and improving QA processes.