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Rakesh Pareek

@rkpareek

Senior QA/SDET with 11+ years in automation, API testing & quality engineering. Expert in Playwright, Node.js, CI/CD & scalable frameworks and ts, py.

India

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What I'm looking for

Seeking a Lead/Senior Quality Engineering or SDET role combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership—architecting scalable automation, building QA tools and infrastructure, solving complex quality challenges, and leveraging AI. Looking for an environment that values ownership, innovation, measurable impact, and delivering quality software faster.

I’m a QA Automation & Quality Engineering professional with 10+ years of experience in software testing, automation, framework development, QA tooling, and team leadership.
My focus has evolved from simply testing applications to engineering scalable QA solutions, improving automation reliability, and enabling teams to deliver faster and with greater confidence.

🚀 What I Do:
Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks
Build QA tools, reusable libraries, utilities, and mock services
Work across Web, API, Integration, Regression, and End-to-End Testing
Improve test automation architecture, stability, execution, and maintainability
Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines
Identify and solve complex technical and automation challenges
Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to QA teams

📊 Key Achievements:
⚡ Maintained and enhanced a hybrid automation framework with 25,000+ test cases
🚀 Reduced regression execution time from days to hours
🎯 Reduced flaky automation from 3-digit numbers to single digits
🛠️ Developed QA tools, libraries, mockers, and test utilities to improve testing efficiency
🔄 Improved automation reliability and reduced repetitive manual effort

🤖 AI & Modern QA:
Actively exploring AI/LLM-assisted development and testing to improve QA productivity and engineering efficiency, including hands-on work with Claude Code and AI-driven approaches to automation and QA tooling.

🧩 Core Expertise:
Quality Engineering | Test Automation | Framework Design | QA Tool Development | Web Automation | API Testing | Mock Services | Test Infrastructure | CI/CD | Automation Stability | Team Leadership | AI-Assisted QA
I enjoy solving difficult QA problems, building reusable engineering solutions, and continuously improving how software is tested, delivered, and maintained.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead SDET

Current

LoginRadius

Jul 2019 - Present (7 years 2 months)

Lead QA Engineer driving Quality Engineering in CIAM. Own 25K+ test-case automation, framework architecture, QA tooling, mock services, CI/CD quality gates and team leadership. Reduced regression from days to hours, flaky tests to single digits, and code coverage from 60% to 90%+. Built solutions for SAML SSO, OAuth E2E, QA analytics and automated sign-off.

Sr. Automation Engineer

loginradius

Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years)

QA Automation Engineer specializing in **API & Web automation, framework development, and CI/CD**. Built UI automation with Nightwatch/WebdriverIO, developed mock APIs, and performed functional, integration, and performance testing using Gatling. Worked with MongoDB/SQL and contributed across Agile delivery, from test planning and estimation to execution and release.

Project Management API Testing Manual Testing Test Execution CIAM Test Planning CICD Pipeline Design GitHub Actions

Software Test Engineer

loginradius

Nov 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 2 months)

End-to-end manual testing, including test planning, test case design, functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing. Strong in analyzing requirements, identifying business and technical risks, validating complex workflows, and collaborating with cross-functional teams throughout the SDLC to ensure reliable product releases.

Test Execution Manual Testing E2E Testing