Sonam Vashishth
@sonamvashishth
QA Lead and senior automation test engineer building cloud-ready test frameworks to speed delivery and raise quality.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a QA Lead and Senior Automation Test Engineer with 11+ years of experience across Cloud, Virtualization, Insurance, and Investment Banking. I’m known for building automation frameworks from scratch and turning quality strategy into reliable, maintainable test execution.
Across my roles, I’ve led distributed QA efforts and owned CI/CD quality pipelines—integrating shift-left testing, defect management, and quality metrics to reduce delivery timelines. I’m hands-on with AI-assisted tooling like GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Claude, and Cursor, pairing it with modern frameworks such as pytest, Playwright, and Selenium to improve coverage and confidence.
My impact includes taking end-to-end UI/API/DB coverage to 75%, building a unified hybrid automation framework (UI, API, DB), and creating operational tooling like a data observability monitor for production discrepancies. I’ve also reduced deployment time from 72 hours to 16 hours (78% reduction) for VCF on VxRail by delivering parallel deployment automation.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Freelance QA Automation Lead
Freelance
Jun 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)
Delivered end-to-end web, API, and cloud test automation engagements, from scoping and framework setup to stable test suite delivery. Built reusable pytest and Playwright suites, integrated AI-assisted coding tools into the workflow, and improved CI/CD quality validation using Jenkins with Docker and Kubernetes.
Built a fleet and ADAS platform automation suite from scratch, increasing end-to-end UI/API/DB coverage to 75% and enabling automated vehicle alert report generation and device monitoring for the CX team. Designed a hybrid automation framework (UI, API, DB) and implemented QA Jenkins pipelines for functional, load (JMeter), and hardware device testing, including API testing with Postman/Newman and
Developed a VCF on VxRail system test automation suite from scratch using Selenium-Cucumber BDD to cover full system and UI/backend validation. Created parallel deployment automation that reduced deployment time from 72 hours to 16 hours (78% reduction) across multiple servers and VxRail versions.
Implemented Selenium POM hybrid automation with TestNG and REST Assured to automate backend API testing via CURL/Postman and improve regression coverage for Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Cloud product versions. Managed defects in JIRA, reviewed test cases against functional specs, and mentored new joiners on project tooling and processes.
Led creation of a Selenium-Cucumber-JVM BDD automation framework by developing feature files, step definitions, and data-driven tests using JSON inputs. Conducted code and test results reviews and recruited and trained automation resources on Selenium and Java.
Identified and automated manual test cases using WebDriver and TestNG/JUnit, implementing data-driven testing, cross-browser validation, and structured error collection. Managed defects in HP Quality Center and collaborated with developers and manual testers on test case development and requirement gathering.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Madhav Institute of Technology & Science
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering
2007 - 2011
Grade: 75%
B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering at Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior (2007–2011).
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