ASHISH SAMANT
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Oxford,Oxfordshire
Summary
Analytical Senior QA Test Engineer with 4+ years of experience specialized in the stability and release management of complex, proprietary SaaS platforms. Expert in managing JDK technical releases and ensuring data integrity across large-scale enterprise integrations (Salesforce, NetSuite). Proven ability to build and maintain custom testing protocols within unique environment architectures to identify critical risks that off-the-shelf tools miss. Currently seeking a sponsored role in the UK to bring specialized platform-level quality assurance to a leading tech organization.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
8
8
Certification
Work History
Senior QA Automation Engineer & Release Coordinator
DBSync
India
10.2024 - Current
- JDK & Platform Stewardship: Lead technical validation for all JDK version upgrades, maintaining 100% environment stability across Java 11/17/21 migrations for core SaaS sync products.
- Custom Environment Management: Manage the QA lifecycle within a proprietary enterprise environment, designing specialized scenarios that reduced manual regression effort by 75%.
- Release Gatekeeping: Act as the primary authority for production-ready releases; optimized the release coordination process to achieve a 30% faster deployment cycle.
- Risk Mitigation: Spearheaded the transition to a 'Shift-Left' approach within the custom environment, identifying 35% more critical architectural defects during early-stage development.
Programmer Analyst
DBSync
06.2023 - 10.2024
- Developed and executed complex SQL verification scripts to validate multi-platform data syncs, achieving 99.9% data integrity for enterprise clients.
- Provided detailed root-cause analysis for defects found within custom legacy systems, reducing the overall bug-fix lifecycle by 10 days on average.
Engineer Trainee
DBSync
04.2023 - 07.2023
- Facilitated the migration from manual-only testing to a technical, script-driven quality process within the DBSync ecosystem.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Automobile
Savitribai Phule Pune University
05.2021
Diploma in Automobile Engineering - undefined
MSBTE
05.2016
Skills
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Manual Testing
- Regression Testing
- Postman
- REST API Testing
- SQL
- MySQL
- Jira
- Git
- GitHub
- Salesforce
- NetSuite
- HubSpot
- Agile/Scrum
- Shift-Left Testing
- CI/CD Awareness
- Test Strategy & Planning
- Core Java
- Basic JavaScript
- Deployment Coordination
- Change Control
- Release Governance
- JDK Migration Testing
- Environment Stability
- Dependency Management
Certification
- Playwright 101 (LambdaTest)
- Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert
- SQL Basic (HackerRank)
- Generative AI Foundations (upGrad)
- Core Java & Database (HefShine)
Projects And Publications
- JDK Stability & Migration Framework, Designed a specialized testing protocol for JDK version upgrades, automating the verification of core library functions and preventing performance regressions.
- Playwright E2E Integration Suite, Built an open-source demonstration framework showcasing Playwright's capabilities in handling complex, asynchronous SaaS UI workflows.
- Vehicle Control by Object Detection, Published research paper on AI-driven vehicle control (MAT Journals, 2021).
Timeline
Senior QA Automation Engineer & Release Coordinator
DBSync
10.2024 - Current
Programmer Analyst
DBSync
06.2023 - 10.2024
Engineer Trainee
DBSync
04.2023 - 07.2023
Bachelor of Engineering - Automobile
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Diploma in Automobile Engineering - undefined
MSBTE