Sarang Purandare
London
Summary
Accomplished professional with extensive expertise in automation and manual testing, leveraging skills in WebdriverIO, Selenium, and Appium to enhance software quality. Proficient in multiple programming languages including Python, TypeScript, Java, and JavaScript, with a strong foundation in Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects using tools like Jenkins, Git, and Jira Confluence while ensuring seamless CI/CD integration. Adept at conducting comprehensive testing across web, mobile, and TV platforms with a focus on accessibility, performance, and security. Committed to driving innovation through effective use of AWS services and cloud-based solutions.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior QA engineer
Genomics England
London, London
2024.06 - Current
- Maintained and enhanced an existing Java, Selenium, and Cucumber–based automation test suite, ensuring stability, scalability, and alignment with evolving product requirements.
- Actively participated in all Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, refinement, daily stand‑ups, reviews, and retrospectives) and contributed proactively to improving QA processes and delivery quality.
- Designed, set up, and successfully migrated automation frameworks to TypeScript using Playwright, improving execution speed, maintainability, and test reliability.
- Built an end‑to‑end Playwright automation framework covering both UI and API test automation, enabling broader test coverage and faster feedback in CI pipelines.
- Implemented reusable test components, utilities, and fixtures to promote code reusability and maintainability across the automation suite.
- Created and managed xray test cases and test cycles with clear, well‑defined requirements, ensuring traceability between requirements, test cases, and executions.
- Collaborated closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to clarify requirements early, identify edge cases, and ensure high‑quality releases.
- Contributed to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying manual test areas suitable for automation and reducing overall regression execution time.
Senior QA lead
LTI Mindtree
London, United Kingdom
2022.06 - 2024.06
- Developed web automation framework using Playwright with Python and Cucumber from scratch and added ~350 TCs.
- Worked on various PoC's including Selenium, JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Node.js and many more.
- Organized automation proposal meetings for API, Mobile and TV automation by explaining key solution for automation strategy and roadmap.
- Responsible for performing testing on multiple devices (i.e. Android/i0S, Roku, TV0S, Fire, Fetch, Philips TV, Comcast).
- Responsible for making test strategy, planning, effort estimation while following Agile process.
- Responsible for requirement gathering, Test Design, Test Automation, Test Execution, Defect Reporting, Defect Tracking, Regression testing, Test Status Reporting and Test Closure Activities.
- Coordinating with customers, vendors, and cross functional team (UX, Prod, Dev and BA).
- Leading Onshore and Offshore QA team of 21 members and handling all QA activities.
- Created utility and conducted multiple knowledge transfer sessions to train junior team members.
Senior QA engineer
LTI Mindtree
Pune, India
2017.07 - 2022.05
- Contributed in development of Selenium framework using Page Object Model design pattern.
- Performed automation test scripts development and maintenance, added code with maximum reusability while following all the coding standards.
- Debugged and analyzed the automation failures to find root cause and reported those to corresponding stakeholders.
- Performed manual testing at times and identified some crucial bugs.
- Received good exposure to each phase of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Gained excellent understanding and experience of working in an Agile environment.
Software Engineer
LTI Mindtree
Pune, India
2015.07 - 2017.06
- Involved in and contributed to test planning, requirement analysis, test scenarios creation, test case creation and test case execution.
- Performed Sanity Testing, Regression Testing and ad-hoc testing.
- Identified multiple potentials defects/bugs and logged them into the system.
- Performed defect tracking till closure, performed retesting and regression testing when the bug is fixed.
Trainee Software Engineer
Indrajit Systems Pvt. Ltd
Pune, India
2013.08 - 2015.06
- Contributed in development of Loan Processing Application: The module used in Encore and Net Banking for loan sanctioning.
- Wrote object-oriented code to improve software structuring solutions.
- Peer-reviewed code to create clean and stable software solutions.
- Worked thoroughly in Java, Apache Wicket 1.4, 1.6, HTML, Java Script, CSS, Hibernate and PostgreSQL.
- Performed activities like requirements gathering, UI design, application design, coding and unit testing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Pune University
India 2009.08 - 2013.08
Skills
- Playwright
- WebdriverIO
- Selenium
- Python
- TypeScript
- Java
- JavaScript
- Postman
- Rest Assured
- JSON Management
- Appium
- BDD-Cucumber
- TDD, ATDD
- AWS- S3 bucket
- Jenkins
- Git
- Automation Testing
- Manual Testing
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- SQL
- Project Management
- CI/CD
- CMS Testing
- Browser Stack
- Test Rail
- Jira Confluence
- Git
- Bitbucket
- Accessibility Testing
- Performance Testing
- Protractor
- Charles Proxy
- Web Testing
- Mobile Testing
- TV Testing
- GraphQL
- Sauce Labs
Timeline
Senior QA engineer
Genomics England
2024.06 - Current
Senior QA lead
LTI Mindtree
2022.06 - 2024.06
Senior QA engineer
LTI Mindtree
2017.07 - 2022.05
Software Engineer
LTI Mindtree
2015.07 - 2017.06
Trainee Software Engineer
Indrajit Systems Pvt. Ltd
2013.08 - 2015.06
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Pune University
2009.08 - 2013.08