About me

14+ years turning testing into a competitive advantage.

I specialise in QA automation, test architecture and DevOps practices. I've spearheaded automation teams to 90% coverage — integrating functional, non-functional and PSR testing — and architected multi-platform solutions for web, mobile and microservices that cut QA costs by 68% while plugging directly into continuous deployment.

My experience spans unit, system integration, black-box and white-box testing, API and web-service testing, mobile, database and performance testing. As a Scrum Master I've led Delivery Assurance NINJA audits using CMMI Level 5, SCRUM and Kanban — improving timelines by 22% and team velocity by 18%. Domains include energy & power, cloud security, healthcare, education, media & entertainment, merchant services, telecom, legal and technology.

Career

Work experience

Sep 2024 – Present

Quality Assurance Technical Manager

Encora Inc.
Pune, India · Remote
  • Lead automation architecture and quality-engineering strategy for AVID Media & Entertainment platforms — enterprise-scale solutions across UI, API, integration and platform testing.
  • Designed cloud-native Pytest and Robot Framework ecosystems with TestRail and Allure reporting, cutting manual QA effort by 70%.
  • Established CI/CD quality gates with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and drove automation standardisation across multiple product teams.
  • Own framework governance, release management and onboarding while mentoring engineers and containerising test environments with Docker, Rancher and Kubernetes.
Jun 2021 – Apr 2024

Senior QA Developer

QiO Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India
  • Architected automation frameworks using Cypress, Playwright, Cucumber, JavaScript, Node.js and Chai — reducing testing cycle duration by 55%.
  • Led a team to automate 70% of manual test cases, saving 200+ hours monthly and improving reliability by 50%.
  • Delivered functional, regression and performance testing across APIs and databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB); detected and fixed 180+ defects.
  • Orchestrated containerised applications with Kubernetes and Rancher for robustness and elasticity.
Aug 2016 – Jun 2021

Senior Lead — Quality Assurance

Hitachi · GlobalLogic India Pvt. Ltd.
Nagpur, India
  • Provided technical leadership to a team of six across automation and QA practices.
  • Built frameworks in Java, JavaScript and Python with Cypress, Playwright, Jest and Protractor — accelerating test speed by 60% and halving cycles.
  • Created mobile-app testing frameworks with Appium and WebdriverIO — 70% increase in coverage, 30 hours/week saved.
  • Automated regression and I18N tests for 26 languages, cutting manual effort by 78%.
Oct 2012 – Aug 2016

Java Automation Engineer (SDET)

Broadcom · Symantec Corporation
Pune, India
  • Led a 4-member automation team for the EA&N module within the SUEP product.
  • Pioneered REST API testing in the SUEP automation framework; led PSR, I18N and security testing, cutting vulnerability issues by 40% in three months.
  • Automated 100+ unit tests (Java, TestNG) and UI with Selenium — reduced manual testing time by 60% and improved code coverage to 95%.
  • Increased code coverage to 93% and reduced SonarQube issues by 68%.
Mar 2010 – Oct 2012

Quality Assurance Engineer

Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd.
Gandhinagar & Pune, India
  • Co-developed an advanced automation framework leading Selenium-based regression and REST API testing — saved 120+ hours monthly and improved application stability by 30%.
Toolbox

Technical skills

⚙️ Automation Tools

SeleniumCypressPlaywrightAppiumRest AssuredJMeterPostmanSOAP UI

🧩 Frameworks

RobotCucumberTestNGProtractorMochaFitNesseWebdriverIO

💻 Languages

JavaJavaScriptPythonC++HTMLXML

☁️ Cloud & OS

AWSAzureLinuxUbuntuVMware

🔁 CI/CD & IaC

JenkinsGitHub ActionsGoCDOctopus DeployTerraformPuppet

📦 Containers

DockerKubernetesRancherTomcatJBossWebSphere

🗄️ Databases

SQL ServerPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchOracle 9iMySQLCouchbase

🔍 Quality & Analysis

SonarQubeCoberturaEMMAJProfilerPMD Checkstyle

🐞 Tracking & Ops

JiraZephyrKibanaNew RelicTestLinkGitBitbucket
Credentials

Certifications

AWS Partner: Technical Accredited 2025 Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) 2023 Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2023 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals 2022 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals 2022 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 2022 Microsoft Security, Compliance & Identity Fundamentals 2022 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 2021 SUN Certified Java Programmer 2009 RedHat Certified 2007
Recognition

Awards & accolades

🏆

MTS Cohesive Team Award — recognised for exemplary performance on the Merchant Transaction Service module for the Connected Vehicle Program, delivered on time with quality.

🥇

Symantec Level 1 Applause Award — for evaluation of the mobile test automation framework.

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Symantec Level 2 Applause Award — for certifying the Events module for the SUEP product.

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Symantec Level 2 Applause Award for Innovation — pioneered measuring dynamic code coverage with 60% increased accuracy and 25% reduced testing time.

Featured work

Selected projects

2021 – 2024 · QiO Technologies

Foresight Suite

Energy, resource and carbon-management platform helping industrial sites optimise asset performance and cut emissions. Built UI + API and performance automation across the stack.

JavaAngularReactCypressNode.jsJMeterKubernetesAWSAzureSonarQube
2020 – 2021 · GlobalLogic

Bridge International / New Globe Schools

eBook-reader iPad app and academic-operations software (billing, parent notifications, curriculum & content management) for a global education network.

C# / .NETSQL ServerAndroidSeleniumAppiumJMeterCypressWebDriverIODocker
Recommendations

In their words

A selection from 14 recommendations received on LinkedIn.

“I collaborated closely with Prafull, a seasoned QA Automation engineer. He demonstrated a profound understanding of testing methodologies and consistently delivered high-quality software. Prafull actively engaged in cross-functional collaboration and explored innovative solutions, making him an invaluable asset to our team.”

US

Utkarsh Saraf

Data Architect @ Greenway Health

“An exceptional Quality Assurance professional. His matured understanding of QA goes beyond standard processes — he consistently strives for excellence. What truly sets Prafull apart is his passion for learning and his ability to identify critical areas for improvement and propose effective solutions. A true team player; I wholeheartedly recommend him.”

VL

Vinod Louis

Senior System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Education

Academics

Postgraduate Diploma — Advanced Computing

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) · 2009–2010

B.E. — Computer Science & Engineering

G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur
References

Endorsed by leaders

RP

Rajan Pandhare

CEO · QiO Technologies
AK

Amit Kale

Associate VP, Engineering · GlobalLogic
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Rohit Kaushik

Senior Manager · Symantec

Detailed references available on request.

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