Available for senior QA / SDET roles

Venkateshwara
Doijode

SENIOR SDET  /  AUTOMATION ARCHITECT  /  CHENNAI, INDIA

9 years building quality at scale — from fintech transaction pipelines at BNY to healthcare microservices at Blue Cross NC. I architect automation frameworks that teams actually maintain, and CI/CD quality gates that ship with confidence.

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9
years experience
70%
regression reduction
45min
from 4hr suite
40%
fewer flaky tests
// about

Quality engineering
as a craft

I'm a Senior SDET and Automation Architect with nearly a decade of experience owning end-to-end quality strategy for enterprise-grade SaaS, fintech, and banking platforms. My work spans from the earliest lines of a sprint to production monitoring — I believe quality is a shared responsibility, not a gate at the end.

At BNY (via Wipro), I architected a scalable Java + Selenium + TestNG framework adopted across multiple product teams, compressed a 4-hour regression suite to 45 minutes, and led Playwright adoption for next-generation UI testing. At Blue Cross NC (via Cognizant), I containerised test environments with Docker and pioneered AI-assisted test generation.

I work closely with developers, product managers, and UX designers — not just QA — because the best bugs are caught before they're written. I also mentor junior engineers, growing team automation coverage by 35% in 6 months at my current role.

Location
Chennai, India
Education
B.E. Computer Science & Engineering
Sree Sastha Institute, Chennai — 2015
Certifications
ISTQB Foundation Level
Selenium WebDriver & TestNG
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Playwright Automation
Generative AI
NoSQL CouchDB
// technical skills

The full
toolkit

⚙️
Automation Frameworks
Selenium WebDriver Playwright WebdriverIO TestNG Cucumber BDD REST Assured Appium JMeter
💻
Languages
Java Python TypeScript SQL Shell scripting
🔁
CI/CD & DevOps
Jenkins Docker Kubernetes (AKS) Git TeamCity Bamboo Amazon S3
🌐
API & Microservices
REST API GraphQL Postman Contract Testing Service Mesh
📱
Mobile & Cross-Browser
Appium Android Appium iOS Selenium Grid Chrome / Firefox / Edge
📊
Performance & Test Mgmt
JMeter Gatling k6 JIRA HP ALM/QC Mantis
// experience

9 years of
impact at scale

JUN 2021 — PRESENT
Wipro
Bank of New York (BNY)
Lead SDET — Automation Architect
  • Owned end-to-end quality strategy for 3 product areas — test plans, risk assessments, and coverage targets across functional, integration, regression, and smoke layers.
  • Architected a scalable Java + Selenium WebDriver + TestNG framework adopted across multiple product teams, eliminating 70% of manual regression effort.
  • Led Playwright (TypeScript) adoption — designed page object models, reusable fixtures, and strict locator standards that measurably improved suite reliability.
  • Engineered comprehensive REST Assured API automation validating 40+ endpoints including auth flows, token management, and complex nested JSON schemas.
  • Designed Jenkins CI/CD quality gates triggering full automation suites on every commit, reducing release verification time by 60%.
  • Compressed regression suite runtime from 4 hours to 45 minutes via TestNG parallel execution and selective regression strategies.
  • Mentored 4 junior QA engineers in framework design, API testing, OOP principles, and CI/CD — growing team automation coverage by 35% in 6 months.
MAY 2018 — MAY 2021
Cognizant
Blue Cross NC
Programming Analyst
  • Designed automation frameworks for microservices architectures — contract testing, service interaction validation, and distributed data flow verification.
  • Built and owned CI/CD quality pipelines (Jenkins + Git) embedding automated UI, API, and integration gates at every build and release stage.
  • Introduced AI-assisted test generation, improving functional coverage while reducing manual test design effort by 25%.
  • Containerised test environments with Docker for consistent, reproducible automation across dev, staging, and pre-production environments.
  • Led performance testing using JMeter and Gatling for fintech transaction workflows under production-scale load.
  • Applied shift-left testing practices embedded in design and sprint planning — reducing UAT defect leakage by 30%.
MAR 2017 — MAY 2018
ReDIM Group
Chennai, India
Associate Software QA Engineer
  • Built Selenium WebDriver (Java + TestNG) scripts for web apps and Appium scripts for native Android and iOS mobile apps.
  • Performed REST API testing with REST Assured and integrated automation suites into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
  • Authored Test Plans, Test Strategies, and traceability matrices; managed defect lifecycle in JIRA and HP ALM.
// key achievements

Numbers that
tell the story

70%
Reduction in manual regression effort through scalable automation framework design at Wipro / BNY.
45min
End-to-end regression runtime, compressed from 4 hours via TestNG parallel execution and test prioritisation.
60%
Faster release verification cycles by integrating full test suites into Jenkins CI/CD quality gates.
40%
Fewer flaky tests through smart locator engineering, retry logic, and systematic pipeline stabilisation.
35%
Growth in team-wide automation coverage after mentoring 4 junior QA engineers over 6 months.
30%
Reduction in UAT defect leakage through shift-left testing and early defect detection practices at Cognizant.
// notable contributions

Beyond the
day-to-day

🤖
Eliza AI Agent
Developed an AI agent to provide quick access to transactional and hydration data, significantly reducing manual lookup time and improving analysis efficiency across the team.
⚡
In-Sprint Automation
Implemented in-sprint automation strategy that received direct client appreciation for accelerating release cycles and enabling on-time project delivery.
📁
DAT File Generation Utility
Built an automation utility that eliminated hours of manual DAT file generation effort across the team. Submitted to Wipro Pragati for formal innovation recognition.
🐚
Shell Script Automation Suite
Created Shell scripts to automate recurring operational tasks, improving team efficiency and reducing manual intervention across complex deployment workflows.
✨
AI-Assisted Refactoring
Applied Windsurf AI to refactor Selenium and Python automation scripts — improving code readability, long-term stability, and reusability across the codebase.
🐍
Python Testing Utilities
Developed Python utilities for data parsing, report generation, and API validation — streamlining end-to-end testing workflows and enabling faster sprint sign-off cycles.
// contact

Let's build
quality together

Open to senior SDET, Automation Architect, and QA Lead roles. I bring a track record, a framework, and a mentoring mindset.

@
d.venkateshrao1994@gmail.com
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