Ritesh Kawadkar
Ritesh Kawadkar

Test Automation Architect

Actively looking · Member since 28 Sep 2026
Location
Pune, India
Desired salary
Confidential
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time
Experience level
Lead

About

Professional summary

I am a Test Automation Architect and QA professional with more than 14 years of experience building scalable automation frameworks for web, mobile, API, and cloud-based services. My core expertise includes Selenium, Java, API testing, CI/CD validation, and automation strategy development.

I have led automation teams, coordinated with cross-functional partners, and delivered reusable test infrastructure that improves quality, speed, and operational efficiency. I am experienced in creating frameworks from scratch, establishing test strategies, estimating effort, and mentoring teams.

In my recent Platform Engineer and Automation Architect role, I designed reusable AWS infrastructure templates and CI/CD validation frameworks. These initiatives improved setup efficiency, reduced deployment failures, and increased operational visibility through monitoring and alerting.

I have strong hands-on experience with Java, C#, Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured, SpecFlow, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS, and API testing tools. I have worked across functional, regression, integration, system, backend, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing.

I have delivered measurable outcomes, including migrating 50 test machines from QTP to Selenium to save licensing costs, reducing end-to-end test cycles through parallel execution, and introducing API automation to reduce execution time. I am seeking a Test Automation Architect role where I can help deliver reliable, high-quality mobile and web services.

Notice period: Immediately

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Experience

Career history

Platform Engineer | Automation Architect Phreesia

Architected reusable infrastructure templates for AWS cloud deployments, reducing environment setup time from five hours to four hours and improving standardization by 20%.

Validated more than 100 cloud deployments using Terraform and Argo CD, reducing infrastructure-related incidents by 40%. Built CI/CD validation across 50+ microservices, configured Grafana dashboards and alerts, and resolved template support issues through investigation and documentation updates.

Test Automation Engineer Rayden Interactive

Enhanced a hybrid automation framework to support scalable execution by multiple teams, improving maintainability, reducing duplication, and accelerating test development.

Used SpecFlow, C#, .NET 8, LivingDoc, parallel execution, and CI/CD validation. Managed comprehensive API testing to ensure service behavior accuracy and release readiness.

Lead Automation Engineer Credit Suisse

Led a 20-member automation team and coordinated with 10 partners. Designed a Java and Selenium automation framework on AWS and introduced API testing with Rest Assured, saving approximately five hours of execution time.

Implemented the Page Object Model, introduced Jenkins for CI, and used Docker containers to replace virtual machines. Reduced end-to-end testing from eight to six hours across 12 product teams through parallel execution optimization and built Kibana dashboards for test metrics.

Senior Software Engineer LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Led a five-member automation team and coordinated with two partners. Migrated 50 test machines from QTP to Selenium, saving approximately $50K annually in licensing costs while improving execution speed.

Designed REST and SOAP API automation using SOAP UI Pro, performed code reviews, and automated testing for more than 10 client software projects using Selenium, Rest Assured, QTP, and SOAP UI. Used Git for source control and Jira for defect tracking.

Test Automation Engineer Amdocs

Automated Android applications using Appium and Selenium, both locally and on BrowserStack cloud infrastructure. Introduced more than 20 coding practices that reduced execution time by approximately two hours.

Created Excel macros for operational dashboards, contributed to test strategy and test plans, and reported defects in an Agile workflow. Conducted feasibility studies, proofs of concept, and estimations for QTP and Selenium automation.

Senior Software Engineer Capgemini

Worked across more than seven projects to improve automation processes and contributed as part of a testing center of excellence. Built initial automation frameworks using Selenium and SOAP UI.

Created test frameworks from scratch and contributed to test strategy and test plans. Performed functional, system, regression, backend, integration, and user acceptance testing, including Java Selenium WebDriver tests for Chrome and Firefox.

Education

Learning history

SIRT Bhopal

B.E.

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