QA / Automation Test Engineer · Senior · 10+ yrs
Priyanka Deshmukh
QA Lead / Head of Quality Engineering
Professional summary
Quality engineering leader with 11 years owning test strategy and automation architecture across fintech, e-commerce and healthtech. Designs framework standards spanning Selenium, Cypress, Playwright and API testing, leads QA teams of 8–20, and ties quality metrics to release velocity and revenue. Built CI/CD quality gates org-wide, drove shift-left testing culture, and grew engineers into leads. Measures success in escaped-defect rate, release confidence and the careers built along the way.
4M+
Daily users covered
72%
Fewer escaped defects
20
QA engineers led
Skills
Leadership
Framework architecture
Quality engineering
Platform & process
Work experience
Head of Quality Engineering · Arclight Commerce
Mar 2019 – PresentBengaluru
- Lead a 20-person QA org across 6 product squads, owning the test strategy and automation architecture for a platform serving 4M+ daily users.
- Architected a unified Playwright + REST Assured framework adopted across all squads, lifting automated regression coverage from 31% to 81% and cutting release cycle time 55%.
- Established CI/CD quality gates and a defect-escape SLA, reducing production-escaped defects 72% and raising release confidence to weekly shipping.
- Manage a ₹2.4 crore annual QA budget and tooling portfolio; consolidated 4 overlapping test tools into 2, saving ~₹40L/year.
- Hired 14 engineers and grew 3 into QA leads; built the shift-left review practice and test-strategy playbook used company-wide.
QA Lead / Test Architect · Medibridge Health
Jun 2015 – Feb 2019Mumbai
- Led a team of 9 building the automation framework (Selenium + TestNG) for a HIPAA-aligned patient platform across 25+ hospitals.
- Introduced API testing and CI gating, cutting regression effort 60% and enabling the first reliable bi-weekly release train.
Senior QA / Automation Engineer · Earlier roles — Cognizant, Wipro
2013 – 2015India
- Built Selenium suites and managed manual + automation test cycles across banking and retail products; promoted twice for delivery and test leadership.
Education
B.E. Information Science & Engineering
2013BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
Certifications
ISTQB Expert Level — Test Management
ISTQB · 2021
Certified Agile Tester (ISQI)
iSQI · 2019
Selected achievements
Cut production-escaped defects 72% org-wide by introducing CI/CD quality gates and a defect-escape SLA.
Consolidated 4 test tools into 2, saving ~₹40L/year while raising automated coverage from 31% to 81%.
Speaker, SeleniumConf India 2023 — "Test strategy that scales: from flaky suites to weekly releases."
Mentor at a women-in-QA fellowship; advises 2 early-stage startups on quality engineering practices.
See the work in 3D
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