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Priyanka Deshmukh

QA Lead / Head of Quality Engineering

Bengaluru, India • +91 90080 31562 • priyanka.deshmukh@proton.me • linkedin.com/in/priyanka-deshmukh-qe • github.com/priyankadqe

Portfolio: www.eliorexa.com/portfolio/qa-automation-engineer-senior

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.

Skills

Leadership: QA strategy & roadmap, Team building (8–20), Hiring & mentoring, Quality metrics & SLAs, Stakeholder alignment

Framework architecture: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Page Object Model, BDD (Cucumber), Hybrid frameworks

Quality engineering: API testing (REST Assured), Performance (JMeter, k6), Contract testing, Test data management, Shift-left & shift-right

Platform & process: CI/CD quality gates, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker / Kubernetes, JIRA / Xray, Observability

Core Competencies

QA strategy · test automation · Selenium · Cypress · Playwright · API testing · REST Assured · JIRA · CI/CD · quality metrics · team leadership · shift-left · test architecture

Work Experience

Head of Quality Engineering — Arclight Commerce

Mar 2019 – Present

Bengaluru

  • 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 2019

Mumbai

  • 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 – 2015

India

  • 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

2013

BMS 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.