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DHARMARAJ CHAVAN
From India 02:03 PM (GMT+05:30)
$50/hr or $15,000/yr

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Software Development in Test

Quality Assurance Engineer
Available for hire
Years of experience
7+ years
Experience level
Senior
Available from
21 Sep 2026

Results-driven QA Automation Engineer with 6.5+ years of experience in manual and automated testing for web, mobile, and SaaS applications. Strong expertise in Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Maven, Page Object Model (POM), Playwright, JavaScript, API testing, SQL/MySQL, CI/CD, and cross-browser/cross-platform testing. Automated 500+ test cases, reducing manual testing effort by 60%, shortened regression testing from 2 days to 4 hours, and reduced defect leakage by 30% on SaaS compliance workflows. Experienced in Agile/Scrum environments with recent hands-on upskilling in modern Playwright-based SDET practices, AI-assisted testing, and cloud execution.

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Employment History

SDET at Upwork Current 2025 - Now
• Provided freelance QA and test automation support for web applications, including functional, regression, API, and UI automation testing. • Designed and built a Playwright/JavaScript automation framework using Page Object Model (POM), custom fixtures, Cucumber-JS, and Mocha. • Integrated GitHub Actions with Microsoft Azure for CI/CD and parallel cloud execution using Microsoft Playwright Testing. • Built ExcelJS-based data-driven workflows, including automated file download, modification, and re-upload. • Performed API validation and automation using Postman and Playwright request context. • Completed structured upskilling in JavaScript, Playwright, API automation, CI/CD, and AI-assisted testing (Claude Code, Playwright Agents, MCP).
Testing Engineer II at Wobot Intelligence Pvt Ltd 2022 - 2025
• Designed and maintained automated regression and functional suites for Wobot.ai's AI-powered SaaS video analytics platform using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, and POM, reducing regression testing from 2 days to 4 hours. • Automated 500+ test cases across web, mobile, and Electron applications, cutting manual testing effort by 60% and accelerating release cycles. • Improved SaaS compliance test coverage, reducing defect leakage by 30%. • Implemented and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment workflows. • Performed functional, regression, exploratory, smoke, and cross-browser/cross-platform testing using BrowserStack across web, Android/iOS, Electron, and WoConnect WMS. • Tested REST APIs with Postman and automated selected API flows using Playwright request context. • Used GitHub Copilot and BugBug to accelerate test development and extend UI/end-to-end automation coverage. • Collaborated with QA, development, and product teams in Agile/Scrum; managed defects in ClickUp.
Software Test Engineer at eq technologic Pvt Ltd 2018 - 2022
• Designed and implemented a Selenium WebDriver data-driven automation framework using Java, TestNG, and Maven for regression and functional testing across browsers and platforms. • Increased test coverage by 40% by automating high-priority manual test cases for an equity trading platform in the capital markets domain. • Developed Selenium scripts using element locators and XPath strategies for smoke, functional, and regression cycles. • Built a data-driven framework integrating Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Apache POI. • Developed SQL queries to validate backend test data and support data integrity checks. • Identified and tracked defects using JIRA and partnered with developers to catch critical API integration bugs early. • Performed database and functional testing for a telecom billing system spanning CRM and BSS workflows; authored test scenarios, test cases, and RTM from SRS documentation. • Conducted peer reviews of test cases and incorporated feedback to strengthen coverage and consistency.

Education

Masters in Computer Science at Dr. Bamu Aurangabad 2016 - 2019