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I am an SDET Lead, Test Automation Architect and QA Automation Engineer with 20+ years of experience leading high-performing QA teams and delivering scalable automation solutions for BFSI clients such as OSB, BUPA, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs. I drive test automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and shift-left practices to improve quality, reduce defects, and accelerate delivery. I specialise in UI, API, and microservices automation using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and REST Assured, with a focus on AI-driven automation and scalable frameworks.…I am an SDET Lead, Test Automation Architect and QA Automation Engineer with 20+ years of experience leading high-performing QA teams and delivering scalable automation solutions for BFSI clients such as OSB, BUPA, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs. I drive test automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and shift-left practices to improve quality, reduce defects, and accelerate delivery. I specialise in UI, API, and microservices automation using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and REST Assured, with a focus on AI-driven automation and scalable frameworks.

Ashok Kumar Dikshit

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I am an SDET Lead, Test Automation Architect and QA Automation Engineer with 20+ years of experience leading high-performing QA teams and delivering scalable automation solutions for BFSI clients such as OSB, BUPA, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs. I drive test automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and shift-left practices to improve quality, reduce defects, and accelerate delivery. I specialise in UI, API, and microservices automation using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and REST Assured, with a focus on AI-driven automation and scalable frameworks.…I am an SDET Lead, Test Automation Architect and QA Automation Engineer with 20+ years of experience leading high-performing QA teams and delivering scalable automation solutions for BFSI clients such as OSB, BUPA, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs. I drive test automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and shift-left practices to improve quality, reduce defects, and accelerate delivery. I specialise in UI, API, and microservices automation using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and REST Assured, with a focus on AI-driven automation and scalable frameworks.

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I am an SDET Lead, Test Automation Architect and QA Automation Engineer with 20+ years of experience leading high-performing QA teams and delivering scalable automation solutions for BFSI clients such as OSB, BUPA, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs.

I drive test automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and shift-left practices to improve quality, reduce defects, and accelerate delivery. I specialise in UI, API, and microservices automation using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and REST Assured, with a focus on AI-driven automation and scalable frameworks.

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Test Lead / QE Manager at Publicis Sapient

May 1, 2025 - Present

Led evaluation and implementation of a scalable UI and API automation framework and overall Test Automation strategy, reducing automation development effort by 60% for OSB. Enhanced CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, enabling automatic regression and E2E execution, reducing execution time to 1 hour and manual testing effort to 10% in BUPA. Directed QA planning and defect triaging while coordinating cross-functional teams to improve delivery efficiency by 70%. Led Automation Transformation for NatWest, winning the engagement and retaining 2 automation QE roles.

Quality Engineering Test Lead at Publicis Sapient

January 1, 2024 - April 1, 2025

Owned Software Testing Life Cycle and E2E Test Strategy; defined test environments and data strategy for integrated test scenarios, ensuring 100% test coverage. Coordinated 4 cross-functional teams and established a BDD framework, achieving 80% functional automation and 100% regression coverage. Enforced TestOps practices, eliminating manual artefact handling and improving efficiency by 95%. Integrated test suites into CI pipelines, enabling early defect detection and reducing manual testing by 90%.

SDET Lead / Test Automation Architect at Publicis Sapient

October 1, 2019 - December 1, 2023

Mentored a team of more than 10 QA engineers to design automation framework. Modernised 200+ legacy automation scripts by transitioning to a centralised WebDriverIO framework, reducing maintenance effort by 40%. Applied consumer-driven contract testing using PACT, improving micro-services integration reliability and reducing defect leakage. Deployed Karate framework for backend testing, achieving 100% SIT regression execution within 10 minutes.

Senior QE Team Lead at Publicis Sapient

October 1, 2018 - December 1, 2019

Managed a QE team and built automation framework; scripted 90% of test scenarios within sprint. Led Jenkins pipeline integration to minimize execution time by 50%. Defined QE strategy and test planning for QE deliverables, ensuring high team efficiency and collaboration with development and product teams to prevent critical defect leakage.

Senior QE Automation Lead at Publicis Sapient

September 1, 2009 - September 1, 2018

Incorporated Page Object Model and TestNG framework, achieving 75% UI regression coverage for Goldman Sachs. Expanded the test suite with a Jenkins pipeline for scheduled runs, reducing manual effort by 60%. Drove QE strategy for end-to-end testing and cross-team coordination to minimize risk of defects.

Senior QA Engineer at RSystems International and VelSof

October 1, 2004 - May 1, 2009

Enhanced automation framework using QTP Pro for multiple web and desktop applications. Automated 300+ manual test cases and scheduled nightly runs, reducing manual test execution time by 60%. Performed functional, regression, and compatibility testing across enterprise applications, and documented ~350 defects for timely fixes.

Quality Engineering Lead at Publicis Sapient

October 1, 2019 - December 1, 2023

Mentored a team of more than 10 QA engineers to learn and design automation framework. Modernised 200+ legacy automation scripts by transitioning to a centralised WebDriverIO framework, reducing maintenance effort by 40%.

Senior QA Engineer at RSystems International & VelSof

October 1, 2004 - May 1, 2009

Converted more than 300 legacy regression tests into automated scripts and scheduled nightly runs, cutting manual test effort and improving coverage.