I am a Senior QA Engineer with 7+ years of experience in test planning, team leadership, automation, API testing, and CI/CD optimization. I have delivered high-quality releases across gaming, fintech, and banking domains, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into thorough test plans and reliable automation. I thrive in collaborative, fast-paced Agile environments, mentor junior QAs, and continuously seek ways to improve coverage and efficiency. Outside work, I enjoy exploring new testing tools and staying curious about how software fails and how to prevent it.

Omkar Deshpande

I am a Senior QA Engineer with 7+ years of experience in test planning, team leadership, automation, API testing, and CI/CD optimization. I have delivered high-quality releases across gaming, fintech, and banking domains, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into thorough test plans and reliable automation. I thrive in collaborative, fast-paced Agile environments, mentor junior QAs, and continuously seek ways to improve coverage and efficiency. Outside work, I enjoy exploring new testing tools and staying curious about how software fails and how to prevent it.

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I am a Senior QA Engineer with 7+ years of experience in test planning, team leadership, automation, API testing, and CI/CD optimization. I have delivered high-quality releases across gaming, fintech, and banking domains, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into thorough test plans and reliable automation.

I thrive in collaborative, fast-paced Agile environments, mentor junior QAs, and continuously seek ways to improve coverage and efficiency. Outside work, I enjoy exploring new testing tools and staying curious about how software fails and how to prevent it.

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Experience Level

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Work Experience

Senior QA Engineer at Mobile Premier League (MPL)
February 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025
Developed detailed test plans with clear objectives, entry/exit criteria, and risk assessments; streamlined CI/CD pipeline to improve build creation speed and reliability by 20%; led a team of 14 members ensuring clear communication and timely test execution; tested APIs using Postman to validate headers, payloads, response codes, and JSON schema; conducted root-cause analysis to diagnose recurring issues.
Senior QA Tester at Electronic Arts Inc. (EA)
April 1, 2023 - August 1, 2024
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to execute test plans and strategies for on-time delivery; directed test case design and development to ensure thorough coverage; led an 8-member QA team in a fast-paced Agile environment; designed JIRA dashboards to generate test and defect metrics, improving decision-making by 10%; mentored junior QAs through knowledge transfer sessions.
Test Engineer at Sagitec Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
December 1, 2020 - January 1, 2023
Reviewed and analyzed requirement documents to identify ambiguities, enhancing requirement clarity and reducing rework by 15%; conducted Unit, Integration, System, and UAT testing to strive for 100% test coverage; initiated test automation using a Hybrid framework (Selenium/TestNG + Modular + Data-Driven Testing) for regression, API (Rest Assured), and cross-browser testing; maintained automation CI/CD workflow in Jenkins with Git; leveraged SQL for test data creation and validating module integration.
QA Engineer at Biz Secure Labs Pvt. Ltd.
December 1, 2019 - December 1, 2020
Owned documentation workflows in Confluence and managed end-to-end test scenarios and test cases in Zephyr, increasing test coverage by 40%; performed API testing using Postman, improving API testing efficiency and reducing developer dependency; created automation scripts using Java + Selenium for regression testing to reduce repetitive work by 20%.
Game Tester at Ubisoft Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
September 1, 2017 - September 1, 2019
Worked on Ubisoft's AAA title – For Honor as a Game Tester, writing and executing precise test cases using Test Rail; performed Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, and Usability testing to ensure high-quality user experience; logged detailed bugs in JIRA and tracked them through the defect life cycle.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology) at Pune University
January 11, 2030 - March 1, 2016

Qualifications

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
May 1, 2023 - December 6, 2025

Industry Experience

Gaming, Software & Internet, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services

Experience Level

Expert
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Expert

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