Hi, I’m Prem Anand, a Senior Software Quality Engineer with 7 years of experience in building and scaling test automation frameworks. I specialize in Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium, and I focus on CI/CD-driven quality and release reliability. I have led automation initiatives across teams, balanced automation with exploratory testing, and driven improvements in test stability and performance under load. I enjoy collaborating with developers and product owners to ensure quality is built in from the start and that releases are reliable.

Prem Anand

Hi, I’m Prem Anand, a Senior Software Quality Engineer with 7 years of experience in building and scaling test automation frameworks. I specialize in Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium, and I focus on CI/CD-driven quality and release reliability. I have led automation initiatives across teams, balanced automation with exploratory testing, and driven improvements in test stability and performance under load. I enjoy collaborating with developers and product owners to ensure quality is built in from the start and that releases are reliable.

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May 1, 2026

Hi, I’m Prem Anand, a Senior Software Quality Engineer with 7 years of experience in building and scaling test automation frameworks. I specialize in Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium, and I focus on CI/CD-driven quality and release reliability.

I have led automation initiatives across teams, balanced automation with exploratory testing, and driven improvements in test stability and performance under load. I enjoy collaborating with developers and product owners to ensure quality is built in from the start and that releases are reliable.

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Spanish; Castilian
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Work Experience

Senior Software Quality Engineer at Prewave GmbH
October 1, 2024 - Present
1. Developed and expanded UI and API automation using Playwright and TypeScript, improving release reliability. 2. Reduced flaky UI tests by 40% through refactoring and optimized wait strategies, increasing overall test stability. 3. Improved system reliability by executing core performance tests with Grafana k6 under sustained load conditions. 4. Owned end-to-end quality for critical workflows by balancing automation, exploratory and risk-based validation.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at QBurst Technologies
September 1, 2022 - September 30, 2024
Led a team to expand automation coverage in core modules, improving system robustness and maintainability. Contributed to and maintained end-to-end tests using Cypress, TypeScript, and Cucumber across key workflows. Proactively collaborated across SDLC stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and ensure shift left testability. Actively engaged in Agile ceremonies, enabling effective sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
Test Specialist at Fingent Global Solutions
April 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022
Designed Smoke and Regression suites using Selenium, Mocha and TypeScript, supporting faster release cycles. Guided team members through framework adoption, improving efficiency and consistency across testing efforts. Increased the test automation coverage by 30%, cutting manual regression effort and accelerating release cycles. Extended shared Postman collections for REST API testing, validating request and response behavior reliably.
Test Engineer at Armia Systems
April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2021
Maintained a Page Object Model based test framework with Protractor and JavaScript for stable test execution. Supported migration to WebdriverIO by building a new automation framework, improving overall test coverage. Conducted load testing with Apache JMeter, identifying system constraints and driving scalability improvements. Executed cross-platform functional testing for Android and iOS apps, validating API and backend integrations.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum
September 1, 2013 - April 30, 2017
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum
January 11, 2030 - April 23, 2026

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Software & Internet, Professional Services, Other, Computers & Electronics, Gaming