Saurabh Nagpal
I'm a QA and DevOps engineer with 13+ years of experience building, breaking, and securing production systems.
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I’m a QA and DevOps engineer with 13+ years of experience building, breaking, and securing production systems.
Three of those years I spent as a Staff Quality Engineer at Okta — testing auth flows, SAML/OIDC integrations, session management, token lifecycle, API behaviour, and enterprise identity edge cases from the inside.
I design structured test plans, build Playwright and Postman-based automation frameworks, and do the kind of exploratory testing that finds what automated suites miss — including DB-level manipulation to validate token revocation, permission boundary testing across roles, and cross-service integration validation.
On the infrastructure side I manage AWS end-to-end in production — EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS. I’ve built Prometheus + Grafana + Loki monitoring stacks from scratch, maintained GitLab CI and Jenkins pipelines, led large-scale repository migrations, handled production security incidents, and hardened infrastructure against credential exposure and access drift.
The combination matters: I test like an engineer and build like someone who’s been on call. When something breaks I don’t just log a ticket — I trace it through the stack, find the root cause, and make sure it doesn’t break the same way twice.
I work async-first, document everything, and communicate clearly. I don’t need hand-holding and I don’t disappear when things get complicated.
Core skills: Playwright · Postman · Okta · SAML/OIDC · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · GitLab CI · Jenkins · Prometheus · Grafana · Linux · PostgreSQL · Python · JMeter · SonarQube
- 12 years' experience
- Joined April 2026
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Professional Services
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Work experience· 5 roles
Led and maintained a Playwright/TypeScript test automation framework (Page Object Model) integrated into CircleCI and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines; reduced regression cycle time by 60%. Designed and executed AWS infrastructure optimization (migration of EC2 from m4.4xlarge to m6a.4xlarge) achieving ~47% cost reduction, with Route 53, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and IAM. Built and managed a full observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Node Exporter, MySQL Exporter) and dashboards for real-time production monitoring. Implemented SonarQube (Community Edition + SonarCloud) quality gates via GitLab CI. Migrated cross-account AWS credentials to IAM roles, improving security posture. Conducted performance testing with JMeter across 26 APIs, identifying critical N+1 / deadlock bottlenecks in cart API. Directed cross-platform QA across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and mobile emulation; authored detailed test plans and Confluence runbooks.
Led QA engineering for Okta IGA integration with atSpoke; designed and automated P0 test cases using JavaScript, TestCafe, Runscope, and Ghost Inspector. Built test frameworks from scratch, managed infrastructure, and maintained full test suites covering unit, integration, functional, regression, load/performance, and system testing. Documented performance dashboards and CI/CD test documentation, defined process controls, and standardized testing practices across the QA organization. Participated in cross-functional sprint ceremonies and release planning.
Test automation: Built JavaScript + Selenium + Mocha automation framework covering 200+ sanity cases integrated into a gated CI pipeline, reducing manual regression effort by 70%. Monitoring & defect management: tracked risk management procedures and analyzed problem logs via DataDog to identify and escalate recurring defects. DevOps & mentoring: contributed to CI/CD pipeline setup and maintenance; documented automation standards and onboarded junior engineers to the framework.
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