I am a Sr SDET Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience delivering automated test solutions across banking, healthcare, cloud, and enterprise platforms. I design and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, and Playwright, and I specialize in UI automation, API testing, and mobile validation across multiple devices and browsers. I thrive on collaboration with product, development, and compliance teams to shift-left quality, enforce robust CI/CD gates, and accelerate release readiness. I continually adopt AI-assisted techniques, improve test reliability, and contribute to quality metrics through observability dashboards.

Omkar Mandadi

I am a Sr SDET Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience delivering automated test solutions across banking, healthcare, cloud, and enterprise platforms. I design and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, and Playwright, and I specialize in UI automation, API testing, and mobile validation across multiple devices and browsers. I thrive on collaboration with product, development, and compliance teams to shift-left quality, enforce robust CI/CD gates, and accelerate release readiness. I continually adopt AI-assisted techniques, improve test reliability, and contribute to quality metrics through observability dashboards.

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I am a Sr SDET Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience delivering automated test solutions across banking, healthcare, cloud, and enterprise platforms. I design and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, and Playwright, and I specialize in UI automation, API testing, and mobile validation across multiple devices and browsers.

I thrive on collaboration with product, development, and compliance teams to shift-left quality, enforce robust CI/CD gates, and accelerate release readiness. I continually adopt AI-assisted techniques, improve test reliability, and contribute to quality metrics through observability dashboards.

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Work Experience

Sr SDET Engineer at VMware
April 1, 2024 - Present
Designed and maintained automation frameworks using Playwright (TypeScript), Cypress, and Selenium WebDriver (Java, C# .NET) for VMware Cloud and enterprise platforms. Automated end-to-end testing across UI, API, and mobile layers, built API automation suites (Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI, Karate DSL), implemented BDD (Cucumber, Gherkin) for business alignment, delivered mobile automation (Appium), and integrated automation into CI/CD pipelines with Docker/Kubernetes. Enhanced observability with Splunk/ELK/Grafana dashboards, implemented synthetic data pipelines with GDPR/PII masking, introduced service virtualization (WireMock, Hoverfly), and employed AI-assisted techniques to reduce flaky tests. Release readiness signoffs covered functional, API, mobile, performance, and security testing.
Senior SDET Engineer at Commerce Bank
February 1, 2020 - March 31, 2024
Architected automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver (Java), Cypress, and Playwright (TypeScript) to validate digital banking apps. Automated end-to-end financial workflows (ACH, wires, card processing, loans, fraud detection), built API automation with RestAssured, Postman, Karate DSL, designed and executed BDD with Cucumber, automated mobile testing (Appium + .NET), and integrated CI/CD in Azure DevOps with Docker/Kubernetes for parallel execution. Performed cross-browser testing (BrowserStack/Sauce Labs), intensive performance testing (JMeter, Gatling), backend validation with SQL across Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL, introduced Pact contract testing, and conducted security testing (OAuth2.0, JWT, TLS/SSL, RBAC).
Senior QA Automation Engineer at Molina HealthCare
June 1, 2016 - January 31, 2020
Designed automation frameworks for healthcare claims, eligibility, and provider applications (HIPAA, HL7, FHIR). Automated API testing (Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI) across distributed microservices, created and executed regression/integration/UAT test scenarios, and implemented BDD with Cucumber. Automated mobile testing (Appium), integrated automation into CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps) with Docker, and performed performance testing (JMeter). Validated backend data via SQL (Oracle, MySQL) and MongoDB, enforced shift-left practices, and delivered release-readiness across functional, API, and security domains.
QA Automation Engineer at Akamai Technologies
March 1, 2014 - May 31, 2016
Designed and executed functional, regression, and integration tests for enterprise web apps. Automated web testing with Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and C# .NET; built SOAP/REST API tests; implemented BDD with Cucumber/SpecFlow; automated Salesforce workflows; performed mobile testing (Appium); configured CI/CD with Jenkins/Azure DevOps; conducted performance testing with JMeter; implemented cross-browser and cross-platform tests; ensured traceability with Jira/ALM Quality Center.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science at SRM University
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
Bachelor of Technology at SRM University
January 11, 2030 - December 29, 2025

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Other