Ashitosh Gajare

Lead QA Engineer at Cadence – formerly Hexagon

Functional and system testing of MaterialCenter used by thousands of customers worldwide to classify materials. Developed automation scripts using Playwright with a BDD framework to validate ReactJS components and end-to-end user workflow. Created agentic AI workflows to generate test cases and execute automation suites, improving test coverage and reducing manual testing efforts. Technologies used: Github, Copilot, ChatGPT, API, Postman, Playwright, BDD Framework, JIRA, TestLink, Linux.

Senior Automation Engineer at Enhance Consulting

Functional, system testing of ENROL and SMS applications to ensure registrations and updating student records in the central database. Performed regression, system, integration, functional testing and UAT on multiple environments to ensure timely releases. Technologies used: SOAP API, Playwright, Azure DevOps, JIRA.

Software Tester (Test Lead) at STERIS

End-to-End testing of an e-commerce platform focused on sterilization and surgical products. Developed 50+ automation test scripts each sprint, automating 90% of manual test cases with page object design patterns. Created test automation frameworks from scratch, including JavaScript libraries. Technologies used: JavaScript, TypeScript, Cypress, Maven, Mocha, VSCode, Page Object Framework, TDD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps - ALM, JIRA, Zephyr Squad, Bitbucket, Grafana, Lighthouse.

Software Test Manager at Dassault Systèmes

End-to-end testing of 3DTA Tool – cloud migration of a French PLM solution used by Airbus and Boeing. Designed the E2E UI Framework using Java and Selenium. Added 35+ new automated test cases for migrating the existing app hosted on legacy On-Premise environments to a Microservice architecture on AWS. Configured pipeline jobs to integrate automation scripts as part of the CI/CD process in Jenkins, leading to 85% of regression defects being identified early in a test environment. Bugs reported by customers decreased by 80%. Technologies used: Selenium, Page Object Framework, Maven, TestNG, TDD, Extent Reports, Jenkins, AWS EC2, CloudWatch, AWS S3, JIRA, Zephyr Squad, Bitbucket, MySQL.

Senior QA Engineer at Dassault Systèmes

Migrated test scripts from an Israel client including functional and non-functional scripts. Added 700+ test cases in 6 months. Tested UI APIs of the POS platform, designed and executed test cases, created defects and test plans, and performed root cause analysis and requirement gathering. Technologies used: Java, Selenium, Maven, HP-ALM, JIRA, UAT, Cross browser, SQL, Scrum, Manual testing.

Software Test Engineer at Dassault Systèmes

End-to-end testing of ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-CAD Integration – data management. Responsible for the E2E test life cycle – requirements gathering, test strategy, test planning, execution, automation and stakeholder communication. Implemented Shift-Left approach, leading to a 70% increase in early defect detection and coordinated 5 teams (business, leadership, development, QA, UAT) for analysis and remediation.

Design Engineer at Whirlpool of India Ltd (GTEC)

Design For Retrieval and Cost Analysis – classification and cost analysis of millions of part inventories for a US-based home and kitchen appliances giant.