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Hi, I’m Priyanka Kakani, a QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of experience in automation testing for banking and enterprise applications. I’ve worked with companies like Vanguard, Tata Consultancy Services, and HDFC Bank. I specialize in Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, API testing, and CI/CD automation. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks, reduced regression testing time by 50%, and improved automation coverage by 75%, helping teams deliver faster and more reliable releases. What makes me stand out is my ability to combine strong technical skills with ownership and problem-solving. I focus on delivering high-quality software, improving team efficiency, and ensuring smooth user experiences.…Hi, I’m Priyanka Kakani, a QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of experience in automation testing for banking and enterprise applications. I’ve worked with companies like Vanguard, Tata Consultancy Services, and HDFC Bank. I specialize in Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, API testing, and CI/CD automation. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks, reduced regression testing time by 50%, and improved automation coverage by 75%, helping teams deliver faster and more reliable releases. What makes me stand out is my ability to combine strong technical skills with ownership and problem-solving. I focus on delivering high-quality software, improving team efficiency, and ensuring smooth user experiences.

Priyanka Kakani

QA Engineer, Web Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Priyanka Kakani, a QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of experience in automation testing for banking and enterprise applications. I’ve worked with companies like Vanguard, Tata Consultancy Services, and HDFC Bank. I specialize in Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, API testing, and CI/CD automation. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks, reduced regression testing time by 50%, and improved automation coverage by 75%, helping teams deliver faster and more reliable releases. What makes me stand out is my ability to combine strong technical skills with ownership and problem-solving. I focus on delivering high-quality software, improving team efficiency, and ensuring smooth user experiences.…Hi, I’m Priyanka Kakani, a QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of experience in automation testing for banking and enterprise applications. I’ve worked with companies like Vanguard, Tata Consultancy Services, and HDFC Bank. I specialize in Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, API testing, and CI/CD automation. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks, reduced regression testing time by 50%, and improved automation coverage by 75%, helping teams deliver faster and more reliable releases. What makes me stand out is my ability to combine strong technical skills with ownership and problem-solving. I focus on delivering high-quality software, improving team efficiency, and ensuring smooth user experiences.

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Hi, I’m Priyanka Kakani, a QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of experience in automation testing for banking and enterprise applications. I’ve worked with companies like Vanguard, Tata Consultancy Services, and HDFC Bank.

I specialize in Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, API testing, and CI/CD automation. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks, reduced regression testing time by 50%, and improved automation coverage by 75%, helping teams deliver faster and more reliable releases.

What makes me stand out is my ability to combine strong technical skills with ownership and problem-solving. I focus on delivering high-quality software, improving team efficiency, and ensuring smooth user experiences.

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Work Experience

QA Automation Engineer at Vanguard

July 1, 2024 - Present

Designed and implemented scalable automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, TestNG, and Maven, increasing regression coverage by 75% and reducing regression execution time by 50%. Built reusable Page Object Model (POM) and BDD frameworks with Cucumber to improve maintainability and collaboration. Automated cross-browser end-to-end tests with Playwright and JavaScript. Built mobile automation suites using Appium for Android and iOS. Integrated automation test suites into Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing. Leveraged AWS Lambda, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, and CloudFormation to automate QA infrastructure provisioning and cloud-based testing workflows. Accelerated test script development with GitHub Copilot. Automated REST API testing with Rest-Assured. Conducted smoke, sanity, regression, integration, and system testing during Angular migration (v10 to v15). Validated backend data integrity with PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Monitored automat

QA Automation Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

April 1, 2021 - January 31, 2023

Led regression, smoke, integration, and UAT testing for migration of 13 enterprise applications and 40 Linux scripts across RHEL, WAS, and Java upgrade environments. Supported migration validation for applications serving 9.2 million global B2C users. Automated functional and regression test suites using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven within Hybrid Frameworks, reducing manual testing by 60%. Implemented BDD automation using Cucumber, Gherkin, and Java. Conducted cross-browser UI testing with Cypress and JavaScript. Developed mobile automation scripts using Appium for Android and iOS. Performed REST API testing using Postman. Configured Jenkins CI jobs and nightly automation. Assisted with AWS-based deployment troubleshooting across Dev, QA, Staging, and Production environments. Conducted performance testing using JMeter and backend validation using SQL queries. Log defects with JIRA and collaborate with development teams for root-cause analysis.

Software Engineer (QA) at HDFC Bank

March 1, 2019 - March 31, 2021

Performed end-to-end testing for core banking applications including payments, onboarding, and transaction processing. Automated UI tests using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and JUnit; developed a scalable Page Object Model framework. Conducted cross-browser testing with Cypress across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Executed REST API and Web Services testing using Postman and SOAPUI. Validated backend data integrity with SQL queries; performed system integration testing and end-to-end workflows. Led performance testing with JMeter; automated legacy scenarios using UFT/QTP; tracked defects in JIRA and supported release management.