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Ajas Bakran

Senior Engineering Lead | AI Agents & LLM Applications | Distributed Systems | System Design

Pune Division

11+ years of work experience

PubMatic
Aug 20251 yrPresent

Hybrid

PubMatic
Jan 20232 yrs 8 mosAug 2025

Pune, Maharashtra, India

- Lead a team of 8+ SDET engineers, mentoring and grooming junior team members to enhance their skills in test automation and API testing, resulting in improved team performance and - Achieved 20%+ productivity gain using GenAI - Actively participate in release planning and discussions with product teams and cross-functional leads to align testing strategies with project goals. - Led key SDET goals and develop strategies to achieve them, ensuring team alignment with organizational objectives. - Achieved a 75% reduction in UI suite execution time through effective automation strategies, with all API repository executions completed in under 30 minutes. - Maintain code coverage for all API repositories above 80%, ensuring high standards of quality assurance. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software under Agile methodologies, utilizing JIRA for project tracking and management. - Contribute to test automation architecture design, implementing best practices for efficiency and scalability. - Developed an API automation framework from scratch, streamlining testing processes and improving integration capabilities. - Conduct performance testing using JMeter and analyze results through Grafana to identify bottlenecks and recommend actionable solutions. - Optimized existing processes to prevent defect leaks in production, enhancing overall software reliability. - Played a key role in achieving the highest number of releases across the application team by enhancing testing processes and workflows. - Assist the team in overcoming blockers to expedite project delivery and maintain momentum. - Play a key role in sprint planning alongside Scrum Masters, ensuring effective collaboration within Agile teams.
PubMatic
May 20223 yrs 4 mosAug 2025

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Rockwell Automation
Mar 20211 yr 3 mosMay 2022

Pune, Maharashtra, India

- Working as Test Lead - Create/Assist/Troubleshoot on development/Understanding of Test Automation Framework, Standards, Procedures, Processes, and best practices. - Provide leadership and technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools, and Techniques across the team. - Supervise the team to create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases - Review requirements, specifications, and Test design documents. - Design Test Scripts/Jenkins Pipelines for applications based on Requirements. - Collaborate with Developers/Test Architects to resolve doubts/queries on Test Scenarios. - Help team member to align with Organization's goal, evaluate team's performance and guide on professional as well as personal growth. - Enable team to work at its best by resolving blockers/Impediments
Cognizant
Nov 20155 yrs 5 mosMar 2021

Shivaji nager, Pune

- Enhanced the Test Data Team’s automation framework which resulted in a reduction of manual Test Data creation time and increased delivery rate. - Created Automation scripts for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality. - Participated in PI planning in Agile(SAFe). - Coordinated the Test activities and deliverable with the client. - Maintained Automation Test Scripts after Release change. - Conducted Audit with Client on Automation status. - Gave demos to client and internal teams on automated executions. - Tools and Technologies worked on, UFT, JIRA, Vbscript, HP ALM, GitLab, MySQL, Jenkins, Framework Design, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, Docker, Core Java, Postman, TestNG, Cucumber, API Testing - RestAssured
Advance Level Telecom Training Center, BSNL
Jun 20142 mosJul 2014

Ghaziabad, UP

Worked as a Telecom intern. The training areas cover vast spectrum of topics such as -Digital Switching and Intelligent Networks -Mobile Communication: GSM, 3G, CDMA -Data communication and Information Technology : MPLS, VPN, Broadband, IPv6 - Optical Networks: SDH, DWDM, NGSDH, NGN, Access Network
CETPA Pvt Ltd.
Jun 20122 mosJul 2012

Lovely Professional University, Phagwara

This Training included study of, - Microprocessor 8085/8086 - Micro-controller AT89C51

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Education

Lovely Professional University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Lovely Professional University

20114 yrs2015

Sane guruji vidya mandir,Udgir

20018 yrs2009

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Headline

Senior Engineering Lead | AI Agents & LLM Applications | Distributed Systems | System Design

About

I’ve seen what slow response times can do. Leads slip away. Occupancy drops. Costs climb. That’s when I started digging into property-management AI. I studied how top operators solved these exact problems. I found results too big to ignore: [>] +112% more tours with AI leasing assistants. [>] –35% emergency calls using AI triage. [>] –40% delinquencies with automated rent collection. And I knew these wins shouldn’t be limited to the biggest portfolios. So I made it my focus to bring proven AI systems to growth-stage property managers. Here’s what I help implement: [>] LeadFlow Concierge™ – Responds to every lead in under 180 seconds. [>] OpsEdge Automation Suite™ – Cuts OPEX with AI collections. [>] OwnerIntel Command Center™ – Gives owners real-time, plain-language portfolio KPIs. I work with operators ready to: - Adopt systems that pay back in months. - Scale without hiring more staff. - Increase occupancy while lowering OPEX. If that’s you… Message me here. Or click Book a Discovery Call from my featured section Let’s design your AI adoption plan.

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

antigravity

claude

codex

cursor

deepseek

elevenlabs

gemini

hermes agent

hugging face

langchain

langfuse

langgraph

langsmith

llmapi

mcp

n8n

notebooklm

notion

ollama

openai

perplexity

Work experience

Senior Lead Software Development Engineer in Test 1 at PubMatic, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Hybrid

Principal Software Development Engineer in Test at PubMatic, Jan 2023 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, - Lead a team of 8+ SDET engineers, mentoring and grooming junior team members to enhance their skills in test automation and API testing, resulting in improved team performance and - Achieved 20%+ productivity gain using GenAI - Actively participate in release planning and discussions with product teams and cross-functional leads to align testing strategies with project goals. - Led key SDET goals and develop strategies to achieve them, ensuring team alignment with organizational objectives. - Achieved a 75% reduction in UI suite execution time through effective automation strategies, with all API repository executions completed in under 30 minutes. - Maintain code coverage for all API repositories above 80%, ensuring high standards of quality assurance. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software under Agile methodologies, utilizing JIRA for project tracking and management. - Contribute to test automation architecture design, implementing best practices for efficiency and scalability. - Developed an API automation framework from scratch, streamlining testing processes and improving integration capabilities. - Conduct performance testing using JMeter and analyze results through Grafana to identify bottlenecks and recommend actionable solutions. - Optimized existing processes to prevent defect leaks in production, enhancing overall software reliability. - Played a key role in achieving the highest number of releases across the application team by enhancing testing processes and workflows. - Assist the team in overcoming blockers to expedite project delivery and maintain momentum. - Play a key role in sprint planning alongside Scrum Masters, ensuring effective collaboration within Agile teams.

Principal Software QA Automation Engineer at PubMatic, May 2022 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Senior Engineer Software Test at Rockwell Automation, Mar 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, - Working as Test Lead - Create/Assist/Troubleshoot on development/Understanding of Test Automation Framework, Standards, Procedures, Processes, and best practices. - Provide leadership and technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools, and Techniques across the team. - Supervise the team to create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases - Review requirements, specifications, and Test design documents. - Design Test Scripts/Jenkins Pipelines for applications based on Requirements. - Collaborate with Developers/Test Architects to resolve doubts/queries on Test Scenarios. - Help team member to align with Organization's goal, evaluate team's performance and guide on professional as well as personal growth. - Enable team to work at its best by resolving blockers/Impediments

Associate at Cognizant, Nov 2015 - Mar 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Shivaji nager, Pune, - Enhanced the Test Data Team’s automation framework which resulted in a reduction of manual Test Data creation time and increased delivery rate. - Created Automation scripts for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality. - Participated in PI planning in Agile(SAFe). - Coordinated the Test activities and deliverable with the client. - Maintained Automation Test Scripts after Release change. - Conducted Audit with Client on Automation status. - Gave demos to client and internal teams on automated executions. - Tools and Technologies worked on, UFT, JIRA, Vbscript, HP ALM, GitLab, MySQL, Jenkins, Framework Design, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, Docker, Core Java, Postman, TestNG, Cucumber, API Testing - RestAssured

Telecom Intern at Advance Level Telecom Training Center, BSNL, Jun 2014 - Jul 2014 · 2 mos, Ghaziabad, UP, Worked as a Telecom intern. The training areas cover vast spectrum of topics such as -Digital Switching and Intelligent Networks -Mobile Communication: GSM, 3G, CDMA -Data communication and Information Technology : MPLS, VPN, Broadband, IPv6 - Optical Networks: SDH, DWDM, NGSDH, NGN, Access Network

Embedded Software Intern at CETPA Pvt Ltd., Jun 2012 - Jul 2012 · 2 mos, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, This Training included study of, - Microprocessor 8085/8086 - Micro-controller AT89C51

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Lovely Professional University

Sane guruji vidya mandir,Udgir

Public links

github: https://github.com/Dtiapan

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@@grow_with_ai_now