Headline

Senior Associate at BetaNXT

About

SDET / Automation Lead with 3+ years of experience in financial services, specializing in designing and building scalable test automation frameworks for capital markets, post-trade operations, wealth management, and trading platforms. Expert in Playwright and Selenium-based automation architecture with strong expertise in UI, API, database, and message queue testing. Proven ability to design enterprise-grade automation frameworks from scratch, improve regression efficiency, and integrate CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and CircleCI. Currently leading automation initiatives for a large-scale post-trade platform at Cognizant, supporting global financial institutions including investment banks and capital markets clients. Built a Playwright automation framework from scratch, increasing automation coverage from 0% to 90%+ and reducing regression execution time from 5 days to 1 day. Strong leadership experience in building automation teams, defining coding standards, mentoring engineers, and driving automation strategy across 100+ member delivery organizations. Key strengths include: Automation Framework Architecture (POM + Custom Design) Playwright, Selenium, Java, JavaScript, Python, C# API, UI, Database Automation CI/CD Integration (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins) Financial Domain Testing (Trading, Risk, Regulatory Systems) Team Leadership & Mentoring Recognized as a top performer consistently in quarterly evaluations and awarded for delivery excellence in multiple enterprise programs.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

gemini

github copilot

Work experience

Senior Associate at BetaNXT, Aug 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Cognizant, Jan 2026 - Aug 2026 · 8 mos, Meritsoft – Post-Trade Operations Platform : > Designed and implemented a scalable Playwright automation framework from scratch using JavaScript, custom POM architecture, reusable components, and centralized configuration, increasing automation coverage from 0% to 90%+. > Led automation strategy for a post-trade financial platform supporting global banking institutions, improving regression efficiency by ~85%. > Automated 1,600+ test cases across UI, API, and database layers for end-to-end validation of financial workflows. > Reduced regression execution time from 5 days (6–8 resources) to 1 day (2–3 resources) using parallel execution and CI/CD optimization. > Integrated automation suites with GitHub Actions and CircleCI for scheduled runs, reporting dashboards, and CI validation. > Built reusable framework utilities including logging, reporting, retry mechanism, test data management, API client, and database utilities. > Implemented AI-assisted automation features including auto TestRail updates and JIRA defect creation on failures. > Developed an agentic AI solution to auto-generate automation scripts from TestRail manual test cases, reducing script creation time by 60% and increasing test coverage by 35%. > Built and led automation team of 8 engineers, defining architecture standards, coding guidelines, and review processes. > Consistently ranked among Top 10 performers in a 100+ member delivery organization.

Programmer Analyst at Cognizant, Apr 2024 - Aug 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, BetaNXT – Automation Engineer : > Automated 400+ test cases across wealth management, asset management, brokerage, and retirement platforms using Selenium, Java, SQL, and API testing tools. > Contributed to large-scale platform migration program ensuring successful delivery within a 10-month timeline. > Enhanced and maintained automation frameworks with loosely coupled architecture improving maintainability and reducing failures. > Developed internal defect management automation tool to streamline defect creation and tracking. Received Delivery Excellence Award for migration project success.

Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant, Apr 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) – Automation Engineer : > Automated 300+ test cases across trading, market data, regulatory reporting, exchange systems, and risk management platforms using Selenium, Java, Python, and API automation. > Enhanced enterprise automation frameworks improving stability and reducing script failures across capital markets systems. > Performed UI, API, database, and message queue testing for end-to-end validation of financial workflows. > Awarded Delivery Excellence recognition for high-quality automation delivery.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar

Diploma, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Falakata polytechnic