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title: "Amar Sharma - Senior Associate in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Amar Sharma, Senior Associate at BetaNXT based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
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# Amar Sharma on Tal

## 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

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