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Gokulakannan A

Senior Test Lead | SDET · QA Automation | Playwright · Cypress · Selenium · Appium | TypeScript · JavaScript | REST Assured · Jenkins CI/CD · BDD | 7 yrs

Bengaluru

4+ years of work experience

HCLTech
Aug 20264 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Leading QA automation for an ed-tech product: Playwright-BDD and Cypress suites, Jenkins CI. • Set up the Jenkins pipeline for the new Playwright-BDD suite, adapting the existing Cypress job to a different repo layout and branching model • Review the team's Cypress-to-Playwright migration work
NTT DATA North America
Oct 20232 yrs 10 mosJul 2026

Remote

QA automation for Blue Yonder's warehouse management (WMS) platform. • Helped cut manual regression effort by roughly 70% by automating the core WMS regression flows (inventory, cycle counts)
Apisero Inc.
Dec 20211 yr 10 mosSep 2023

Chennai

API and integration testing on MuleSoft projects. • Recognised by the client for delivery quality (2023)

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Headline

Senior Test Lead | SDET · QA Automation | Playwright · Cypress · Selenium · Appium | TypeScript · JavaScript | REST Assured · Jenkins CI/CD · BDD | 7 yrs

About

I build test automation that teams trust enough to ship on. For 7 years I've worked across web, API and mobile testing, most recently as a Senior Test Lead. Day to day that's TypeScript and JavaScript with Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO and Selenium for UI, REST Assured and Postman for APIs, and Appium for mobile, all running in Jenkins CI with Cucumber BDD. A few things I've done: • Helped cut manual regression effort by roughly 70% on a Blue Yonder WMS program by automating the core regression flows • Set up CI for a Playwright-BDD suite on an ed-tech product • Tested supply-chain and warehouse (WMS) systems, where the costly bugs hide in inventory edge cases What I care about: suites without flaky noise, tests written from the business flow, and reports that show what broke at a glance. Always happy to talk with teams who take quality engineering seriously.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

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cursor

github copilot

openai

perplexity

Work experience

Senior Test Lead at HCLTech, Aug 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Leading QA automation for an ed-tech product: Playwright-BDD and Cypress suites, Jenkins CI. • Set up the Jenkins pipeline for the new Playwright-BDD suite, adapting the existing Cypress job to a different repo layout and branching model • Review the team's Cypress-to-Playwright migration work

Digital Technology Analyst (QA Automation) at NTT DATA North America, Oct 2023 - Jul 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Remote, QA automation for Blue Yonder's warehouse management (WMS) platform. • Helped cut manual regression effort by roughly 70% by automating the core WMS regression flows (inventory, cycle counts)

Senior Software Engineer at Apisero Inc., Dec 2021 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Chennai, API and integration testing on MuleSoft projects. • Recognised by the client for delivery quality (2023)

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