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title: "Rakesh Dash - Quality Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Rakesh Dash, 💼 SDET @ LTM | 🤖 Automation Test Engineer (Java, Selenium) | ⏳2.5+ yrs | ⚙️ Building Reliable Automation Frameworks for UI & APIs | 🐙 Git |⚡ SQL | 🚀 Agile | 🔄 CI/CD | 🛡️ Quality Assurance based in Bengaluru."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/rakesh-dash/share-image"
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# Rakesh Dash on Tal

## Headline

💼 SDET @ LTM \| 🤖 Automation Test Engineer \(Java, Selenium\) \| ⏳2\.5\+ yrs \| ⚙️ Building Reliable Automation Frameworks for UI & APIs \| 🐙 Git \|⚡ SQL \| 🚀 Agile \| 🔄 CI/CD \| 🛡️ Quality Assurance

## About

🔧 What I Do I'm a QA Automation Engineer \(SDET\) at LTIMindtree with 2\.5\+ years of experience building scalable test automation frameworks for enterprise applications\. My core stack is Java \+ Selenium WebDriver \+ TestNG, and I work extensively with REST Assured and Postman for API testing, and Cucumber for BDD\. 🏭 Current Work I'm currently working on a Production Control System for a leading manufacturing client — a critical enterprise web application that manages end\-to\-end production operations\. I own the automation layer: building the Hybrid Framework, writing test scripts, setting up parallel execution, and integrating everything into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality delivery\. 📌 What I've Built & Delivered → Designed and delivered a Hybrid Automation Framework from scratch, now used by the full QA team → 500\+ automated test scripts covering UI, regression, smoke, and integration scenarios → Parallel test execution via TestNG — significantly reduced suite run time → Integrated automation into CI/CD \(Jenkins \+ Git\) for auto\-triggered regression on every deployment → Consistent zero\-defect releases through comprehensive pre\-release validation cycles 🛠 Tech Stack Java • Selenium WebDriver • TestNG • JUnit • Cucumber \(BDD\) • REST Assured • Postman • Jenkins • Git • Maven • JIRA • IntelliJ IDEA 📚 Currently Exploring Playwright, API automation at scale, and performance testing concepts — always looking to expand the toolkit\. 💬 Let's Connect Open to connecting with QA engineers, SDETs, automation architects, and recruiters in the testing space\. Feel free to reach out\!

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Quality Engineer at LTIMindtree, Jan 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, •Designed and built a Hybrid Automation Framework from scratch using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG — now adopted by the QA team for critical regression workflows\. •Developed and maintained 500\+ automated test scripts for UI, regression, smoke, and integration testing across an enterprise Production Control System for a manufacturing domain client\. •Implemented parallel test execution using TestNG, significantly reducing overall test suite execution time and enabling faster sprint feedback loops\. •Performed comprehensive API testing for RESTful web services using Postman and REST Assured — validating payloads, status codes, and schema integrity\. •Integrated automation suites into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines \(triggered on every code deployment\), enabling continuous quality gates across releases\. •Worked in Agile/Scrum — participated in sprint grooming, sizing, defect triage, and release retrospectives\. •Managed end\-to\-end defect lifecycle in JIRA: logging, tracking, prioritization, and coordinating fixes with development teams\.

Graduate Apprentice at LTIMindtree, Oct 2023 \- Dec 2023 · 3 mos, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Summer Intern at LTIMindtree, Feb 2023 \- May 2023 · 4 mos, Remote

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, C\.V\.Raman College of Engineering

Class 10th, Vyomayana Samastha Vidyalaya

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