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title: "Shubham Pisal - Forward Deployed Engineer in Pune District | Tal"
description: "Meet Shubham Pisal, SDET | Playwright | Java | CI/CD | Backend & UI Automation based in Pune District. AI stack includes cursor."
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# Shubham Pisal on Tal

## Headline

SDET \| Playwright \| Java \| CI/CD \| Backend & UI Automation

## About

Most teams see QA as support\. Quality is engineering\. Software Development Engineer in Test with 3\+ years of experience building automation for web and backend systems\. Strong believer that QA and development both require system thinking\. Experience includes both manual and automation testing\. Manual testing builds deep product understanding\. Automation builds reliability at scale\. Core focus areas: • Playwright based UI automation • API and authentication testing • CI integrated quality gates • Reducing flaky tests • Improving backend coverage At Coupa Software: • Reduced manual regression by 80% • Increased backend coverage from 62% to 85% • Reduced integration test flakiness by 70% At Checksum\.ai: • Work directly on customer CI pipelines • Diagnose build failures • Stabilize brittle automation • Improve reliability in real environments Tech stack: Java TypeScript Playwright JUnit Spring Boot Docker REST APIs Open to global SDET opportunities\. Interested in teams that value strong quality engineering\.

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

cursor

## Work experience

Forward Deployed Engineer at Checksum\.ai, Jan 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, Remote, • Build Playwright UI and API tests for enterprise customers • Work directly in customer repositories • Diagnose CI failures and flaky tests • Improve selector reliability and synchronization • Stabilize automation pipelines Result: More reliable builds\. Cleaner test suites\. Better release confidence\.

Software Engineer in Test at Coupa Software, Nov 2022 \- Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Designed automation using Playwright, Cypress, and JUnit • Reduced manual regression by 80% • Increased backend coverage from 62% to 85% • Containerized test databases using Docker • Reduced integration flakiness by 70% Result: Faster releases\. Stronger CI pipelines\. Higher engineering confidence\.

Design Engineer at Treknocom Engineering Pvt Ltd, Nov 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 9 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

## Education

Post Graduation Diploma In Advanced Computing \(CDAC\), Information Technology, SunBeam Institute of Information Technology, Pune\-Karad

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, NBN Sinhgad School of engineering, Pune

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