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QA lead turned builder. Ten+ years of industry experience. Now building my own products under Pravritti.
Sutrapada, Gujarat, India
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A Kshatriya by caste, Farmer by heritage and an Engineer by experience. More than once I've been privileged to be the first dedicated QA hire. Leaving behind the frameworks, CI pipelines, and triage workflows that outlasted me.
My work runs from manual testing to Playwright automation, CI/CD on-prem and in the cloud, and lately incorporating AI agents that help me write and maintain tests.
Outside of QA, I cycle, play chess, and build things.
Through my lens
Got exposed to the world of "TPM". A challenging space to work in and grateful for the experience.
AI-first test generation in QA
A revolutionary take on hiring with a supportive culture to complement it. This place taught me to think about the culture of quality and how to effectively work remotely.
0 → 40% automated coverage, solo
This is where I learned to lead. I designed an automation framework from scratch, got it to 84% coverage across the critical flows, and embedded the tests into the deployment pipeline so regressions got caught at the door, not in production.
84% coverage · led a team of 4
Learned about computer graphics pipelines, built a Python/Django app to visualise performance-test data so results were actually readable across teams, and standardised GUI test automation on Linux after putting the open-source options (Xnee, ldtp2, dogtail) through their paces.
At UST Global I wrote PowerShell + AutoIt automation that added ~20% coverage and ran System Integration Testing inside a Scrum team. Before that, at Capgemini, I built and maintained Selenium WebDriver suites across client engagements and pushed overall coverage to 85%.
At UST Global I wrote PowerShell + AutoIt automation that added ~20% coverage and ran System Integration Testing inside a Scrum team. Before that, at Capgemini, I built and maintained Selenium WebDriver suites across client engagements and pushed overall coverage to 85%.
My take on a calendar app that is more India-centric — an attempt to build a tool that enables people with a specific belief system. I started it for my father, but I'm hoping it can help more people.
tithi.pravritti.org · not live yet
When I returned to my hometown after Covid it felt like I had entered a new world. I knew the people, places, and customs. But I had been away for so long that all of it seemed remote. At first I tried to fight it but then started understanding the nuances of the culture. Saptapar is my attempt to capture these nuances in a 3D open world adventure game set in my village.
saptapar.pravritti.org · not live yet
Pravritti is an ever evolving project. Will post more updates on what this is about.
pravritti.org · not live yet
A real-time cold-storage monitor on a Raspberry Pi with camera, motion, and thermal sensors — live temperature alerts and entrance motion capture.
Interactive messaging workflows built on the Telegram Bot API. Helped me fetch excerpts from Wikipedia before the AI age.
A helper to manage vSphere VMs hosting a web app that a Selenium framework had to validate. Before it, our team manually deployed VMs before triggering automation (oh, the irony).