Ankur Raj

QA Automation Engineer | Playwright Expert

Automation Engineer with 3+ years of experience specializing in Playwright, UI automation, and API testing. Skilled in designing scalable POM frameworks, implementing CI/CD, optimizing automation speed through parallel execution, and stabilizing test suites using network mocking and smart locators. Strong focus on reliability, maintainability, and delivering high-coverage automation solutions for enterprise applications.

Core Expertise

Automation Tools

  • Playwright, Selenium, Cypress

    Expert in E2E/UI automation, smart locators, cross-browser testing

Languages

  • TypeScript, JavaScript

    Test scripting, framework design, automation utilities

Frameworks

  • POM, Modular, Hybrid

    Designing reusable components, modular framework architecture

API & Network

  • REST Assured, Network Mocking

    Network interception, API mocking, request/response validation

CI/CD & Tools

  • GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Git, Docker

    CI/CD Integration, pipelines, automated test execution

Reporting & Debugging

  • Allure, HTML Reports, Trace Viewer

    Test Reporting, automated evidence generation

Certifications

Learning Playwright

LinkedIn Learning

Playwright Essential Training

LinkedIn Learning

Professional Journey

Accenture

QA Automation Engineer
Oct 2022 - Present
  • Framework Engineering: Built a scalable POM-based framework in TypeScript, reducing maintenance efforts by 40% through reusable selectors, components, and utilities.
  • Execution Optimization: Implemented parallel execution + cross-browser testing (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit), decreasing regression time from 4 hours to 45 minutes.
  • CI/CD Automation: Integrated Playwright suites into GitHub Actions/Jenkins for nightly execution and automated quality gates on pull requests.
  • Flakiness Reduction: Achieved 90% test stability by using Playwright’s auto-wait, strict mode, and predictable selectors.
  • Debugging & Reporting: Enabled detailed debugging with Trace Viewer, videos, and Allure reports, reducing investigation effort by 50%.

Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata

BBA
2019 – 2022
  • CGPA: 8.9

Notable Automation Achievement

QA Test Website

A functional QA test website for automation practice.

Playwright E2E Framework

A production-grade Playwright E2E framework.

GitHub Project Board

A GitHub Project board with P0/P1/P2 priorities.

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