About Sambhav Dave

$ experience

1. Senior SDET

   SeekOut

   Mar/2025 - Present · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · Hybrid | Full-time

   Daily routine: SQA, Scrum Meetings, PR reviews, Debugging, Test Automation, Product Smoke and Regression Testing

   • Architected the core test strategy for Outreach platform within the engineering team.
   • Wrote service level unit and integration tests for NestJS backend services.
   • Solely involved as principle QA for in-sprint testing of new features.
   • Doing code reviews for test automation code ensuring industry standard code quality.

   stack: TypeScriptPlaywrightNestJSAzure DevOpsClaude CodePlaywright MCP

2. Senior SDET

   Xogene Services LLC

   Mar/2024 - Mar/2025 · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote | Full-time

   Daily routine: SQA, Scrum Meetings, PR reviews, Debugging, Test Automation

   • First automation tester who built the automation test infrastructure from scratch.
   • Laid out the automation test strategy and created/maintained test automation deliverables.
   • Helped the product testing team in writing efficient test cases.
   • Added user centric locators to frontend for better and reliable automated testing.

   stack: JavaSelenideREST-AssuredDockerAWS

3. Student Teaching Assistant

   Swansea University

   Oct/2023 - Dec/2023 · Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom · Onsite | Part-time

   Daily routine: Management of labs and resolving course related doubts of BSc/MSc students.

   • My job is to assist in labs of Java programming and Web Development modules.
   • Both of these labs consist of ~100 students each, running twice a week for 2 hours.

   stack: JavaLaravelTailwind CSSReact

4. Student Software Developer (Python Developer)

   SAIL Databank

   Jun/2023 - Sept/2023 · Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom · Remote | Part-time

   Daily routine: Scrum Meetings & occasional supervisor meetups

   • Joined as a part-time developer intern to a team of 5 developers cum researchers in the field of Population Data Science.
   • Main work revolved around feature development using Django, solving bugs and also developing an API client for internal use by researchers.

   stack: PythonTkinterDjango

5. Consultant (SDET)

   Genpact Digital

   Mar/2021 - Dec/2022 · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · Remote | Full-time

   Daily routine: SQA, Scrum Meetings, PR reviews, Debugging, Test Automation

   • Joined as a SDET for a SaaS project called as PVAI (Pharmacovigilance Artificial Intelligence) that served pharma giants across Europe and UK.
   • Extended the test automation framework by code refactoring and adding new features.
   • Leveraged Selenium WebDriver & REST-Assured for test automation, increasing coverage by 40%.

   stack: JavaSpringBootReactRedisAWSSelenium WebdriverREST-Assured

   PVAI Spot Award Acknowledged by the VP (Quality Engineering) for swift onboarding and rapid adaptation and valuable contribution to the team dynamics during a critical phase of the ongoing project.

   PVAI Enabler of Excellence Received award for rapidly mentoring colleagues in Test Automation, preparing them efficiently for real assignments.

6. Assistant Systems Engineer (Automation QA)

   Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd.

   Jul/2019 - Mar/2021 · Nagpur, Maharashtra, India · Onsite and then Remote (due to COVID) | Full-time

   Daily routine: SQA, Scrum Meetings, Test Automation

   • Joined as a junior SDET to the QA team of TCS BaNCS (a software suite developed by TCS to serve leading banks across the globe).
   • Learned to write efficient test cases and automated them enhancing overall test coverage.
   • Solely designed and setup the core test automation framework for the QA team to carry the work forward.
   • Implemented CI/CD for the test-scripts to run on AWS EC2 containers.
   • Introduced healthy practices as a software engineer for fellow members to follow. Maintained proper documentation also.
   • Occasionally led scrum meetings and experienced all the phases of Agile software development, especially the QA signoff.

   stack: Software Quality AssuranceJavaSelenium WebdriverREST-AssuredDockerJenkinsAWS

$ education

$ skills --list

Testing & Automation

PlaywrightSelenium WebDriverSelenideWebdriverIOREST-AssuredPostman

AI Tooling

Claude CodePlaywright MCPMCPAI-assisted test generationSpec-driven development

Languages

TypeScriptJavaPythonJavaScript

Frameworks

NestJSSpring BootDjangoNode.jsReact

CI/CD & Cloud

Azure DevOpsJenkinsGitHub ActionsDockerAWS

Build & Data

GitApache MavenPoetryMySQL

$ cat extras.txt

Languages:

English (Business-fluent), Hindi (Mother-tongue)

Marital Status:

Single

Current Location:

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Hobbies:

Cooking, Cleaning, Travelling.

Volunteering & extracurriculars