Punyai Athwale

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of automation systems into existing workflows.

Increased overall project success rate by establishing effective communication channels between stakeholders during all phases of projects.

Championed the adoption of industry best practices in automation, setting high standards for process quality and ensuring consistent results.

Ensured timely delivery of projects by closely monitoring progress, identifying potential roadblocks, and taking corrective action when needed.

Led the team in defining the automation standards and processes.
• Managed resource allocation by evaluating automation requests and, providing estimates, and assigning tasks to team.
• Developed and standardized automation framework to deliver API and UI automation for sitecom.
• Conduct POC’s to establish new tools, frameworks to optimize automation efforts.
• First to Introduce playwright automation tool in Kongsberg Digital.
• Monitor and trigger various automation runs using azure CI/CD pipelines.
• Created detailed documentation, including pre-requisite checklists, and templates, to facilitate frequent automation runs on daily builds.
• Provided training to functional and automation engineering team to ensure successful implementation and ease use of developed automation framework by end users.
• Ramping up juniors to understand automation test activities, analyzing requirements to identify test scenarios, creation/maintenance of Framework.

• Experience in REST API Automation and Web based UI automation testing on MOCHA, SELENIUM, OATS frameworks with CHAI Assertions using typescript , javascript codes.
• Triage test runs and debugged code and locate root causes of problems by reviewing test configuration files and logs.
• Assist team in analyzing requirements to identify test scenarios, creation/maintenance of Automation Framework (POM and Keyword) using Selenium.
• Gathered data on cross product integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations to management.
• Creating test cases/scenarios/plans for feasible solutions and Developed efficient technical solutions to resolve wide range of automation issues.
• Implement bug hunt rounds by performing UI functional tests and REST API functional tests using POSTMAN.
• Develop/Execute mocha automation scripts for oracle CRM web application, development of Hybrid automation framework in Javascript by using Page Objects framework, Keyword Driven & Data Driven frameworks.
• Involved in testing application on different mobile Platform such as iOS and Android devices.
• QA Lead for a team of 3, monitor & control, owner of all test deliverables. Review/Track testing artifacts & metrics related information as per quality guidelines.

• Worked on Perl programming by developing clean, elegant, and reusable perl code to enhance and maintain report generating Web Application Tools. Privileged to work at EMC2 Boston,LA USA .
• Communication with customers in order to log tickets, log defects using Jira and fix perl code to resolve issues related to EMC tools such as HEAT,SWAT and EMCGRAB.
• Researched, designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction, analysis, retrieval and indexing.
• Worked as senior developer to design and maintain EMC's web tools such as HEAT and SWAT. Coding in Perl and bit of java.