Anand Bagmar
Founder, Software Quality Evangelist at XNSIO (formerly known as AgileFAQs)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAnand Bagmar is a founder and Software Quality Evangelist with 25 years in testing and 15 years of focused industry experience driving product-quality outcomes across web and mobile platforms. He advises organizations on quality strategy, test automation, CI/CD and Agile practices while building maintainable automation frameworks and tooling that scale with product needs. Anand contributes to Selenium and has published multiple open-source testing tools (WAAT, TaaS, TTA, teswiz) and practical integrations such as enhancements to AppiumTestDistribution to run parallel Android/iOS tests with video recording and chrome-driver handling. He has led testing organizations at ThoughtWorks, Vuclip and Microsoft and now combines consulting, training and solution architecture (including AI-powered visual testing with Applitools) through Essence Of Testing. Known for turning complex integration testing problems into pragmatic, automatable processes, he speaks and blogs regularly to demystify testing practices. Based in Pune, India, he blends hands-on engineering with community leadership to help teams ship higher-quality products.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
HSC High School, HSC High School at St Vincents High SchoolMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBE Computer Engineering, BE Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (17)
ios10
testng10
java10
javas10
automation10
android10
appium10
automations10
test-automation10
environment-variables9
cucumber9
parallel-computing9
configuration-management8
browserstack7
adoptopenjdk6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AppiumTestDistribution/AppiumTestDistribution
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
A tool for running android and iOS appium tests in parallel across devices... U like it STAR it !
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer / Mobile Developer
Test Automation Engineer / Mobile DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 95 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Anand primarily contributed to enhancing the test automation framework for Android and iOS Appium tests. They implemented features to override configuration settings from environment variables and command-line arguments. Key contributions involved modifying the test execution flow, integrating with the Cucumber framework, and incorporating features such as saving video recordings of test executions. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the Chrome driver handling based on the chrome browser version present in the device.
parallelappiumiosmp4boxparallelappiumcucumberappiumcucumber
znsio/teswiz
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
End-2-End framework for Native & Web Automation using Cucumber-jvm, Appium, Selenium WebDriver, Applitools & ReportPortal
Contributions:53 releases, 133 reviews, 427 commits in 1 year 11 months
gradleweb-automationselenium-appiumcucumberreportportal
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