Apurva Bakshi-kulkarni is a Senior Quality Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend test automation, API testing, and CI/CD-driven release engineering for Red Hat Ansible’s SaaS offerings. At Ansible by Red Hat she has driven automation that supports seamless product releases to the Red Hat Cloud Console, and contributed front-end testability improvements to the widely used open-source AWX project. Certified in ISTQB and experienced with Selenium, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, she combines hands-on testing frameworks with practical knowledge of auto-promotion and auto-deployment pipelines. A proven mentor and people-leader, she has onboarded and guided multiple junior engineers and led small teams to meet delivery goals. Her background spans enterprise consulting at Accenture to internships and advanced CS study in the U.S., giving her both broad process discipline and modern cloud-native expertise. Open to senior QA, SDE-A, or engineering management roles, she prefers remote or hybrid positions in the Austin metro area.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Non-degree Studies, Computer Science, Non-degree Studies, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, First Class, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, First Class at MIT College of Engineering, Pune
High School, Science with Electronics as Elective, Distinction, High School, Science with Electronics as Elective, Distinction at Dr Kalmadi Shamarao High School
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Apurva primarily focused on front-end development, specifically within the UI/UX framework of the AWX project. They contributed by adding `data-cy` attributes to key UI elements across multiple screens to facilitate testing and improve selector identification. Furthermore, the user addressed an attribute error within the codebase. This suggests involvement in improving the user interface and testing infrastructure.
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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Apurva Bakshi-kulkarni - Senior Quality Engineer at Ansible by Red Hat