Dinesh Velhal
Head Of Testing Community Of Practitioners at BNSF Railway (through Tech Mahindra)
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDinesh Velhal is a testing and quality engineering leader with 19+ years of experience who currently heads the Testing Community of Practitioners at BNSF Railway, driving test maturity, standardization and shift-left practices across a 15-team portfolio. He has designed and implemented end-to-end test frameworks and CI/CD-integrated quality gates for unit, functional and performance testing, and built a performance platform using JMeter, OpenShift, Docker, Dynatrace and Jenkins. Previously a Practice Head at Tech Mahindra, he delivered global test automation programs across web, mobile, API and ETL landscapes, and applied ML-driven predictive analytics to testing use cases. Known for practical automation utilities and a strong knowledge‑sharing culture, he runs regular upskilling workshops and curates reusable test assets that reduce repetitive work. Based in Dallas, he blends hands-on engineering (Java, Selenium, REST-Assured, Cucumber) with strategic governance to turn testing into a repeatable competitive advantage.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
selenium-webdriver9
testing8
selenium7
test-automation-framework6
webdriver6
javascript5
automation4
test-automation4
automation-framework3
api1
tdd1
api-testing1
supertest1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dineshvelhal/jest-framework-starter
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
Basic test automation framework starter kit using Jest
Contributions:62 commits, 3 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 9 months
test-automationtest-automation-frameworkjesttestingjavascript
dineshvelhal/calculate
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:121 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
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