Summary
Omkar Khatavkar is a Senior Software QA Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in automation testing, DevOps, and quality engineering across enterprise and open-source environments. He designs hybrid, data-driven frameworks and Page Object Model solutions using Python, Java, and Ruby, and is fluent with Selenium, Pytest, JUnit/TestNG, Cucumber and Rest Assured. Omkar has driven one-click, immutable deployments of microservices and monoliths to AWS using Packer, Terraform, Puppet and Jenkins, bridging QA and infrastructure for repeatable releases. He contributes to multiple open-source projects and has built practical tooling—such as a Python-based test failure analysis tool and an automation-focused JIRA integration—to streamline team workflows. At Red Hat and now SUSE, he combined hands-on automation with DevOps practices to reduce toil and accelerate delivery at scale. Based in Pune, he pairs deep test engineering craft with infrastructure automation, often solving operational gaps that aren’t visible in standard test suites.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.E E&TC, B.E E&TC at Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi