Rahul Pargaonkar
Test Automation Lead
Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area India
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Top SchoolRahul Pargaonkar is a Test Automation Lead with around a decade of experience designing and maintaining end-to-end automation solutions for complex web UI and API systems across banking, payments, mortgage, and middleware domains. He has built frameworks from scratch using open-source stacks—Java/Selenium, Ruby/Capybara with SitePrism, Protractor, and REST-assured—while championing BDD (Cucumber/Gauge), CI/CD (Docker, GoCD, Jenkins) and clean coding practices. Comfortable toggling between exploratory testing and automated regression, he also led tech-debt remediation and peer code reviews to raise overall QA quality. Rahul’s background includes production-focused observability work with ELK/Kibana and hands-on pipeline/plugin validation for GoCD, reflecting an operational bent beyond pure test scripting. Based in Pune, he combines pragmatic engineering with domain knowledge in internet security, card payments and corporate banking, enabling faster, safer releases in regulated environments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at MGM's JNEC Aurangabad
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Github Skills (20)
continuous-testing10
testing10
gauge10
capybara10
gocd10
bitrise10
webdriver9
continuous-deployment9
continuous-integration9
ruby9
continuous-delivery9
docker8
cd8
devops7
infrastructure-as-code7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rahulpargaonkar/ruby-functional-tests
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
GoCD Functional tests in ruby - using capybara, webdriver and Gauge
Contributions:78 pushes, 49 branches in 6 months
gocdtestingrubycapybarafunctional-tests
rahulpargaonkar/ruby-training
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Ruby Training I've compiled / customised over time.
Contributions:10 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 13 days
customisedrubytrainingruby-trainingcompiled
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