Kanchan Bhendarkar
Verified Expert in Engineering
QA Engineer and Developer
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Toptal member since May 20, 2026
Kanchan is a quality engineering leader and QA automation architect with 12+ years of experience across fintech, payments, eCommerce, and adtech. He specializes in Playwright, TypeScript, Selenium, Java, API, and microservices testing, with a proven track record of building scalable automation frameworks and leading QA teams. He delivers measurable results, driving 90% automation coverage, accelerating CI/CD releases, reducing regression cycles by 70%, and maintaining defect leakage below 5%.
Portfolio
Experience
- API Testing - 9 years
- Java - 8 years
- UI Testing - 8 years
- Test Automation Architecture - 8 years
- Selenium - 6 years
- REST Assured - 6 years
- Playwright - 5 years
- TypeScript - 5 years
Preferred Environment
Java, TypeScript, Playwright, Selenium, JavaScript, UI Testing, API Testing, Shift-left Testing, Agile, Test Automation Architecture
The most amazing...
...achievement has been building QA automation ecosystems and integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines, delivering +85% coverage and keeping defect leakage low.
Work Experience
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Yieldmo
- Architected and implemented scalable end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright in TypeScript and Selenium in Java, resulting in an over 50% reduction in regression cycle times.
- Drove more than 80% automation coverage across mission-critical regression suites while maintaining defect leakage below 5%, significantly enhancing platform stability.
- Integrated automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster deployments, improved release reliability, and seamless developer experience.
- Mentored and upskilled QA engineers, promoting automation-first testing practices across engineering teams.
- Spearheaded a globally distributed quality engineering team of 5+ members, driving automation strategy and technical roadmaps for a high-scale advertising technology platform.
Manager | SDET
Spenmo Technology Pvt Ltd
- Established the quality engineering function from the ground up for a high-growth fintech startup, defining the global testing strategy, automation roadmap, and standardized QA processes.
- Led and mentored a globally distributed team of more than 15 engineers supporting a cross-functional department of over 80 developers.
- Architected end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright, TypeScript, and JavaScript to validate mission-critical payment and expense management workflows in a microservices environment.
- Scaled CI/CD testing pipelines to support a high-velocity delivery model of 10 – 15 production releases per day while ensuring 99.9% platform stability.
- Drove a 70% reduction in regression cycle time and increased automation coverage to more than 90% by embedding shift-left testing practices early in the software development lifecycle.
- Maintained defect leakage below 5% across all major product releases by establishing rigorous quality gates and automated health checks.
Senior SDET
Mastercard
- Promoted for driving automation initiatives across global payment platforms, covering web, mobile, and microservices layers.
- Designed and implemented scalable end-to-end automation frameworks using Selenium, Appium, REST Assured, Java, and Spring Boot to validate complex financial transaction workflows.
- Automated back-end and front-end services for distributed systems, achieving 90 – 95% automation coverage and reducing QA cycle times by approximately 80%.
- Developed robust integration and API automation solutions for large-scale microservices architectures, ensuring seamless communication across payment processing systems.
- Executed ETL and database validations across Oracle, MongoDB, and H2, while integrating automated suites into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Bitbucket.
- Guided testing initiatives for Masterpass and BanColombia Android and iOS mobile applications, improving release quality and reducing production defects by 40%.
Experience
Formats for Ads
Mastercard Digital Enablement Service (MDES)
Spenmo Spend Management Platform
Education
Bachelor of Technology Degree in Chemical Engineering
Sant Gadge Baba University - Amaravati, India
Certifications
Scrum Fundamental Certified
Scrum.org
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Playwright, REST APIs, Selenium WebDriver, Node.js
Tools
REST Assured, Cucumber, JavaScript Testing, Splunk, Postman, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Grafana k6, Jira, Grafana, AWS ELB
Languages
Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Python
Frameworks
Selenium, API Framework, JUnit, Swagger, Appium, Spring Boot
Paradigms
Test Automation, E2E Testing, Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Functional Testing, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Microservices, ETL, Acceptance Testing, DevOps, Agile, Microservices Architecture
Storage
MySQL, Database Testing, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Platforms
Docker, Oracle, Kubernetes, Linux, Maestro, Apache Kafka
Other
UI Testing, API Testing, Shift-left Testing, Test Automation Architecture, Hybrid Frameworks, QA Automation, Quality Assurance (QA), REST API Automation, Test Automation Frameworks, API Integration, Manual QA, SDET, QA Testing, Automated UI Testing, CA Agile Central, CI/CD Pipelines, Back-end, OWASP, User Experience (UX), Test Planning, Testing Strategy, Complex Web Systems, Problem Solving, Root-cause Analysis (RCA), Optimization, Sauce Labs, GitHub Actions, Pact, Contract Testing, Component Testing, Integration Testing
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