About

Kartik Punyani is a seasoned Quality Engineer Team Lead with over 11 years of experience in Automation Testing and Quality Frameworks. He has a proven track record of delivering excellence in multiple industries, including Financial Services, Banking, Telecom, and Travel. Kartik has led several Agile scrum/POD teams, driving scrum outcomes leveraging Quality Engineering (QE) best practices and Automation capabilities. He is skilled in Karate, Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver with Java, WebDriverIO, SoapUI, AEM, and BDD & API frameworks. Kartik is also skilled in Performance Testing using Gatling and API Testing using Karate Framework. He believes in coaching and building strong QA teams on new-age automation frameworks and best practices, focused on customer-driven value outcomes. Currently, Kartik is working as a Quality Engineering Team Lead - Automation at Publicis Sapient, a Thailand-based bank with an existing mobile application with thousands of users. He is managing a team of 8 people, accountable for overall quality of the product from both frontend and backend(API + GraphQL), introducing QA best practices, taking care of Performance Testing through Gatling, implementing QA framework and coaching. His responsibilities include building QA Automation Framework, Performance Testing, Owning E2E QA delivery to clients, UAT/Release accountability, Handling Regression packs, and setting up QA best-practices. In the past, Kartik has worked as a Sr. QA Engineer at Makemytrip, where he handled many critical projects like Mission Kashmir, SpiceJet Refund, Indigo Cancellation. He was also a Sr. Subject Matter Expert in Software Testing at Amdocs, where he was part of the Retail Operations Team of T-Mobile, dealing with Applications used on T-Mobile Retail Stores and other Client’s Outlets like WALMAR. Kartik holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications from Delhi Institute of Advanced Science, IP University, Delhi, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Delhi University. He is skilled in QA, test, Selenium, Mobile, Flutter, Frontend, Backend, Parts-of-speech, and Java. With his relevant experience of 12.78 years, Kartik is a valuable asset to any organization looking for a Quality Engineer Team Lead with a proven track record of delivering excellence.