Omkar Deshpande

📱 Mobile: +91 8983191675

🌐 Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Mobile Premier League

Feb 2025 - Sep 2025

Defined and executed an end-to-end test strategy for mobile applications (Android & iOS) independently, ensuring robust functional, regression, and API test coverage.
Led and mentored a 14-member QA team, optimizing task allocation, sprint planning, and test execution to consistently deliver milestones on time within Agile frameworks.
Designed and maintained JIRA dashboards to track test execution, defect trends, and quality metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making for stakeholders.
Architected and implemented API automation frameworks using Rest Assured (BDD), validating business logic, error handling, and integrations across services.
Performed backend data validation using PostgreSQL, creating reliable test data, verifying API-to-database integrity, and improving overall test accuracy and system reliability.
Integrated automated API test suites into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous validation and faster feedback during releases.

University Of Pune(2012 - 2016)

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Electronic Arts

Apr 2023 - Aug 2024

Led and mentored a team of 7 QA engineers, promoting QA best practices, process improvements, and consistent quality standards across teams and client engagements.
Acted as the primary QA point of contact for clients, gathering and clarifying business requirements, performing task estimation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to debug and resolve complex issues efficiently.

Sagitec Solutions

Dec 2020 - Jan 2023

Reviewed requirement and design documents and defined test strategies for client–server applications to minimize ambiguities and improve test coverage.
Designed, developed, and executed web automation scripts using Java, Selenium, and TestNG as part of the regression test suite.
Performed manual API testing using Postman and automated API test suites using RestAssured with BDD, integrating execution into CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins.

Biz Secure Labs

Dec 2019 - Sep 2020

Performed Functional, Unit, Black-box, Exploratory, Risk-based, Smoke, Sanity, and Regression testing across multiple projects to ensure application stability and quality.
Conducted SIT and UAT, collaborating with stakeholders while validating API functionality using Postman, and documented defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, and priority to ensure timely resolution.
Identified, documented, and tracked defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, and priority, ensuring effective communication with development teams.

Ubisoft Entertainment

Sep 2017 - Sep 2019

Executed functional, regression, smoke, and exploratory test cases across multiple game builds to ensure high-quality gameplay experience.
Identified, documented, and tracked 300+ defects in JIRA, covering gameplay, UI/UX, performance, and compatibility issues, and followed them through the complete bug lifecycle.
Created and maintained daily test execution reports and product quality reports, providing clear visibility of testing progress, risk areas, and release readiness to stakeholders.

Manual Testing: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Case Design, Defect Tracking, Root Cause Analysis, Traceability Matrix.
Automation Testing: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Hybrid framework, Data-Driven Testing, Linux, Unix, Shell Scripting
API Automation: Postman, RestAssured, REST, SOAP, CI/CD, Jenkins, Version Control, Git
Test Management and Bug Tracking: JIRA, Zephyr, TestRail, Confluence
Databases: SQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Platforms: Web applications, Mobile applications, Android, iOS, Desktop applications
Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, SDLC, STLC