Resume
Arjun Jhawar
Test Engineering Lead | QE Architect | Automation Strategy
Brisbane, Australia·16+ years in industry (completed years since Dec 2009)
Automation-first quality engineering for distributed, high-scale platforms. I lead test strategy and architecture, embed CI/CD quality gates, and grow QE maturity through mentoring and cross-team enablement. Deep experience with Playwright-heavy E2E, API and contract testing, pipeline design (GitLab, TeamCity, Jenkins), and AWS/Docker-backed test environments.
Skills
Grouped for scanning — not implied percentages.
Leadership & Strategy
- QE Leadership and Strategy
- Test Architecture and Frameworks
- Mentoring and Cross-Team Enablement
Automation
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium
- E2E and Integration Testing
APIs & Quality Practices
- API and Contract Testing
- Service Virtualisation
- Shift-Left and Continuous Testing
- Test Data and Environment Strategy
CI/CD & Platforms
- GitLab CI/CD
- TeamCity
- Jenkins
- Pipeline Design
- AWS
- Docker
Experience
Timeline with outcomes that translate to delivery risk reduction.
Senior Quality Engineer
Squiz|Aug 2024–Present
- Owned and evolved a Playwright E2E framework for critical product flows.
- Complex CI/CD orchestration with upstream and downstream pipeline triggers.
- Contract testing and internal broker patterns (e.g. GitLab Package Registry APIs).
- Roughly 85% automated coverage of critical flows; roughly 80% reduction in manual regression load.
- Slack threaded test summaries for pipeline observability.
- Mentored junior QEs and developers; helped grow QE maturity with a team of about four engineers.
Senior Engineer (Quality / DevOps)
Xero|Aug 2022–Aug 2024
- Internal testing platforms: mocks, data provisioning, and scalable integration patterns.
- CI/CD for large, parallel integration test suites and faster developer feedback.
- IaC for repeatable test environments.
- Cross-team strategy, tooling alignment, and enablement.
Independent Consultant
Quality Engineering (enterprise clients, NZ)|Nov 2018–Jun 2022
- UI and API test frameworks tailored to client constraints.
- Tool selection, architecture, and CI/CD integration.
- Mentoring, shift-left adoption, and continuous testing roadmaps.
QE / SDET (progressing roles)
Various organisations|2009–2018
- Foundations in test automation, strategy, and stakeholder management.
- Progression toward senior QE and technical leadership.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology)
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, India
2005–2009