Deeptarka Ray

About Deeptarka Ray

Result-driven QA leader with 11+ years of experience spanning product-based and service industries, with the last 4 years at Salesforce.com India Pvt Ltd. Specializes in Test Automation Architecture, Performance Test Framework Design, and QA Management, while also contributing as a Product Owner for enterprise-scale Salesforce implementations. Demonstrates a proven ability to design scalable test automation frameworks (UI, API, DB, Mobile) and performance test strategies supporting mission-critical applications. Adept at balancing technical depth with business acumen, bridging the gap between engineering and product stakeholders to deliver high-quality, customer-focused enterprise solutions. Experienced in leading cross-functional QA teams, driving process excellence, and ensuring robust test strategies aligned with CI/CD, DevOps, and Agile practices. Holds 9 Salesforce certifications, ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst, and Azure & RPA certifications.Key SkillsetsTest Automation Architecture: Designing modular, maintainable, and scalable automation frameworks supporting UI, API, DB, and Mobile testing using Selenium, TestNG, RestAssured, Appium, Playwright.Performance Test Framework Design: Architecting performance engineering solutions using JMeter, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner, integrating with CI/CD pipelines for continuous performance monitoring.QA Management & Leadership: Leading QA teams across automation, functional, and performance testing, defining KPIs, quality gates, and mentoring engineers for growth.Product Ownership & Requirement Leadership: Partnering with business stakeholders to translate requirements into testable solutions, ensuring test strategies align with business value and customer impact.CI/CD & DevOps Alignment: Integrating automation and performance frameworks with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, enabling shift-left testing and continuous feedback loops.Agile Quality Practices: Driving QA maturity through exploratory testing, TDD/BDD adoption, defect prevention strategies, and RCA methodologies.Certifications: 9x Salesforce | ISTQB Foundation | ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst | Azure AZ-900 | RPA.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Consultant

   Salesforce

   Sep 2021 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Architected and built a scalable Robot Framework-based UI Test Automation solution within CumulusCI, enabling end-to-end automation aligned with Salesforce ecosystem standards.Integrated with GitHub Actions for continuous testing in deployment workflows, ensuring faster feedback cycles, higher release confidence, and reduced manual testing effort.Designed and implemented a distributed Performance Testing framework using Apache JMeter for a key strategic Salesforce project.Established performance testing capability within Salesforce GDC practice, enabling proactive identification of bottlenecks, performance benchmarking, and improved customer confidence in system scalability.Contributed to the design and development of enterprise-grade TestNG and Jest-based automation frameworks, extending test coverage across UI, API, and JavaScript applications.Enabled cross-technology automation coverage, fostering reusability, standardization, and faster onboarding for QA teams across projects.

Education

• Army Public School(Kolkata)

  High School, Science

  2007 — 2009

• Jadavpur University

  Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Heat Exchangers
• Fluid Dynamics
• C++
• Thermodynamics
• Autocad
• Heat Transfer
• Fluid Mechanics
• Ptc Creo
• Fluid Power