Nitin Kulkarni

About Nitin Kulkarni

Principal SDET with 13 years of experience engineering quality at scale — from designing automation frameworks to driving test strategies for large, distributed systems. I bring a builder\'s mindset, a passion for clean code, and a relentless focus on debugging and delivering reliable software. • I’ve led initiatives to eliminate manual QA via driverless UI/API automation, migrated legacy systems to modern test stacks (TypeScript, Mocha, Selenium), and mentored global teams of SDETs. I • Thrive in environments where I can collaborate with engineers, product managers, and platform teams to build scalable, testable solutions from day one. • What truly drives me is a hunger to learn and a passion for innovation — whether it\'s exploring new automation tools, improving CI/CD pipelines, or helping teams shift left and catch bugs early. I\'m constantly evolving, upskilling, and seeking ways to deliver smarter, faster, and with more confidence. Core strengths: ⁃ Test automation at scale (Java, Selenium, REST, Mocha). ⁃ Debugging complex systems and delivering root cause analysis. ⁃ Enabling high-velocity teams through scalable test strategies ⁃ Mentoring engineers and building a culture of quality. ⁃ Always learning, always experimenting, always improving. Latest learning would be exploring AI areas for quality assurance. Let’s connect if you’re passionate about engineering quality, learning continuously, and building innovative products that scale.

Experience

1. Principal Member of Technical Staff

   Oracle

   Oct 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Oracle Middleware Applications- Enabling driverless testing without any human touch point for both UI and API interfaces- Enhance product quality and optimise testing processes by reducing bug resolution time by 25% across the software development lifecycle- Build and maintain Acceptance tests (Java and Selenium WebDriver) and review the tests developed by the team members.• Migration of test cases from OATS to Mocha for Application Tool Kit- Lead a team of SDETs to migrate the automated selenium test scripts from OATS to Mocha based framework using Selenium, Typescript and inbuilt libraries- Deliver the migrated test cases to the OPS team in a timely manner to avoid test execution outages in prod environments- Mentor junior team members and perform code reviews.• Redwood referential application- Develop test cases and automate the RESTful services of the application- Partner with the redwood platform and UI team to provide assistance on the usage of services- Debug critical issues by going through logs and providing RCA for the same.

Education

• City Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Big Data
• Hp Qtp
• Testng
• Xml
• Big Data Analytics
• Apache C*
• Selenium Testing
• Hp Quicktest Professional (Qtp)
• Manual Testing
• Core Java
• Selenium
• Crm
• C++
• Css
• Php
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Phantomjs
• Html
• Basic Html
• Xpath
• Mysql
• Javascript
• Integration Testing
• Jquery
• Java
• Selenium Webdriver
• Test Cases
• Cassandra
• Test Automation
• Web Services
• Tableau
• Phpunit
• Sql
• Linux