# Poonam Sangle

> AI-Driven Quality Engineering Leader | Senior SDET at Arkestro | AI-Powered Procurement Platform

Location: Lake Forest, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/poonam

Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with 9 years of experience in automation, API, and integration testing. Proficient in building scalable test suites, reducing release cycles, and improving product quality through early defect detection.

At Arkestro, I lead automation efforts for an AI-driven procurement platform. Recent work includes designing a product-wide AI code review pipeline using Claude Code, introducing automated test generation from Jira acceptance criteria using ChatGPT, and building an AI-assisted RCA process using Slack AI. I also integrated Playwright MCP and leveraged GitHub Copilot and Claude to streamline test development and maintenance, achieving a 30% reduction in debugging time, a 40% increase in development efficiency, and test coverage growth of over 30%.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr. SDET) @ Arkestro
Jan 2024 – Present | Lake Forest, California, United States
✔ Engineer at Arkestro, an AI-driven predictive procurement orchestration platform, ensuring high-quality releases and supporting AI-driven savings of 2–5x and influencing 100% of spend.
✔ Designed and deployed a product-wide AI code review pipeline using Claude Code, with both automatic and on-demand modes, cutting developer review wait time by roughly 40% and now a formal step in the SDLC.
✔ Introduced automated test generation from Jira acceptance criteria using ChatGPT, giving the team test cases aligned to requirements before development completes.
✔ Built an AI-assisted RCA process using Slack AI with structured templates, reducing incident documentation time by around 50% and improving consistency across postmortems.
✔ Integrated Playwright MCP to provide enhanced execution context, enabling AI tools such as GitHub Copilot Agent and Claude Code to assist with test analysis and maintenance, resulting in a 30% reduction in debugging and fix time.
✔ Leveraged GitHub Copilot Agent and Claude Code for AI-assisted test generation, refactoring, and documentation, increasing test coverage by 25% and accelerating test development by 40%.
✔ Developed and executed automated test scripts using Playwright with TypeScript, integrated LambdaTest for cross-browser testing, and implemented GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation.
✔ Conducted API testing with Postman and performance testing using JMeter, ensuring systems performed optimally under various conditions.
✔ Utilized Datadog for monitoring, managed incidents via PagerDuty, and performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to resolve production issues and prevent future occurrences.

### Software QA Engineer @ Gradelink
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
✔ Developed test automation using Test Complete and Selenium for web and mobile integration testing.
✔ Managed diverse production, stage, and test environments for seamless operations.

### Senior Software Test Engineer @ Oportun
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
✔ Drove a 50% expansion in automation coverage for a multi-tier web platform using WebdriverIO (TypeScript) and Protractor (JavaScript).
✔ Reduced overall defects by 30% through root cause analysis using SQL and MongoDB scripting.
✔ Collaborated cross-functionally to capture sprint features and ensure comprehensive test coverage, improving quality criteria attainment by 20%.
✔ Tested back-end REST APIs using Swagger, Postman, and Karate Framework.

### Software Test Engineer @ Oportun
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Orange County, California, United States
✔ Owned QA activities across the full SDLC including test strategy, automated script development, and defect tracking using Jira.
✔ Built and maintained automated front-end test scripts using Protractor and Jasmine; validated back-end API, SQL, MongoDB, and Solr changes.
✔ Led defect resolution coordination with engineering teams and maintained all QA documentation throughout the development lifecycle.

### Software Test Engineer @ Nortridge Software
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Orange County, California Area
✔ Reduced critical defects by 20% through end-to-end testing and risk analysis on the NLS desktop application.
✔ Led the shift from manual to automated testing using Robot Framework and Selenium (Python), improving team efficiency by 40%.
✔ Built and maintained automated API and web application tests using Postman, Swagger, and Robot Framework; configured Jenkins for CI/CD execution.
✔ Performed performance and load testing using JMeter and BlazeMeter to validate application capacity and behavior.

### Graduate Assistant @ Lamar University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Lamar University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/poonam-sangle

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Last updated: 2026-03-22