# Raj Bhatnagar > Automation Architecture and Leadership Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rajbhatnagar Tech Lead with over 15 years of experience in test automation, building and improving test frameworks with cutting-edge technologies and leading teams of skilled SDETs to deliver bespoke automation solutions. My mission is to drive the organizational adoption and excellence of test automation, by crafting and executing tailored test automation strategies across a spectrum of applications while nurturing my team's proficiency through coaching on industry best practices and latest technologies. My most recent credentials include a Technology Leadership Certificate from Cornell University, and my fervor for continual learning drives me to embrace fresh skills and tackle novel challenges within test automation domain. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Schonfeld Jan 2026 – Present | New York, NY ### Tech Lead / Manager @ Lab49 Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | New York, NY ### Engineering Manager / Tech Lead, Quality Engineering @ Renaissance Learning Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States · Drove organizational adoption of test automation by delivering workshops to 20+ stakeholders, resulting in a 25% reduction in manual testing time and a 25% increase in automation coverage. · Orchestrated cross-functional partnership with Engineering leaders to develop and implement custom test automation strategies for diverse applications, yielding about 20% increase in overall system stability. · Directed collaborative efforts with SDETs to drive test automation for Internalization and Localization of our products, yielding 25% increases in automation coverage. · Mentored a team of 8+ SDETs, who successfully deliver fast and high-quality product via test automation in collaboration with SRE team. · Quality Engineering Lead overseeing the adoption of CI/CD across 5+ groups, actively participating in assessing their maturity levels, resulting in 100% automated release pipeline. ### Lead Architect, Test Automation @ Renaissance Learning Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | New York, NY, United States · Build and own architecture workflows for all types of automation solutions front-end (UI), back-end micro-services (API), serverless (AWS Lambda/StepFns), and Visual testing, resulting in 2+ teams adopting pyTest for testing their AWS Lambdas and Visual Testing for reducing manual Testing effort. · Led automation strategy for testing requirements during epic batching and built architecture guidance for multiple epics, automation workflows and test infrastructure requirements. · Coach SDETs on implementation of best practices for all automation solutions and automation consultant/advisor to all Engineering teams, resulting in promotions of 4+ SDETs to next level. · Market research on latest test automation trends and automation solutions industry-wide, like Playwright, Cypress, Visual Testing tools (Applitools, Percy), LambdaTest vs BrowerStack ### Sr Software Development Engineer Test @ Renaissance Learning Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | New York, NY, United States · Introduced and established API test framework using Postman for testing microservices in AWS. · Integrated Postman API tests with Jenkins for 100% hands-free continuous integration testing. · Authored API tests scripts in JavaScript using Postman and executing them via newman in Jenkins. · Introduced and established pyTest framework for testing server less products (Lambda/StepFns ### Sr QA Engineer | Deputy Practice Head (Tech Lead/Manager) @ Lab49 Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | New York, NY, United States · QA lead on multiple projects, handling automation strategies and ultimately delivering high-quality software solutions to the clients, together with people management tasks and coaching. · Actively involved in analysis and estimation of testing requirements, automation tools and strategies for new upcoming projects or new phases of the current project in development. · Implemented automated testing framework using Selenium Webdriver and Protractor for financial and non-financial applications. · REST API automated tests using frisby.js and cucumber-jvm for financial applications. · Skilled in analyzing, debugging and fixing regression automation tests to improve and stabilize automation results in a fast-paced agile software development environment. ### Senior QA Analyst (Officer) @ State Street Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | New York, NY, United States · Led offshore Quality team, served as a scrum-master identifying and resolving blocking issues. · Enhanced in-house automation testing framework using Apache Ant (in Java). · Automation tests for financial services applications (Trade and Pricing Applications and Web Portfolio Reporting Applications). · WebUI automation tests for financial services products (Equities, Swaps, Fixed Income, FX, Futures, Options, and Mortgage-backed securities). ### Software QA Engineer II @ Oracle Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Greater Philadelphia Area · Building automation test framework and test scripts for Oracle Enterprise Web Applications. · Developing single user Performance testing scripts for Enterprise web application. · Acted as Scrum Master, coordinating with offshore team to resolve blockers. ### Associate Software QA Engineer @ Oracle Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Greater Philadelphia Area · Writing functional test scripts for Enterprise Web Applications using SilkTest supporting Internationalization and localization. · Configuring Multi-tier architecture environment for Application deployment on J2EE application servers and testing on Windows and Linux/Unix platforms (deployed on virtual machines). · Configuring and administrating of Oracle WebLogic 10g/11g Clusters for deployment of all Oracle Primavera Web Applications on both Windows and Linux environments. ### Software Test Engineer - Intern @ Oracle Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Greater Philadelphia · Developed a small Web application in JSP and Oracle 10g for Company’s Server Lab Inventory. · Functional and Non-functional testing of Web Applications and Client-Server Applications · Administrating and configuring J2EE App servers (with SSL) and Web Servers (like Apache, IIS7.0) on Linux and Windows Environment with and w/o SSL on virtual environments like VMWare. · Created Autorun.exe for the software DVD using Adobe Flash CS3 ActionScript 2.0. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Binghamton University ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Information Technology Maharshi Dayanand University ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Binghamton University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rajeshbhatnagar --- Source: https://flows.cv/rajbhatnagar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rajbhatnagar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13