Abhishek Alate

Spearheaded the development of the quality assurance and release engineering for the Amazon WorkSpaces client platforms.

• Led an 8-member offshore QA team to deliver 142 releases and 42 features across six WorkSpaces client platforms by designing and implementing a unified release process for two engineering teams
• Reduced the release cycle by 10 days; validated over 100+ releases by introducing automated feature and security validation, including CVE detection within a Python-based test framework
• Improved test reliability by engineering a CDK-driven infrastructure deployment pipeline for automated test environments, ensuring consistent, repeatable validation across 100+ releases
• Enabled deterministic automation for 200+ Linux test cases by engineering a GNOME AT-SPI-based Linux automation framework, improving reliability and accelerating validation across 20+ releases

Led the design and development of a Python-based test automation framework for the Apple Business Registration workflow.

• Enabled the QA team to rapidly scale coverage and standardize validation for core business flows
• Delivered high-priority automated test suites for new features, driving test coverage to 60% within the first two months
• Integrated the automation framework and test suites into the Continuous Integration pipeline, reducing end-to-end QA cycle time by 20%

Served as the sole test automation point of contact for three teams, managing multiple parallel projects and building scalable Java/Selenium automation for the ServiceNow platform.

• Delivered 18 features while managing multiple parallel projects and building scalable Java/Selenium automation
• Led an 8-member team through a full end-to-end version upgrade testing cycle, ensuring seamless platform migration and zero regressions
• Leveraged analytics from prior test cycles to optimize test coverage and automation allocation, enabling earlier defect detection by 6 days
• Proposed and implemented a page-caching optimization that improved web application load times by ~10%

Designed and implemented test automation solutions and infrastructure for enterprise informmation management software products.

• Mentored and onboarded 7–10 new engineers, accelerating ramp-up time and enabling deeper product understanding
• Designed and implemented a web-based virtual machine allocation system that eliminated resource redundancy and reduced testing cycle time by ~3 days
• Built and integrated a Jenkins-based Continuous Integration pipeline for OpsCenter automated testing, reducing manual QA effort by 40%

Researched and authored market analysis reports in the emerging domain of business continuity and disaster recovery.

• Researched and authored two market analysis reports, delivering data-driven insights for strategic decision-making
• Generated qualified sales leads for published reports, driving over $5,000 in revenue within a single month
• Authored and relayed communications with customers to furnish custom reports in the market of interest