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Piyush Bhatia

Senior Test Engineer · Quality Assurance — Australia

15+ years turning ambiguous requirements into evidence: test cases that hold up under audit, defects that are reproducible on the first read, and releases that ship because the risk was known before go-live — not discovered after.

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Summary

I deliver software testing and quality assurance across complex enterprise ICT and Australian Government environments — designing and executing test cases, building test plans and test data, analysing technical specifications, managing defects, and validating integrations so business-critical systems implement cleanly. My background spans federal and state government agencies across service delivery, human resources, regulatory, and defence portfolios, working across Agile, Scrum, hybrid, and Waterfall delivery.

What I bring to a release isn't just test execution — it's traceability. Every requirement maps to a test case, every test case maps to evidence, every defect maps to a reproducible root cause. That chain is what makes a release decision defensible.

15+ years · Federal & State Government ICT

Scope of Experience

Organised by capability rather than by employer — client and program names are withheld in line with clearance and confidentiality requirements, but every line below reflects hands-on delivery, not general familiarity.

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Enterprise Test Leadership Senior Test Analyst / Senior Test Engineer

Large-scale federal enterprise ICT delivery

  • Led end-to-end testing across complex enterprise applications — test plans, complex test cases, test data, and supporting artefacts aligned to release schedules.
  • Translated business and technical requirements into traceable test scenarios covering integration dependencies, risks, and expected system behaviour.
  • Executed functional, system integration, regression, API, and end-to-end testing across multiple interconnected environments.
  • Validated data integrity and business rules via API tooling and SQL; investigated defects with clear reproduction steps and impact analysis.
  • Produced test summary reports and release readiness information to support project decision-making.
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High-Volume Service Delivery Systems Senior Test Analyst

National citizen-facing service platforms

  • Delivered testing across critical government systems — enterprise CRM, legacy case-management, and integrated payment/backend platforms.
  • Designed and executed functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end test cases from detailed technical specifications.
  • Built test data and performed backend validation via SQL and API tooling across interconnected systems.
  • Managed test planning, execution, traceability, and defect lifecycle in enterprise test management tooling.
  • Supported business users through UAT and defect resolution, ensuring solutions were fit for purpose.
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HR & Workforce Transformation Senior Test Analyst

Territory-level HR systems transformation program

  • Supported testing for a major HR transformation spanning identity management and multiple integrated workforce systems.
  • Designed end-to-end integration and regression testing across interconnected enterprise applications and workflows.
  • Ran data validation and integration testing to catch inconsistencies between source and target systems before implementation.
  • Managed testing activity, defects, and traceability within an Agile environment.
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Regulatory & Safety-Critical Systems Senior Test Analyst

Federal regulatory digital platforms

  • Delivered QA and testing across enterprise regulatory and digital applications supporting critical government operations.
  • Built and ran functional, integration, regression, and API test cases from business requirements and technical specs.
  • Performed REST API testing with backend validation in SQL.
  • Owned defects end-to-end — identification, investigation, retesting, and closure — alongside developers and technical teams.
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Secure & Regulated Environments Test Analyst

Nationally significant ICT program, Security Cleared environment

  • Supported testing across enterprise ICT programs in secure, highly regulated environments.
  • Built and ran functional, system integration, and regression test cases against business and technical requirements.
  • Managed defects and test evidence through enterprise test management tools within multidisciplinary Agile teams.

Capability

Skills

Test engineering & quality assurance

Complex Test Case Design Test Strategy & Planning Functional Testing System Testing System Integration Testing Regression Testing UAT End-to-End Testing API & Integration Testing Data Validation Defect Management & Triage Requirements Traceability Test Evidence & Reporting Release Readiness

Technical

Azure DevOps OpenText ALM / Quality Center JIRA Postman SOAP UI SQL / PostgreSQL REST APIs SAP Microsoft Dynamics 365 Tricentis Tosca qTest

Delivery & collaboration

Agile / Scrum Hybrid / Waterfall Sprint Planning & Refinement Stakeholder Engagement Vendor Management Risk & Issue Management Mentoring

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Certifications & Education

Certifications

  • Tricentis Tosca Automation Specialist — Level 2
  • Tricentis Tosca Automation Specialist — Level 1
  • Tricentis qTest Specialist — Level 1

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Outside the day job

Projects

Self-hosted · Personal finance

Ledgerly

A fully self-hosted personal finance tracker running on my own homelab — Next.js, self-hosted Supabase, OCR-based receipt import, and automated transaction categorisation. Built because I wanted my financial data to stay on my own infrastructure, not a third party's.

Web Development · E-commerce

Ashne by Neha

Designed and built the website for this high-fashion jewelry brand — storefront, product presentation, and brand identity online. A different discipline to test engineering, but the same underlying habit: get the details right before it ships.