Playwright's Cookbook: Recipes with TypeScript
Practical, recipe-style patterns for building reliable end-to-end test automation with Playwright and TypeScript.
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Two decades of quality discipline, now building AI-native platforms
AI-Native Platforms
Now leading enterprise payments data platforms at Commonwealth Bank. Driving the adoption of GenAI, LLMs, AI agents, MCP, and RAG across the software delivery lifecycle.
Sep 2024 – Present · Sydney, Australia
Senior Engineering Manager , Commonwealth Bank
Leads the engineering team for enterprise payments data platforms serving Frontline, Business Banking, and Channels. Drives AWS cloud-native platform design and the adoption of GenAI, LLMs, AI agents, MCP, and RAG across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, and observability for enterprise payments data platforms
- Leads adoption of Generative AI, LLMs, AI Agents, MCP, and RAG to streamline engineering workflows
Engineering & Cloud Leadership
A move into Australia and into engineering leadership, building and training teams, owning regulatory certifications on the New Payments Platform, and modernizing automation practice at scale.
Nov 2021 – Sep 2024 · Remote
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Lead , Doshii
Built an end-to-end test automation framework (WebdriverIO/TypeScript, later migrated to Playwright) integrated with CI/CD for a hospitality API platform bridging apps and POS systems. Doshii is a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary — this role transitioned directly into the current Senior Engineering Manager role at CBA.
- Led migration from WebdriverIO to Playwright
- Integrated automation suite with CI/CD, starting on Jenkins and migrating to GitHub Actions
Jul 2021 – Nov 2021 · Remote (Contract)
Test Automation Consultant , WooliesX
Supported an internal platform squad, resolving technical issues in a native Android test automation suite built with Espresso and Kotlin.
Sep 2018 – Jun 2021 · Greater Newcastle, Australia
Test Automation Specialist , Newcastle Permanent Building Society
Built and maintained automation for Open Banking / Consumer Data Right compliance and digital banking (PayID, internet and mobile banking) using Robot Framework, Cucumber, WebdriverIO, and Appium. Built and trained a team, and managed Osko®/BPAY® regulatory certification testing on the New Payments Platform.
- End-to-end ownership of Osko® and BPAY® regulatory certifications on the NPP
- Built and trained a test automation team
May 2018 – Aug 2018 · Sydney, Australia
Test Automation Consultant , Newcastle Permanent Building Society
Built an automation framework (Selenium, Java, TestNG) for a digital home-loan lending solution and streamlined user acceptance testing.
Foundation in Quality Engineering
Two decades of hands-on test automation and quality discipline, from an early career in India through a decade at Emirates in the UAE. The rigor everything since is built on.
Jan 2014 – Apr 2018 · United Arab Emirates
Test Engineering Manager , Emirates
Managed end-to-end testing services across 150+ projects with a team of ~40 manual and automation testing resources, including test automation architecture, budget ownership, and framework-level strategy.
- Managed ~40 testing resources across 150+ projects
Sep 2011 – Jun 2014 · Dubai, UAE
Test Specialist , Emirates
Delivered test automation and strategy for major initiatives including the Emirates website fraud prevention program, a closed-user-group redesign, JBoss/JDK and HTML4-to-HTML5 migrations, and new payment methods.
Apr 2008 – Aug 2011 · Dubai, UAE
IT Consultant , Emirates
Managed test teams, automated system and load testing, and configuration management.
Jun 2007 – Apr 2008 · India
Senior Test Engineer , Allianz Cornhill Information Services
Test engineering foundation early in career.
May 2006 – Jun 2007 · India
Senior Software Engineer , US Technology International Pvt. Ltd
Software engineering foundation early in career.
Jun 2005 – May 2006 · India
Software Test Engineer , Cordiant Technologies
First professional role, beginning a 21-year career in software test engineering.
