Sarang Rakhecha

Software Quality Automation Engineer, most recently at Apple

8+ years of QE across manual and automated testing. Quality engineering for the Phone, Contacts, and FaceTime apps. #1 on the team for defect discovery and ranked #120 of 10,201 SWE bug filers (top ~1.2%) across Apple.

Apple — Software Quality Automation Engineer (Sept 2025 – Aug 2026)

  • Filed 99 P1/P2 bugs in under a year at Apple (50 P1, 49 P2); 19 drove confirmed software changes.
  • Ranked #120 of 10,201 SWE bug filers at Apple (top ~1.2%) and the #1 bug filer on the team.
  • Studied user behavior, every feature, and the existing tests for Live Voicemail and Hold Assist; found the untested gaps, built the missing tests, and presented the learnings.
  • Built a Contacts stress test that surfaced a complex performance escape, demoed at skip-level; now contributing to the Contacts repo.
  • Kept the Phone app, the primary presubmission area, at minimal escapes across the trailing 4–5 months of reviews; quality called out by a peer quality manager in a leadership-attended meeting.
  • Executed 290 test cases in about 3 days at release crunch: roughly 115 a day against a team average of about 90.
  • Only team member to present a defect investigation and full test plan to a product QE team at Apple Park (Cupertino).
  • Drives vendor submissions end to end; designed a Radar-quality flowchart that cut rework across vendors, screeners and QE.
  • Delivered 7+ technical demos to engineering leadership.

PR Ticker — built after my own PR sat for 14 days before merging; notifies reviewers sooner. 750+ unit tests, powered by custom Claude skills for weekly quality checks, adopted across multiple teams and two geographic sites.

Slack Test-Compliance Bot — built after an entire pre-submission suite was incorrectly marked N/A; flags tests marked N/A without a linked bug report so incomplete test sign-offs get caught.

Auto-Flasher — automates flashing Macs to the latest build overnight, eliminating hour-long Monday morning setup.

Build Lab — learning new tools by shipping real things

  • Culprit — Every failure leaves a clue — Chrome extension for testers and developers (JavaScript, Manifest V3) that captures failed API calls and console errors, pairs each with the click that caused it, recommends a reliable test selector and produces a copy-ready bug report. Privacy-first: records nothing until you consent, keeps data on your device, makes no network requests of its own. Designed, built and tested solo with 300 unit and 812 browser tests. Submitted to the Chrome Web Store, under review.
  • TerminalQuest — Signal Lost — open-source arcade-style CLI game (Python, ~2,000 LOC, zero runtime dependencies) that teaches core Unix commands by running the player's input against a real Bash shell in a disposable sandbox, guarded by path-escape protection, a scoped $HOME and destructive-command blocks. 400+ tests at 98% coverage, including a real-PTY test harness; CI on macOS and Linux. GitHub — contributions welcome.
  • JainSphere — Android app (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) designed, built and tested solo: prayer timings, temple finder, recipes, alarm-style reminders and kids' games, backed by 1,000+ automated tests (unit + Compose UI) and shaped by closed-testing feedback triaged into P0–P2 fixes. Live on Google Play; 1,000+ automated tests; supports 3 languages; iOS in progress. Built solo, nights and weekends.
  • earthsoftai.com — brand and production website for Earthsoft, an IT software consultancy based in Pune (India) (React, 30+ pages, deployed on Vercel), built while experimenting with AI-assisted design and development workflows.

Qualtrics — Software Test Engineer 2 (June 2021 – Aug 2025)

  • Owned two Python/Selenium E2E suites (75+ tests, 98% pass rate).
  • Cut release-cycle time from beta to production by 85% via a CI/CD pipeline initiative.
  • Delivered 45+ customer-facing features end-to-end; presented CI/CD playbook to 200+ engineers.
  • Aced an ISTQB CT-AI–scoped technical review with the senior QE manager.

Project I’m Proud Of — Qualtrics CI/CD Transformation — the widest-reaching project led at Qualtrics. Designed the full CI/CD architecture end-to-end, requiring near-100% pass rates before beta → gamma → prod promotion; pitched SLAs and story-point sizing to dev leads, their manager, and QE leadership. Closed with a presentation at STE School attended by the Head of Quality Assurance. The same rollout cut release-cycle time (beta to production) by 85%.

NetApp — Software Engineer in Test (Sept 2018 – May 2021)

  • Contributed to and partly maintained a 500+ test Python automation framework for Trident, a Kubernetes storage orchestration tool.
  • Sole owner of CI Defense System defect triage; scheduled Jenkins regression, configured and monitored CI jobs, and ran Black Duck scans before releases.

Skills

Python · Swift · JavaScript/TypeScript · Java · Selenium · Appium · Unittest2 · Page Object Model · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Spinnaker · GitLab · Docker · Kubernetes · Splunk · Postman · TestRail · JAWS · Claude Code · AI-assisted workflows · Manual testing · End-to-end testing · Accessibility · Performance and stress testing · Test planning · Defect triage

Education

M.S. Computer Science, State University of New York, Binghamton · B.E. Information Technology, University of Pune

Contact

sarang.rakhecha@gmail.com · LinkedIn · GitHub · LeetCode · Download résumé (PDF)