sarang@apple — xcodebuild — zsh

$ xcodebuild test -scheme FaceTimeCallTests

Test Suite 'FaceTimeCallTests' started

✓ testVideoCallE2E (0.42s)

✓ testGroupCallHandoff (0.38s)

✓ testCallAudioRelay (0.51s)

■ 12 tests passed (8.2s)

Building Quality @ Apple

Quality is not
an act, it's a
habit.

I'm Sarang Rakhecha — I build reliable test architectures, drive automation at scale, and ship products that millions of people trust every day. Currently at Apple.

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Years Experience

60+

Features Shipped

400+

Test Cases Built

96%

Avg Suite Pass Rate

Products I've worked on

FaceTime Phone Contacts Qualtrics Platform NetApp Trident

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The Journey

🎸

Off the Clock

📚

The Research

💍

Better Half

☕

Home Base

Born and brought up in India. Crossed an ocean for a CS degree — stayed for the opportunity.

Pune → Binghamton, NY → San Diego, CA

I play guitar. I've also taught it. There's something about teaching that makes you better at everything.

Reader · Badminton Player · Detail Oriented

Researcher before tester. Published a research paper before anyone else in college. I was testing my limits before I started testing software.

University of Pune · Engineer at Heart · Computer Science

Happily married. Life's better when you have someone to debug it with.

Partner in code & life

Currently in San Diego — good coffee, sunshine, and Apple. Making sure your next FaceTime call just works — one test case at a time.

Apple · Release Quality · FaceTime · Phone · Contacts

Highlights

⚙️

Test Automation

Owned 75+ Selenium tests with a 98% average pass rate at Qualtrics.
Writing Swift-based automation for Apple's Contacts app.
Migrated an entire JS test suite to Python, boosting efficiency by 40%.
Built 500+ tests in Python Unittest2 for Kubernetes-native storage at NetApp.

Python Selenium Swift Page Object Model Unittest2

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CI/CD & Release Engineering

Pioneered CI/CD with Spinnaker at Qualtrics, slashing beta-to-production release time by 85% — then presented the playbook to 200+ engineers company-wide.
Owned the CI Defense System at NetApp — auto-triaging test failures into Jira and driving defect prioritization across releases.

Jenkins Spinnaker GitLab GitHub Docker

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Leadership & Process

Led quality for Appframework, AppSDK & Developer Portal — partnering with dev managers on roadmap and priorities.
Led FaceTime Tech Fest sessions to drive focused, multi-device testing.
Acted as team lead during manager absences — running 1:1s, unblocking the team, and driving quarterly planning.

Scrum Master Sprint Planning Test Architecture Release Mgmt

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AI-Driven QE

Leveraging AI-powered code tools and agentic CLI assistants to accelerate test development.
Validated AI/LLM features with data integrity and refined test strategies.
Scored in a high percentile on the ISTQB CT-AI exam and helped shape the team's AI adoption roadmap.

ISTQB CT-AI LLM Validation AI Test Strategy Agentic Workflows

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Infrastructure & Scale

Led data center migration QA at Qualtrics — coordinating cross-team sign-offs and delivering millions in cost savings.
Execute 220+ manual test cases weekly at Apple across 5+ distinct device types.
Used AI to consolidate test cases without losing coverage — boosting execution efficiency while maintaining quality.

Kubernetes Postman Splunk Jira TestRail

Quality is not
an act, it's a
habit.

A Little About Me

Highlights

Education

Let's build
something remarkable.

Quality is not an act, it's a habit.

A Little About Me

Highlights

Education

Let's build something remarkable.

Quality is not
an act, it's a
habit.

Let's build
something remarkable.