Abhijeet Vaikar

Abhijeet Vaikar has a diverse work experience in various software engineering and quality assurance roles. Abhijeet currently works at Carousell Group as a Lead Software Engineer, where they oversee the improvement of quality within product teams. Prior to this, they were a Senior Software Engineer in Test at Carousell, where they focused on improving quality for User Trust, External Ads, and Merchants Marketing. Before joining Carousell, Abhijeet worked as a Software Engineer in Test at Carousell, where they were involved in building automated solutions to enhance software quality. Abhijeet also has experience as a Core Member and Co-Organizer of the taqelah! meetup community, where they facilitated tech meetups on software testing and quality engineering topics. Additionally, they have worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions as an Associate and a Programmer Analyst, contributing to agile testing activities, test automation, and project delivery. Abhijeet also gained experience as a Software Engineer in Test at Praxify Technologies, where they developed a Selenium WebDriver-based end-to-end test automation framework. Abhijeet began their career as a Developer Intern at Blimp Design, where they developed a desktop application for automating the process of fetching book metadata. Abhijeet also had an internship at MindTree Ltd., where they gained experience in software testing and bug tracking.

Abhijeet Vaikar completed their education as follows:

- From 2010 to 2012, they pursued a Masters in Computer Management with a specialization in Information Technology from Neville Wadia Institute of Management Studies & Research in Pune.

- From 2007 to 2010, they obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Nowrosjee Wadia College in Pune.

- From 2005 to 2007, they completed their Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) from St. Vincent's High School in Pune.

- Prior to that, they received their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) from St. Vincent's High School in Pune.

- Furthermore, they attended St. Mary's High School in Dahanu.

In addition to their formal education, Abhijeet has also acquired various certifications, including "Secure Coding in Go" from LinkedIn in 2023, "M101J - MongoDB for Java Developers" from MongoDB in 2014, and several others from Code School and Udemy.