Senior Engineer at Homesite Group Incorporated

Onkar Khadke is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with more than 10 years of experience in software quality assurance, test automation, API validation, and release management across the insurance, automotive, and technology sectors. He specializes in designing scalable automation frameworks, integrating quality controls throughout the software development lifecycle, and leading cross-functional testing initiatives. His technical expertise includes Java, Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured, Cucumber BDD, TestComplete, SQL, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, REST and SOAP API testing, and database validation. Currently, Onkar serves as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at Homesite Group LLC(AmFam Group). He designed a custom Java-based automation framework that improved team efficiency by 25% and developed an API automation framework that was adopted as an organization-wide proof of concept. He also leads production release validation, manages cross-team testing dependencies, mentors QA engineers, supports technical hiring, and performs large-scale data and performance testing involving millions of records. Previously, Onkar worked at CarMax, Tech Tammina, and TekWissen, where he contributed to API testing standardization, shift-left automation, Selenium and Cucumber framework development, backend data validation, migration testing, and end-to-end quality assurance. At CarMax, his API testing alignment initiative improved cross-module test accuracy by 35% and helped reduce integration defects. Onkar holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Shivaji University. He also brings experience in team leadership, mentoring, Agile delivery, performance testing, CI/CD integration, and AI-assisted quality engineering practices.