Jul 2025 – Nov 2025 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Pioneering GenAI-powered test automation to accelerate quality engineering — reducing test authoring time by 60% and enabling dynamic, data-driven test scenarios across 30+ critical product flows.
• Key Achievements
• 🚀 Integrated Cursor IDE + Playwright to implement natural-language-based test authoring, achieving a 60% reduction in test creation time.
• 🔐 Developed MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors for secure context injection, enabling synthetic data-driven end-to-end test execution across 30+ high-priority workflows.
• 🧠 Trained and mentored 8 QA engineers on LLM evaluation, RAG testing, and GenAI QA practices — accelerating adoption across product teams.
• ⚙️ Established platform engineering standards to streamline CI/CD integration and enhance collaboration between QA, Product, and Engineering teams.

Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Test Automation Architecture & Team Scaling
• Team Leadership & Strategy
• Scaled QA function from 1→6 SDETs during Series D hypergrowth, establishing
• hiring criteria, mentorship programs, and technical career frameworks
• Led QA strategy for 3 product verticals (Last Mile, Marketplace, Loyalty)
• serving 10M+ monthly active users
• Drove stakeholder management across product, engineering, and executive teams
• to balance speed-to-market with quality gates
• Mentored and grew 5 junior SDETs into mid-level engineers through structured
• 1:1s and technical guidance
• Platform Engineering & Framework Design
• Architected Dockerized mobile device farm (50+ Android/iOS emulators) with
• intelligent orchestration → reduced test execution from 4 hours to 45 minutes,
• achieving 99.5% stability
• Built Java Spring Boot utilities enabling QA teams to generate/download app
• builds (APK, .AAB), interact with databases and S3 via APIs → integrated with
• Jenkins for CI/CD automation
• Engineered master automation framework for API, Web, and Mobile testing,
• hosted in JFROG repository → adopted by 6 product teams for 2400+ test cases
• DevOps & CI/CD Integration
• Implemented Gatling-based performance testing framework for microservices,
• enabling load testing at scale (10M+ requests)
• Integrated ReportPortal.io with automation framework → achieved real-time
• test reporting with 95% test coverage visibility
• Established CI/CD pipeline automation with GitHub Actions, achieving zero-touch
• deployments for 15+ microservices

Nov 2021 – Jul 2022 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Technical Leadership & TCOE Establishment
• Founded Amazon's TCOE test automation team from 0→4 SDETs in 6 months,
• defining hiring rubrics, technical roadmap, and evaluation frameworks for
• enterprise-wide tool adoption
• Led 5+ proof-of-concepts (POCs) evaluating automation tools (Selenium,
• Playwright, Cypress, Appium) → resulted in 2 enterprise-standard selections
• adopted across 10+ AWS service teams
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline automation using Jenkins, Docker, and native AWS
• services (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) → enabled continuous testing for 8
• high-velocity product teams
• Drove technical leadership initiatives: established QA best practices,
• code review standards, and test automation guilds across organization

Dec 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Enterprise Test Automation & Framework Development
• 🧩 Designed and implemented a scalable REST API & Selenium automation framework using Spring Boot — reducing test execution time by 50% and improving reliability.
• ⚙️ Optimized resource utilization by deploying Selenium Grid over Docker, enabling parallel execution and improving test stability across 8+ enterprise projects.
• 🤝 Collaborated with project leads and engineering managers to embed test automation in product pipelines — increasing automation coverage by 60% across key modules.
• 🚀 Led automation strategy and prioritization, establishing technical standards, code review practices, and mentoring 3 junior SDETs to drive quality-first culture.

Sep 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Microservices Testing & Platform Engineering
• ⚙️ Architected a “Goldendata” automation framework leveraging Kafka, Cassandra, and Spring Boot — ensuring high data integrity and reliable end-to-end microservice validation.
• 🤝 Implemented consumer-driven contract testing with Pact and Docker — reducing integration issues by 40% and accelerating deployment cycles across multiple service teams.
• 🧩 Developed REST APIs for automation utilities, enabling teams to standardize testing workflows and improve productivity across 5+ product verticals.
• 🧠 Led technical initiatives for microservices testing, establishing best practices and mentoring junior SDETs to strengthen organizational QA maturity.

Feb 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• E-commerce Testing & Payment Integration Leadership
• 💳 Led end-to-end testing for Simpl payment integration across multiple platforms — achieving a 99.9% payment success rate and seamless customer experience.
• 🛒 Managed testing for advanced pricing and hyper-personalization features, supporting 2M+ active users with zero critical production bugs during launch.
• 🔗 Orchestrated Paytm API integration and inventory microservice testing, reducing payment processing time by 30% through optimized validations and workflows.
• ⚙️ Built a unified automation framework for UI, REST APIs, and gRPC, increasing test coverage by 80% and reducing manual QA effort significantly.

Jul 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Test Automation Foundation & Process Improvement
• ⚙️ Designed and implemented a Page Object Model (POM) framework for web automation, improving test maintainability and reducing script development time by 40%.
• 🧩 Led end-to-end testing lifecycle — from planning to execution — increasing test coverage by 50% and reducing defect leakage across multiple client projects.
• 🚀 Implemented proactive test optimization plans, enhancing testing efficiency and reducing manual QA effort by 30%.
• 🤝 Collaborated with cross-functional SCRUM teams, establishing daily stand-ups and improving team communication and release coordination.