Ravi Prashant — QA Manager
AI/ML hobbyist experimenting with LangChain & LangGraph Agentic Ai workflows. Enjoying learning about MCP and prompt supremacy. Senior QA Manager with 13+ years of experience leading quality engineering initiatives for large-scale fintech and consumer platforms. At Paytm, I own the end-to-end quality strategy for high-TPS microservices and mobile applications. I strongly advocate Left Shift Testing, embedding quality early in the SDLC through API-first testing, contract testing, automation at the service layer, and CI/CD quality gates. My expertise spans test automation, left-shifted quality practices, performance testing, and security testing for systems operating at massive scale. Core strengths include: QA & Quality Engineering Leadership – hiring, mentoring, and scaling high-performing teams Left Shift Testing & Shift-Left Automation – early testing, API-first validation, CI/CD quality gates Test Automation – API (Rest Assured), Mobile (Appium, Espresso), Web (Selenium, Playwright) Microservices & Distributed Systems Testing Performance Testing (K6, JMeter) & Security Testing (OWASP ZAP) CI/CD, DevOps & Cloud – Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Alongside core QA leadership, I work on AI-driven internal tools, including LLM-based RAG systems, and have a solid foundation in Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Known for building quality-first, left-shifted engineering cultures, combining hands-on technical depth with leadership, and delivering stable, scalable systems under extreme production load.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech QA expert with a focus on automation and quality engineering.
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Experience: 13 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Quality Engineering
- Stakeholder Management
Career Highlights
- Expert in left-shifted quality practices and test automation.
- Proven leadership in scaling high-performing QA teams.
- Strong advocate for embedding quality early in the SDLC.
Work Experience
Paytm
Senior QA Engineering Manager (1 yr 1 mo)
QA Engineering Manager (2 yrs)
Senior QA Lead (SDET) (1 yr)
Lead SDET (1 yr 2 mos)
Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd)
Software Developer In Test III (7 mos)
Software Development Engineer in Test II (2 yrs 7 mos)
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Samsung Electronics
Lead Engineer (5 mos)
Software Engineer (3 yrs 5 mos)
Education
Master's in Computer Application at Guru Nanak Dev University