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Amit Tayade

DevOps Engineer

Bangalore, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led quality transformation through AI integration.
  • Architected IoT software testing ecosystem from scratch.
  • Reduced QA/QE costs by 30% through innovative solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering Leader with expertise in Test Automation and AI-driven solutions in Fintech and Enterprise Software.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality EngineeringTest AutomationQuality Assurance

Other Skills

SeleniumTest Automation FrameworksSelenium WebDriverTestNGJavaJenkinsOpen-Source SoftwareCore JavaWebDriverQuickBooksOracle CRMSiebel AnalyticsRubyArtificial Intelligence (AI)Local LLMs

About

As a Senior Quality Engineering Manager with over 17 years of experience including 8 years in startups. My focus : Driving quality transformation through AI integration, innovation, and scalable architecture, cutting QA/QE costs by 30% 🚀 Leading the Quality Revolution I’ve built and led high-performing QE teams, implemented robust quality processes, and driven end-to-end release excellence. 🌍 Building from Scratch : At a pioneering startup, I architected a complete IoT software testing ecosystem covering real-time tracking, data processing, dashboards, reporting, asset and device management, access control, inventory management, mobile applications, and a full testing platform. This included team building, vendor management, and global coordination. 💡 Driving the QA-to-QE transformation by delivering mentorship and actionable 1:1 feedback to bridge the technical gap. 💡 Automation, Platform Engineering & Efficiency Expert I’ve developed multiple modern, scalable, and cost-effective automation and quality platforms, including: • Building AI Driven Future of Engineering using tools like Ollama, Antigravity, Agent, MCP, Copilot, LangChain, LangFlow, n8n, Prompt Engineering and local LLM • A low-code automation framework to rapidly certify critical API flows across environments with Slack alerts. • A detailed API validation framework with fast execution and rich reporting. • A stream and event validation framework built on Airflow. • A database schema & boundary-value testing framework using Pytest with Mosaiq AI. • An LLM-driven UI validation framework using AI agents and Playwright. • A rapid mobile automation framework using Appium. • An in-house load & performance testing framework using k6 and Grafana, enabling stable, performance-backed releases of platform services. • An AI-powered intelligent reporting platform using ReportPortal to automatically consolidate, analyse, triage, and classify test results, dramatically improving insights and reducing triage time. • Developed and maintained robust automation frameworks and test suites using Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, and TestComplete, reducing manual regression testing time by 40% • Open Source Contributor to PayPal’s SeLion framework enhancing test automation • Test Automation framework to check API & UI for Intuit • Developer for SAP’s TestFarm infrastructure These frameworks significantly reduced manual effort, enhanced coverage, improved platform resiliency. 💬 Let’s Connect Passionate about driving innovation in quality engineering, AI-led automation, platform stability, and engineering efficiency.

Experience

17 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Sap

Lead SDET

May 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Played the role of Test Lead in successfully delivering a high-quality UI refresh release of an SAP product.
  • Created and reviewed test specifications, test approach, and automation approach for features of the SAP network application.
  • Successfully adopted Agile Scrum methodology within my teams, reducing the release cycle from 9 months to quarterly.
  • Built and delivered an end-to-end automation environment and infrastructure for SAP Network. This environment, along with automation suites, is used to certify SAP Network releases by integrating with products like SAP Buyer and SAP Sourcing. The entire deployment is managed using a Jenkins pipeline, which automatically detects build changes and deploys them.
  • Monitored pull requests in Git for changes to Selenium test automation scripts.
  • Built and maintained a test automation framework using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG for SAP Network, utilizing Java.
  • Built and maintained an API testing framework for Spring Boot microservices using Rest Assured with Java.
  • Monitored daily execution of approximately 8,000 automation test cases (Selenium and unit test cases).
  • Conducted regression, functional, sanity, and integration testing for end-to-end products, including defect verification and re-testing.
SeleniumTest Automation FrameworksQuality EngineeringTest Automation

Paypal

Software Engineer III

Jul 2014 – Apr 2015 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked with the eBay and PayPal product integration team for end-to-end testing.
  • Developed an automation framework using core Java at PayPal, which is now open-source (SeLion).
  • Collaborated with a dedicated test automation team to achieve maximum automation for multiple internal teams, executing tests using Jenkins.
  • Automated GUI and API testing using Selenium and WebDriver, implementing the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern.
Open-Source SoftwareJenkinsTest AutomationQuality Engineering

Intuit

Senior SDET

Aug 2011 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Delivering the key business goal of faster releases by incorporating process and functional automation. As a result, we have been able to successfully release our products in 4 weeks as opposed to the earlier timeframe of 6 weeks
  • Designed and developed a UI automation framework using Selenium Webdriver and TestNG to capture the run status against every test execution plan
  • Part of the Core team that delivered the next generation of QuickBooks Online application by ensuring a high-quality release
  • Member of 5 engineers in delivering the quality roadmap of Internationalised QuickBooks Online application. This has resulted in QuickBooks Online being made available in all countries across the world and in 12 different languages using minimal effort
  • Automating testing and framework enhancement using Selenium 2.0, TestComplete, TestNG and core JAVA.
  • Feature testing, functional, Regression and API testing
Test Automation FrameworksQuickBooksQuality EngineeringTest Automation

Cognizant technology solutions

Technical Analyst

Nov 2010 – Aug 2011 · 9 mos · Pune Area, India

  • • Worked in Banking Domain using Siebel CRM and verified Functional , Integration , Feature , Regression testing and also implemented automation using HP QTP for end to end workflows.
Oracle CRMSiebel AnalyticsQuality Assurance

Cybage

QA Engineer

Sep 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • I began my career as a Quality Assurance Engineer fresh out of graduation.
  • I had the opportunity to work in CRM and Travel domains, where I enjoyed involvement in software manual and automation testing, regression testing, integration testing, and database testing using SQL for web applications.
  • I actively participated in requirements gathering for projects, as well as test case development and execution.
  • I built a UI automation framework from scratch using Selenium RC with Core Java and Ruby.
  • Proficient in Agile and Scrum methodologies, I regularly provided daily status reports.
RubySeleniumQuality Assurance

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Computer — Software Programing

BE Electronics & Telecommunication

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