Amit Tayade — DevOps Engineer
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering Leader with expertise in Test Automation and AI-driven solutions in Fintech and Enterprise Software.
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Experience: 17 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- Quality Engineering
- Test Automation
- Quality Assurance
Career Highlights
- Led quality transformation through AI integration.
- Architected IoT software testing ecosystem from scratch.
- Reduced QA/QE costs by 30% through innovative solutions.
Work Experience
SAP
Lead SDET (10 yrs 11 mos)
PayPal
Software Engineer III (9 mos)
Intuit
Senior SDET (2 yrs 11 mos)
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Technical Analyst (9 mos)
Cybage
QA Engineer (2 yrs 2 mos)
Education
at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Computer at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
at BE Electronics & Telecommunication