Shray Sharma

Director of Engineering

London, England, United Kingdom12 yrs 5 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Creator of AI-powered self-healing automation tools
  • Ranked among Top 50 QA Leaders of 2024
  • Achieved 90% cost reduction through AI test strategies
Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA strategist with expertise in AI-driven automation in SaaS and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test StrategyAgile MethodologiesTest AutomationManual Testing

Other Skills

Testing ToolsTest EngineeringStakeholder ManagementREST APIsplaywrightCypressJavaScriptAI TechnologiesTest Automation ToolsDebuggingRequirements AnalysisSeleniumSoftware Quality AssuranceTest ManagementJava

About

QA strategist and speaker with 14+ years of experience across Translations,Insurance, Banking, Risk Management, Marketing, FPGA, and Neural/Gen AI in test strategy, automation, and QA architecture across Microservice, DB-heavy, and cloud-native systems. Europe/Asia wide recognized for my test strategies leveraging AI technologies for business transformation, operational efficiency, and cost reduction by 90%. ranked among the Top 50 QA Leaders of 2024, Creator of one of the world’s first AI-powered self-healing automation tools, and showcased at global conferences with 5000+ audiences.

Experience

12 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Wtw

Director QA Vision AI

Aug 2025Present · 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Leading WTW agentic revolution on quality front.
  • 1. Created and implemented a quality strategy for the QA function that supports engineering and product goals
  • 2. Moved the decision process to a data oriented decision making process with creation and introduction of QA metrics.
  • 3. Restructured test architecture to increase test speeds to 75% faster and 30% more stability, going towards automation first.
  • 4. Introduced quality mapping to customer view of the world
  • 4. Established a concept of product heatzone sfor driving targeted quality efforts
  • 5. Established QA strategies for AI products with different architectures , involving agent to agent and MCP servers, RAG.
  • 6. Introduced red teaming for AI initiatives , and covering other security gaps.
  • 7. Pushed and achieved early involvement of QA throughout the development lifecycle and move towards shared ownership of quality within teams.
  • 8. Introduced new tools and frameworks in the teams to enhance the QA function.
Testing ToolsTest EngineeringStakeholder ManagementTest StrategyAgile Methodologies

Phrase

Neural AI Department QA lead

Aug 2023Aug 2025 · 2 yrs · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

  • 🎯Achievements
  • Strategized the growth of the department with a high-performing test strategy and roadmap increasing the go-to-market time by 30% (shift left )
  • Hands-on Established and scaled test architecture (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PACT) across six teams, increasing productivity by 40% with CI/CD integration.
  • Created testing strategies for microservice (API) and cloud (AWS) architectures.
  • Led the automated translation department (6 teams) for quality and managed a team of 7 QA(mid, senior, and junior) engineers across multiple countries.
  • Creator of a self-healing automation pack with AI, Predictive bug analysis
  • Created and executed Performance, security and load test strategies and architecture for the company.
  • Created and executed test strategies for RAG and LoRA adaptors (presented worldwide)
  • Designed metrics in Snowflake to extract actionable insights for QA and reported directly to the CTO.
  • Certified Agile scrum master.
Testing ToolsREST APIsTest StrategyTest AutomationAgile MethodologiesStakeholder Management+3

Decadis

Team lead Quality Assurance

Nov 2020Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Koblenz Area · Remote

  • Achievements
  • 🎯 Complete implementation of test architecture (manual and automation) , test culture, and established a test team.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Established and led a test team of 3 people.
  • Creating a culture of quality and testing structure/architecture in the organization from scratch in cypress and playwright.
  • Created and led test strategy, establishing shift left, speeding up go-to-market time by 20%.
  • Creating CI/CD pipelines in the workflow by integrating bamboo bitbucket and JIRA using Shell scripting while hosting in AWS and python. Creating a quality loop to increase the quality of the product by 70%
  • Introduced AI led code creation for front-end components which could be imported reducing the development time by 20%
Testing ToolsTest Automation ToolsREST APIsManual TestingTest StrategyDebugging+5

Amd

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Nov 2019Oct 2020 · 11 mos · Cologne Bonn Region · On-site

  • Achievement:
  • 🎯 Establishing complete test automation architecture with continuous integration by establishing a test framework and a continuous integration environment with integrated automated tests.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Automate FPGA systems RCPTT and cypress.
  • 2. Establish continuous integration in the workflow by integrating bamboo bitbucket and JIRA using Shell scripting with an automated test suite in Cypress.
  • 3. Automation Testing of ROS systems
Testing ToolsTest Automation ToolsManual TestingDebuggingRequirements AnalysisSelenium+5

University of koblenz and landau

MS Data science

Oct 2018Oct 2022 · 4 yrs · Coblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Testing ToolsTest Engineering

Deutsche börse

Senior QA Engineer

Oct 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr · Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area

  • QA working in the field of manual testing in the UAT phase. in a Semi- Agile model.
  • Eurex trading.
  • UAT Testing, Re-Testing, Regression testing.
  • Preparation and execution of manual tests for T7 applications
  • Development of test scenarios and creation/setup of test data
  • Working in a multi-cultural international team
Testing ToolsManual TestingDebuggingRequirements AnalysisSeleniumSoftware Quality Assurance+2

Royal bank of scotland business

Senior Testing Executive

Oct 2017Sep 2018 · 11 mos · Delhi, India

  • Working from client side and represented Infosys for the particular project.
  • Interacting with the BA and getting the requirements clear which would be conveyed to team.
  • ETL testing done with complete flow from all layers.
  • Working on creation of Test Plan with the client.
  • Worked with Program Managers, Requirement Analysts, Mappers, Developers, and other testers to resolve issues with requirements/mapping transformations
  • Planned and conducted OBIEE report tests for wide variety of applications
  • Implemented effective data quality testing standards, verification procedures and tools
  • Did extensive work with ETL testing including Data Completeness, Data Transformation & Data Quality for various data feeds coming from source.
  • Worked with SVN as a data repository.
  • Made Stand alone application in Java with Swings to execute the Test cases with just one click.
Testing ToolsManual TestingTest StrategyDebuggingJavaRequirements Analysis+4

Barclays

Test Engineer

Oct 2016Sep 2017 · 11 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

  • Project Description:
  • Project keeps a track of the customers billing for the usage and the products they have used. Keeping in mind the security and privacy of the accounts and the bills.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Module Lead, publishing Test coverage matrix, Creating Straw man plan, penetration testing for the application, ETL testing, Scrum Training.
Testing ToolsTest Automation ToolsManual TestingTest StrategyDebuggingJava+5

Microsoft

Junior Test Engineer

Aug 2013Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Project Description:
  • Project Laminar establishes a new transactional volume licensing program for enterprise customers, Simplify licensing, accelerate the purchase decision and transaction.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Back Up lead, Written Test Scenarios and Test Cases, creating Test Plan, Black box testing, test scripts in selenium, reporting using MTM, Developed application for automated check-ups.
  • Youngest domain champ
Testing ToolsManual TestingTest StrategyDebuggingJavaRequirements Analysis+4

Education

University of Koblenz and Landau

Master of Science - MS — Data science

Jan 2018Jan 2023

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor's degree — Bachelors in Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2013

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