Ritesh Verma — QA Manager

Immediate Joiner | Senior SDET | QA Lead | Automation Architect Dynamic and results-oriented QA Leader / SDET with 11+ years of experience in Software Testing, Test Automation, Framework Development, and Quality Engineering Leadership. Proven expertise in designing and implementing scalable AI-driven automation frameworks, Agentic AI testing solutions, and enterprise-level test strategies across complex applications. Strong hands-on experience in building API-integrated intelligent automation frameworks from scratch and driving end-to-end quality transformation initiatives aligned with business goals. Core Expertise: AI-Driven Test Automation & Agentic AI Testing Automation Framework Development & Architecture API / UI / ETL / Database Testing CI/CD Pipeline Integration & DevOps Enablement QA Strategy, Test Planning & Team Leadership Agile / Scrum / SDLC / STLC Technical Skills: • Languages: Java, Python, SQL • Automation Tools: Selenium, REST Assured, Robot Framework • Testing Areas: API, ETL, Database, Backend, UI Automation • DevOps/CI-CD: Jenkins, Git, Pipeline Integration • Domain Expertise: AdTech, Enterprise Applications Passionate about leveraging AI and modern automation technologies to improve software quality, accelerate releases, and reduce testing effort. Experienced in mentoring teams, risk identification and mitigation, collaborating with stakeholders, and delivering high-quality products in fast-paced Agile environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA Automation Architect with extensive experience in MarTech and E-commerce.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 10 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Ai-driven Test Automation
Automation Framework Development
Qa Strategy
Test Automation

Career Highlights

11+ years of experience in software testing and automation.
Expert in AI-driven test automation frameworks.
Proven leadership in quality engineering initiatives.

Work Experience

Zeta Global

Quality assurance 4 (1 yr 2 mos)

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer (1 yr 2 mos)

Rakuten India

Technical Lead QA (1 yr 8 mos)

Rakuten

Quality Assurance Technician (1 yr 8 mos)

Harman Connected Services Corp India Private Ltd

Lead Product Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)

Tavant

Lead QE (7 mos)

Tavant Technologies

Lead Quality Engineer (7 mos)

Birlasoft

sr test engineer (11 mos)

Senior Test Engineer (10 mos)

Mindtree

Senior Software Engineer (4 yrs 7 mos)

Senior Engineer (4 yrs 7 mos)

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (4 yrs 7 mos)

Education

b.tech at GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management

Bachelor of Technology at Google Developer Groups, GLBITM

Ritesh Verma

QA Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 6 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

11+ years of experience in software testing and automation.
Expert in AI-driven test automation frameworks.
Proven leadership in quality engineering initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA Automation Architect with extensive experience in MarTech and E-commerce.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai-driven Test AutomationAutomation Framework DevelopmentQa StrategyTest Automation

Other Skills

Ai automationRobot FrameworkIntegrated API + UI testingAI-assisted quality engineeringPRD-to-test-case generationautomated test script generationAI-driven pull request review workflowshallucination testingmutation testingMCP server-based automation enablementautomation modernizationPython-based automation solutionsRobot Framework architectureCI/CD pipelinesAgile environments

About

Experience

10 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Zeta global

2 roles

Quality assurance 4

Mar 2025 – May 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

Ai automationRobot FrameworkIntegrated API + UI testingAI-Driven Test AutomationAutomation Framework Development

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Mar 2025 – May 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

Working on AI-assisted quality engineering initiatives including PRD-to-test-case generation, automated test script generation, AI-driven pull request review workflows, hallucination testing, mutation testing, and MCP server-based automation enablement. Leading automation modernization initiatives for large-scale, data-driven marketing and machine learning platforms across UI, API, and backend systems. Driving migration of existing Python-based automation solutions to business-readable Robot Framework architecture to improve maintainability, scalability, and cross-team adoption. Designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks aligned with enterprise quality engineering standards and long-term automation strategy. Integrating automation suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality validation, regression reliability, and faster release cycles. Collaborating with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders in Agile environments to ensure scalable and high-quality feature delivery. Mentoring QA engineers on framework design, automation best practices, and scalable quality engineering approaches.

AI-assisted quality engineeringPRD-to-test-case generationautomated test script generationAI-driven pull request review workflowshallucination testingmutation testing+9

Rakuten india

Technical Lead QA

Jan 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · India · Hybrid

Team LeadershipQA Strategy

Rakuten

Quality Assurance Technician

Jan 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Lead a team of 7 QA members in 2 different projects, mentored the team, defined and achieved Goals. Mentored an intern and converted to full time resource. Working in the crucial department as Full stack Functional QA lead which provides the essential rest services for the ecommerce application. Automated around 190 new API test cases for new features introduced. Conducted thorough Functional testing using SELENIUM BDD with JAVA and Cucumber to ensure the seamless integration of new features with potential risks, preventing any degradation in existing system functionalities. Worked on Kafka, Hadoop, Scala, Flink, vertex, spring boot, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Solr, AWS, Athena and ELK for web services integration. Worked on TestNG, maven, HTTP client, rest and web services test automation, Selenium. Test Strategy defining, test plan creation and QA best practices incorporation to improve overall product quality.

Team LeadershipFunctional testingAPI test automationTest StrategyQA best practicesQA Strategy+1

Harman connected services corp india private ltd

Lead Product Engineer

Apr 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · India · Remote

Database TestingHadoopRelease ManagementManual TestingTeam LeadershipQA Strategy+1

Tavant

Lead QE

Sep 2020 – Apr 2021 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Team Leadership

Tavant technologies

Lead Quality Engineer

Sep 2020 – Apr 2021 · 7 mos

Worked as a Single QA resource working on various aspects of testing with multiple roles incorporated into one. Converted Manual API testing to automation saving 18 hours of work on a sprint basis. Created REST ASSURED testing from scratch for API automation. Created Selenium TestNg Suite for functional testing from scratch. Created Test plans and test strategies for upcoming projects. Review the test plans.

API testingREST ASSUREDSelenium TestNg SuiteTest plansTest strategiesTest Automation

Birlasoft

2 roles

sr test engineer

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 · 11 mos

Senior Test Engineer

Oct 2019 – Aug 2020 · 10 mos

Lead a team of 3 people and facilitate them technically and functionally throughout the project delivery of multiple projects. Worked on multiple projects end to end with testing phases like planning, functional testing, automation, performance testing, cross browser testing and accessibility testing. Performed product showcases and Demos to all the stakeholders including client.

Mindtree

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2015 – Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Senior Engineer

Mar 2015 – Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Worked as single QA throughout the project delivery of multiple projects. Worked on multiple projects end to end with testing phases like planning, functional testing, automation, performance testing, cross browser testing and accessibility testing. Automated test cases using Selenium BDD framework with Cucumber and Java, achieving up to 80% automation coverage for web applications. API Testing using POSTMAN. Onsite Client Location – Worked on production deployment of major products.