Karthik Rao — Product Manager

🔍 12+ years of industry-proven excellence as an SDET / Automation Architect, delivering enterprise-scale automation across web, mobile, API & microservices for platforms like Gojek, Tesco, and MakeMyTrip. Experienced AI Engineer specializing in multi-agent systems and autonomous workflow automation. Developed advanced solutions using the AutoGen framework, enabling seamless coordination between specialized agents for database operations, API testing, web automation, and file management. Implemented robust agent collaboration workflows with RoundRobinGroupChat coordination and UserProxy patterns, empowering sophisticated human-AI interaction across diverse platforms. Integrated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for reliable communication between AI agents and external tools such as MySQL databases, REST APIs, and Excel spreadsheets. Successfully completed a proof of concept by building autonomous Database, API, Browser Automation, and Excel agents that enabled comprehensive, hands-free business processes. Leveraged context engineering and persistent state saving to optimize agent performance and maintain memory across sessions. Designed scalable architectures using the Agent Factory pattern, producing reusable and configurable AI agents ready for dynamic environments. Orchestrated advanced agent interactions with MultimodalWebSurfer for visual web navigation and SelectorGroupChat for intelligent agent selection. Project Highlights Automated user registration system: coordinated data extraction (Database Agent), registration/login API calls (API Agent), and result logging to Excel (Excel Agent) for full autonomous processing Developed multi-modal web automation using Browser Automation Agent with screenshot and smart element selection capabilities Created project management automation with Jira integration agents for ticket lifecycle automation 🧪 Specialized in building custom automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, Rest Assured, Cypress, Appium, Karate, and integrating with modern CI/CD pipelines (Docker, Jenkins, GitLab). 🔧 Built robust test strategies for React Native, PWA, and Kafka-based systems. Strong hands-on in performance testing using Gatling. 🌍 Multilingual (EN, HI, TE, MR, KN) and globally certified (ISTQB, CP-SAT, Blue Prism). 💡 Passionate about driving quality with automation, DevOps synergy, and leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate test coverage.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Automation Architect specializing in B2B SaaS solutions.

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Experience: 13 yrs 4 mos