Mahesh Thorat — QA Manager

Experienced Senior Quality Assurance Specialist with a strong background across both product-based and service-driven organizations, focused on building scalable, high-impact quality engineering solutions. I specialize in modern test automation and AI-driven quality practices, helping teams move faster by reducing flakiness, improving observability, and enabling true shift-left testing. Over the years, I have: Designed and built automation frameworks from scratch, improving test stability and maintainability Reduced test execution time and debugging effort through Playwright-based automation and CI/CD integration Enabled faster release cycles by integrating testing directly into PR workflows and pipelines Worked on AI testing and MCP integrations, including building tools using local LLMs Strengthened application quality through API, performance, load, and mobile testing Performed security testing using Burp Suite, identifying critical vulnerabilities early 🔧 Core Expertise: AI Testing & LLM-based Tooling MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integrations Test Automation (Playwright, Java) Framework Design & Architecture API Testing, Performance & Load Testing Mobile Application Testing Security Testing (Burp Suite) CI/CD Integration & Shift-Left Practices

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance Specialist with expertise in Test Automation and AI Testing in the SaaS industry.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 11 yrs 5 mos