Vikas Tripathi — Senior Software Engineer

I am a Senior SDET with 10.5+ years of experience building scalable UI, API, and microservices automation frameworks across high-growth, cloud-based enterprise environments. My expertise spans Playwright, TypeScript, Java, C#, Python, API contract testing, performance engineering, DevOps automation, and security testing. I specialize in transforming legacy and no-code automation into modern, maintainable, developer-friendly test frameworks designed for distributed systems. I’ve led multiple greenfield automation initiatives, driving shift-left practices, improving test stability, and accelerating release velocity across engineering teams. Key strengths include: Designing enterprise-grade automation frameworks (UI + API) Playwright expert — tracing, parallelism, custom reporters, mocking, Docker API test architecture, schema validation & contract testing (Pact) Performance testing with k6 + Grafana Security automation (OWASP, ZAP, fuzzing) CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Cloud: AWS (S3, Lambda basics), Azure DevOps Testcontainers & Docker-based orchestration Observability-driven testing (Grafana, Kibana, logs, metrics) I thrive in fast-paced engineering cultures and enjoy mentoring teams, leading test architecture, and scaling automation to support modern cloud-native products. Senior SDET — Mimecast Created an enterprise Playwright + TypeScript automation framework that replaced legacy no-code tooling and improved stability by 40%. Introduced GitHub Copilot-based automation workflows → 30% faster test development. Standardized Git branching strategy across teams and implemented Azure Git versioning workflows. Performed end-to-end Salesforce automation for critical business flows. Built containerized execution pipelines using Docker to streamline onboarding and CI stability. Senior Software Engineer — Blackline Built a complete C# automation framework from scratch. Automated AWS S3 data pipelines for test setup, increasing reliability by 50%. Integrated ZAP security scans into CI, adding security coverage to release cycles. Spearheaded shift-left adoption among developers. Lead SDET — Airtel Postpaid Built Java + Python (PyTest + Behave) frameworks for UI and microservices automation. Created Azure DevOps pipelines and Jenkins-based CI workflows. Implemented Pact contract testing to prevent API breaking changes. Established test strategy, metrics, estimation, and cross-team automation governance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS automation expert with a focus on API and security testing.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 12 yrs 8 mos