Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
Leading end-to-end quality engineering for Alternative Payment Methods, covering UI,
web-service and batch validation for customer-facing transaction flows.
Built AI-assisted web-service automation using Claude and custom sub-agents, reducing
automation development and execution time by ~50%.
Migrated UI and API automation from a legacy Playwright framework to a monorepo
architecture, improving scalability, maintainability, and reuse.
Contributed to integrating AI sub-agents into the monorepo framework, enabling faster
test creation and intelligent execution.
2019 — Now
San Bruno, California, United States
Led projects E2E focusing on functional testing, api level testing, regression, performance testing and automation.
Built release dashboards in Jira, logging dashboards in splunk and monitoring dashboards in grafana to collect metrics and improve quality.
Led the pre-transaction scrum team, involved in sprint planning, test estimation, leading scrum and closing of sprint in sprint cycle.
Designed and built test scripts in JS framework as a part of Java test automation script migration, reduced the automation execution time from 80 mins to 40 mins.
Developed test scripts in R2 framework (apps) using yaml scripting. Improved test coverage for the pre-transacation flows in mobile apps.
Code reviewer for all automated scripts check-ins and provide necessary feedback.
Prepared functional test cases, defect dashboard and performed extensive functional testing on iOS and Android apps.
Implemented Firebase remote config to toggle app features on/off to enhance user experience.
Created System Security Plans (SSPs) for onboarding all new APIs, collaborating with Security, Privacy, and Compliance teams to ensure timely reviews and approvals, enabling APIs to be launched in alignment with release timelines.
Consolidated and managed 100+ Change Requests (CRQs) annually, presented at CAB meetings; maintained 100% approval rate by proactively aligning with change owners and impact reviewers.
2015 — 2019
San Bruno, California, United States
Led the pre-transaction scrum team, involved in test estimation, scoping, and delegating the functional stories, automation tasks to each team member
Led end-to-end testing efforts for 5+ critical features and 3 major annual savings events, ensuring high-quality product delivery that resulted in a 20% reduction in post-launch critical defects.
Led the end-to-end Cart and Checkout re-skinning initiative, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to define scope, develop an execution plan, and successfully deliver the redesign on time and with high quality.
Led the migration of functional test scripts from (Java + Selenium) framework to STAR (JS + Webdriver
IO) framework and reduced the automation execution time to 40 mins
Creation of new scripts in Webdriver IO framework
Creating new jobs in Jenkins for the automated scripts
Analyzing and executing the failure scripts for each sprint
Code reviewer for all the automated scripts check-ins and provide necessary feedback
Led the Ada Phase 1b, Elixir migration, free shipping for plus projects from the QE standpoint and
delivered the projects with great quality
Executing the regression cases in various devices like Ipad, tablet, mweb and desktop
Analyzing the logs in the Azure app insights, splunk and filing tickets on a needed basis
Monitoring the application dashboards (Grafana & App insights) during sale events
Managing the release regression and delegating tasks to the quality engineers
Logging and verifying defects in Jira for the functional, regression failure
Owning the functional, regression, pre-production testing activities
Worked with the Devops team and Integrated the regression test in the build pipeline
2013 — 2015
San Jose, California, United States
• Creation of new automation scripts in MAUI (Java + Selenium) automation framework.
• Involved in web service testing using SOAP UI tool & REST tool.
• Preparation of scoping and milestone documents.
• Preparation of Test Plan.
• Preparation of Functional Test Cases documents by Understanding the ERD and PRD documents.
• Preparation of high level scenarios and mapping them with the requirements through Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Task allocation and coordinating with team members.
• Involved in peer review of the Functional Test Cases documents.
• Preparation of data set for test execution.
• Carried out Functional Testing, Integration, Regression, Globalization and re-Testing against various browsers such as IE, FF against Windows OS.
• Logging the defect in the Rational Clear Quest tool, Bugzilla and tracked the bug till its closure.
• Sending daily status report to the client.
• Reviewed the automation scripts and created CI Jobs in Jenkins.
Education
Crescent Engineering College
Master of Engineering (M.E.)
2002 — 2004
ST Xavier s Catholic College of Engg
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
1998 — 2002