I'm a QA Architect with 12+ years of hands-on experience building frameworks and automation tools that eliminate manual testing and accelerate release cycles. > What I Do: ------------ I design scalable testing solutions that transform how organizations approach quality.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
India
Spearheaded the transition from manual to automated testing, establishing scalable frameworks and standardized QA practices.
Leadership & Strategy
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Led and mentored a team of 6 SDETs; drove sprint planning, effort estimation, and impact analysis across Agile delivery cycles.
Authored ADRs covering automation strategy and AI integration, presenting the QA roadmap to engineering leadership.
Built pipeline governance and observability dashboards using Looker Studio, BigQuery, and AWS.
Framework Architecture
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Architected scalable API automation frameworks using REST Assured + Java, integrated into CircleCI and AWS CodePipeline to enforce release gates.
Scaled Web automation using Selenium + Java for enterprise suites and Playwright + TypeScript for modern applications.
Led the development of cross-platform Mobile automation using Appium + WebdriverIO + TypeScript for iOS and Android.
Pioneered AI-driven test generation using Playwright-MCP, Cursor, and AI agents; leveraged GitHub Copilot to auto-instrument and raise PRs across 100+ repositories, enforcing 80% coverage via CI/CD.
Performance & Resiliency
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Designed the org-wide load and stress testing strategy for backend APIs using Locust + Python, focusing on P95/P99 latency and scalability.
Architected centralized load-testing infrastructure using Terraform on AWS, providing scalable, on-demand environments for dev teams.
Implemented real-time monitoring in AWS CloudWatch and Datadog to surface performance regressions and release-confidence metrics.
Drove chaos engineering initiatives, executing fault-injection scenarios to validate system resiliency and reduce blast radius for critical services.
Tracked non-functional coverage via Datadog RUM, monitoring TTI, error tracing, and FPS.
2021 — 2026
2021 — 2026
Technologies: Selenium, Java, Cypress, Rest-Assured, Process improvement, Framework development, BDD, Cucumber, API Testing, CI/CD, UI Automator
Duties and Accomplishments:
Customer Obsessed Tester and lead for 5 major releases for direct B2C customers starting from requirements gathering to project delivery. Owning quality enablement for the AWS marketplace launch across different regions
Developed shift left automation testing strategy, planned, scheduled, tested, and released Projects.
Delivered releases with 85% reduced customer defects.
Contributed to 80% automation org goal as part of in-sprint project automation using selenium, cypress for UI, and Kepler for API automation.
Automate FireTv Device launcher test cases using UI-Automator & python
Conduct non-performance testing Latency, fludity ,memory & crash.
Explored 121 valid bugs of 147 filed during the tenure
Worked back-wards gathering the testing pain points, and addressed them by developing a prototype for automating the manual touch points as part of test process improvement.
Hackathon winner in the category "Invent and Simply" for automating the creation of external test accounts.
2020 — 2021
Technologies: Rest-Assured, Selenium, Java, BDD, Cucumber, API Testing, TestNG, Reporting, CI/CD, Jenkins Pipeline, Groovy.
Duties and Accomplishments:
Conducted research and proposed an automated framework for DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline tests to improve test efficiency.
Enacting as a Technical Expert for designing, developing, coding, testing, and debugging new software.
Tasks include requirement analysis, test strategizing, test cycle planning, estimation, test plan review, and test execution review.
Scripted detailed test scenarios via advanced scalable test automation frameworks like Cucumber/BDD, RestAssured, etc.
Headed a cross-functional testing team of 5 to conduct different testing on the features developed.
Reduced the test execution time by ~70% through implementation of parallel execution using the external cucible-plugin.
Amalgamated with developers and stakeholders to enhance testing performance, automation, and tools.
Directed new consolidated tests execution report in the email notification to the organization for easy access and wider reach.
Analyze and react to security scan results from foss, fortify, sonarqube, jacacco, cobertura as part of CI.
Demo to stakeholders, proactive issues resolution, and risk escalation.
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Greater Chennai Area
QA Automation Specialist
Lead the API and UI Automation.
API Integration Testing - Java, SDK, TestNG, RestSharp, Postman, Swagger,
Mocha, Chai, Nodejs.
UI Web Automation Testing - Selenium-Webdriver, Java, TestNG, Maven, Protractor, Jasmine,
Cucumber, Robot Framework, Java, BDD, Keyword Driven testing, TDD.
Unit Testing - mockito , junit, unittest, testng, jest, puppeteer
Load Testing - Locust framework
Development - Java, AWS, SpringBoot framework, AWS dynamoDB, Cloudformation...
Other - Jenkins CI/CD, Bit-Bucket, JIRA, GIT, Docker, Micro-services,
Fogbugz, testlink.
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Greater Chennai Area
Automation Testing - Web and API testing , Functional and Non-Functional testing.
Automation Test Tools - Protractor, Jasmine, Selenium,Robot Framework, Java, BDD,Keyword Driven testing, Javascript.
WebService Testing - Rest, Java.
Other - JIRA, GIT, Jenkins.
Education
Anna University Chennai