Headline

Automation Architect | Web & API Test Automation | AI Enablement - Healing Agents & Multi Agent System | BFSI & FinTech | PMP® | SAFe® Agilist

About

I've spent 14+ years making sure software doesn't break in production — but the last few years have been about something bigger: making the testing layer intelligent. At Synchrony Financial, I architected an AI-powered self-healing agent for Cypress (Puppeteer + tool-calling) and an external healing agent for Selenium — cutting test flakiness by 30% and token costs by 10%. I also introduced AI-aided test-case generation with coverage metrics, reducing manual authoring effort across 13 Agile teams. Taking Automation from "it runs in CI" to "it thinks, adapts, and reports." What I do: 🔹 Automation Architecture & CoP in Collaboration with leadership across Enterprise Agile Release Trains 🔹 AI-augmented testing — Self-healing agents,Intelligent Test Generation, Multi Agent System 🔹 End-to-end quality strategy — Selenium, Cypress, Jmeter, REST APIs, CI/CD 🔹 Domain Coverage — Card Payment Lifecycle , Trade lifecycle with T+1 Settlement, Exposure to fixed Income Certifications: PMP|SAFe 6|PSM I AWS Cloud Practitioner PG: AI & ML — University of Texas at Austin & Great Lakes

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

openai

claudecode

ChatGPT

CrewAI

Guardrails AI

Work experience

Automation Architect — Synchrony Financial at Synchrony, Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, • Built an AI-powered self-healing agent for Cypress (Puppeteer + tool-calling) and a parallel external healing agent for Selenium — reducing test flakiness by 30% and token costs by 10% for automation script maintenance across enterprise suites. • Leveraged AI-aided test-case generation with coverage matrix to accelerate functional and regression coverage, reducing manual test-authoring effort validated through SME evaluation across releases. • Led Sauce Labs infrastructure upgrade with a dedicated regional tunnel for load balancing and execution stability across distributed test runs; integrated SauceCtl to extend Sauce Labs support to Cypress and Playwright. • Designed end-to-end CI/CD integration architecture on CloudBees pipelines using ALM Octane as single source of truth for API-based automation — serving as org-wide ALM Octane SME. • Built a monitoring dashboard tracking test-case volume and pass/fail trends across main branches, enabling data-driven quality planning and stakeholder visibility • Collaborated with 13 Agile Release Train (ART) teams to elevate automation maturity through targeted coaching, framework best practices, hands-on CI enablement, and release management

Senior Automation Specialist (Lead / Test Architect) — Diageo at Diageo, Apr 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Remote, • Led QA for Salesforce Customer Spend Tool (CST); designed test strategy and end-to-end automation framework covering functional, regression, and integration test suites. • Executed Salesforce–MuleSoft–SAP integration POC, including REST API validation and DB state verification to ensure data integrity across system boundaries. • Developed an Excel-based validation utility for cross-environment data comparison; validated API responses against back-end DB records using SQL queries. • Established Git governance best practices and optimised Agile delivery cadence across sprint planning and retrospectives.

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at Wells Fargo, May 2017 - Apr 2021 · 4 yrs, Hyderabad Area, India, Stand Outs ::- - Created Encryption utility with single key & decryption has string masking.(Jar) - Created Screenshot utility which automatically stores screenshots in word document with timer option (VBS). - Created Utility for PDF Convertor using - File Choser Functionality.(jar) - Carried out technical quiz for SDET awareness & white board session. - Created small framework as 2 member team for smoke execution using 1 click Automation as UI Interface. Responsibilities::- - Liaison with subject matter experts for unit testcases drafting. - Part of Scrum team for backlog refinement & sprint cycle. - Using BDD/Cucumber for Script Automation. - Using Selenium grid & Jenkins for smoke & regression Execution. - Framework updation with latest details - linked with maven - Jfrog. - Using Postman Along with Swagger tool for SOAP/JSON Validation. - Resolving UFT related object issues along with code review. - Covering E2E flow using TestNG - Using Subversion & GIT for Code Repository. - Using Sonarqube older version - for release wise code review - Help out with defect ageing & defect Analysis as part of root cause Analysis. - Sharing weekly status report As project tracker

Senior Software Engineer at Bank of America, Dec 2014 - May 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, Domain - Consumer banking • Implemented Selenium Page Factory + Grid framework for Card Life Cycle Management System (CLMS); drove significant automation coverage increase. • Led Tosca POC with Tricentis — resolved object identification roadblocks for PowerBuilder and web apps, trained team members, and generated custom project-specific keywords. • Introduced Agile methodology and Lean-based effort estimation to the QA practice. • Received Operational Excellence Award for automation efficiency gains and the Tosca tool POC.

Software Engineer at BNP Paribas, Jan 2013 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs, Mumbai Area, India, Involved In * Proof of Concept for Automation of Trade processing Life cycle of Financial Product developed by Sungard * Participated in evaluating Risk factors involved in Future Dev Cycles. * Generation of lower level Reusable Library to be used across all Functional Scope * Extended Dictionary Functionality to enhance Keyword feature of the framework. *Exploring ways for Bulk Test Data Injection from excel into Pure Keyword Driven Architecture without tweaking the existing framework.

Education

BE, Computer, Savitribai Phule Pune University

PG Program – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, University of Texas at Austin & Great Lakes Institute of Management