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Adarsha Shetty

Lead SDET | QA Architect | Staff SDET | Test Automation Architect | Java, Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured, TestNG, pytest, k6 | CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS | AI in QA | Claude, AI Agents | FinTech & SaaS

Bengaluru

14+ years of work experience

Zeta
May 20251 yr 5 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led a team of 7 SDETs to deliver quality engineering for a large-scale banking platform. • Drove automation coverage for backlog APIs from 0 to 100%, significantly reducing defects. • Implemented AI-driven practices to enhance automation speed and integrated MCP tools for both API and UI web automation. • Established a rotating on-call framework to ensure consistent team accountability and coverage.
HackerRank
Jul 20222 yrs 10 mosApr 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Elevated product quality by implementing well known testing strategies, reducing critical defects by 65% (from 120 to 42 monthly) • Achieved a 400% reduction in testing time by spearheading test automation initiatives, cutting execution time from 8 hours to 2 hours for 2,300+ test cases • Elevated test coverage by 20% while reducing manual testing efforts by 15% by revamping the test framework • Boosted QA team productivity by 35% through a Slack application bot that automated test triggering, saving 12 hours/week across the team of 8 QA engineers
HackerRank
Jan 20202 yrs 7 mosJul 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Delivered comprehensive UI test automation framework using Cucumber, Ruby, and Selenium, reducing test creation time by 65% while increasing coverage from 60% to 95% across 3 major product modules, with seamless integration into Jenkins and Kubernetes CI/CD pipeline • Streamlined execution of 2,300+ UI scenarios through cloud-based virtual displays, achieving 90% faster deployments (from 45 to 4 minutes) and reducing infrastructure costs by 45% while maintaining 99.9% test
HackerRank
Jun 20154 yrs 8 mosJan 2020

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Performed efficient test automation by developing UI test automation framework with TestNG and Selenium, reducing test execution time by 70% (from 5 hours to 1.5 hours) and automating 150+ critical test cases with 98% reliability • Enhanced product quality by designing and implementing 200+ test scenarios across 8 core features, increasing test coverage by 75% and reducing post-release defects by 60% (from 50 to 20 monthly), while maintaining 99.8% test reliability
Sapient Global Markets
Mar 20123 yrs 4 mosJun 2015

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Improved testing efficiency and proactively mitigated risks throughout the testing process by designing test scenarios, cases, and scripts • Developed a test automation framework reducing manual testing time by 60% at Sapient Global Markets
GitHub
@adarsha89
Personal portfolioadarsha.github.io/resume3.pdf

Adarsha’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
claude
claude
cursor
cursor
github copilot
github copilot
ollama
ollama
openai
openai

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

PES Institute of Technology

20074 yrs2011

B.E, ECE

PES Institute of Technology

20074 yrs2011

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Headline

Lead SDET | QA Architect | Staff SDET | Test Automation Architect | Java, Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured, TestNG, pytest, k6 | CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS | AI in QA | Claude, AI Agents | FinTech & SaaS

About

I build test automation architecture that lets engineering teams ship fast without breaking things. 14+ years in Quality Engineering across enterprise SaaS and FinTech — currently leading a team of SDETs at Zeta, where I took API automation coverage from 0 to 100% on a large-scale banking platform. What I do: → Test architecture & strategy — frameworks that scale past 2,300+ automated scenarios → AI-driven quality — GitHub Copilot, MCP-based agents for API and UI automation → CI/CD & infrastructure — Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, cloud-based execution grids → Team leadership — mentoring SDETs, on-call frameworks, quality culture, hiring Selected impact: - 4x faster test execution (8 hrs → 2 hrs) across 2,300+ test cases - 65% reduction in critical defects (120 → 42 per month) - 45% lower test infrastructure cost while holding 99.9% reliability - 12 hrs/week saved for an 8-person QA team via a Slack automation bot Tech: Java, Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured, TestNG, Cucumber, Ruby, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Postman, Git, JIRA, Agile/Scrum Open to Lead / Principal / Architect roles in Quality Engineering. Reach me at adarsha.shetty.1989@gmail.com Contact No. 7259204173

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

github copilot

ollama

openai

Work experience

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Zeta, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led a team of 7 SDETs to deliver quality engineering for a large-scale banking platform. • Drove automation coverage for backlog APIs from 0 to 100%, significantly reducing defects. • Implemented AI-driven practices to enhance automation speed and integrated MCP tools for both API and UI web automation. • Established a rotating on-call framework to ensure consistent team accountability and coverage.

Staff SDET (SDET) at HackerRank, Jul 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Elevated product quality by implementing well known testing strategies, reducing critical defects by 65% (from 120 to 42 monthly) • Achieved a 400% reduction in testing time by spearheading test automation initiatives, cutting execution time from 8 hours to 2 hours for 2,300+ test cases • Elevated test coverage by 20% while reducing manual testing efforts by 15% by revamping the test framework • Boosted QA team productivity by 35% through a Slack application bot that automated test triggering, saving 12 hours/week across the team of 8 QA engineers

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at HackerRank, Jan 2020 - Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Delivered comprehensive UI test automation framework using Cucumber, Ruby, and Selenium, reducing test creation time by 65% while increasing coverage from 60% to 95% across 3 major product modules, with seamless integration into Jenkins and Kubernetes CI/CD pipeline • Streamlined execution of 2,300+ UI scenarios through cloud-based virtual displays, achieving 90% faster deployments (from 45 to 4 minutes) and reducing infrastructure costs by 45% while maintaining 99.9% test

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at HackerRank, Jun 2015 - Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Performed efficient test automation by developing UI test automation framework with TestNG and Selenium, reducing test execution time by 70% (from 5 hours to 1.5 hours) and automating 150+ critical test cases with 98% reliability • Enhanced product quality by designing and implementing 200+ test scenarios across 8 core features, increasing test coverage by 75% and reducing post-release defects by 60% (from 50 to 20 monthly), while maintaining 99.8% test reliability

Software Test Automation Engineer (SDET) at Sapient Global Markets, Mar 2012 - Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Improved testing efficiency and proactively mitigated risks throughout the testing process by designing test scenarios, cases, and scripts • Developed a test automation framework reducing manual testing time by 60% at Sapient Global Markets

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, PES Institute of Technology

B.E, ECE, PES Institute of Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/adarsha89

adarsha.github.io: https://adarsha.github.io/resume3.pdf