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title: "Amit Tayade - Senior Manager Software Quality Engineering in Karnataka | Tal"
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# Amit Tayade on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader – AI\-Powered QE \| AI Transformation \| Cost Optimisation \| Platform Engineering \| IoT \| Automation \| Problem Solving \| Cloud

## About

Senior Quality Engineering Architect \| AI\-Led Quality Transformation \| 17\+ Years \| Startup Builder \| Cost & Scale Optimizer I am a Senior Quality Engineering Architect with 17\+ years of experience, including 9 years in high\-impact startup environments, driving end\-to\-end quality transformation at scale\. My core focus lies in evolving traditional QA into modern QE and further into AI\-powered Quality Engineering—enabling faster releases, higher reliability, and up to 30% cost optimization\. I specialize in building scalable quality ecosystems from the ground up—combining deep technical expertise with strong leadership, future\-ready platforms\. \#\# Built from Scratch – End\-to\-End IoT Quality Ecosystem \#\# At a pioneering startup, I designed and scaled a complete IoT testing ecosystem spanning real\-time tracking, data processing pipelines, dashboards, reporting, asset & device lifecycle management, access control, inventory systems, and mobile applications\. This included building high\-performing teams, managing vendors, and coordinating across global stakeholders\. \#\# AI, Automation & Platform Engineering Leader \#\# I architect and deliver modern, scalable, and cost\-efficient quality platforms: • AI\-Driven Engineering Systems – TrueView: AI\-agent\-based GUI validation framework with Selenium → Playwright migration – CodeInsight: Deployment tracking & service health monitoring platform – Multi\-agent systems to automate engineering workflows – AI\-powered reporting platform \(ReportPortal\) for automated test analysis, triage & classification • Automation & Framework Excellence – Low\-code API validation framework with real\-time Slack alerts – Event & stream validation framework using Airflow – Database schema & boundary validation framework \(Pytest \+ AI integration\) – Mobile automation framework using Appium – Performance engineering using k6 & Grafana for release stability – Legacy to modern automation transformation \(Selenium, Protractor, TestComplete\), reducing regression effort by 40% • Industry Contributions – Open\-source contributor to PayPal’s SeLion framework – Automation solutions for Intuit \(API & UI\) – Developer for SAP TestFarm infrastructure Impact Delivered 1\. Reduced QA/QE operational costs by 30% 2\. Accelerated release cycles with AI\-driven insights 3\. Improved test coverage, platform resiliency, and engineering productivity 4\. Enabled scalable, future\-ready quality platforms 💬 Let’s Connect I’m passionate about redefining quality engineering through AI, building high\-impact teams, and enabling organizations to deliver faster, smarter, and more reliable software\.

## Location

Karnataka

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

github copilot

mcp

CrewAI

Langflow

## Work experience

Senior Manager Software Quality Engineering at Startup, May 2017 \- Present · 9 y 4 mo, Bangalore, I am a Senior Quality Engineering Architect with 17\+ years of experience, including 9 years in high\-impact startup environments, driving end\-to\-end quality transformation at scale\. My core focus lies in evolving traditional QA into modern QE and further into AI\-powered Quality Engineering—enabling faster releases, higher reliability, and up to 30% cost optimization\. I specialize in building scalable quality ecosystems from the ground up—combining deep technical expertise with strong leadership, future\-ready platforms\. \#\# Built from Scratch – End\-to\-End IoT Quality Ecosystem \#\# At a pioneering startup, I designed and scaled a complete IoT testing ecosystem spanning real\-time tracking, data processing pipelines, dashboards, reporting, asset & device lifecycle management, access control, inventory systems, and mobile applications\. This included building high\-performing teams, managing vendors, and coordinating across global stakeholders\. \#\# AI, Automation & Platform Engineering Leader \#\# I architect and deliver modern, scalable, and cost\-efficient quality platforms: • AI\-Driven Engineering Systems – TrueView: AI\-agent\-based GUI validation framework with Selenium → Playwright migration – CodeInsight: Deployment tracking & service health monitoring platform – Multi\-agent systems to automate engineering workflows – AI\-powered reporting platform \(ReportPortal\) for automated test analysis, triage & classification • Automation & Framework Excellence – Low\-code API validation framework with real\-time Slack alerts – Event & stream validation framework using Airflow – Database schema & boundary validation framework \(Pytest \+ AI integration\) – Mobile automation framework using Appium – Performance engineering using k6 & Grafana for release stability – Legacy to modern automation transformation \(Selenium, Protractor, TestComplete\), reducing regression effort by 40% Impact Delivered 1\. Reduced QA/QE operational costs by 30% 2\. Accelerated release cycles with AI\-driven insights 3\. Improved test coverage, platform resiliency, and engineering productivity 4\. Enabled scalable, future\-ready quality platforms

Lead SDET at SAP, May 2015 \- Apr 2017 · 1 y 11 mo, Bengaluru Area, India, • Played the role of Test Lead in successfully delivering a high\-quality UI refresh release of an SAP product\. • Created and reviewed test specifications, test approach, and automation approach for features of the SAP network application\. • Successfully adopted Agile Scrum methodology within my teams, reducing the release cycle from 9 months to quarterly\. • Built and delivered an end\-to\-end automation environment and infrastructure for SAP Network\. This environment, along with automation suites, is used to certify SAP Network releases by integrating with products like SAP Buyer and SAP Sourcing\. The entire deployment is managed using a Jenkins pipeline, which automatically detects build changes and deploys them\. • Monitored pull requests in Git for changes to Selenium test automation scripts\. • Built and maintained a test automation framework using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG for SAP Network, utilizing Java\. • Built and maintained an API testing framework for Spring Boot microservices using Rest Assured with Java\. • Monitored daily execution of approximately 8,000 automation test cases \(Selenium and unit test cases\)\. • Conducted regression, functional, sanity, and integration testing for end\-to\-end products, including defect verification and re\-testing\.

Software Engineer III at PayPal, Jul 2014 \- Apr 2015 · 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Worked with the eBay and PayPal product integration team for end\-to\-end testing\. • Developed an automation framework using core Java at PayPal, which is now open\-source \(SeLion\)\. • Collaborated with a dedicated test automation team to achieve maximum automation for multiple internal teams, executing tests using Jenkins\. • Automated GUI and API testing using Selenium and WebDriver, implementing the Page Object Model \(POM\) design pattern\.

Senior SDET at Intuit, Aug 2011 \- Jul 2014 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India, • Delivering the key business goal of faster releases by incorporating process and functional automation\. As a result, we have been able to successfully release our products in 4 weeks as opposed to the earlier timeframe of 6 weeks • Designed and developed a UI automation framework using Selenium Webdriver and TestNG to capture the run status against every test execution plan • Part of the Core team that delivered the next generation of QuickBooks Online application by ensuring a high\-quality release • Member of 5 engineers in delivering the quality roadmap of Internationalised QuickBooks Online application\. This has resulted in QuickBooks Online being made available in all countries across the world and in 12 different languages using minimal effort • Automating testing and framework enhancement using Selenium 2\.0, TestComplete, TestNG and core JAVA\. • Feature testing, functional, Regression and API testing

Technical Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Nov 2010 \- Aug 2011 · 10 mos, Pune Area, India, • Worked in Banking Domain using Siebel CRM and verified Functional , Integration , Feature , Regression testing and also implemented automation using HP QTP for end to end workflows\.

QA Engineer at Cybage, Sep 2008 \- Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Pune Area, India, • I began my career as a Quality Assurance Engineer fresh out of graduation\. • I had the opportunity to work in CRM and Travel domains, where I enjoyed involvement in software manual and automation testing, regression testing, integration testing, and database testing using SQL for web applications\. • I actively participated in requirements gathering for projects, as well as test case development and execution\. • I built a UI automation framework from scratch using Selenium RC with Core Java and Ruby\. • Proficient in Agile and Scrum methodologies, I regularly provided daily status reports\.

## Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Computer, Software Programing, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing \(C\-DAC\)

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/amittayade

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