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Apoorva Manmode

SDET @Licious | LLM Evaluation Engineer

Bengaluru

4+ years of work experience

Licious
Oct 202511 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Test Lead for Licious Retail
Tata Consultancy Services
Apr 20257 mosOct 2025

Pune District

Cognizant
Aug 20231 yr 9 mosApr 2025

Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Cognizant
Aug 20221 yrJul 2023

Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

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Education

St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering & Technology

20184 yrs2022

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Headline

SDET @Licious | LLM Evaluation Engineer

About

Test Automation Engineer with 4 years of experience in designing, scaling, and maintaining automation frameworks across web and enterprise applications. Core expertise lies in developing Selenium WebDriver + TestNG + Cucumber (BDD) frameworks using Page Object Model (POM), enabling modular, reusable, and data-driven test suites. Experience includes automating 150+ end-to-end test cases for functional and regression suites, expanding regression coverage from ~60% to 95%, and reducing execution time through parallel cross-browser testing. Skilled in integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Maven, and Git/GitHub, cutting feedback loops from hours to minutes and improving release reliability. Work has spanned UI automation, REST API validation with Postman, and SQL-driven backend checks across Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. Contributions include identifying and preventing defect leakage, stabilizing flaky suites, and mentoring junior testers in automation best practices. Proficient in leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT for test case design, negative/edge-case generation, and synthetic test data creation, blending traditional automation with AI-driven efficiency. Technical Skills: Programming & Languages: Java, SQL, XML, JSON Test Automation: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), Page Object Model (POM), Data-Driven Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Parallel Execution API Testing: REST API Testing (Postman), JSON/XML payload validation Database Testing: Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite (SQL queries: CRUD, joins, subqueries, aggregates) CI/CD & Version Control: Jenkins, Maven, Git, GitHub Test Management: JIRA, ALM AI & LLMs in QA: Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Prompt Engineering, LLM-assisted Test Case Design, AI-based Test Data Generation

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

SDET at Licious, Oct 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Test Lead for Licious Retail

Test Automation Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services, Apr 2025 - Oct 2025 · 7 mos, Pune District

Test Automation Engineer at Cognizant, Aug 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Test Engineer at Cognizant, Aug 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr, Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering & Technology

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