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title: "Apoorva Manmode - SDET in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Apoorva Manmode, SDET @Licious | LLM Evaluation Engineer based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude."
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# Apoorva Manmode on Tal

## 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

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

openai

## 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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