Headline

Senior SDET | Test Automation Architecture | AI/LLM & Agentic QA | Python | Playwright | Selenium | API | CI/CD | Apache Airflow

About

Engineer with 9+ years of experience building test automation systems, quality engineering practices, and CI/CD pipelines across SaaS, AI, data, and cloud platforms. Currently working at Astronomer, focused on QA automation for Apache Airflow and Astro Runtime. Some of the work I'm currently involved in: • Leading regression automation across major Apache Airflow features and converting 150+ manual QA scenarios into continuous CI coverage • Building AI-agent-driven QA automation using Claude Agent SDK + Vertex AI for end-to-end release validation • Building Playwright-based UI automation and Python API automation • Developing Locust-based performance testing for Airflow APIs • Improving CI/CD reliability across Jenkins, GitHub Actions and other automation infrastructure • Reviewing automation PRs on framework and quality standards I also have experience testing AI/LLM applications, including prompt/response evaluation, hallucination detection, factual-accuracy testing and RAG pipeline validation. Core stack: Python | Java | JavaScript | Playwright | Selenium | PyTest | API Testing | Jenkins | GitHub Actions | CircleCI | Git | SQL | JIRA | Azure DevOps | Locust | AI/LLM QA I'm particularly interested in SDET Lead, Senior SDET, QA Automation Lead, Test Automation Architect and AI/LLM Quality Engineering opportunities.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

github copilot

ChatGPT

Ragas

Work experience

Senior Software Development Engineer Test at Astronomer, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Hyderabad, • Own and maintain the Apache Airflow 3.3 QA Test Plan covering Regression, UI Sanity, Migration and API testing across the release cycle. • Designed and shipped an autonomous AI-agent-driven QA system using Claude Agent SDK + Vertex AI for Astro Runtime release validation, including DAG triage, cross-cloud log retrieval, Airflow 2→3 migration testing and headless UI validation. • Converted 150+ manually tested QA scenarios into continuous CI coverage across 10+ major Airflow features. • Reviewed and merged 173 automation PRs across the Astronomer organization, enforcing framework and test-quality standards. • Built Playwright UI automation and Locust-based performance testing for Apache Airflow. • Root-caused release-blocking issues involving Airflow migrations, runtime dependencies and webserver readiness. • Improved CI reliability across Jenkins/GitHub Actions and resolved recurring infrastructure and test-loading failures.

Senior SDET | AI/LLM Quality Engineering at SymphonyAI, Jul 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, • Owned Python automation framework for AI Copilot products • Designed prompt/response evaluation testing • Tested LLM-generated responses for correctness and consistency • Performed hallucination and factual-accuracy testing • Tested RAG retrieval accuracy and answer grounding • Led CI/CD failure triage and regression testing • Reviewed automation contributions and mentored engineers

SDET at Planview, Inc., Jul 2022 - Mar 2023 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software QA Engineer at PlanSource, Apr 2022 - Jul 2022 · 4 mos

Software QA Engineer at PlanSource, Jun 2021 - Apr 2022 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Quality Analyst at Sapiens, Sep 2017 - Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Education

Post Graduation Diploma, Computer Science, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya