Headline

SDET & QA Engineering Leader | Automation Framework Architect | Driving QA Strategy, AI-Driven Quality & Scalable Test Automation | DevOps & Cloud | Ex–AppsForBharat, Koo India, Razorpay, Goodbox | 11+ yrs in Startups

About

SDET Manager with 11+ years of experience leading automation strategy, test engineering, and high-performing QA/SDET teams. Skilled in building scalable automation frameworks across web, mobile, and APIs using Selenium, Appium, Espresso, and Rest Assured. Strong expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud-based testing workflows. Passionate about mentoring teams, fostering collaboration, and delivering quality software at scale in fast-paced product environments.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

SDET Lead at POP, Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos, On-site

SDET Manager at AppsForBharat, Aug 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior SDET at Koo India, Nov 2018 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

SDET at Razorpay, Mar 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Conducted performance testing using open-source tool locust and API testing at Razorpay in Bengaluru. • Quantified Kubernetes cluster to facilitate transition from ASG server to cluster for smoother testing and deployment. • Utilised technical skills in Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, and JIRA to ensure efficient testing processes.

Test Engineer at Goodbox, Oct 2014 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, • Testing hybrid Mobile Applications and web applications. • Identifying test scenarios,writing and executing test cases . • Documentation and bug reporting and tracking. • Automation tools - Appium, Selendorid, Selenium,Espresso • Programming language -Core Java,Python • IDE- Eclipse & Android Studio. • End to end testing of whole application. • Code Coverage for Test cases for Android Application using Jacoco. • Android Instrumentation Testing using Espresso & UIAutomator. • Participated in product,design meetings. • Collaborated with all teams within the agile environment. • Participated in System Requirement review and help in identifying the Gaps in the requirement. • Delivered well­ documented software test plans,designed test cases based on user requirements specification,use case documents.

Education

PCMB, PCMB, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,Udupi

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and communication, Visvesvaraya Technological University