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title: "Deepa Hegde - SDET Lead in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Deepa Hegde, 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 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes codex, cursor, and deepse..."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/deepa-hegde/share-image"
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# Deepa Hegde on Tal

## 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

codex

cursor

deepseek

notebooklm

opencode

claudecode

## 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

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