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Dhirendra Thakur

Lead SDET | Mentor | Backend Automation | Java,API, Kafka, Microservices | Driving Quality for Fintech,Consumer Tech and ad tech | Ex-Glance | Ex-InMobi ..

Greater Bengaluru Area

12+ years of work experience

Oct 20251 yOct 2026

Bengaluru

Led functional testing and certification sign off for VISA Click to Pay/ VICA issuer integration covering enrolment. lifecycle management, API validation, regression testing, defect triage and production readiness. Manage and guide a team of 2 QA engineers, optimizing test execution cycles and coordinating defect triage to meet tight project deadlines. Modernize the engineering workflow by implementing AI-driven coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cline, Claude CLI, Gemini) to optimize script development and minimize time-to-resolution for complex system failures.
Oct 20241 yrSep 2025

Bengaluru

Client : VISA INC • Architected and evolved a high-performance, modular automation architecture for B2B virtual card payment systems, replacing legacy workflows with a scalable framework that reduced release validation time from 2 days to under 3 hours (87% reduction) using Java, REST Assured, and TestNG. • Owned automation stability and CI/CD reliability for multi-tier systems (Microservices, Kafka, DB), ensuring consistent, thread-safe execution aligned with true business risk and critical banking workflows. • Pioneered advanced validation strategies, including Kafka consumer-based testing to ensure data consistency across distributed systems, safeguarding critical business workflows within this regulated banking environment. • Integrated pragmatic AI-driven solutions and coding assistants (Claude CLI, Github Copilot, Cline, AI Agents) into the SDLC, accelerating root cause analysis and boilerplate generation by 30%, while enabling proactive stability monitoring. • Collaborated with Architects and Product Managers to define technical acceptance criteria, significantly enhancing CI reporting clarity and preventing the production leakage of critical backend defects.
Glance
Oct 20213 yrsSep 2024

Bengaluru

• Architected and evolved a comprehensive mobile automation framework from the ground up, ensuring the stability and high-performance user experience of a high-visibility Android Lock Screen application. • Designed and implemented an end-to-end automation strategy for multi-tier systems, focusing on the complex interplay between backend API reliability and high-frequency mobile UI interactions. • Spearheaded the integration of pragmatic AI-driven solutions to monitor application performance and stability patterns, enabling a proactive approach to automated test coverage that reduced critical customer-reported issues by 30%. • Strengthened CI/CD reliability by enforcing rigorous automation design principles and coding standards during code reviews, resulting in a 10% reduction in defect leakage and significantly improved CI reporting clarity. • Optimized test execution by implementing highly efficient parallel execution strategies within the mobile framework, ensuring all automated test coverage is consistently aligned with true business risk and critical workflows.
Career Break
Jun 20163 yrs 2 mosJul 2019

Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

Was preparing for a Govt exams and UPSC
InMobi
Oct 20141 yr 9 mosJun 2016

• Spearheaded the evolution of the automation framework for complex multi-tier ad-serving systems, defining robust design principles to align test strategy with critical business workflows and ad-network logic. • Implemented a scalable, modular automation framework using Maven for dependency management, ensuring consistent, reliable parallel execution and a 40% reduction in user-reported crash rates post-release. • Enhanced CI reporting clarity and CI/CD reliability by integrating automated validation across SDK, Database, and UI layers, ensuring that automation targets true business risk rather than isolated UI interactions. • Collaborated across cross-functional teams (SDK, Database, DevOps) to establish end-to-end testing standards, driving root cause resolution and ensuring high-performance software delivery in a complex ecosystem.
InMobi
May 20113 yrs 5 mosSep 2014

• Identified and formulated comprehensive test scenarios, accurately estimating the required effort and developing meticulous test plans • Proficiently managed the test suite and diverse testing scenarios, ensuring optimal functionality • Conducted rigorous testing in both QA and live environments, ensuring the highest level of quality and performance • Delivered end-to-end testing services with utmost professionalism and attention to detail • Demonstrated expertise in Agile Methodologies, effectively adapting to fast-paced development processes • Fostered collaboration with Software Developers to gain a profound understanding of features and architecture before initiating testing protocols.
GitHub
@dhiren-tutor

Dhirendra’s AI Stack

anthropic apis
anthropic apis
claude code
claude code
cursor
cursor
gemini
gemini
github copilot
github copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot

Education

National Institute of Technology Raipur

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engg.

National Institute of Technology Raipur

20054 yrs2009

12 th, MATHEMATICS

Yugantar Public School

20041 yr2005

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Lead SDET | Mentor | Backend Automation | Java,API, Kafka, Microservices | Driving Quality for Fintech,Consumer Tech and ad tech | Ex-Glance | Ex-InMobi ..

About

🚀 Lead SDET specializing in accelerating product delivery velocity through shift-left engineering, event-driven architecture validation, and GenAI workflows. 👇 Book a 1:1 technical mentorship, mock interview, or resume review here: https://topmate.io/dhirend_thakur --- My core specialization lies in transforming quality engineering from a deployment bottleneck into a competitive business advantage. By designing thread-safe parallel execution engines and pioneering advanced backend validation for distributed systems (Kafka), I help high-growth tech companies scale seamlessly. Currently, I actively leverage advanced GenAI tooling (Cline, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to optimize engineering velocity, accelerate root-cause analysis, and completely eliminate defect leakage. 🏆 Impact Highlights: * Lead a high-performing QE squad at Visa, orchestrating full-lifecycle functional, regression, and critical production validation gates. * Compressed a critical financial release validation cycle from 2 days to under 3 hours (an 87% reduction). * Scaled multi-framework test architecture across complex payment workflows utilizing Java, Rest Assured, Karate DSL, and Playwright. 🛠️ Technical Toolkit: * Core Automation: Java, Rest Assured, Karate DSL, TestNG, Maven, Playwright (TypeScript), Selenium * Backend & Distributed Systems: Apache Kafka (Consumer/Producer validation), Microservices, SQL, ClickHouse, Oracle * GenAI & Productivity: Claude Code/CLI, Cline + MCP, GitHub Copilot, Prompt Engineering for QA * DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, Git, Docker, Linux, Lens, Mirantis * Observability & Tools: Splunk, Bruno, Postman, Headspin, BrowserStack, Jira, Zephyr I am driven by the challenge of ensuring rock-solid stability in high-visibility applications with massive active user bases. Let's connect to discuss quality engineering, automation architecture, or mentorship!

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

gemini

github copilot

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Lead SDET at Grid Dynamics Client : Visa Inc, Oct 2025 - Oct 2026 · 1 y, Bengaluru, Led functional testing and certification sign off for VISA Click to Pay/ VICA issuer integration covering enrolment. lifecycle management, API validation, regression testing, defect triage and production readiness. Manage and guide a team of 2 QA engineers, optimizing test execution cycles and coordinating defect triage to meet tight project deadlines. Modernize the engineering workflow by implementing AI-driven coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cline, Claude CLI, Gemini) to optimize script development and minimize time-to-resolution for complex system failures.

Lead Software Development Engineer Test (SDET) at Grid Dynamics (VISA INC), Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Client : VISA INC • Architected and evolved a high-performance, modular automation architecture for B2B virtual card payment systems, replacing legacy workflows with a scalable framework that reduced release validation time from 2 days to under 3 hours (87% reduction) using Java, REST Assured, and TestNG. • Owned automation stability and CI/CD reliability for multi-tier systems (Microservices, Kafka, DB), ensuring consistent, thread-safe execution aligned with true business risk and critical banking workflows. • Pioneered advanced validation strategies, including Kafka consumer-based testing to ensure data consistency across distributed systems, safeguarding critical business workflows within this regulated banking environment. • Integrated pragmatic AI-driven solutions and coding assistants (Claude CLI, Github Copilot, Cline, AI Agents) into the SDLC, accelerating root cause analysis and boilerplate generation by 30%, while enabling proactive stability monitoring. • Collaborated with Architects and Product Managers to define technical acceptance criteria, significantly enhancing CI reporting clarity and preventing the production leakage of critical backend defects.

Senior Software Development Engineer Test (SDET) at Glance, Oct 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, • Architected and evolved a comprehensive mobile automation framework from the ground up, ensuring the stability and high-performance user experience of a high-visibility Android Lock Screen application. • Designed and implemented an end-to-end automation strategy for multi-tier systems, focusing on the complex interplay between backend API reliability and high-frequency mobile UI interactions. • Spearheaded the integration of pragmatic AI-driven solutions to monitor application performance and stability patterns, enabling a proactive approach to automated test coverage that reduced critical customer-reported issues by 30%. • Strengthened CI/CD reliability by enforcing rigorous automation design principles and coding standards during code reviews, resulting in a 10% reduction in defect leakage and significantly improved CI reporting clarity. • Optimized test execution by implementing highly efficient parallel execution strategies within the mobile framework, ensuring all automated test coverage is consistently aligned with true business risk and critical workflows.

Personal goal pursuit at Career Break, Jun 2016 - Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, Was preparing for a Govt exams and UPSC

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at InMobi, Oct 2014 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos, • Spearheaded the evolution of the automation framework for complex multi-tier ad-serving systems, defining robust design principles to align test strategy with critical business workflows and ad-network logic. • Implemented a scalable, modular automation framework using Maven for dependency management, ensuring consistent, reliable parallel execution and a 40% reduction in user-reported crash rates post-release. • Enhanced CI reporting clarity and CI/CD reliability by integrating automated validation across SDK, Database, and UI layers, ensuring that automation targets true business risk rather than isolated UI interactions. • Collaborated across cross-functional teams (SDK, Database, DevOps) to establish end-to-end testing standards, driving root cause resolution and ensuring high-performance software delivery in a complex ecosystem.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST at InMobi, May 2011 - Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos, • Identified and formulated comprehensive test scenarios, accurately estimating the required effort and developing meticulous test plans • Proficiently managed the test suite and diverse testing scenarios, ensuring optimal functionality • Conducted rigorous testing in both QA and live environments, ensuring the highest level of quality and performance • Delivered end-to-end testing services with utmost professionalism and attention to detail • Demonstrated expertise in Agile Methodologies, effectively adapting to fast-paced development processes • Fostered collaboration with Software Developers to gain a profound understanding of features and architecture before initiating testing protocols.

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engg., National Institute of Technology Raipur

12 th, MATHEMATICS, Yugantar Public School

Public links

github: https://github.com/dhiren-tutor