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Gopalkrishna Hegde

Engineering Manager | Quality Engineering Leader | AI-Powered Test Automation | Playwright | Python | Selenium | API | Mobile | Performance | QE Strategy | Generative AI

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Xperi Inc.
Aug 20232 yrs 5 mosDec 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led Quality Engineering strategy across enterprise business platforms including Salesforce, NetSuite, ServiceNow, Magento, and AEM, delivering 100% test coverage for critical workflows and maintaining zero Sev-1 production defects for three consecutive quarters. Architected scalable UI and API automation frameworks using Java, Playwright, Python, TestNG, and Rest Assured, reducing manual validation effort by 20% and accelerating regression cycles by 40% through CI/CD integration and containerized test infrastructure. Championed AI-driven Quality Engineering by implementing Open LLM solutions for test case generation, defect analysis, test data creation, and release validation, significantly improving engineering productivity. Built and integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server solutions, enabling AI assistants to securely access automation assets, execution results, and engineering knowledge, accelerating root cause analysis and intelligent test execution. Developed Python-based automation utilities for data migration and validation, reducing QA cycle time by 25%, lowering cloud infrastructure costs, and improving release quality across enterprise applications.
PharmEasy
Apr 20212 yrs 4 mosJul 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the Storefront, Consumer Search, Recommendation ,Discovery and Payments backend Test Engineering team. Identifying risks from features getting developed proactively and mitigating the risk. Aligning Dev and Product Management teams on release plans and QA timelines. Building utilities,tools to reduce manual effort and making the release seamless. Search backend releases are made with >90% automation testing. Played key role in benchmarking Elastic search performance using Gatling . This helped team to optimize the performance and reduce the cost by 20%. Key contributor to benchmark the Order Management System performance by planning and executing 2X, 4X load testing with different load patterns. Core member of Hiring and mentoring team . Scaled team from 15 to 30 talented SDETS. Designed , Architected and built Event Automation Framework . This helped to reduce a Data Analytics issues by 90% . This Saved 1 man day of QA effort per app release. Contributed to Android and iOS app automation using appium . Mentored team on appium automation. Actively mentored multiple test engineers and helped them to reach the next level in their career. Increased release stability with building CI/CD pipeline with web deployments. Designed and developed web automation using selenium and testNG. Developed web scraping tool to identify broken hyperlinks on the web page.
PharmEasy
Feb 20201 yr 3 mosApr 2021

India

Owned end-to-end testing for payment systems, covering SDK validations, gateway integrations, and end-to-end payment flows. Strengthened system reliability through automation, environment setup, and vendor collaboration.
Swiggy
Dec 20181 yr 3 mosFeb 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for developing manual and automation test plans for Swiggy android and iOS application. Developed automation tool to test analytics events. Ui automation framework development using Appium,Selenium and testNg. Responsible for reporting on testing progress to stakeholders, including project managers, developers, and QA teams. Conducting code reviews. Built tool to monitor android app performance and app size analysis.
Swiggy
Dec 20181 yr 3 mosFeb 2020

Worked as part of the mobile test engineering team, contributing to quality assurance for Android and iOS apps through automation, manual validation, and performance analysis.
Hotstar
Mar 20189 mosNov 2018

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Key contributor in test planning and test execution for Hotstar Android and iOS application. Executing negative scenarios and degraded mode using charles proxy. Automated android UI test cases using appium .Contributed to achieve 10% of the automation in short duration.
Mavenir
Oct 20152 yrs 6 mosMar 2018

Bangalore

Responsible for executing end to end scenarios on IMS flows. Creation of test environment for integration testing from scratch , which includes VM creation , network configuration and application deployment. Automated SIP android SDK using Java,, which reduced manual effort to zero and made release cycle faster by 40%. Performed UAT testing of client place T-Mobile USA and ship the product on time. With good debugging and log analysis bugs are reported with all the core details. Mentored 2-3 junior engineers and helped them to grow technically on SIP and IMS flows.

Gopalkrishna’s AI Stack

codex
codex
gemini
gemini

Education

Karnataka State Open University

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

Karnataka State Open University

20103 yrs2013

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

MES RNS Polytechnic Sirsi

20063 yrs2009

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Headline

Engineering Manager | Quality Engineering Leader | AI-Powered Test Automation | Playwright | Python | Selenium | API | Mobile | Performance | QE Strategy | Generative AI

About

With over a decade of experience in quality assurance and test engineering, I lead the QA efforts at Xperi Inc. as Engineering Manager - Test. My role is centered on driving robust QA strategies across Salesforce, NetSuite, and ServiceNow platforms, ensuring comprehensive test coverage, seamless automation, and efficient release cycles. I am committed to developing in-house frameworks and tools to enhance efficiency and streamline processes for optimal platform performance. My professional journey spans significant contributions in QA automation, release strategy, and platform testing. I prioritize coaching and mentoring teams while fostering collaboration across development and product management functions. I am passionate about delivering scalable, high-quality solutions and enabling continuous improvement to meet business objectives.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

codex

gemini

Work experience

Engineering Manager - Test at Xperi Inc., Aug 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led Quality Engineering strategy across enterprise business platforms including Salesforce, NetSuite, ServiceNow, Magento, and AEM, delivering 100% test coverage for critical workflows and maintaining zero Sev-1 production defects for three consecutive quarters. Architected scalable UI and API automation frameworks using Java, Playwright, Python, TestNG, and Rest Assured, reducing manual validation effort by 20% and accelerating regression cycles by 40% through CI/CD integration and containerized test infrastructure. Championed AI-driven Quality Engineering by implementing Open LLM solutions for test case generation, defect analysis, test data creation, and release validation, significantly improving engineering productivity. Built and integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server solutions, enabling AI assistants to securely access automation assets, execution results, and engineering knowledge, accelerating root cause analysis and intelligent test execution. Developed Python-based automation utilities for data migration and validation, reducing QA cycle time by 25%, lowering cloud infrastructure costs, and improving release quality across enterprise applications.

Engineering Manager at PharmEasy, Apr 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading the Storefront, Consumer Search, Recommendation ,Discovery and Payments backend Test Engineering team. Identifying risks from features getting developed proactively and mitigating the risk. Aligning Dev and Product Management teams on release plans and QA timelines. Building utilities,tools to reduce manual effort and making the release seamless. Search backend releases are made with >90% automation testing. Played key role in benchmarking Elastic search performance using Gatling . This helped team to optimize the performance and reduce the cost by 20%. Key contributor to benchmark the Order Management System performance by planning and executing 2X, 4X load testing with different load patterns. Core member of Hiring and mentoring team . Scaled team from 15 to 30 talented SDETS. Designed , Architected and built Event Automation Framework . This helped to reduce a Data Analytics issues by 90% . This Saved 1 man day of QA effort per app release. Contributed to Android and iOS app automation using appium . Mentored team on appium automation. Actively mentored multiple test engineers and helped them to reach the next level in their career. Increased release stability with building CI/CD pipeline with web deployments. Designed and developed web automation using selenium and testNG. Developed web scraping tool to identify broken hyperlinks on the web page.

Technical Lead at PharmEasy, Feb 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos, India, Owned end-to-end testing for payment systems, covering SDK validations, gateway integrations, and end-to-end payment flows. Strengthened system reliability through automation, environment setup, and vendor collaboration.

Software Developer In Test at Swiggy, Dec 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Responsible for developing manual and automation test plans for Swiggy android and iOS application. Developed automation tool to test analytics events. Ui automation framework development using Appium,Selenium and testNg. Responsible for reporting on testing progress to stakeholders, including project managers, developers, and QA teams. Conducting code reviews. Built tool to monitor android app performance and app size analysis.

Senior Software Development Engineer Test at Swiggy, Dec 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, Worked as part of the mobile test engineering team, contributing to quality assurance for Android and iOS apps through automation, manual validation, and performance analysis.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Hotstar, Mar 2018 - Nov 2018 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key contributor in test planning and test execution for Hotstar Android and iOS application. Executing negative scenarios and degraded mode using charles proxy. Automated android UI test cases using appium .Contributed to achieve 10% of the automation in short duration.

Senior System Test Engineer at Mavenir, Oct 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, Responsible for executing end to end scenarios on IMS flows. Creation of test environment for integration testing from scratch , which includes VM creation , network configuration and application deployment. Automated SIP android SDK using Java,, which reduced manual effort to zero and made release cycle faster by 40%. Performed UAT testing of client place T-Mobile USA and ship the product on time. With good debugging and log analysis bugs are reported with all the core details. Mentored 2-3 junior engineers and helped them to grow technically on SIP and IMS flows.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Karnataka State Open University

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, MES RNS Polytechnic Sirsi