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Engineering Manager - QA & Automation with experience in building Gen-AI powered test frameworks, Playwright, cypress, selenium, jest, rest assured IO, Gatling, jmeter, appium. Java, JavaScript, typescript, python

About

I am an experienced Software Professional architecting Gen-AI powered test frameworks, have an in-depth knowledge about Software automation/testing/verification Process and Methodologies. I have been managing, leading SDET/QA team of 30+ plus members. Roles and Responsibilities:- * 14+ yrs. of expertise in Healthcare, fin tech, inflight internet and e-commerce domain. * Gen-AI, LLM, MCP: RAGAs & Accuracy Framework, Cursor, Co-Pilot, Playwright-MCP, Jira-MCP * AI Agents: Code Gen, Self Healing Locators, Assertions, Reporting, ReadMe, Test Plans and Test Case Generation * Have been taking entire ownership and responsibility for testing, automating and delivering the products within timeline and without compromising on the quality of the product. * Have introduced, implemented industry best QA/Automation practices and successfully managed a team by adhering to it. * Have hired, managed and mentored 30 member QA/SDET team. * Got experience in developing automation frameworks from scratch using Playwright, cypress, selenium, protractor and watir web drivers in java, javascript, typescript and ruby. * Developed framework from scratch for automating API's using Jest + javascript * Got experience in developing framework from the scratch using Maven, TestNG , log4j and Jenkins. * Experience in building the framework from scratch using protractor, jasmine in typescript. * Have developed API automation frameworks from scratch using Rest Assured IO in Java. * Got experience on BDD frameworks like Jasmine, mocha and cucumber. * Got experience in performance testing using Gatling and Jmeter. * Got basic level of security testing using Burpsuite and ZAP. * Developed mobile applications automation framework using appium in java and testNG * Leading team to optimize the efficiency and without compromising on the quality of the product. * In depth knowledge of testing Web Technologies. * Well versed with continuous integration and Agile methodology. * Taking up initiatives to come up innovative solution to handle the bottlenecks in team and process improvement. * Experience in collaboration with different teams round the globe. Contact Info: email: kalaimani296@gmail.com contact no: +91 - 9677320195 Skype: kalai.mani13

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

cursor

gemini

github copilot

grok

langchain

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Swiggy, Apr 2026 - Present · 8 mos, Bangalore

SDET/QA Manager at AJIO.com, Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Manage SCM Automation team of 30+ SDETs - Gen-AI, LLM, MCP: RAGAs & Accuracy Framework, Cursor, Co-Pilot, Playwright-MCP, Jira-MCP - AI Agents: Code Gen, Self Healing Locators, Assertions, Reporting, ReadMe, Test Plans and Test Case Generation - Planning, Roadmap, Execution, Work distribution - Training, Mentoring & Hiring - Train team members. Assign & review tasks for team members - Build SCM Automation platform - Design and implementation of QA Automation service, UI - Leverage open source solutions like Playwright, ReportPortal, Selenoid, Healthcheck.io, Windmill.dev - Build and maintain reusable UI & API automation Framework using POM, AOP - Code reviews, Documentation, Demos and Presentation.

Staff SDET at Socure, Sep 2019 - Apr 2023 · 3 y 7 mo, Chennai, • Developed a framework from scratch using Cypress and Jasmine/mocha in Javascript for front end application. • Involved in performing performance testing using Gatling/Jmeter and contributed for scaling up the micro services to 800 tps by running load testing. • Developed a framework from scratch using Rest Assured IO in java + TestNG + Maven for API Automation. • I created framework from scratch for mobile application automation using appium + Java. • Hired and formed QA team of 15+ members from scratch as a foundational QA Engineer and performed appraisal process as well. • Proposed and implemented single branch, single environment based CI/CD pipeline which drastically fastened the deployment process. • Successfully engaged, lead and timely delivered $5m project by utilising industry best standard QA practices across functional teams.

Senior SDET at Gogo, Jun 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Chennai Area, India, - Involved in manual as well as automation testing. - Involved in REST, Selenium Webdriver & Appium, Cucumber automation - Have done performance testing using Jmeter. - Part of system integration testing team. - Involved in Scaled agile process. - Test plan and test cases development

Senior QA Automation Engineer at ICU Medical, Oct 2017 - Jun 2018 · 9 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, - Automated front end application using protractor and JavaScript - Automated backend services using Rest assured IO - Developed frameworks from scratch for both front end and backend using protractor and Rest assured IO

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computational Science, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, Indira Gandhi National Open University