--- title: "Kalaimani Ranganathan - Senior Engineering Manager in Bengaluru | Tal" description: "Meet Kalaimani Ranganathan, 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 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and..." image: "https://tal.club/meet/kalaimani-ranganathan/share-image" --- # Kalaimani Ranganathan on Tal ## Headline 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 [View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/kalaimani-ranganathan) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/kalaimani-ranganathan#person", "name": "Kalaimani Ranganathan", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/kalaimani-ranganathan", "image": "https://tal.club/meet/kalaimani-ranganathan/profile-photo.jpg", "description": "Meet Kalaimani Ranganathan, Engineering Manager - QA & Automation with experience in building Gen-AI powered test frameworks, Playwright, cypress, selenium, jest, rest assured IO, Gatling, jmeter, appium. 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