Headline

Staff / Lead SDET | Quality Engineering | Playwright | Selenium | API Automation | Test Architecture | Scalable Automation Frameworks | CI/CD

About

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with 13+ years of experience building scalable test automation solutions, quality engineering practices, and reliable automation frameworks for product-based environments. My experience spans UI automation, API automation, framework architecture, CI/CD integration, and quality engineering strategy across fast-paced engineering teams. I specialize in designing maintainable and scalable automation frameworks that improve release confidence, reduce flaky executions, and enable faster delivery cycles. Over the years, I have worked extensively with Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured, Java, TestNG, and API automation technologies while collaborating closely with developers, product teams, and release engineering teams to drive engineering quality at scale. Areas I actively focus on include: • Scalable UI & API automation frameworks • Playwright and Selenium automation • REST API testing and automation • Test architecture and framework design • CI/CD integration and quality gates • Reliability, maintainability, and execution stability • Cross-browser and parallel execution strategies • Automation strategy for modern product engineering teams I enjoy solving engineering problems, improving automation reliability, and building quality systems that scale with product growth. I’m particularly interested in modern quality engineering practices that integrate deeply with software development workflows rather than treating testing as a separate phase. Tech Stack: Java • Playwright • Selenium • REST Assured • TestNG • Maven • Git • Jenkins • SQL • API Testing • CI/CD • SonarQube • Allure Reporting Always open to connecting with engineering leaders, quality engineering teams, and professionals working on modern automation and product engineering challenges.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

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codex

cursor

deepseek

github copilot

langgraph

openai

Work experience

Staff SDET at Freshworks, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid, 1. Owned end-to-end quality strategy and delivery for 20+ major epics across Unified Product, covering functional, integration, migration, and automation testing. 2. Improved Freshchat automation coverage from 15% to 80%, reducing regression execution time from 16 hours to 3 hours. 3. Enhanced Jenkins-based automation infrastructure by optimizing AWS-level execution configurations, reducing job failures by 90%. 4. Led shift-left quality initiatives by enabling developers to adopt integration, API, and accessibility testing earlier in the SDLC. 5. Designed and implemented accessibility testing strategy across PRD reviews, development cycles, and regression verification. 6. Introduced framework-level correlation between automation logs and application logs, enabling faster RCA and failure diagnosis. 7. Built automation utilities and dashboards to track automation backlog, pass rates, failed test counts, and module-level quality trends. 8. Designed sanity and regression quality gates to validate merge readiness across staging and production workflows. 9. Explored Playwright-based automation approaches for improving execution reliability, modern browser automation capabilities, and faster test development workflows. 10. Delivered high-impact product features including Freddy Live Translate, Channel Switcher, and Proactive Experiences as the primary QA owner.

Lead SDET at Freshworks, Jan 2021 - Dec 2024 · 4 yrs, Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Lead SDET at Planful, Nov 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, 1. Designed and developed scalable UI and API automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured, and Java. 2. Improved automation reliability by identifying flaky execution patterns and implementing synchronization and stabilization strategies. 3. Increased automation coverage by 25% by identifying low-coverage modules and expanding targeted automation coverage. 4. Introduced framework-level log correlation between automation and application logs, reducing debugging effort and improving failure analysis. 5. Developed utilities to monitor and manage automation execution environments across Windows and Mac-based virtual machines. 6. Integrated BrowserMobProxy into Selenium execution flows to capture and analyze request-response performance metrics. 7. Introduced AspectJ-based instrumentation to capture method-level execution metrics and improve framework observability. 8. Improved framework maintainability and code quality through periodic SonarQube analysis and remediation initiatives.

SDET II at Planful, Apr 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area

SDET at Nous Infosystems, Dec 2015 - Apr 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1. Developed and maintained Selenium WebDriver and TestNG-based automation frameworks for web applications. 2. Enhanced automation reporting using Extent Reports, improving execution visibility and debugging efficiency. 3. Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to improve framework scalability, maintainability, and automation coverage.

QA Automation Engineer at Accenture, Dec 2012 - Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1. Developed and maintained UI and API automation suites for regression and smoke testing across multiple browser environments. 2. Designed automation frameworks for web service testing using SoapUI. 3. Trained client teams on automation framework execution, script maintenance, and test suite usage.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics & Communication Engineering, Pydah College of Engineering and Technology, Gambheeram