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title: "Kumar Saheb - Lead SDET in Bengaluru, Karnataka | Tal"
description: "Meet Kumar Saheb, Quality Engineering @ Credit Genie | Full Stack SDET | AI driven Testing | Automation Platform Development and Tooling | 12 YOE | OnePay . Gojek · Fidelity · Akamai based in Bengaluru, Karnataka."
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# Kumar Saheb on Tal

## Headline

Quality Engineering @ Credit Genie \| Full Stack SDET \| AI driven Testing \| Automation Platform Development and Tooling \| 12 YOE \| OnePay \. Gojek · Fidelity · Akamai

## About

I am a dedicated Software Development Engineer in Test \(SDET\) with over 12 years of experience designing scalable, high\-impact automation frameworks for fintech, e\-commerce, and enterprise software\. Throughout my career, I have specialized in building unified automation platforms, driving CI/CD integration, and mentoring teams to adopt automation\-first practices\. My technical expertise spans Playwright, Cypress, Detox, and K6, with a proven track record of optimizing testing cycles and ensuring the reliability of distributed microservices\. I thrive in collaborative environments where I can leverage my full\-stack testing capabilities to deliver high\-quality, innovation\-driven software solutions\.

## Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

## Work experience

Lead SDET at Credit Genie, Jun 2026 \- Present · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Founding member of the centralized QE Platform team; currently building a unified automation framework \(Web / Mobile / API\) on Playwright \+ TypeScript and Appium\. • Currently driving the centralized Test Commands / QA Lambda initiative to channel all non\-prod QA testing through a single HTTPS interface\. • Leading an in\-progress Postman\-to\-Bruno migration to move API collections to git\-versioned, CI\-friendly workflows\. • Rolling out record\-and\-replay CI gating across microservice pipelines to block regressions pre\-merge\. • Defining performance testing standards \(K6\) and SLAs for payment\-critical microservices — in progress\.

Lead SDET at OnePay, Apr 2024 \- Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Single Point of Contact: Act as the sole liaison for all automation needs \(Mobile, Web, and APIs\) for the India Banking Team\. Centralized QE Oversight: Manage and streamline centralized QE platform requirements across the organization\. Automation Strategy: Design and implement comprehensive automation strategies across unit, integration, and end\-to\-end testing to ensure high coverage, stability, and minimal maintenance\. Deep Link Automation: Lead mobile and web deep link automation initiatives throughout the organization\. QA Platform Expertise: Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot QA platforms such as QA Lambda \(AWS Lambda serverless test commands repository\) and Bruno \(API repository\)\. Custom Tool Development: Build bespoke tools to meet both squad\-specific and organization\-wide testing/product needs\. Holistic QA Plans: Develop QA automation plans that minimize redundancy by effectively balancing unit, integration, and both mocked and real end\-to\-end tests\. Collaborative Approach: Work closely with Engineering Managers, Developers, Product Owners, QA Analysts, and fellow Automation Engineers to accelerate release cycles through efficient automation practices\. Test Implementation: Write unit tests \(Jest/Vitest\), integration tests \(SuperTest\), mocked E2E tests \(MSW\), web E2E tests \(Playwright\), and mobile E2E tests \(Detox\)\. Quality Advocacy: Review development and QA merge requests to ensure best practices and mentor junior team members\.

Senior SDET \( GoTo Financial \) at GoTo Group, Jun 2022 \- Apr 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, GoTo Financial is the financial arm of GoTo Group \. GoTo group was created with merger fof Tokopedia and Gojek \. All the financial products of Gojek moved under GTF Roles & Responsibilities :\- \- Handling end to end quality of user spend product team under payment experience pod of Gopay App under GotoFinanfial \- Doing Backend automation of Rest api and gRPC apis using rest assured , postman and bloomrpc tool\. \- Performing backend testing of complex distributed system across mutiple layers and db tools like mongo, redis and elastic search \- Performing load testing using gatling \- Performing mobile testing across Android and IOS of Gopay and Gojek app Achivements : \- \- Improved automation percentage of backend APIs from 20% to 80% \- Created mutiple useful libaries to be used in the centralised automation framework\.

SDET\-III at Fidelity Investments, Mar 2020 \- Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Roles & Responsibilities :\- 1\. As a QA Lead suppose to lead and educate best QA practices in the squad\. 2\. Handled activities like participating in Quarterly planning/Sprint Planning, Story refinements, reviewing business requirement & Acceptance criteria, capturing functional and non\-functional test requirement, designing test strategy/test plan for each epic/story, developing BDD test cases/Feature file in gherkin language, designing test cases under each feature using Hexawise tool, raising bugs and tracking them to closure\. 3\. As an SDET participated in architectural meetings , suggesting most effective design using system design knowledge and gave feedback on finalized technical design, participated in dev code reviews, writing unit test & Integration test using jest, debugging bugs up to code level\. 4\. Capturing automation requirement for both UI and well as APIs, deciding on automation scope as per business need, architecting framework from ground up for Unit Test cases,Integration, end to end test cases\. Designing test framework \(using Cypress/Selenium/Playwright /RestAssured/Postman\), Jenkins pipeline and reports and further implementing & maintaining the same\. 5\. Debugging any non\-prod/prod issue using Splunk/Datadog/chrome dev tools as a first line of defense, capturing the root cause and work with developer to be fixed and deployed to nonprod/prod testing in prod environment\. 6\. Planning installs for cloud deployments, performing security using burp tool and performance tests using k6 tool as and when required before the release, creating non prod snapshot, Performing passive and active testing in prod environment\. Achievements :\- 1\. Had setup automation framework for Chatbots for the first time ever savings 20 hours \(50% reduction\) of manual testing time per sprint 2\. Recommended an auto mailer system directed to the owning team thereby reducing 5 hours of downtime\. 3\. Adding indexing of confluence pages to the organizations 's central search

SDET\- II at Akamai Technologies, Apr 2019 \- Mar 2020 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Roles & Responsibilities :\- 1\. Team : Devops IT team 2\. Domain : Oracle E\- Business Suite \(CRM Software\) 3\. Was supposed to ramp up domain knowledge on the domain of General ledger, Payables , Cash management , Fixed assets and payables 4\. Working as SME for above mentioned functional area and responsible for creating end to end test plan as when there are any changes \. 5\.Doing test execution , creating bugs and making sure the quality of code is up to the mark 6\. Writing automated test for regression test cases using java and selenium\. 7\. Built protractor framework from scratch to automate 140 test cases of a newly built react based application\. 8\. Did a POC in Cypress automation\. 9\. Created multiple testing technique using Oracle SQL for database testing\. 10\. Built expertise in testing huge amount of data with best use of Microsoft Excel\. Achievements :\- 1\. Was 2nd in the team to complete Oracle cloud Certification in Cloud payable and Cloud procurement \( cloud implementation was proposed in two months \) 2\. Build detailed onboarding document for the EBS module which I was handling so as to facilitate smooth onboarding for any new joinee 3\. Cleaned up old 180 test cases suite by re \- visiting old obsolete test cases and re creating the test steps by as per latest functionality by meeting over 10 business analyst across the world in different countries which was greatly appreciated\. 4\. Promoted usage of Jmeter for performance testing and burp suite for security testing at scrum team level as and when required even when we had full fledged team for doing such requests\. This helped early identification of bugs\.

SDET\-I at Akamai Technologies, Mar 2017 \- Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BEng\), Mechanical Engineering, PES University

12th, Mathematics and Computer Science, Loyola High School, Patna

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