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title: "PANKAJ PANDEY - Senior Technical Lead in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet PANKAJ PANDEY, Senior QA Lead / QA Manager | Built an AI-Native QA Platform | Banking & Commercial Lending | AI Agents · Claude Code · Codex · LLM Evaluation | Playwright · Java · Python Ex-Infosys (Visa) based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex. Explor..."
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# PANKAJ PANDEY on Tal

## Headline

Senior QA Lead / QA Manager \| Built an AI\-Native QA Platform \| Banking & Commercial Lending \| AI Agents · Claude Code · Codex · LLM Evaluation \| Playwright · Java · Python Ex\-Infosys \(Visa\)

## About

I took quality engineering at a UK digital bank from manual testing to a fully AI\-native platform\. Senior QA Lead / QA Manager with 12\+ years in QA: 7\+ in commercial lending and core banking, 5 in payments on the Visa account at Infosys\. 🤖 AI\-Native Test Platform Non\-technical users describe a test in plain English and get a production\-ready, CI\-integrated Playwright spec\. Zero code, zero terminal, zero YAML\. \- Plain English → Claude and Codex → typed capability catalog → deterministic resolver: no hallucinated flows, no false greens \- Live browser execution streamed in real time \- Auto\-generates the \.spec\.ts, scenario data and a GitHub pull request \- 5\-layer safety architecture enforces routing correctness 🧠 AI Across the QA Lifecycle \- Agents that turn Jira stories into human\-reviewed test cases, rolled out organisation\-wide \- LLM evaluation that cut false test suggestions by about 98% \- LLM failure analyzer that classifies nightly CI failures by root cause \- Multi\-repo agent workspace: Claude and Codex read the whole platform for test generation, CI triage and requirement\-to\-coverage mapping \- AI governance: PII redaction before any LLM call, human\-in\-the\-loop review, traceability and model tiering ⚙️ Automation & API Engineering \- Java/Gradle regression engine: 220\+ scenarios across 8\+ microservices, combining HTTP API and SQL validation in one framework; full regression run time cut by about 90% \- CI runs only the tests relevant to each deployment, filtered by business function \- Playwright \+ TypeScript UI suite built from scratch and wired into CI 🏦 Lending Domain & Leadership \- Commercial lending, origination to closure: term loans, RCF, syndicated and loan\-on\-loan structures, rolled\-up interest, SONIA, SOFR, €STR and BoE base rate, fee amortisation, GL and BoD/EoD batches \- Led the \~3,000\-loan migration from Mambu, plus the nCino and data\-warehouse integrations \- Led a team of 8 QA engineers; owned risk\-based, shift\-left test strategy and release sign\-off 🛠 Stack Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Amazon Bedrock AgentCore · MCP · Python · Java · Gradle · Playwright · TypeScript · Next\.js · SQL · GitHub Actions · Docker · AWS · Jira Previously: Test Engineer & Test Analyst at Infosys \(Visa account\): payment gateway testing, Selenium automation, Regression & Scrum Master 📌 Open to Senior QA Lead, QA Manager and Quality Engineering Lead roles 📩 itsmepankajpandey@gmail\.com \| 💻 https://github\.com/PankajPandey\-codes

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

github copilot

langchain

openai

## Work experience

Senior Technical Lead at OakNorth in India, May 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 6 years as quality engineering lead for a proprietary core banking platform — building the test infrastructure from scratch and evolving it into an AI\-native QA platform at scale\. 🤖 AI\-Native Test Authoring Platform ▸ Designed and built a Next\.js \+ Claude \+ Codex platform enabling non\-technical users to author production Playwright tests in plain English — zero code, zero terminal, zero YAML ⚙️ API & Backend Regression Engine ▸ Built a Java/Gradle regression engine from scratch: 220\+ scenarios across 3 manifests covering 8\+ core banking microservices end\-to\-end ▸ Unified HTTP API assertions and SQL/MySQL database validations in a single framework ▸ Targeted CI mode: only tests relevant to each deployment run — keeping pipelines lean ▸ Docker \+ GitHub Actions \+ AWS pipeline with 4 execution modes, live dashboards and reports 🧠 AI Engineering ▸ Multi\-repo AI agent workspace: Claude & Codex read the entire platform in one session for test generation, CI triage, and Jira\-to\-coverage mapping ▸ LLM\-powered failure analyzer classifying CI failures by root cause — reducing time\-to\-triage significantly ▸ Playwright TypeScript UI suite: 10 spec files, 14 active scenarios across 5 business domains ▸ Acting Scrum Master — sprint ceremonies, stakeholder alignment and release management Tech: Java · Gradle · Playwright · TypeScript · Next\.js · Claude · Codex · SQL · Mambu · Docker · GitHub Actions · AWS · Jira

Technical leader at OakNorth in India, Apr 2021 \- May 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Senior Technology Analyst at OakNorth in India, Jul 2019 \- Mar 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore

Test Analyst at Infosys, Apr 2016 \- Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Quality assurance for mission\-critical payment processing systems at Visa — one of the world's largest financial networks processing billions of transactions globally\. ▸ Tested high\-volume payment flows covering authorisation, card processing, and settlement systems at global scale ▸ Designed and executed API and integration test strategies across core payment processing services ▸ Built automated regression suites for critical payment flows, reducing manual test execution effort ▸ Conducted performance and load testing validating system behaviour under peak transaction volumes ▸ Partnered with cross\-functional, multi\-geography teams on acceptance criteria, defect triage, and live production support Domain: Payments · Transaction Processing · High\-Volume Financial Systems

Senior System Engineer at Infosys, Mar 2014 \- Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, QA consulting across enterprise client engagements — delivering test strategies, automation frameworks, and quality programmes for large\-scale software delivery\. ▸ Designed test strategies and automation frameworks across multiple enterprise projects and industry domains ▸ Built regression suites and led test execution, defect management, and UAT sign\-off for major production releases ▸ Worked directly with client stakeholders to validate requirements and define acceptance criteria ▸ Mentored junior QA engineers on automation, test design, and agile practices

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

Higher Secondary Education\(Class 12\), SCIENCE, Central Board of Secondary Education

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/pankajpconnect\-code

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