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Lead SDET in Wissen | Building Gen-AI Automation frameworks, Playwright, RestAssured , AWS, CI/CD , selenium, Cybersecurity, Jmeter, Java, JavaScript

About

I am an experienced Software Quality professional with 12+ years in test automation, architecting AI-driven test frameworks using AI agents and MCPs. - Have in-depth knowledge of software automation, testing and verification processes and methodologies, and have led and mentored SDET/QA teams. - Roles and Responsibilities: 12+ yrs. of expertise in BFSI, e-commerce, quick commerce and SaaS domains. - Agentic QA: Claude Code, MCPs (Model Context Protocol), AI Agents. - Taking full ownership of testing, automating and delivering products on time without compromising quality. - Introduced and implemented industry best QA/automation practices with an automation-first culture. - Hired, led and mentored SDET/QA teams. Experience developing automation frameworks from scratch using Playwright, Selenium,RestAssured in Java and JavaScript. - Experience developing API automation frameworks using RestAssured, TestNG and Maven, integrated with Jenkins. - Experience in REST and gRPC API testing using Postman and WireMock. Experience with BDD frameworks using Cucumber. - Experience in cloud security testing on AWS using Prowler, tfsec, Gobuster and Gitleaks. - Hands-on with AWS, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB and MySQL. - Well versed with CI/CD (Jenkins, Docker, Git) and Agile/Scrum methodology. - Taking initiatives to solve team bottlenecks and drive process improvement. Experience collaborating with team around different Verticals

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

github copilot

langchain

ollama

Work experience

Principal Test Engineer at Wissen Technology, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Architected a Playwright automation framework from scratch in 2 weeks and integrated it with release pipelines, detecting regression bugs during deployments; executes 100+ regression test cases. - Revamped 1300+ legacy manual test cases in 2 weeks using AI – equivalent to ~2 months of traditional manual effort. - Drove a 3x increase in QA team productivity through AI Agents, modern QA frameworks and an automation-first culture. - Worked on cloud security using Prowler, cloud_enum,trufflehog, tfsec, Gobuster and Gitleaks to identify misconfigurations, exposed endpoints and leaked secrets. - Optimized automation execution time by 50% through parallel execution, removing boilerplate code and reducing DB calls. - Integrated test automation into Jenkins pipelines to enhance release velocity. - Mentored junior SDETs and drove QA strategy for enterprise financial applications. - Conducted SDET hiring drives and served as interviewer for L1 and L2 rounds.

Lead Engineer at Swiggy, Apr 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Led QA team of 3 for Instamart B2B; handled the automation of 200+ test cases. - Formed the QA team of 3 members in Genie product and delivered features like One membership, SwiggyMoneyWallet, Surge Implementation, UI 2.0 transformation. - Took ownership of Genie product and provided innovative ideas to improve customer experience like the MultiOrder Tracking screen. - Reduced QA operational costs by 30% by introducing in-sprint automation tasks. - Improved product conversion rate by 12% by improving product quality and partnering with PMs on customer app improvements like last repeat order, maps scrolling and address saving.

Senior Engineer at Swiggy, Sep 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineer at Ellucian, Feb 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos, India, - Developed TestNG-based API testing framework and integrated with Jenkins. - Developed smoke test Postman collection for 120+ APIs, which reduced testing effort by 90%. - Raised automated Selenium UI flow pass percentage to 97% by fixing flaky tests. - Did POC on Cypress (JS) and trained the Test Automation team on new tools. - Owned RCA documentation for P1 issues and served as on-call QA.

Software Engineer at Sears Holdings India, Feb 2016 - Jan 2018 · 2 yrs, India, - Developed scripts and test plans for automation in Selenium WebDriver and Core Java. - Owned Profile QA tasks and actively participated in App Support for Black Friday. - Delivered features including demos to senior management: Return and Exchange module, Customer Seller Reviews, Membership Reward program.

Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Jan 2014 - Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos, India, - Developed Selenium + Java test automation for Microsoft CRM. - Demonstrated frameworks to clients and collaborated with global teams. - Executed test cases for FORD and VFS Global projects.

Education

Postgraduate Degree, CyberSecurity, amity University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Punjab technical university

Public links

medium: https://medium.com/@info.rahil