---
title: "RAHIL Kumar - Principal Test Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet RAHIL Kumar, Lead SDET in Wissen | Building Gen-AI Automation frameworks, Playwright, RestAssured , AWS, CI/CD , selenium, Cybersecurity, Jmeter, Java, JavaScript based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and github copilot. Explore public work links inclu..."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar/share-image"
---

# RAHIL Kumar on Tal

## Headline

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

[View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar)

```json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar#person",
      "name": "RAHIL Kumar",
      "url": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar",
      "image": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar/profile-photo.jpg",
      "description": "Meet RAHIL Kumar, Lead SDET in Wissen | Building Gen-AI Automation frameworks, Playwright, RestAssured , AWS, CI/CD , selenium, Cybersecurity, Jmeter, Java, JavaScript based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and github copilot. Explore public work links inclu...",
      "jobTitle": "Principal Test Engineer",
      "worksFor": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Wissen Technology"
      },
      "hasOccupation": {
        "@type": "Occupation",
        "name": "Principal Test Engineer"
      },
      "homeLocation": {
        "@type": "Place",
        "name": "Greater Bengaluru Area"
      },
      "alumniOf": [
        {
          "@type": "EducationalOrganization",
          "name": "amity University"
        },
        {
          "@type": "EducationalOrganization",
          "name": "Punjab technical university"
        }
      ],
      "knowsAbout": [
        "anthropic apis",
        "claude code",
        "github copilot",
        "langchain",
        "ollama"
      ],
      "sameAs": [
        "https://medium.com/@info.rahil"
      ],
      "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar#webpage"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "ProfilePage",
      "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar#webpage",
      "url": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar",
      "name": "RAHIL Kumar on Tal",
      "description": "Meet RAHIL Kumar, Lead SDET in Wissen | Building Gen-AI Automation frameworks, Playwright, RestAssured , AWS, CI/CD , selenium, Cybersecurity, Jmeter, Java, JavaScript based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and github copilot. Explore public work links inclu...",
      "dateModified": "2026-11-02T15:47:58.526Z",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/#website"
      },
      "mainEntity": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar#person"
      },
      "primaryImageOfPage": {
        "@type": "ImageObject",
        "url": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar/profile-photo.jpg",
        "contentUrl": "https://tal.club/meet/rahil-kumar/profile-photo.jpg",
        "caption": "RAHIL Kumar profile photo on Tal"
      },
      "inLanguage": "en-IN"
    }
  ]
}
```