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title: "Rajesh Patel - QA Head / Principal QA Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Rajesh Patel, Immediate joiner | QA Leadership | QA Engineering | SDET | QA Manager | BigData testing | Data management | ETL |Automation Testing| Manual Testing| Software Quality Assurance Specialist based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and perplexity."
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# Rajesh Patel on Tal

## Headline

Immediate joiner \| QA Leadership \| QA Engineering \| SDET \| QA Manager \| BigData testing \| Data management \| ETL \|Automation Testing\| Manual Testing\| Software Quality Assurance Specialist

## About

SUMMARY: ● 18\+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, Test Automation, Big Data, Cloud, and Distributed System and Enterprise Product Validation across MNCs and product\-based startups\. ● Strong experience in building, mentoring, training, and leading high\-performing QA teams\. ● Expertise in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Regression Testing, API/SDK Testing, Performance Testing, and Release Validation\. ● Hands\-on experience working with Big Data technologies, Distributed Systems, NoSQL databases, Cloud Platforms, and Kubernetes\-based deployments\. ● Strong technical background with expertise in Test Planning, Test Case Design, Test Execution, Automation Framework Development, and Defect Management\. ● Experienced in Agile/Scrum methodologies with strong collaboration across Engineering, Product Management, and DevOps teams\. ● Proficient in technologies and tools including Python, Shell Scripting, Perl, Golang, PyTest, TestNG, Jenkins, Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, AWS, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes\. ● Quick learner with strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem\-solving abilities combined with excellent communication and leadership skills\. ● Result\-oriented professional with a strong focus on quality, scalability, process improvement, and continuous learning\. Skill : Shell Scripting, Perl, Python, PyTest, Golang, Linux, Unix, Competitive Analysis, MySQL, Automation, VMware Workstation/ESX, git, JIRA, Hadoop / HDFS, Big Data, Hive, AWS services, Cassandra \(Apache/ Datastax DSE\), Couchbase, Flume, Kafka

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

cursor

perplexity

githubcopilot

ChatGPT

Chroma

## Work experience

QA Head / Principal QA Engineer at DataBahn\.ai, Sep 2025 \- Jun 2026 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Databahn is an AI\-powered enterprise security data pipeline platform focused on SIEM optimization, telemetry management, observability, and intelligent data orchestration\. Leading QA initiatives for Databahn’s enterprise platform solutions by driving automation strategy, release quality, and regression validation across multiple product areas\. Building scalable QA processes and automation frameworks using PyTest and Python\. Collaborating closely with Engineering and Product teams to improve release efficiency, test coverage, and overall product quality\. Leveraging AI\-assisted engineering tools including MCP servers, GitHub Copilot and Cursor IDE to improve automation productivity, debugging efficiency, and development workflows\.

Staff SDET at Hevo Data, Mar 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

QA Manager / Staff SDET at Acceldata, Nov 2023 \- Mar 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, enterprise data observability platform aimed at real\-time insights into data quality, pipelines, infrastructure health, and anomaly detection across complex data stacks \(Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, etc\.\) Managed and Led Pulse QA team\. Delivered releases for the docker and Kubernetes based deployment of the pulse analytics platform\.

Staff Software Engineer /QA Manager at Cohesity, May 2019 \- Nov 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Cohesity radically simplifies data management, solves the central problem of data fragmentation, addresses modern cyber security threats, and helps create new value from data\. Managed and led Cassandra and Salesforce QA teams\. Involved in design review, test planning, functional testing of NoSql Databases includes Data backup, Recovery, Pipeline, Archival, E2E release qualification, automation efforts and cross team testing\. Platform /Tools Used: Golang, HDFS/ Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Datastax \(DSE\) Cassandra, Couchbase, AWS

Staff Software Engineer \(QA\) at Imanis Data, Oct 2014 \- May 2019 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Led Nosql QA team responsible for testing the functionality of different Imanisdata agents \(Cassandra, Couchbase, Hdfs/Hive\) from scratch, Regression testing, Performance testing\. Test Case design, Execution and defect tracking using JIRA\. Installing and maintaining CDH, HDP, and Cassandra Clusters\. Developed Python based Automation framework for HDFS Regression testing\. Platform /Tools Used: HDFS/ Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Datastax \(DSE\) Cassandra, Couchbase, AWS cloud computing services like S3, EC2, Microsoft Azure\.

## Education

MCA, Computer, Savitribai Phule Pune University

B\.Sc, Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University

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