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Senior SDET | Quality Platform Engineer | Building Quality Infrastructure | Java | Backend, Web & Mobile Automation | AI-Assisted Testing | Performance Engineering | Kubernetes | Wiremock | FinTech

About

Seven years ago I started my career automating web UIs. Today I build the infrastructure that decides whether a payment system is safe to ship. I'm a Senior SDET / Quality Platform Engineer at slice, where I own quality for UPI-first banking — a domain where a missed edge case isn't a bug ticket, it's someone's money stuck at 2 AM. My philosophy is simple: Don’t write more tests. Build platforms that make quality automatic. Some of the systems I’ve built include: • An in-house Mobile Device Farm with intelligent scheduling, device allocation, and parallel execution across Android & iOS, integrated with LambdaTest for scalable cloud execution. • A Java 17 backend automation platform running on Kubernetes (AWS), serving 50+ banking microservices and reducing escaped production defects by 30%. • AI-assisted quality tooling that enables natural-language test generation and intelligent failure triage, reducing automation effort by 80% and cutting root-cause analysis from hours to minutes. Performance engineering has been central to my work. I validated UPI payment flows at high TPS using k6, identified a pre-production Istio ingress bottleneck caused by autoscaling behaviour, and partnered with the infrastructure team to resolve it before release. Previously at Cashfree Payments, I helped validate payment systems for IPL and World Cup traffic—some of the highest-concurrency workloads in Indian fintech. Beyond automation, I focus on developer productivity. I built self-service quality tooling that enables developers and product managers to trigger automation directly from Slack, introduced PR-level quality gates using CODEOWNERS, and automated release validation for UPI, Cards, PG, and BBPS. The outcome was a shift from QA-owned testing to engineering-owned quality. I believe quality is infrastructure. Build it as a platform, operate it like a production service, measure it like a product, and make it so seamless that engineers naturally adopt it. I’m passionate about platform engineering, distributed systems, performance engineering, and mentoring engineers to build scalable, reliable quality solutions. If you’re building payment infrastructure, engineering platforms, or developer productivity tooling, I’d love to connect. Core Technologies: Java • REST Assured • TestNG • Selenium • Appium • Kubernetes • AWS • Docker • GitHub Actions • WireMock • k6 • JMeter • Jenkins • SQL • Mobile Automation • Backend Automation • Performance Engineering

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

mcp

n8n

openai

ChatGPT

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Work experience

SDET 3 — Payments Platform at slice, Mar 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Promoted to own quality platform architecture for slice's payments stack — quality as self-serve infrastructure, deployed and operated like production services. • Architected and built an in-house mobile Device Farm: intelligent device allocation, scheduling, parallel execution orchestration, and cloud execution across Android and iOS — enterprise mobile automation infrastructure, built rather than bought. • Built the Appium mobile automation platform as a deployed service with self-healing locators and AI smart-locator detection from page source — flaky locator failures and test-maintenance effort down by a third. • Led vendor PoCs across TestSigma, BrowserStack, and LambdaTest; selected and integrated LambdaTest as the cloud execution layer with an automated nightly APK delivery pipeline. • Integrated Zephyr for NL-driven mobile execution — test-management cases converted to AI-executable steps (tap, visibility, scroll, deeplinks); critical E2E Android journeys running nightly. • Built the QA-BVT Slackbot: developers, PMs, and QAs trigger automation suites and test-environment utilities directly from Slack — testing went from QA-driven to self-serve. • Enforced PR-level automation on every feature PR via CODEOWNERS, cutting pre-release feedback cycles by 40%. • Drove org-level Chainguard adoption, reducing container image vulnerabilities across services. Tech: Java, Appium, LambdaTest, Zephyr, Slack APIs, GitHub Actions, Docker, Chainguard, Android/iOS

SDET 2 — Payments Platform at slice, Apr 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs, Bangalore Urban, Owned end-to-end quality for the UPI stack — from exploratory testing of NPCI integration edge cases to building the backend quality platform the team runs on. • Architected a Java 17 backend API automation platform (TestNG, REST Assured, Gradle) from scratch, deployed as a service on Kubernetes (AWS) — scaled to 50+ banking microservices, escaped defects down 30%. • Pioneered LLM-based test generation via Cursor rules — "give a curl, get a test" for all HTTP methods — cutting automation scripting effort by 80% and accelerating engineer onboarding. • Built AI failure summarization and triage: automated health checks and smart bug creation classifying test vs. infra failures — nightly-run diagnosis went from hours of log-diving to one-line root-cause summaries. • Engineered Kafka and SQL validation utilities for async, event-driven flow verification — data correctness beyond API-level assertions. • Automated P0/critical suites gating every release candidate across UPI, Cards, PG, BBPS, and MPIN, with scheduled nightly runs and Slack reporting. • Owned backend load testing with k6 for high-throughput UPI flows: validated peak-traffic behavior, uncovered pre-production infrastructure bottlenecks, and drove remediation with the infra team — improving production stability. • Built a production-like UPI mock environment with WireMock, enabling deterministic testing that NPCI UAT cannot provide. Tech: Java 17, TestNG, REST Assured, Gradle, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, WireMock, k6, Cursor/Claude, SQL

SDET 2 — Senior Quality Engineer, Payments & API Banking at Cashfree Payments, Sep 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, India, Quality and performance engineering for payment processing and API banking — systems where peak traffic arrives on a cricket schedule and failure is publicly visible. • Owned performance and load testing for IPL and World Cup traffic events, validating system behavior under peak concurrency and ensuring smooth production releases. • Led k6 adoption org-wide: ran PoCs and established baseline load scenarios for core APIs — changed how the org approached performance testing. • Automated critical payment and API banking regression workflows with REST Assured, hardening regression coverage across high-volume API traffic. • Built performance and quality observability dashboards in Google Looker Studio — latency, throughput, and failure trends visible to every engineering team. • Integrated automated test execution into Bitbucket Pipelines for consistent CI-based validation on every feature and release. • Mentored interns and junior engineers on API automation and test design, accelerating team testing maturity. Tech: Java, REST Assured, k6, JMeter, Bitbucket Pipelines, Google Looker Studio, Jira/JQL

Software Engineer — Web UI Automation at Micro Focus, Aug 2019 - Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, First engineering role — where I learned that a good framework outlives any individual test. • Designed a scalable Web UI automation framework (Selenium, TestNG, Page Object Model), owning framework architecture and automation feasibility analysis. • Automated 2,000+ Web UI regression cases integrated into Jenkins CI — manual regression effort down 65%, consistently supporting on-time releases. • Built BVT and smoke suites saving one engineer-hour of manual testing daily and improving early defect detection. • Mentored interns and new joiners on automation best practices, framework usage, and test design patterns. Tech: Java, Selenium, TestNG, Jenkins, SVN/GitHub

Internship Trainee at Micro Focus, Jan 2019 - Jan 2019 · 1 mo, Bangalore

Student at Bangalore Institute Of Technology, Aug 2015 - Aug 2015 · 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bangalore institute of technology

12, Science, Delhi Public School, Vindhyanagar