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# Shruthi Rao Kabbinale on Tal

## Headline

Senior QA Engineer

## About

QA Lead \| Digital Commerce & Search \| AI Product Quality \| E\-commerce \| Quality Engineering \| Product & Business Strategy I’m a QA Lead and Digital Commerce professional with 12\+ years of experience delivering quality, customer experience, and technology solutions for large\-scale e\-commerce platforms serving 10M\+ users across 7 countries\. My role bridges Technology, Quality, Product, and Business\. I partner with Product, Engineering, and Business stakeholders to translate customer and business needs into reliable, scalable digital experiences\. Currently, I lead quality strategy for Search & Merchandising transformation, including Bloomreach, omnichannel commerce, search relevance, product discovery, merchandising, customer journeys, integrations, automation, and production stability\. Core Expertise • Digital Commerce & E\-commerce • Search & Merchandising – Bloomreach, Algolia • Search Relevance & Product Discovery • Customer Experience & Conversion Journeys • QA & Quality Engineering Leadership • Functional, API, Integration & Mobile Testing • Playwright & Robot Framework • Risk\-Based Testing & Release Governance • Production Monitoring & RCA • Agile / Scrum & Stakeholder Management • AI\-assisted QA & AI Product Quality Key Achievements • Led Bloomreach Search & Merchandising migration across 5 retail brands serving 10M\+ monthly users, achieving <2% defect leakage at launch\. • Built and mentored an 8\+ engineer QA team and established comprehensive test coverage within a 30\-day migration timeline\. • Directed cross\-functional UAT and stakeholder validation, securing executive sign\-off for a multi\-brand search transformation\. • Built real\-time site monitoring automation to identify 404s, broken navigation, and critical customer journey issues across multi\-site architectures\. • Supported high\-traffic retail events through proactive monitoring, risk\-based testing, and automated regression\. • Led end\-to\-end validation of merchandising data flows across backend feeds, search, UI, and analytics\. I’m passionate about Digital Commerce, Search & Discovery, AI, Customer Experience, and Product Strategy, and I’m looking to expand my impact into Product Ownership, Digital Commerce, and technology leadership roles\. I bring a combination of engineering depth, customer perspective, business understanding, and cross\-functional leadership to solve problems and deliver measurable product outcomes\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

cursor

deepseek

gemini

ChatGPT

LiteLLM

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at Landmark Group, May 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 7 mos, Responsible for end\-to\-end QA delivery for Bloomreach Search & Merch platform migration across 5 retail brands supporting 10M\+ users\. Reports into VP Engineering\.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at eXtra \(United Electronics Co\.\), Sep 2021 \- May 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at United Electronics — eXtra, Sep 2021 \- Apr 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, Owned QA delivery for omnichannel mobile commerce platforms across 5 international markets\.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Landmark Online India Pvt Ltd, Jan 2017 \- Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Landmark Group India, Jan 2017 \- Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Coordinated QA delivery across 9 retail brands — loyalty platforms, merchandising tools, and third\-party integrations\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Information Science and Technology, Vikasa Vidya Samste

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science/Studies, Visvesvaraya Technological University

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