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title: "Siddesh Belura - Lead Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Siddesh Belura, Generative AI Testing | Playwright Automation | AI QA Engineer | SDET | AI-Assisted Test Automation | API Automation | Appium |TypeScript| | Python | Pytest | CI/CD based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, mcp, and ollama."
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# Siddesh Belura on Tal

## Headline

Generative AI Testing \| Playwright Automation \| AI QA Engineer \| SDET \| AI\-Assisted Test Automation \| API Automation \| Appium \|TypeScript\| \| Python \| Pytest \| CI/CD

## About

• 10\+ years of QE experience \| AI\-assisted automation, Generative AI testing \| Web, Mobile, API, ETL/Data Validation & CI/CD automation • Hands\-on experience with Generative AI tools, GitHub Copilot \| AI\-powered test design, automation development, code optimization & productivity enhancement • Exposure to Generative AI testing & AI application validation \| AI response validation, data accuracy & functional testing • Expertise in scalable automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Rest Assured, Karate \| Web, Mobile \(iOS/Android\) & API automation • Strong Mobile Automation experience using Appium, iOS XCUITest, Android UIAutomator/UIAutomator2 \| API validation with JSON, POJO, JSON Path & Rest Assured • Experience across Banking \(Citi Bank\), Telecom \(Deutsche Telekom\), Financial Services \(Western Union, PayPal\), E\-Commerce, Retail & Life Sciences \(Alcon\) • Experience with Jenkins CI/CD, BrowserStack, AWS \(Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB\), JFrog Artifactory, GitHub, Git & SVN • Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, test framework design, client collaboration & end\-to\-end Quality Engineering practices

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

mcp

ollama

openai

claudecode

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at T\-Systems ICT India Pvt\. Ltd\., Feb 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 7 mos, India, AI Mobile Test Automation \(Appium 2\.12, ReadyAPI, BrowserStack Cloud & Data Engineering \(AWS S3/SQS, Snowflake\) Real\-time Data Streaming & QA \(Kafka, Python, Pandas, SQL Server, Great Expectations\)

Senior Consultant at T\-Systems ICT India Pvt\. Ltd\., Jun 2022 \- Feb 2023 · 9 mos, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, I’m working as Test Automation Lead\.and having onsite exposure\(Germany\)

Team Lead at Altimetrik, Sep 2020 \- Jun 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineer\-Lead \-Mobile APPS\(iOS and Android\)Appium Automation at Mobileum, Jun 2019 \- Sep 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, \-Experience in Mobile automation with appium\(iOS,Android\) \-Mobile Automation of iOS and Android in \(Appium\) and Test Automation \(Selenium\) \-Experience in working with linux/ubuntu/Mac platform \-Experience on working with creating CICD Pipeline with Jenkins \-Experience on working with automating on cloud devices on Browser stack \-Experience in working with AWS RDS \-Experience in Mobile Automation\. \-Great exposure on working in Banking domain and Banking &financial applications \-Experience in working with AWS EC2 instance

QE Mobility Consultant at Capgemini, Jan 2017 \- Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, \-\-Mobile Automation\(Appium\) and Web App Automation\(Selenium\) \-\-SalesForce\(SFDC\) Web automation using selenium \-\-Hands on Experience on Java OOPS concepts \-\-iOS Hybrid app automation using appium \-\-SFDC web application automation \-\-Maven Hybrid Framework \-\-Source code management using SVN Remote server And Git \(Plass\) cloud server \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-Creation of BDD framework \-\-Hands on experience on Microsoft tools i\.e Visual Studio,Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer \-\-Hands on experience on VSTS \-\-Creation of Spec Flow, Adding feature file and Step definition to Test execution\. \-Experience in Big data Analytics\(Hadoop\) \-Experience in working with AWS Ec2,Elastic Beanstalk,RDS \-Worked on data replication ,real\-time data integration using Oracle GoldenGate \-Worked on postgresql \(edb\)& Oracle Sql \-Worked on big data tools i\.e ZooKeeper,Oozie,Map reduce,Spark,Apache Hive \-Experience on working with Linux &HDFS \-Experience in working with Presto & Hive data base \-Experience in Cludera &Wisdom platform \-Working on HDFS and Big data\. \-Involved in data analytics \-Experience with working on Oracle &CouchDB \-Experience in working with Yarn application\.

Senior Software Engineer at Sourcebits, Inc\., Aug 2015 \- Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore, \-\-Mobile app testing &Selenium,Mobile automation\(Appium\), Api testing\.End to End QA\. \-\-Mobile testing including both iOS and android platform \-\-Exposure on making script changes to Test automation repository and merges,clone from Git Hub \-\-Agile model work experience,initiative as scrum master \-\-Sprint planning ,Sprint Demo \-\-Creation and implementation of Hybrid automation framework\. \-\-iOS native app automation \-\-App deployment in App store and Play store \-\-Rest Api,AWS analysis of server response \-\-Client Interaction and part of product delivery team \-\-COE Contribution on automation and QE team\. \-\-Execution of automation framework\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Bangalore institute of technology

Diploma Engineerning, Electronics and communication Enginneering, Sandur polytechnic

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