--- title: "Sonu K. - AI Engineer (Automation, Performance, Evaluation) in Bengaluru | Tal" description: "Meet Sonu K., Lead SDET | Test Automation & Performance Engineering | AI Quality | Python, Java, Appium, pytest, RestAssured, REST/gRPC, Locust, DeepEval, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP | Open to relocation based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude." image: "https://tal.club/meet/sonu-khobragade/share-image" --- # Sonu K\. on Tal ## Headline Lead SDET \| Test Automation & Performance Engineering \| AI Quality \| Python, Java, Appium, pytest, RestAssured, REST/gRPC, Locust, DeepEval, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP \| Open to relocation ## About Senior SDET, 12\+ years across mobile, backend, distributed systems and cloud platforms\. Most recently I was the sole quality engineer at AskMyGuru, a seed\-stage AI startup\. I built LLM evaluation for a production chatbot using DeepEval with Claude as judge, an internal test\-case generation tool that takes PRD and Figma inputs, and mobile and API automation from scratch\. I also owned backend performance testing\. Before that, seven years at Mobile Premier League\. I joined as SDET Lead and left as Senior Manager running a 25\+ member QA org covering automation, performance engineering, games and product QA\. I owned performance readiness for IPL peak events at around 1M RPM, led validation for the AWS to GCP migration, and scaled automation from roughly 200 tests to nearly 2,000 while cutting the release cycle from three weeks to two and a half\. I work in Python and Java: Appium, Selenium, pytest, RestAssured, REST and gRPC, Locust for load testing, Kubernetes, AWS and GCP\. Open to Senior SDET, performance engineering and AI quality roles, including relocation\. Reach me at sonu\.khobragade2@gmail\.com\. ## Location Bengaluru ## AI stack antigravity claude code claude codex cursor hermes agent ## Work experience AI Engineer \(Automation, Performance, Evaluation\) at AskMyGuru, Sep 2025 \- Aug 2026 · 11 mo, Bangalore Senior Manager at Mobile Premier League \(MPL\), Apr 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led a 25\+ member QA organisation covering automation, performance engineering, games and product QA\. Owned performance readiness for Fantasy and Payments during IPL and other peak events\. Validated Fantasy traffic up to \~1M RPM and \~60 payment TPS\. Ran performance validation for MPL's AWS to GCP migration, including load testing and database latency investigations\. Ran chaos testing on GKE with Chaos Mesh: pod kill and failure scenarios, HTTP latency and error injection\. Scaled automation from \~200\-250 tests to nearly 2,000\. The release cycle went from \~3 weeks to \~2\.5 weeks, with less manual regression\. Performance SDE \- Manager at Mobile Premier League \(MPL\), Jan 2022 \- Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Owned performance testing for Fantasy, Payments and Onboarding across load, stress, spike and endurance \(soak\) scenarios\. Validated the EC2\-to\-EKS/Kubernetes migration by benchmarking latency, CPU and memory utilisation under load\. Performance\-tested the SQS/SNS\-to\-Confluent Kafka migration, benchmarking broker and node behaviour and cluster capacity under load\. Benchmarked G1GC vs ZGC on Java 8 and 17, comparing GC pauses, throughput and CPU/memory usage under load\. Built a payment mock service for third\-party integrations, plus Python utilities for Zookeeper configuration copying and key/value lookup\. SDET Manager at Mobile Premier League \(MPL\), Jan 2020 \- Dec 2021 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Established automation coverage for Fantasy, Payments and Onboarding across critical mobile and backend flows\. Developed backend automated tests using Java and RestAssured for REST APIs and gRPC service\-to\-service calls not exposed through client\-facing APIs\. Took on Fantasy performance testing alongside automation responsibilities, supporting peak\-event load validation\. Built the initial Java and Appium mobile automation framework, replacing manual regression as the primary release check\. QA Automation Engineer at Benetech, Jul 2018 \- Nov 2018 · 5 mos, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, Wrote and executed manual and automated test cases using Selenium and Java for a US accessibility platform serving readers with print disabilities\. Senior Software Quality Analyst at RnR DataLex Private Limited, Mar 2016 \- Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, Built Selenium and Java automation using Page Object Model, TestNG and Maven for ERP and legal\-domain products serving Dubai government and enterprise clients\. Ran full\-cycle QA across requirements analysis, test design, execution and regression for the Legal Profession System and Rujul ERP\. Worked with developers on root cause analysis for production failures, and owned QA metrics reporting\. Software Testing Automation Engineer at BIZSENSE Solutions Private Limited, Aug 2014 \- Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, Built automation frameworks using AutoIT, Sikuli and TestNG with Page Object Model design, covering desktop and Windows Mobile applications for US healthcare procurement and B2B e\-commerce trading products\. Automated SQL Server database restoration and teardown, removing manual environment setup between test cycles\. Ran cross\-platform test execution using VirtualBox, and delivered client training with step\-by\-step module documentation and walkthrough videos\. ## Education B\.E, Computer Science and Engineering, G\.H\. 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