Headline

Senior Quality Engineer | Lead SDET | GenAI & Agentic AI for Quality Engineering | Cloud Migration | Java | Typescript | Playwright | Cypress | Selenium | API | CI/CD | AWS | Enabled 5X Productivity Gains | 10+ Years

About

I’m a Senior Quality Engineer and Lead SDET with 10+ years of experience building scalable test automation, improving software quality, and enabling faster, more reliable releases. I specialize in automation architecture, Playwright, Cypress, CI/CD, API testing, cloud migration, and AI-assisted testing. At Delta Air Lines, I’ve driven initiatives across automation, cloud modernization, and quality engineering. Key highlights include: • Successfully tested and migrated applications from on-premises to AWS as part of the Zulu initiative. • Built a PoC to automatically validate SSL certificates and flag certificates approaching expiry. • Migrated and stabilized the entire regression suite from Cypress to Playwright, significantly improving reliability and execution efficiency. • Reduced regression execution time from ~8 hours to ~1.5–2 hours through parallel execution. • Contributed to reducing production defects from 600+ to 50+ through proactive automation and quality practices. I’m passionate about building modern Quality Engineering solutions and exploring how AI can improve test automation, engineering productivity, and software quality. Core Areas: Quality Engineering | Lead SDET | Automation Architecture | Generative AI | Agentic AI | Amazon Kiro | Playwright | Cypress | Java | API Automation | CI/CD | AWS | Quality Engineering Strategy | Cloud Migration

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

kiro

Amazon Q Developer

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Senior Qulity Engineer 2 at Delta Air Lines, Apr 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Senior Quality Engineer 2 / SDET 3 | Apr 2026 – Present * Lead Quality Engineering strategy and automation architecture for critical end-to-end workflows across Dev, Staging, and Production, driving continuous testing, release readiness, and quality improvement initiatives. * Owned and completed the Cypress-to-Playwright migration in 8 weeks, leading technical strategy, stakeholder alignment, framework modernization, and delivery through a custom AI-powered migration agent. * Optimized Playwright execution through parallelization and CI/CD improvements, reducing regression runtime by 75–80% from 8 hours to 1.5–2 hours and saving approximately 6 hours per regression cycle. * Owned the Jenkins-to-GitLab CI/CD migration, implementing pipelines across Dev, Staging, and Production to support daily regression testing and hourly sanity validation. * Strengthened shift-left and production quality practices through expanded automation, risk-based validation, continuous testing, and TrackJS monitoring, contributing to a reduction in production defects from 600+ to 50+. * Partnered with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, and senior leaders to assess quality risks, influence technical decisions, and support data-driven release decisions. * Mentoring junior engineers and advanced team-wide Quality Engineering practices through technical guidance, framework adoption, debugging support, and automation design reviews. * Developed 4 AI and agentic AI proof-of-concepts, including Planner, Generator, Healer, and Migrator agents, to accelerate test planning, test generation, failure analysis, self-healing, and framework maintenance.

Senior Quality Engineer 1 at Delta Air Lines, Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Senior Quality Engineer 1 / SDET 2 | Mar 2023 – Apr 2026 * Owned Quality Engineering strategy for critical end-to-end workflows across Dev, Staging, and Production, contributing to automation architecture, risk-based testing, release readiness, continuous testing, and quality improvement. * Architected and maintained 200+ automated regression tests using Cypress and Playwright, expanding reusable coverage across critical business workflows. * Led the Cypress-to-Playwright migration, owning framework analysis, test conversion, validation, and delivery through a custom AI-powered migration agent. * Partnered with Product Owners, Architects, and Developers to identify quality risks, improve test coverage, and support release-readiness decisions. * Extended Playwright automation with API and route-based validation to strengthen end-to-end coverage beyond UI testing. * Contributed to shift-left quality practices through expanded automation, risk-based validation, and continuous testing across multiple environments.

Senior Software Test Engineer || at FIS, Apr 2019 - Mar 2023 · 4 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Senior Software Test Engineer 2 | Apr 2019 – Mar 2023 * Supported Quality Engineering, software testing, and automation across banking programs for Bank of Hawaii, AAA, BOKF, and First Bank, covering web, mobile, backend, functional, integration, regression, smoke, sanity, end-to-end, and API testing. * Collaborated within a 6-member QA engineering team supporting the Bank of Hawaii ecosystem, including Online Banking, Banker, BOH mobile, and IBS backend applications built on the FIS Digital One Core legacy product. * Developed and maintained 350+ web automation scripts using Java and Selenium WebDriver for critical retail banking workflows. * Designed and implemented 150+ mobile automation scripts using Appium and native automation libraries across Android and iOS. * Executed smoke, sanity, regression, functional, integration, and end-to-end testing across multiple banking modules, supporting 2+ releases annually. * Reduced overall testing effort by approximately 50% by automating repetitive testing activities and optimizing automated suites. * Raised, tracked, prioritized, and coordinated resolution of 450+ Bank of Hawaii defects in Jira, collaborating with developers, product owners, and business stakeholders. * Debugged application issues using configuration files, test results, application logs, and system logs to support root cause analysis and resolution. * Worked in Agile and Scrum environments, participating in sprint planning, test planning, execution, defect triage, release validation, and continuous improvement. * Delivered 60+ hours of knowledge transfer on testing techniques, automation frameworks, debugging practices, test procedures, and QA processes. Key Impact: Supported quality engineering across four banking programs, delivered 350+ web, 150+ mobile, and 214+ AAA automation scripts, reduced testing effort by ~50%, tracked 450+ defects, and contributed to ~25% productivity improvement

Associate Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra, Dec 2015 - Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Associate Software Engineer — Automation Tester | Apr 2016 – Apr 2019 * Developed and maintained Java + Selenium WebDriver automation frameworks using the Page Object Model (POM) for enterprise web applications. * Automated critical smoke and regression test scenarios, improving repeatability and reducing dependency on repetitive manual validation. * Created reusable automation components and maintained automated test suites to support consistent regression coverage across application releases. * Performed functional, integration, regression, smoke, and API testing, building hands-on experience across multiple levels of software quality validation. * Analyzed test failures, investigated application behavior, documented defects, and collaborated with development teams to validate fixes. * Participated in Agile development and testing activities, contributing to test planning, execution, defect reporting, regression validation, and release activities. * Built a strong foundation in test automation, Java, Selenium, framework design, defect analysis, and software quality engineering, establishing the technical foundation for progression into senior SDET and Quality Engineering roles.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru national college of engineering