Lead SDET (Principal Role) at Grid Dynamics (Client: VISA INC.) (2024-10 – Present)
- QA Leadership & Test Strategy: Led cross-functional quality initiatives and defined comprehensive Test Strategies for B2B virtual card platforms; architected a modular framework that reduced release validation cycles from 2 days to 3 hours (an 87% reduction) via highly efficient parallel execution.
- Shift-Left Testing & Architecture: Drove Shift-Left testing practices by partnering directly with Principal Architects and Product Managers to define microservice acceptance criteria, completely eliminating production defect leakage of high-severity functional bugs.
- Backend & Risk Mitigation: Pioneered advanced backend strategies including Kafka consumer-based testing and event-driven validation to secure real-time data consistency and protect critical workflows against Release Risks.
- Mentorship & AI-Driven Testing: Mentored engineers to integrate pragmatic AI-driven coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cline, Claude CLI) into the engineering infrastructure, accelerating boilerplate script generation by 30%.
Senior SDET / QA Lead at Glance (2021-10 – 2024-09)
- B2C Quality Governance: Managed the end-to-end QA lifecycle, Functional testing, and Regression testing for a high-visibility Android Lock Screen B2C product serving millions of concurrent users.
- Mobile Testing Strategy: Designed and implemented a comprehensive mobile automation framework using Appium from the ground up, resolving deep architectural mismatches between backend API endpoints and mobile UI response times.
- Quality Metrics Optimization: Monitored and enhanced core Quality Metrics, enforcing rigorous automation coding principles and automated quality gates that delivered a 15% spike in engineering velocity and a 10% drop in post-release defect escapes.
- Performance & Core Workflow Risk: Optimized test execution velocity by establishing robust parallel execution criteria inside the mobile suite, tracking and self-healing layout flakiness patterns via AI layers to reduce stability defects by 30%.
Automation Engineer / Independent Consultant at Freelance (2019-08 – 2021-09)
- QA Advisory & Roadmaps: Consulted on automation transition frameworks for scaling digital product firms, providing clear Test Plans and roadmaps to audit and migrate legacy, high-maintenance Selenium suites into modern configurations.
- Containerization & CI Integration: Developed containerized localized test runtime environments utilizing Docker, cutting cross-platform configuration errors and seamlessly embedding automated test steps inside target CI/CD pipelines.
Senior SDET at InMobi (2014-09 – 2016-06)
- Release Architecture & Risk Mitigation: Spearheaded the evolution of the automation framework for complex multi-tier ad-serving architectures, aligning systemic test suites directly with core ad-network logic and distributed business risk models.
- Stability Engineering: Eliminated dependency blockages by introducing strict modular dependency mapping via Maven, initiating thread-safe parallel test runs that reduced real production user crash rates by 40% within the first month post-release.
QA Engineer at InMobi (2011-05 – 2014-09)
Governed the end-to-end defect management ecosystem inside Jira and executed high-coverage functional, exploratory, and boundary test methodologies across rich media formats, video ads, and business transaction routing logic.
