Sharik Kumar

Principal SDET with 11+ years of engineering quality at scale — across Capgemini, CIBERsites, Synechron, and Edelman Financial Engines — spanning Insurance, Fintech, and Wealth Management. Architect of automation ecosystems that go beyond test scripts: frameworks that enforce quality gates, surface real defects, and give engineering teams confidence to ship fast. In an era where AI tools generate code at speed, brings a critical second discipline — systematic validation of AI-generated outputs, catching logic gaps, hallucinated behaviour, and regression that automated pipelines miss.

Combines deep Java automation expertise with Spring Boot API development, hands-on performance engineering, and a lead's ability to raise the quality bar across an entire organisation.

Senior SDET Engineer - Edelman Financial Engines - Bengaluru, India

(2022-05)

• Lead a 5-engineer QA team across a wealth management platform — own test strategy, sprint quality planning, release sign-off, and cross-team standards for 6 product squads.
• Architected a Java + Selenium + TestNG + Cucumber hybrid framework that reduced regression cycle time by 60%; now the organisation-wide automation standard.
• Built a REST API test suite in REST Assured and Karate with 85%+ coverage — schema validation, contract assertions, and edge-case boundary checks across every financial service endpoint.
• Delivered Playwright-based UI automation with Jenkins parallel execution — cut nightly suite runtime from 4 hrs to 45 mins, enabling same-day feedback on every PR.
• Developed Spring Boot internal APIs for QA tooling: dynamic test-data provisioning, environment health checks, and mock stubs — removed all dependency on manual DB setup.
• Established K6 performance harness for critical payment and portfolio transaction journeys; caught a latency regression causing 30% slowdown under 500 concurrent users before it reached production.
• Introduced AI slippage detection practices — systematically validating Copilot and AI-generated code for logic gaps, missed edge cases, and hallucinated behaviour that static linters cannot catch, preventing quality regressions from entering the codebase undetected.
• Drove SonarQube quality gates into CI, enforced PR standards, and embedded Allure dashboards — raised automation code quality by 70% and gave leadership real-time visibility into suite health.

Senior Automation Test Engineer - Synechron Technologies Pvt. Ltd. - Bengaluru, India

(2021-02 - 2022-04)

• Enhanced a Java + Selenium framework for a major Fintech client, extending it to support multi-browser parallel execution across Selenium Grid — doubled coverage throughput without adding headcount.
• Built REST Assured API regression suites integrated into Jenkins CI; automated suite triggered on every merge, reducing manual API testing effort by 50%.
• Designed test strategy and traceability matrices for regulatory and compliance-critical releases; acted as quality gate before every production deployment.
• Extended automation capability to C# on a parallel .NET-stack project — demonstrated ability to deliver across language ecosystems without compromising speed or quality.

Automation Test Engineer - CIBERsites India - Bengaluru, India

(2019-07 - 2020-12)

• Built Selenium WebDriver automation suites in Java for Insurance web applications using POM and data-driven design; raised automation coverage from near-zero to 70%+ within the first two quarters.
• Created JMeter performance test plans for policy issuance workflows; ran load and stress tests up to peak traffic scenarios and delivered SLA compliance reports to stakeholders.
• Set up Jenkins nightly regression pipelines with Extent Report dashboards, giving project leadership daily quality visibility.
• Wrote Python utility scripts for test data generation and log analysis — improved environment repeatability and cut pre-test setup time significantly.

Software QA Engineer - Capgemini - Bengaluru, India

(2016-01 - 2019-07)

• Initiated and led automation adoption on an Insurance platform — built the first Selenium + Java regression suite from scratch, delivering measurable defect catch rates within six months.
• Executed functional, integration, regression, and UAT cycles across multiple Insurance modules; authored test plans, test cases, and defect reports in HP ALM and JIRA.
• Acted as primary QA contact for feature releases — coordinated with Dev, BA, and business teams to ensure quality sign-off across sprint boundaries.
• Thrived in Agile/Scrum environment; drove defect lifecycle discipline and SLA tracking across concurrent delivery streams.

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science / Information Technology - Punjab Technical University (2015)