Vishal Maurya

Staff Quality Engineering leader driving test automation strategy for mission-critical Banking, Payments, and Risk & Fraud platforms at Visa — safeguarding 250,000+ transactions daily at 1,760 TPS in one of the world's most regulated financial ecosystems. Built and scaled a Generative AI-assisted test-authoring platform (Claude, GitHub Copilot, MCP) that cut test creation time by 30% and became the org-wide automation standard — a rare blend of hands-on engineering depth and forward-looking AI adoption. 10+ years architecting automation and performance engineering (Java, Selenium, Playwright, RestAssured, JMeter, LoadRunner) across Wipro, Moody's, and Visa, consistently translating quality strategy into measurable business outcomes: 20% fewer production defects, 30% faster CI/CD delivery, 50% faster automation development. Trusted to mentor engineering teams, influence cross-functional architecture decisions, and set the quality bar others follow.

Now seeking a Staff/Principal-level role where I can bring that same ownership to a new engineering organisation.

Staff Software Test Engineer - Visa Inc. - Bangalore, Karnataka, India

(2022-01)

Domain: Payments, Banking, Risk & Fraud | Projects: Decision Manager, RBI Mandate, PaRC SIF. Tech Stack: Java, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured, Kafka, Kubernetes, GitHub, Claude, MCP

• Own quality engineering strategy across 7 strategic Banking, Payments, and Risk & Fraud initiatives, including Decision Manager, RBI Mandate, and PaRC SIF, driving architecture decisions with 5-6 developers, product owners, architects, and DevOps engineers per initiative.
• Mentor SDETs and junior quality engineers on automation architecture, framework design, and AI-assisted testing adoption — extending the same technical leadership demonstrated earlier in career to Visa's engineering organization.
• Designed and built a Generative AI-assisted test-authoring platform using Claude, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and GitHub Copilot, adopted across engineering teams and cutting test creation time by 30%.
• Architected a scalable UI, API, and microservices test automation framework from the ground up using Java, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and RestAssured, cutting regression execution time by 20%.
• Re-architected CI/CD validation stages and automated Kafka-based event validation workflows for payment systems, improving CI/CD pipeline efficiency by 30%.
• Built reusable framework components and shared test libraries adopted org-wide, accelerating automation development by 50% and reducing long-term maintenance overhead.
• Designed and led performance, load, and stress testing using JMeter and LoadRunner, validating system reliability at 250,000+ transactions and 1,760 transactions per second (TPS).
• Drove a 20% reduction in production defects by embedding automation-first, Shift-Left quality practices into the development lifecycle.
• Embedded quality validation across development, architecture, product, and DevOps workflows, supporting the release of 10 software projects.

QA Engineer - Moody's Corporation

(2020-03 - 2021-12)

Domain: Financial Services | Projects: CreditLens, CRE Real Estate Platform, Core Architecture. Tech Stack: C#, Selenium, RestAssured, BDD, Oracle, AWS, GitHub

• Owned quality engineering across enterprise financial and real-estate platforms, including CreditLens, CRE Real Estate Platform, and Core Architecture.
• Built a scalable UI and API test automation framework from scratch, automating 83% of regression scenarios and removing manual validation bottlenecks.
• Designed API, database, and CloudWatch Logs validation strategies for enterprise financial platforms, reducing errors by 15%.
• Integrated automated quality gates into Jenkins CI pipelines and GitHub workflows, increasing deployment frequency by 25%.
• Improved test automation framework execution speed by 25% while strengthening maintainability and reusable architecture.
• Partnered across global Agile teams to deliver reliable, high-quality software releases.

Senior Software Test Engineer - Wipro Limited

(2015-09 - 2020-03)

Projects: Honeywell Internal Applications, GM Automotive Apps, Charles Schwab Digital Messaging Platform. Tech Stack: Java, Selenium, Appium, JMeter, Splunk, GitHub, RestAssured

• Led quality engineering and test automation across multiple client projects, architecting enterprise automation frameworks from scratch.
• Delivered web, API, and mobile automation using Selenium WebDriver and Appium, validating performance for applications supporting 200,000+ concurrent users at 370 transactions per second (TPS).
• Drove automation-led quality transformation, cutting manual testing effort by 70% and achieving 87% automation coverage.
• Led and mentored a team of 7–8 Quality Assurance engineers, conducted code reviews, and established test automation best practices; received the Automation Champion Award (2019–2020).

Master of Technology (M.Tech) - Computer Science Engineering - BITS Pilani (2020)

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) - Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) (2015)