Lead QA Engineer & SDET shipping AI-powered test systems into regulated banking estates—from BDD-aligned Playwright suites to on-prem LLM test generators, Pact Broker contract frameworks, and agentic CI pipelines.
// 9+ years / BFSI · SaaS · Retail / Playwright · Claude · Copilot
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer & SDET with 9+ years driving quality engineering across BFSI, SaaS, and supply chain. Currently leading complex banking integrations at East West Bank, delivering BDD-aligned automation across UI, API, and end-to-end user journeys.
I build Pact Broker contract testing frameworks using vibe coding, apply spec-driven and wipe-driven testing at integration boundary layers, and ship on-premise AI tooling for regulated environments where data privacy isn't optional.
Pioneer in agentic testing—I create AI agents and bots with Claude and GitHub Copilot to shift defect detection left, automate test design, and validate LLM/RAG applications where assertion-based testing breaks down. I lead cross-functional QA teams, migrate large-scale API estates, and found QA communities that raise engineering standards.
Numbers from active engagements and shipped work — the moments where quality engineering moved the business.
Where traditional assertion-based testing breaks down, I build. Three production-grade approaches I've led across regulated and enterprise environments.
Designed an AI-driven testing model where Claude analyses sprint acceptance criteria to generate risk-ranked test scenarios and edge-case matrices during grooming, surfacing requirement ambiguities before a line of code is written.
Deployed an on-premise LLM-powered test case generator for EWB covering Transactions, Payments, Auth & Compliance — reducing test design time from hours to minutes while maintaining full banking data privacy.
Co-led workshops on validating RAG-based LLM applications covering hallucination detection, context retrieval accuracy, response consistency, and adversarial prompt testing.
Built reusable test patterns for AI model output evaluation where traditional assertion-based testing breaks down — shared across the QA community as a working playbook, not just theory.
Created AI agents and bots using GitHub Copilot to automate repetitive testing tasks, generate test scaffolds, and assist in exploratory execution — with agentic workflows woven directly into CI pipelines.
Cut boilerplate authoring by 35%, freeing engineers for high-complexity scenarios. Established team guidelines on AI-assisted code review to maintain quality and maintainability standards at scale.
The tools I reach for — from the programming stack up to AI-augmented testing and performance profiling.
Led QA for EWB's full API migration from Mulesoft to Azure APIM — pre-cutover validation, performance SLA sign-off, and on-prem AI tooling for regulated banking.
Architecting contract testing and BDD-aligned automation across the full customer onboarding lifecycle — identity verification through account activation.
Founded Fint's internal QA community to build skill, visibility, and a culture of continuous learning.
QA Lead & Scrum Master across multiple squads, owning test strategy and delivery for a global mobility and tax compliance platform.
Mobile automation from scratch across B2B/B2C supply chain flows for medical & retail distribution.
Android & iOS automation supporting fuel integration and loyalty programs for a major US retail chain.
I believe quality compounds when engineers share how they think. I build the rooms where that happens.
Founded and lead Fint's weekly 30-minute knowledge-sharing sessions — a low-friction ritual for engineers to swap ideas, debug patterns, and stress-test opinions.
Fint · founderDesigned and delivered an internal Playwright training series from fundamentals through advanced patterns — enabling teams to adopt modern E2E automation without vendor lock-in.
Fint · instructorCore QA committee member and Community Representative for Hyderabad QA at ThoughtWorks, driving knowledge-sharing and shaping best practices across the organisation.
ThoughtWorks · core committeePerformance Partner and mentor for 3 QA engineers at ThoughtWorks and 6 at EWB, guiding career growth, skill development, and promotion readiness.
15+ engineersActive contributor on Medium writing on Playwright automation, AI in testing, BDD design patterns, performance engineering, and predictive left-shift testing. Founded Fint's internal blog writing challenge to turn engineers from consumers into contributors.
Medium · FintActive QA hiring lead at ThoughtWorks — evaluating, onboarding, and growing QA talent to strengthen engineering capability long-term.
TalentDelivered a session on AI Test Case Generator tools, demonstrating how LLMs accelerate test design and widen scenario coverage at scale.
SpeakerCo-speaker on testing RAG-based LLM applications — hallucination detection, retrieval accuracy, and adversarial prompting.
Co-speaker · workshopSpeaker on moving defect detection upstream using AI — from story analysis to auto-generated test scenarios before sprint development begins.
SpeakerSpeaker on managing and versioning test data strategies for large distributed systems. Regular speaker at vodQA events.
vodQA · regular speaker