KESHAV RAJ
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Summary
SDET Lead with 10+ years of experience leading API, UI, and backend test automation for enterprise applications across US Mortgage, Retail, Healthcare, and Warehouse Management domains. Skilled in Java, Selenium, REST Assured, SQL, Jenkins, and Cucumber BDD. Proven experience building scalable automation frameworks, integrating quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, improving regression efficiency, and mentoring SDETs in Agile teams.
Overview
1
1
Certification
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
SDET Lead
Moder Solutions
10.2025 - Current
- Projects Undertaken:
- Client :- Xpanse (US Mortgage Industry)
- Role. :- SDET Lead/Enterprise QA
- Description :- Worked on an Income Calculation System that automated borrower income assessments for mortgage underwriting, enabling accurate eligibility evaluation and risk-based lending decisions in compliance with US mortgage guidelines.
- Roles and Responsibilities :-
- Led QA strategy and automation delivery for a US mortgage income-calculation platform across multiple teams and release cycles.
- Built a scalable Java, Selenium, and REST Assured automation framework from scratch for API and UI validation.
- Integrated automated regression suites into CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual testing effort by 60% and accelerating release validation.
- Established automation standards, roadmap planning, and best practices through Automation CoE initiatives.
- Led migration of automation dependencies to Nexus, centralizing artifact management and ensuring a smooth, low-risk production release.
- Mentored SDETs and partnered with Product Owners, Developers, and Business Analysts to identify risks early and improve product quality.
- Domain → US Mortgage
- Oct - 2025 till Present
Test Lead (API / UI Automation)
Happiest Minds Technologies
07.2021 - 09.2025
- Client :- Pepsico MCOE (ePOP)
- Role. :- SDET Lead
- Description :- Pepsico MCOE (ePOP) is a B2B platform that automates and manages internal equipment ordering across global business units.
- Roles and Responsibilities :-
- Designed Java, Selenium, REST Assured, and Cucumber BDD automation frameworks, reducing manual regression effort by 70%.
- Automated 90% of API regression coverage and integrated suites with Jenkins CI/CD, reducing build-validation time by 50%.
- Created reusable JSON data utilities and POJOs that improved automation maintainability and scalability.
- Mentored 5+ SDETs, led Agile QA ceremonies, and performed backend SQL validation to improve coverage and release confidence.
- Domain → Retail
- July - 2021 - Sep 2025
Skills
Java, Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured
Cucumber BDD, Junit, TestNG
Git, Jenkins CI/CD, Bamboo, GitHub Actions
MySQL, Oracle, PimCore, AWS
Postman, Wiremock, Maven
Eclipse, IntelliJ, VS Studio Code
Jira, Zephyr, Azure DevOps
Rally, HP-ALM, Putty, CouchBase, GenAI
Kafka (OCH), MFT(B2b i)
Agile, Kanban, Scrum
Mobile, Black-Box Testing
AI Tools - Github Copilot, Cursor, Ollama
Test Planning and Execution
Client Engagement
Schedule Management
Quality Management
Stakeholder and Resource Management
Communication Management
Personal Information
Title: SDET LEAD | QA AUTOMATION LEAD
Certification
PMP Certified- PMI, ISTQB- Foundation, REST Assured with Java- Udemy, Selenium with Java- Udemy
Section name
- HCLTech.
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Timeline
SDET Lead
Moder Solutions
10.2025 - Current
Test Lead (API / UI Automation)
Happiest Minds Technologies
07.2021 - 09.2025