Backend Development
Ravi Pratap Singh
Summary
Quality Architect | Senior SDET | Backend Systems & Scalable Architecture
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. SDET
Grid Dynamics
06.2025 - Current
- Architected and implemented a centralized, enterprise-grade test automation platform, with GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines, Github Build capabilities, enabling scalable and production-aligned quality validation.
- Strategically led the migration from Selenium to Playwright, designing a backward-compatible abstraction layer that preserved existing test case logic while improving execution speed, reliability, and cross-browser consistency.
- Re-architected CI/CD pipelines by migrating from AWS CodeBuild to GitHub Actions, introducing optimized workflow orchestration, parallel execution, and caching strategies, resulting in 30% faster build times.
- Provided technical leadership for a team of SDETs, owning framework architecture decisions, code quality standards.
- Led cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable software solutions.
Sr. Software Engineer (SDET)
Veeva Systems
08.2022 - 06.2025
- Enhanced and maintained scalable automation frameworks; integrated new product features into test suites.
- Containerized automation suites using Docker to ensure consistent execution across environments (QA, Staging, Pre-Prod).
- Built Docker images for test environments containing required tools (browsers, drivers, test frameworks), enabling parallel and isolated test executions.
- Collaborated with DevOps and developers to optimize container health checks and API endpoint availability before executing integration tests.
- Contributed to in-house tool development, centralized custom dashboard, reporting using java, springboot, react frameworks.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
- Automated REST API schema validation using POJO serialization and expanded negative test coverage.
- Managed and optimized Jenkins CI/CD pipelines; integrated with GitLab and Jira for seamless workflows.
- Led a team of 5 QEs, boosting test coverage by 40% and reducing regression time by 70%.
- Partnered with product/dev teams for release sign-offs, regression planning, and impact analysis.
- Led sprint planning, code reviews, and stakeholder demos to ensure transparency and code quality.
- Mentored junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices in coding, testing, and deployment processes.
SDET / Test Automation Specialist
Accenture Services Pvt. ltd.
01.2014 - 07.2022
- Served as SME in Automation Testing and led development of scalable production grade test automation frameworks.
- Improved software quality by designing and implementing automated testing frameworks.
- Developed core framework logic, reusable utilities, and automated reporting mechanisms.
- Developed automated test scripts using Selenium to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy.
- Integrated and managed CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
- Collaborated with DevOps to build Docker-based test infrastructure, resolving environmental conflicts.
- Led API testing initiatives with Postman and Rest Assured; built microservice-aligned API test frameworks in Java.
- Migrated legacy test suites to modular, service-aligned architecture.
- Integrated PR-level sanity checks, reducing triage time by 35%.
- Developed internal tools to improve team productivity and workflow efficiency.
- Mentored and managed 2-5 member teams, providing technical leadership and skill development.
- Conducted code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions to elevate automation quality and team capability.
- Ran monthly QA learning sessions (BDD, mocking, flakiness triage) to foster quality ownership.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
NSUT East Campus (AIACTR)
06.2013
Skills
- Java
- Springboot
- Springboot Testing
- Microservices
- Framework architecture
- CI/CD
- UI & API automation
- Cloud services automation (AWS, Azure)
Personal Information
Quality Architect | Senior SDET | Backend Systems & Scalable Architecture
Timeline
Sr. SDET
Grid Dynamics
06.2025 - Current
Sr. Software Engineer (SDET)
Veeva Systems
08.2022 - 06.2025
SDET / Test Automation Specialist
Accenture Services Pvt. ltd.
01.2014 - 07.2022
B.Tech - Computer Science
NSUT East Campus (AIACTR)
Certification
- [Azure Fundamentals], Microsoft - [2020]
Interests
Solution Architect
Software Architecture
3D Printing, CAD designing
Languages
English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)