Sanidh
Bangalore
Summary
QA Lead with 8+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, and release management across fintech, payments, and telecom domains. Proven track record of scaling QA processes, increasing automation coverage, accelerating releases, and driving AI-assisted testing initiatives. Hands-on expertise in API and UI automation with strong leadership experience across multiple engineering teams.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Lead - L4
Motive Technologies Inc.
Remote
04.2024 - Current
- Engineering Leadership: Single Technical Owner (STO) for the Fleetcard's QA organization across 5 engineering pods, focusing on AI-accelerated QA strategies, while contributing as IC for 2 core pods.
- Automation Scaling: Increased automation coverage from 50% to 90% while simultaneously reducing framework test flakiness by 20%.
- Release Optimization: Spearheaded the engineering shift from bi-weekly to weekly production deployments; currently designing a flow-based test case execution framework to enable seamless daily deployments.
- AI Innovation: Actively working on AI Development Life Cycle (AIDLC) to build, test, and optimize autonomous AI agents engineered for fully automated QA testing pipelines.
Software Engineer - QA(L3)
Motive Technologies, Inc.
Remote
08.2022 - 03.2024
- Founding QA engineer for Fleet card's Growth pod and validated evolving card application flows.
- Focused on growth and risk features of the product, serving as subject matter expert in payments, risk profiling and invoicing.
- Contributed to API automation, PR reviews, quarterly estimation, release sign-offs, and acted as release captain for several releases.
Senior Test Engineer
Subex Ltd.
Bangalore
08.2019 - 08.2020
- Involved in API automation using Rest Assured
- API testing and UI testing, defect tracking, documentation
- Worked as QA SPOC for major version upgrade of partner settlement system
- Validated customizable UI solution for settling interconnect billing
Test Engineer
CGI
Bangalore
10.2016 - 08.2019
- Automated end to end performance testing flow of Wholesale Mediation component using shell scripting that reduced total test duration up to 70%
- Executed load, stress, and soak testing to validate system performance under various conditions
- Contributed to performance tuning, collaborating with project architects.
- Acted as primary contact for customer invoice reporting testing, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of results
- High-performance IP communication for M2M/IoT based application
Education
BE - Information Science| First Class With Distinction
Dayananda Sagar Institutions
Bangalore06-2016
Skills
- API Testing & Automation: Rest Assured, Postman, SoapUI, API End-to-End Testing
- UI Automation Frameworks: Playwright, Cucumber (BDD), Junit5
- Languages: Java, Ruby, Shell Scripting, Python
- AI models and tools: Claude, Glean, Gemini, Github copilot
- Databases & Analytics: PostgreSQL, Redash, DataDog
- Test Management: Jira, Testrails, Confluence, Salesforce
- Agile Leadership
Timeline
QA Lead - L4
Motive Technologies Inc.
04.2024 - Current
Software Engineer - QA(L3)
Motive Technologies, Inc.
08.2022 - 03.2024
Senior Test Engineer
Subex Ltd.
08.2019 - 08.2020
Test Engineer
CGI
10.2016 - 08.2019
BE - Information Science| First Class With Distinction
Dayananda Sagar Institutions