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Ashish KumarSDET II
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Experience, measured impact, and global team collaboration across healthcare and commercial payments — everything a hiring conversation usually starts with, in one place.

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Target roles
Senior SDET and Lead SDETOwning automation strategy and quality gates in CI, and growing the people around me.
Base & mobility
Bangalore, IndiaOpen to relocation within India and overseas (visa sponsorship needed for overseas roles).
Core tech stack
Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, AppiumREST Assured, TypeScript, Java, GitHub Actions, Claude Code.
Academic
B.Tech · 8.69 CGPANational Institute of Technology, Warangal, 2017–2021.

// observed impact

Hard Metrics & Defect Mitigation

Measured before and after the work, on the roles themselves.

  • <5%

    escaped defects — defects found only after release

    Triomics · LiveSwitch

  • ~40%

    reduction in regression execution time

    LiveSwitch

  • 1000+

    automated test cases (Cypress + Selenium)

    Mastercard Data & Services

  • ~20%

    faster defect resolution via structured QA-Dev syncs

    Mastercard Data & Services

// career timeline

Engineering Work, Role by Role

Most recent first. Scope, the deliverables that mattered, and the tools behind them.

  1. Software Development Engineer in Test II (SDET II)

    Triomics HealthcareBangaloreJun 2026 – Present

    Current role

    Scope & mission

    Establishing the testing foundation for a healthcare platform where a missed regression carries real clinical-trial-matching risk, not just a support ticket.

    Key deliverables

    • Authored the automation suite from scratch for an oncology clinical-trial matching platform, in a HIPAA-regulated environment.
    • Define test strategies for critical user journeys across UI, API, and database layers, prioritizing coverage by business risk, customer impact, and integration complexity.
    • Lead the automation and QA team, scaling test coverage to cut the product team's testing time and unblock faster releases.
    • Use Claude Code and AI-assisted workflows to cut time spent writing and debugging tests by 70%+, and evaluate AI-generated scenarios against business requirements and deterministic assertions before they join the suite.
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    • Use test execution results, defect trends, and regression coverage to inform release readiness, and turn production incidents into regression tests so they don't recur.
    • Onboard new team members with structured product knowledge transfer instead of leaving them to learn the domain unassisted.
    • Introduced a mandatory accessibility checklist before any new feature ships to production, and moved the org from twice-yearly accessibility reporting to a monthly review across every product shipped.

  2. Software Development Engineer in Test II (SDET II)

    LiveSwitchBangaloreSep 2024 – Mar 2026

    Scope & mission

    Turned a slow, manual-heavy release process into a fast, cross-platform regression system the team could trust before every release.

    Key deliverables

    • Designed and owned scalable UI and API automation frameworks using Selenium, TestNG, REST Assured, Appium, and BDD (Cucumber) across Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, and Android/iOS.
    • Proposed and led the migration of all web automation from Selenium to Playwright, then layered in AI-assisted workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, MCP Server) on top of it to cut regression execution time by ~40%.
    • Authored feature-level test plans and test cases, prioritizing coverage by business risk, customer impact, and integration complexity.
    • Explored AI-assisted approaches to identify test coverage gaps and improve regression efficiency.
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    • Onboarded new joiners with product knowledge transfer, a walkthrough of the existing testing landscape, and how to use AI to speed up day-to-day testing work.
    • Validated API responses and backend data consistency using SQL queries and schema validation.
    • Integrated automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) for fast feedback on critical workflows, and triaged failures to separate product defects from automation issues, improving regression suite reliability.
    • Traced production incidents and customer-reported issues back to regression tests to prevent recurrence, using application logs, error reports, and service metrics to support root-cause analysis.
    • Worked with distributed teams in New York City, North Carolina, and Canada, collaborating across time zones.
    • Performed API load and performance testing with JMeter to identify bottlenecks and ensure system stability.

  3. Software Development Engineer, Quality

    Mastercard Data & ServicesPuneJul 2021 – Sep 2024

    Scope & mission

    Gave a high-volume commercial payments platform release confidence at a scale where manual testing alone couldn't keep up.

    Key deliverables

    • Led end-to-end testing for a commercial payments rewards platform supporting large-scale transaction workflows.
    • Joined requirement reviews with Product and Engineering to define feature-level test strategies and surface edge cases early.
    • Built and maintained 1000+ automated test cases using Cypress (JavaScript) and Selenium, achieving 95%+ test coverage across multiple releases.
    • Improved defect resolution speed by ~20% by initiating structured QA-Dev syncs and better triaging practices.
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    • Evaluated release risk using defect severity, critical-workflow coverage, and outstanding issues, and turned production issues into regression tests to prevent recurrence.
    • Worked in Agile (Scrum) teams with CI/CD-driven delivery pipelines supporting high-volume commercial payments workflows.
    • Worked with globally distributed teams in Singapore, Dublin, Sydney, New York City, and Arlington, collaborating across time zones.
    • Mentored interns and new joiners from both a product and quality perspective, aiming to get them contributing within their first month rather than just shadowing.

// global engineering footprint

Cross-Timezone Collaboration & Mentorship

Distributed teams across Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America, and the people I've helped ramp up along the way.

7 locations

Mastercard Data & Services

  • Singapore
  • Dublin
  • Sydney
  • New York City
  • Arlington

LiveSwitch

  • New York City
  • North Carolina
  • Canada

  • Mentoring, from day one

    Mentored interns and new joiners at Mastercard from both a product and quality perspective, aiming to get them contributing within their first month; did the same with product knowledge transfer and structured onboarding at Triomics and LiveSwitch.

  • Proposed the move, then made it pay off

    Proposed and led the migration of all web automation from Selenium to Playwright, then layered in Claude Code, Cursor, and an MCP server on top of it to cut regression execution time by ~40%.

  • Leading the team, not just writing tests

    Leading the automation and QA team at Triomics, scaling test coverage in a way that's cutting into the product team's testing time and unblocking faster releases.

// hiring quick-reference

Interview & Logistics FAQ

Direct answers to the questions recruiters usually ask first.

  • Notice period

    30 days.

    Availability: 30-day notice

  • Work authorization and relocation

    Authorized to work in India. Open to relocating within India and overseas; roles outside India would need employer visa sponsorship.

    Mobility: India and overseas

  • Target roles

    Senior SDET and Lead SDET roles where I own automation strategy, quality gates in CI, and help grow the people around me.

    Levels: Senior SDET · Lead SDET

  • Interview formats

    Comfortable with automation framework design from scratch (Playwright/TypeScript or REST Assured/Java), live coding and problem solving, risk-based test strategy cases, and system design for test infrastructure and CI/CD.

    Formats: framework design · live coding · strategy · system design

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