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Ashish KumarSDET II
Mentoring · career guidance

Career Guidance for QA & SDETs

I've spent 5+ years in functional testing, API testing, automation, and building reliable QA processes — and I've onboarded interns and new joiners at every company along the way. If you're working out your next step in QA, let's figure it out together.

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Ashish Kumar
Ashish Kumar · SDET II

// who it's for

Where I can help

  • Moving from manual testing into automation

    Where to start, which tools are worth learning first, and how to build a portfolio that shows it.

  • Preparing for SDET and QA interviews

    Framework design questions, coding rounds, test-strategy cases, and how to talk about your work.

  • Planning the next step in a QA career

    Role transitions, a realistic QA/SDET roadmap, and what senior and lead roles actually expect.

  • SDET / QA interview prep
  • Automation testing & test strategy
  • Career guidance & role transitions
  • Resume & LinkedIn review
  • Mock interviews
  • QA / SDET career roadmap

// sessions

Ways to work together

Start with a free call or a question. Current availability and booking are on Topmate.

// track record

Why talk to me

The same things I do with new joiners at work, offered to the wider QA community.

  • 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.
  • Moved from payments QA at Mastercard to cross-platform automation at LiveSwitch to leading the automation and QA team at Triomics — career moves I can talk through from experience.
  • Worked with distributed teams across 7 locations in Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America.
  • Public frameworks you can learn from directly: a multi-layer Playwright suite, a live e-commerce suite, and an MCP server.
  • Browse the public frameworks

// how it works

Three steps

  1. Step 01

    Start free

    Book the 15-minute discovery call, or send a question as a priority DM.

  2. Step 02

    Pick a focused session

    Mentorship, career guidance, resume review, interview prep, or a full mock interview.

  3. Step 03

    Bring something real

    Your resume, a job description, a framework you're building, or the interview you're preparing for.

// career guidance

Not sure where to start? Start with the free call.

A short, no-cost conversation to work out what would actually help.
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