// Quality Engineering Leader

Hi, I'm Hemant I break things — so users don't.

SDET-II at Fynd. 12+ years architecting scalable test automation ecosystems, leading QA teams, and shipping bulletproof software across fintech, AI/ML, and consumer platforms — now building AI-native testing platforms.

12+Years in QA
15+Engineers Led
2xFaster Testing
95%Test Coverage
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About

I'm a quality engineering leader who's spent the last decade turning chaotic release cycles into predictable, automated pipelines.

From building test frameworks from scratch at Turtlemint to transitioning ML teams from manual to automated testing at Reliance Jio's Haptik, I specialize in the messy intersection of test strategy, AI-native automation, and team leadership.

Currently at Fynd, I'm building TestSmith — an AI-powered autonomous testing platform — and pushing the org toward AI-adaptive quality engineering. Previously led an 18-person QA team at Turtlemint and tested critical fintech infrastructure at Directi (Zeta).

LocationMumbai, India
RoleSr. QA Engineer (SDET-II)
FocusAI-Native Testing
FrameworksPlaywright · Robot · Selenium
Status Open to chat
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Experience

2024 — Present

Senior QA Engineer (SDET-II)

Fynd (Shopsense Retail Technologies Ltd.)
  • Architected and launched TestSmith, an LLM-powered agentic testing platform built with Claude Code, Cursor, Playwright-MCP, and Chrome-DevTools-MCP. Teams trigger smoke, sanity, and end-to-end workflow validations via natural-language chat, cutting manual regression effort by 60% with live execution logs and automated Allure reports.
  • Engineered agentic AI workflows and autonomous LLM-driven test agents that self-execute critical business flows including style creation, vendor costing, PM approvals, and reconciliation, accelerating release readiness by 40% and driving the org's shift toward generative AI-adaptive quality engineering.
  • Leveraged Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations (Playwright-MCP and Chrome-DevTools-MCP) for browser-level automation, intelligent debugging, and prompt-engineered AI-assisted execution workflows, reducing flaky-test triage time by 50%.
  • Designed the org's first Playwright automation framework from scratch for the Costing team, eliminating manual regression for critical workflows and accelerating release cycles by 35%.
  • Built automation tooling for the Command Center platform and independently maintained a Robot Framework suite for the CMT team, sustaining 90% regression coverage across business-critical journeys.
  • Owned end-to-end QA as the sole QA engineer across 4 product verticals (Costing, CMT, Reconciliation, and Command Center) with 100% release sign-off ownership.
2022 — 2024

Lead Test Engineer ← Sr. Automation Test Engineer

Turtlemint
  • Architected the org's automation framework from scratch, cutting testing time by 50%.
  • Promoted to Lead — managed a team of 18 testers, achieving 95% test coverage.
  • Set up AWS-hosted automation suite with Jenkins CI; reduced overall testing efforts by 30%.
  • Implemented robust error handling, improving test stability and reliability by 20%.
  • Performed root-cause analysis and corrective actions that improved system stability.
2019 — 2022

Senior Quality Assurance Expert

Reliance Jio — Haptik
  • Transitioned the Machine Learning department from manual to automated testing, improving efficiency by 50%+.
  • Built an ML Test Tool for bot testing now used company-wide; reduced test cycle time by 30%.
  • Helped set up a Bot Testing Tool API for external clients to independently test their bots.
  • Developed multilingual bot test suites — Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Arabic, and more.
2013 — 2019

Senior Quality Assurance Expert

Directi

Zeta (2017 — 2019)

  • Single-handedly tested the entire payment gateway, reducing transaction failure rates by 15%.
  • Led complete testing of Card Management — activation, transactions, and lifecycle.
  • Comprehensive functional testing across Android and iOS.

Flock (2015 — 2017)

  • Cross-browser functional testing (Chrome, Safari, Firefox); reduced critical bugs by 25%.
  • Led Payment Gateway testing and was POC for the Monetization project.
  • UAT across Android & iOS — 95% client satisfaction.

Ringo (2015 — 2017)

  • Client-side testing across Android & iOS; reduced app crashes by 15%.
  • Back-end validation: balance deductions, profile lifecycle, referral rewards.
  • Payment Gateway testing — 98% transaction success rate.

Media.net (2013 — 2015)

  • End-to-end testing for Media.net's website.
  • Executed A/B testing strategies to maximize publisher ROI.
  • Cross-browser & cross-device UI/UX validation.
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Skills & Stack

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Languages

PythonJavaJavaScript

Automation

PlaywrightRobot FrameworkSeleniumAppium

AI Tools

Claude CodeCursorChatGPT Playwright-MCPChrome-DevTools-MCP LLM-powered Test Agents

Tools & Platforms

JIRAGit/GitHubJenkinsAWS PostmanKibanaGrafanaMetabase SonarQubeAllurepgAdmin / PSequel

Testing Types

Agentic TestingFunctionalRegression APIPerformanceAI/ML Model Testing Cross-browserMobile (iOS/Android)

Leadership

Team LeadershipDecision-Making Problem-SolvingCritical ThinkingTime Management
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Education

2012

Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics and Telecommunication

K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology · Mumbai, India

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