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Ankit Pandey

@ankitpandey7

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QA Manager and Senior SDET with 10.5+ years building AI-powered test automation and release-governance systems.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead QA strategy and ship with hands-on Selenium/Playwright automation—pairing release governance, risk-based testing, and GenAI/agentic QA guardrails so we deliver faster with near-zero defect escapes.

I’m a hands-on QA Manager/Senior SDET with 10.5+ years across SaaS ERP, FinTech, API, SQL, E-Commerce, Healthcare, and AI/ML platforms. I genuinely split ~50/50 between QA leadership (test strategy, release governance, team building, mentoring) and individual-contributor execution (Selenium/Java, Playwright/TypeScript, API testing, SQL, and AI-powered test automation).

As a founding QA hire at two companies, I built QA functions, automation frameworks, and AI-Powered QA from zero—then scaled teams and operating models to meet production-grade quality. I’ve established RTM, quality gates, and risk-based testing, built CI-driven regression pipelines (cutting nightly regression cycle time by ~60%), and improved outcomes like reducing post-release defect escape rate from ~11% to under 5% and scaling automation coverage from ~40% to 80%+.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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QA Manager

Current

Turgajo

Jun 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Founding QA hire and built the QA function and testing strategy from zero for a multi-tenant SaaS ERP platform. Led a 15-member QA team (~50/50 leadership and hands-on), established RTM/release governance and quality gates, and implemented CI-driven nightly regression pipelines with ~60% reduction in cycle time.

QA Lead

Railofy

Mar 2021 - Jun 2024 (3 years 3 months)

Founding QA hire who set up the QA function, hiring pipeline, and test strategy from scratch for a travel AI/ML e-commerce platform and related SaaS/travel-tech stack. Built and led a 12-member QA team across Web, Mobile, API, and Backend, creating Selenium+Java automation (TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, POM) and extending it with Playwright (TypeScript) to reach 80%+ automated regression and reduce full

Selenium Java Playwright TypeScript TestNG Maven Jenkins Regression Testing QA Strategy Team Leadership Mentoring Web Testing Mobile Testing API Testing Backend Testing Quality Gates

Automation Test Analyst

Accenture

Jan 2017 - Mar 2021 (4 years 2 months)

Designed automation and manual test cases for enterprise FinTech and Healthcare platforms. Performed backend validation with SQL, API testing using Postman and SOAP UI, performance testing with JMeter, and tested Azure-hosted services for security, compliance, and data accuracy.