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Devendran Krishnan

@devendrankrishnan

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Senior Test Automation Leader specializing in Appium, Selenium and AI-driven QA to accelerate release quality.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles leading test automation and QA strategy—hands-on technical leadership, AI-driven automation projects, CI/CD-integrated workflows, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to cut release cycles and improve product quality.

I am a Senior Manager and Test Architect with over 19 years in quality engineering, including 12+ years in test automation and 10+ years as a Test Architect. I design scalable test automation frameworks for mobile and web using Appium, Selenium and Java, integrate CI/CD pipelines, and apply AI-driven capabilities like automated test case generation from designs to reduce regression cycles and improve release quality.

I have led automation for regulated medical and enterprise applications, implemented a Local-Appium MCP for agent-to-tool communication, and optimized frameworks to cut execution time dramatically. I am known for technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and aligning testing strategy with business goals to drive continuous improvement.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Manager / Test Architect

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CapGemini

Jun 2025 - Present (7 months)

Led mobile test automation for medical trial apps (iOS & Android), enhanced framework with Java 21 to reduce execution time from 15 hrs to ~3 hrs, and architected a Local-Appium MCP for real-time LLM-agent integration.

Appium Selenium Java Mobile Testing CI CD Test Framework MCP

Staff Quality Engineer

BrightInsight Inc.

Nov 2022 - May 2025 (2 years 6 months)

Led mobile test automation for regulated medical apps, implemented a TDD-based framework reducing regression from 12 hrs to ~2 hrs, and built modular utilities packaged as a JAR to enable extensible frameworks.

Appium Selenium TDD Java CI CD Test Automation Framework

Test Manager

HCL Technologies

May 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Spearheaded automation for mobile healthcare applications, designed an automation framework from scratch and integrated it with development pipelines to streamline releases.

Automation Appium CI CD Framework Jenkins Maven

Senior QA Engineer / Test Lead

Wipro Ltd.

Apr 2012 - May 2021 (9 years 1 month)

Automated test suites for banking, eCommerce, and enterprise mobile apps, migrated frameworks to TDD/BDD reducing regression time by 50–70% and created CI/CT pipelines that cut BVT setup from 1 hour to 5 minutes.

TDD BDD Appium Selenium Jenkins Mobile Testing

QA Engineer

Wipro Ltd.

Nov 2006 - Mar 2012 (5 years 4 months)

Created and executed manual test cases for mobile utility and retail applications, participated in UAT, and contributed to test bed setup and cross-functional testing using JIRA for defect tracking.

Manual Testing Jira UAT Mobile Testing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science, Software Engineering

2006 - 2010

Grade: 6.6 CGPA

Completed a Master of Science in Software Engineering focusing on software design and quality engineering, graduating with a CGPA of 6.6 in December 2010.