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Kalpana Baghel

@kalpanabaghel

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I build AI-driven quality platforms and lead SDET teams across large-scale digital products.

Germany

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for Senior SDET Lead, QA Lead, Test Manager, Quality Engineering Manager, or SDET Manager roles where I can lead teams, scale automation, and build AI-driven quality engineering solutions.

At Zinnia, I lead and mentor 19 SDETs across backend, API, and web testing while driving quality engineering strategy and automation transformation.

I built an AI-driven QA platform that ingests Jira user stories and BRDs, uses RAG to retrieve application knowledge, and generates context-aware test cases and test data. The unified workflow supports UI or API execution, automated validation, and reporting.

Previously, I owned quality engineering for AJIO’s Cart, Wishlist, and CMS services, reducing production defect leakage by 30%. Across 12+ years, I’ve built scalable API, web, and mobile automation frameworks, improved release cycles by 40%, and reduced regression execution time by 65%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior SDET Lead

Current

Zinnia

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Lead and mentor a team of 19 SDETs, driving quality engineering strategy and automation transformation. Architected an AI-driven QA platform and achieved 85%+ automation coverage, reducing regression execution time by 65%.

AI Test Automation LLM Assisted Test Authoring RAG Java Python Selenium Playwright Rest Assured Jenkins Docker CI CD Team Leadership

SDET III

Reliance AJIO

Mar 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 9 months)

Owned quality engineering for critical Cart, Wishlist and CMS backend services. Re-engineered regression automation frameworks achieving 95%+ test pass success rate and reduced production defect leakage by 30%.

Java Selenium Rest Assured API Testing Regression Testing Root Cause Analysis Agile

Senior SDET

Test Vagrant

Aug 2019 - Feb 2022 (2 years 6 months)

Built scalable REST API automation frameworks covering 400+ test scenarios. Developed web and mobile automation frameworks using Selenium and Appium.

Java Rest Assured Selenium Appium API Automation Mobile Automation

Associate

Hughes Systique

Mar 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 5 months)

Built scalable API and UI automation frameworks using RestAssured and Selenium. Improved framework stability through reusable automation components and scripts.

Java Rest Assured Selenium API Automation UI Automation