# Kalpana Baghel

Kalpana Baghel is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior SDET Lead at Zinnia, based in Germany.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@kalpanabaghel

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I build AI-driven quality platforms and lead SDET teams across large-scale digital products.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Germany |
| Authorized to work in | Germany |
| Salary expectations | 70k+ INR |
| Job categories | Senior SDET, QA Engineer, Test Manager, QA Engineering Manager, Software Development Manager |
| Skills | Quality Engineering, QA Automation, AI Test Automation, LLM Assisted Test Authoring, RAG, Indexing, AI Assisted QA, REST API Integration, Java, Python, SQL, Object Oriented Programming, Selenium Webdriver, Appium, Playwright, Cucumber, Robot Framework, TestNG, Junit, Rest Assured, Postman, WireMock, Mockito, Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, Jenkins, Git, Docker, SonarQube, JaCoCo, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, API Testing, Web Testing, Mobile Testing, Performance Testing, SDET Leadership, QA Strategy, Stakeholder Management, Automation Transformation, Agile, Jira, Opkey, Root Cause Analysis |

## What I'm looking for

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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.
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## About

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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%.
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## Experience

### Senior SDET Lead (current)

Zinnia. Jan 2025 - Present

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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%.
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Skills: 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

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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%.
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Skills: Java, Selenium, Rest-Assured, API-Testing, Regression-Testing, Root-Cause-Analysis, Agile

### Senior SDET

Test Vagrant. Aug 2019 - Feb 2022

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Built scalable REST API automation frameworks covering 400+ test scenarios. Developed web and mobile automation frameworks using Selenium and Appium.
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Skills: Java, Rest-Assured, Selenium, Appium, API-Automation, Mobile-Automation

### Associate

Hughes Systique. Mar 2018 - Aug 2019

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Built scalable API and UI automation frameworks using RestAssured and Selenium. Improved framework stability through reusable automation components and scripts.
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Skills: Java, Rest-Assured, Selenium, API-Automation, UI-Automation

### Senior Quality Engineer

Crestech. Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

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Developed and maintained automation scripts using Selenium, Java and Opkey.
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Skills: Selenium, Java, Opkey, Testing-Automation

### Associate

MetLife GOSC. Oct 2015 - Sep 2017

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Enhanced hybrid automation frameworks and collaborated with onsite teams on quality engineering initiatives.
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Skills: Testing-Automation, Framework-Enhancement, Collaboration

### Associate

Aricent. Mar 2014 - Jul 2015

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Performed sanity testing, test execution and reporting for enterprise applications.
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Skills: Sanity-Testing, Test-Execution, Reporting

## Education

### Bachelor of Computer Applications

Bachelor of Computer Applications, Computer Applications. 2010 - 2013

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Completed Bachelor of Computer Applications from 2010 to 2013 in Faridabad, India.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- SonarQube
- JaCoCo
- Jenkins
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Cassandra
- Redis
- Jira
- Python
- Java
- Kafka
- Appium
- JUnit
- Cucumber
- TestNG
- Robot Framework
- Mockito
- Git
- Docker
- REST Assured
- SQL
- Playwright
- WireMock
- Selenium WebDriver

To contact Kalpana, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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