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kshama umarye

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QA Architect at Barclays who scaled a shared automation platform across 5+ teams, cutting regression cycles by ~60%.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking a Lead or Principal QA Architect role driving quality strategy at global scale. I'm open to Big4 consulting, quality engineering leadership, high-growth startups, and global or remote roles.

At Barclays, I architected an enterprise-wide automation platform adopted across 5+ distributed Agile teams, cutting regression cycle time by ~60%. I also owned CI/CD quality gates that sustained near-zero production defect leakage on critical banking pipelines.

I introduced Pact contract testing and service virtualisation, reducing integration instability by 40%. With Applitools AI and GitHub Copilot, I introduced AI-augmented test generation and self-healing locators that reduced UI test maintenance overhead by 35%.

I built cloud-native test execution on AWS ECS, increasing throughput 4×, and containerised infrastructure that brought environment provisioning to under 30 minutes. I also led QA transformation aligned with Barclays' cloud-native and DevOps roadmap, and mentored the SDET team.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior SDET / QA Architect

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Barclays

Aug 2017 - Present (9 years 1 month)

Architected an enterprise-wide multi-layer automation platform adopted across 5+ distributed Agile teams, cutting regression cycle time by ~60%. Owned CI/CD quality gate strategy and introduced AI-augmented testing and contract testing, reducing maintenance overhead and integration instability.