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Manish Arya

@manisharya1

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Experienced SDET specializing in API, web, and mobile automation.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior QA/SDET roles focused on automation, CI/CD-driven pipelines, performance testing, and collaborative teams that value mentorship and measurable quality improvements.

I am a seasoned software QA professional with over 10 years of experience, focused on delivering reliable automation across Web, API, and Mobile platforms. I believe in ensuring quality through questioning, experiential learning, and close cross-functional collaboration.

My work spans ecommerce, fintech, gaming, and insurance domains, where I built scalable API and UI automation frameworks using tools like Selenium, Appium, Karate, and Postman, improving test coverage and reducing manual effort substantially.

I have led and mentored QA teams, standardized documentation and onboarding, and implemented CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments and stabilize test environments. I regularly leverage observability tools and logging analysis to reduce issue resolution time.

I seek to bring pragmatic automation, performance testing, and platform stability improvements to engineering teams while fostering knowledge sharing and best practices across the QA lifecycle.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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SDET/QA Automation Engineer

Current

Baazi Games

Mar 2025 - Present (6 months)

Built scalable API automation frameworks (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) to validate high-impact gaming scenarios, improving platform stability, performance, and test coverage while maintaining Jenkins execution stability for developer use.

Java Appium REST gRPC GraphQL Selenium TestNG Jenkins

SDET-III

Airtel Payments Bank

Mar 2023 - Mar 2025 (2 years)

Led mobile automation for Airtel Merchant Android app reducing manual testing by 30% and architected a Karate-based API framework that improved test environment stability by 90%, while standardizing documentation to cut onboarding time by 50%.

Appium Java Karate Postman Elasticsearch Kafka Jenkins Zephyr Confluence

Senior QA Engineer

Renegade Insurance

Dec 2020 - Mar 2023 (2 years 3 months)

Designed scalable API automation frameworks with Postman and Karate achieving 70% test coverage, implemented Azure Pipelines CI/CD for automated UI/API testing, and improved performance testing using JMeter.

Postman Karate Selenium Java JMeter Azure Pipelines CI CD Test Automation

Team Lead in Test

PayU Payments Pvt Ltd

Oct 2015 - Jul 2020 (4 years 9 months)

Led QA for PayU app and SDKs, built mobile and Selenium-based automation frameworks (Java, Cucumber, Appium), automated test data generation with JMeter reducing onboarding data time by 90%, and maintained zero critical production bugs.

Java Appium Cucumber Selenium JMeter Espresso Automation)SDK Testing

Business Management Analyst

Systango Infosoft Pvt Ltd

Jan 2014 - Oct 2015 (1 year 9 months)

Created requirement documents, facilitated business-technical discussions, improved project forecasting and conducted cross-platform testing while developing Gherkin BDD scenarios to align business needs with technical implementation.

Business Analysis Gherkin BDD IOS Testing Web Testing Requirement gathering