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Pooja Hiremath

@poojahiremath2

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I build AI-enabled UI, API, data, and ETL test automation frameworks.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead and build AI-enabled quality engineering and automation solutions, improving release quality through modern UI, API, data, ETL, and cloud testing practices.

I've delivered scalable UI, API, database, ETL, and AI-enabled test automation across Avnet, Deloitte, GlobalLogic, Digital AI, Synup, Advarra, and Siemens. At Avnet, I engineered Playwright and Selenium automation frameworks and improved automation coverage by 18%.

I validate AI-powered products end to end, including LLM response consistency, hallucination detection, RAG retrieval accuracy, response grounding, and semantic relevance. My work has improved AI feature reliability by 22%, AI search precision by 16%, and defect-detection efficiency by 17%.

I've led offshore QA teams, owned 1,000+ test-case regression suites, mentored 10+ QA engineers, and modernized automation from Tosca to NLP-embedded Playwright frameworks. I also build data-validation solutions with SQL, Snowflake, Python, Pandas, AWS S3, and ETL pipelines, reducing manual data testing effort by 50%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

QA Automation Engineer

Current

Avnet

Mar 2026 - Present (5 months)

Engineered AI-driven test automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG, increasing automation coverage by 18%. Validated LLM responses and RAG workflows, improving AI feature reliability and search precision.

Playwright Selenium Webdriver Java TestNG Rest Assured Postman AI Driven Testing Prompt Evaluation Hallucination Detection RAG Validation

Lead QA Engineer

KForce

Feb 2025 - Feb 2026 (1 year)

Led QA strategy and end-to-end test delivery for 4 offshore QA teams, managing 100+ user stories per sprint. Owned a 1,000+ test case regression suite and drove AI-driven automation modernization, reducing manual effort by 40%.

Java Selenium Cucumber BDD Playwright Python SQL Snowflake Test Strategy Defect Triage Root Cause Analysis Agile Scrum

Senior Test Engineer

GlobalLogic Inc.

Sep 2022 - Jan 2025 (2 years 4 months)

Built BDD automation and data validation framework from scratch using Python, Robot Framework, and Cucumber. Executed comprehensive ETL testing and REST API automation, reducing manual data testing effort by 50%.

Python Robot Framework Cucumber BDD SQL Snowflake DBT Pandas Rest Assured Azure Event Hubs Azure Cosmos DB MSSQL Selenium D365 Kubernetes

Automation QA Engineer

Numerify

Oct 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 3 months)

Built Selenium WebDriver automation framework using Page Object Model and Cucumber/BDD, maintaining a regression suite of 500+ test cases. Executed REST and SOAP API testing and integrated test execution with Jenkins CI/CD.

Selenium Webdriver Page Object Model Cucumber BDD Postman REST API Testing API Testing ETL Testing SQL Jenkins Git Maven

QA Engineer

Synup Corporation

Mar 2018 - Sep 2018 (6 months)

Developed and maintained automated regression scripts using Selenium WebDriver with Java, designing a data-driven test framework. Performed UI, database, REST, and GraphQL API testing.

Selenium Webdriver Java Data Driven Framework Cross Browser Testing REST API Testing GraphQL Testing Database Testing

QA Tester

Forte Research Systems

Sep 2015 - Feb 2018 (2 years 5 months)

Developed Selenium automation scripts and conducted SQL backend validation for a clinical research SaaS platform. Created Requirements Traceability Matrix and led UAT coordination.

Selenium SQL Test Planning Requirements Traceability Matrix UAT coordination

QA Engineer

Siemens

Apr 2014 - Aug 2015 (1 year 4 months)

Executed comprehensive functional, regression, smoke, and system testing, reducing post-release defects by 24%. Automated Selenium WebDriver test suites with Java and TestNG, increasing regression coverage by 30%.