# Vishal Raghav

Vishal Raghav is a remote worker on Himalayas, Software Engineer (M4) - Lead SDET at Adidas India, based in India.

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

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Lead SDET at Adidas India who cut regression execution time by up to 94% with mock-server integration testing in Jenkins.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 2989k+ INR |
| Job categories | Software Engineer in Test, Quality Assurance Engineer, Automation Testing |
| Skills | Software Testing, Testing Automation, API Testing, Integration Testing, Test Strategy, Backend Testing, Microservices, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, UI Testing, Functional Testing, Release Validation, Defect Management, Risk Assessment, CI CD |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/vishal-raghav-37b87882 |

## About

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At Adidas India, I own end-to-end QA across Product Services, Audience Builder, and Personalisation, from test strategy and defect management to release readiness.

I designed reusable backend API automation frameworks and introduced mock-server integration testing in Jenkins PR pipelines, reducing regression execution time by 88–94%, from 2–3 hours to 10–15 minutes.

I also built OPIM ECOM Diff Analyser and feed comparison tools with AI-assisted coding, reducing validation time for 25,000–50,000 articles from 2–3 days to a few hours. My custom AI agents analyse microservice code, generate test cases, and review automated test results.

Previously, I developed API and UI test automation at Airtel Digital, Mastercard, and Mindtree Limited (now LTM Limited), including testing for SMS services and payment processing. I’ve also led QA delivery and mentored engineers, and I bring hands-on experience with cloud-native systems and performance testing.
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## Experience

### Software Engineer (M4) - Lead SDET (current)

Adidas India. Jul 2022 - Present

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Owned end-to-end QA across Product Services, Audience Builder, and Personalisation, covering test strategy, defect management, and release readiness. Designed and built scalable backend API automation frameworks using Java, Serenity BDD, REST Assured, and Playwright, and led a team of QA engineers.
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Skills: Java, Serenity-BDD-Framework, Rest-Assured, Playwright, TypeScript, AWS, Lambda, Glue, Step-Functions, Athena, S3, API-Gateway, Kafka, Gatling, Jenkins, GitHub-Co-Pilot, Claude-Code, AI-Agents, Test-Strategy, Defect-Management, Release-Readiness, Agile, Scrum

### Senior Software Engineer - QA

Airtel Digital. Jun 2021 - Jul 2022

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Developed and maintained API automation solutions using Java and REST Assured for Airtel IQ SMS services. Designed and executed functional, integration, smoke, and regression testing across API, UI, and database layers, and led a team of three QA engineers.
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Skills: Java, Rest-Assured, API-Testing, Integration-Testing, Regression-Testing, UI-Testing, Database-Testing, Grafana, Team-Leadership, Product-Demonstrations

### Software Development Engineer in Test - II

[Mastercard](https://himalayas.app/companies/mastercard). Feb 2020 - Jun 2021

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Contributed to testing a new Sanctions Service for payment processing, validating that transactions involving sanctioned countries were blocked in accordance with U.S. regulatory requirements. Developed and maintained UI automation scripts using Selenium and Cucumber BDD, along with API automation using REST Assured and Java.
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Skills: Selenium, Cucumber, Rest-Assured, Java, Jenkins, Gatling, API-Testing, UI-Automation, Performance-Testing

### Senior Engineer

Mindtree Limited. Jan 2016 - Feb 2020

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Developed and maintained regression UI automation using Selenium and TestNG. Performed mobile functional and cross-device testing using BrowserStack, and REST API testing using SoapUI and Postman.
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Skills: Selenium, TestNG, BrowserStack, SoapUI, Postman, Jira, API-Testing, Mobile-Testing, Regression-Testing

## Education

### Jaypee Institute of Information Technology

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering. 2011 - 2015

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Pursued a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, from 2011 to 2015.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- Selenium
- BrowserStack
- Bitbucket
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Jira
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- Gatling
- Kafka
- Grafana
- Kibana
- OpenSearch
- TypeScript
- JUnit
- Cucumber
- TestNG
- Git
- Docker
- REST Assured
- SoapUI
- Playwright
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
- Instana

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

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