Pritesh Patel

Lead SDET | AI-Native Test Automation Engineer

Results-driven Lead SDET with 12+ years of experience in software quality engineering, AI-native test automation, and platform engineering. Built an NLP-powered, AI-native web automation platform from scratch — adopted by 10+ teams across Gojek — that accelerated test coverage and drove automation stability above 85% org-wide.

About Me

Results-driven Lead SDET with 12+ years of experience in software quality engineering, AI-native test automation, and platform engineering. Built an NLP-powered, AI-native web automation platform from scratch — adopted by 10+ teams across Gojek — that accelerated test coverage and drove automation stability above 85% org-wide.

Technical Skills

Languages

JavaPythonJavaScriptTypeScript

Test Automation

Selenium WebDriverPlaywrightAppiumTestNGRestAssured

AI & Dev Tools

Claude CodeGitHub CopilotOpenAI CodexChatGPT

Performance Testing

K6Gatling

API & Integration

PostmanKafkaTwilioSlack APILark Bot

CI/CD & SCM

JenkinsGitLab CIGitHub Actions

Containerization

DockerKubernetes

Cloud (AWS)

EC2LambdaEventBridgeCodeDeployCodePipeline

Databases

MySQLPostgreSQLRedisMongoDB

Test Management

TestRailJIRA

Monitoring & Alerting

Ops-Genie

Experience

Lead SDET

January 2021Present

Gojek | Bengaluru, India

AI-Native Test Automation Platform

  • Built a RAG-powered, no-code test automation platform from scratch (Playwright + Python) as part of Gojek's central Platform team — engineers write tests in plain language, the engine generates and executes code internally, adopted by 10+ teams org-wide.
  • Drastically reduced automation maintenance overhead by decoupling test intent from implementation; teams achieved stable, self-healing test suites without writing a single line of code.
  • Drove automation stability above 85% across all adopting teams, enabling faster and more confident release cycles.
  • Built a browser extension as a no-code playground for the NLP engine — lets users run and validate plain-language queries in real time before committing them as test cases.
  • Designed for cost-efficiency: optimised AI inference, introduced caching, and minimised token overhead at scale.
  • Leveraged Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Codex throughout to accelerate development and improve test generation quality.

Team Leadership & People Management

  • Led a team of 4 QA professionals; organised bi-weekly syncs to review progress, surface blockers early, and recognise team contributions.
  • Defined and owned test strategies, test plans, and quality KPIs across multiple product squads.
  • Mentored junior SDETs through structured knowledge-sharing sessions and hands-on coaching.
  • Conducted technical interviews and contributed to hiring decisions.

Mobile, API & Performance Automation

  • Built and maintained automated test suites for Gojek's mobile app and APIs using Appium (mobile) and RestAssured (API) in Java.
  • Developed a Kafka consumer within the API automation suite to validate event-driven message flows.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI for fully automated regression execution.
  • Conducted load and performance testing for critical API endpoints using K6 and Gatling.

Internal Tooling & Developer Productivity

  • Built an internal Slack bot in Python (Bolt framework) to streamline test data creation.
  • Designed and led the migration of the Slack bot to a Lark bot.

Senior QA Engineer

September 2017December 2020

Hiver | Bengaluru, India

  • Designed and built the automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver (Java) with TestNG, following POM design pattern.
  • Integrated automation pipelines with Jenkins, Maven, and GitHub for CI on remote AWS EC2 servers.
  • Implemented Ops-Genie voice call API for urgent failure alerts and Slack API for real-time notifications.
  • Used RestAssured for API automation and Postman for REST API exploratory testing.
  • Leveraged AWS services including CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and EC2 for deployment automation.
  • Mentored and onboarded junior QA engineers.

QA Engineer

January 2016September 2017

JKV Solutions Pvt Ltd | Ahmedabad, India

  • Wrote and maintained functional test suites using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
  • Authored mobile automation scripts using Appium.
  • Performed SQL queries in SSMS to diagnose production issues.

QA Engineer

October 2014November 2015

Inheritx Solutions Pvt Ltd | Ahmedabad, India

  • Designed and executed test plans for Android and iOS platforms.
  • Performed smoke, sanity, and regression testing cycles.

QA Engineer

May 2013October 2014

Lodestone Software Services Ltd | Ahmedabad, India

  • Authored and executed test cases based on product requirements.
  • Provided crash logs for iOS and Android platform issues.
  • Performed regression, smoke, and sanity testing across release cycles.

Projects

GitHub Repositories

Get In Touch

Feel free to reach out for collaborations, opportunities, or just a chat.

pritesh1991@gmail.com
+91 88498 91274
Bengaluru, India