Sourabh Tiwari

QA Architect • AI-Driven QA & CI/CD

Ex-BrowserStack • Bengaluru, India

Profile

Senior Test Automation Engineer with 14+ years of experience building scalable test automation and quality infrastructure for global platforms. Currently working remotely for an Italian compliance technology company serving 100K+ customers across 150+ countries.

Specialized in AI-driven test automation including LLM-powered test generation, self-healing frameworks, and predictive quality analytics. Open source contributor to Playwright and Selenium WebDriver. Proven track record of achieving elite DORA metrics, implementing CI/CD pipelines with shift-left practices, and mentoring distributed teams across European time zones.

Key Achievements

Experience

Senior Test Automation Engineer

October 2019 – Present
iubenda srl (Remote) — Milan, Italy
  • Lead test automation for 3 product lines including Cookie Solution and consent management products serving 100K+ customers across 150+ countries
  • Accelerated release velocity by 60% (5 days → 2 days), improving Change Failure Rate from 8% to 2% while maintaining zero critical production defects
  • Pioneered LLM-driven test generation using GPT-4 and Claude APIs, reducing manual test creation time by 40% and improving coverage from 72% to 94%
  • Built self-healing test infrastructure with ML-based locator strategies and Applitools visual AI, reducing maintenance overhead by 55%
  • Designed test observability framework using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Prometheus for real-time quality KPIs across 200+ monthly releases
  • Developed predictive quality analytics using historical defect data and ML models, identifying high-risk code changes with 85% accuracy
  • Led Jenkins to GitHub Actions migration, reducing CI/CD execution time by 45% and achieving 10+ daily deployments
  • Mentor distributed team members across European time zones, establishing async collaboration practices

Quality Engineering Manager

June 2015 – October 2019
Coverfox Insurance — Mumbai, India
  • Built and scaled QE organization from 3 to 12+ members, establishing hiring pipeline, onboarding framework, and career progression paths
  • Architected multi-platform automation framework (Selenium, Appium) achieving 95% coverage for critical user journeys across Web and Mobile
  • Built Kubernetes-based test orchestration on AWS EKS with dynamic scaling (5→30+ parallel sessions), reducing regression from 8 hours to under 2 hours
  • Led performance testing with Locust simulating 50K concurrent users, improving application response time by 60%
  • Implemented contract testing using Pact across 15+ microservices, reducing cross-service defects by 70%
  • Built mobile test automation using Appium for iOS and Android, enabling cross-device regression testing across 20+ device configurations
  • Recognized as Manager of the Year (2016, 2017) for driving 35% improvement in product quality metrics

Senior SDET

May 2013 – June 2015
BrowserStack — Mumbai, India
  • Designed BDD automation framework using Ruby, Cucumber, and Selenium adopted company-wide by 50+ engineers
  • Architected testing infrastructure for 500+ browser/device/OS combinations achieving 99.8% cross-platform coverage
  • Mentored 5 junior engineers on framework design and Page Object Model architecture

Software Engineer in Test

December 2012 – May 2013
Zynga — Bangalore, India
  • Developed E2E automation for critical game flows (Hidden Chronicles, Mafia Wars) with 90% coverage
  • Created automated ad platform monitoring with hourly health checks across 25+ games, safeguarding $50K+ daily revenue and achieving 99.9% uptime
  • Awarded zTeam Award for building scalable automation that reduced release testing time by 60%

Associate QA Engineer

September 2010 – November 2012
Symphony Teleca — Bangalore, India
  • Developed cross-platform test automation using Python, C#, and Robot Framework for Silverlight and HTML5 applications
  • Created reusable test libraries and utilities that reduced test development time by 40% across multiple projects
  • Collaborated with offshore clients (US, Europe) on test planning, execution, and defect triage in Agile environment

Skills

Test Automation

Playwright Cypress Selenium WebDriver Appium Puppeteer Cucumber/BDD PyTest RSpec

AI/ML Testing

LLM Integration (GPT-4, Claude) Self-Healing Tests Visual AI (Applitools, Percy)

CI/CD & Cloud

GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda) Docker Kubernetes Terraform

API & Performance

Postman REST Assured Pact k6 Gatling Locust JMeter

Languages

Python (Advanced) Ruby (Advanced) JavaScript/TypeScript Java SQL

Observability

Grafana Prometheus OpenTelemetry Datadog ELK Stack

Open Source

Playwright

Contributor to Microsoft's browser automation framework

Selenium WebDriver

Contributor to the industry-standard browser automation tool

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science)

Institute of Technology, Central University, Bilaspur
2005 – 2009