Open to SDET & QA Automation Roles

Mubarak
Shaik

Senior SDET  ·  QA Automation Lead  ·  Fremont, CA

I build the infrastructure that makes software worth shipping — engineering precision automation frameworks that catch what matters, accelerate delivery, and eliminate risk at enterprise scale.

10+
Years of Experience
4
Enterprise Clients
50%
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Profile

Engineering Quality
at Enterprise Scale

I'm a Senior SDET with 10+ years of hands-on experience architecting test automation for some of the world's most regulated industries — banking, clinical data, and education technology. My work directly supports systems used by millions of people daily.

My edge isn't just knowing how to write tests. It's understanding where quality breaks down under real-world pressure — across service boundaries, between environments, and during the compressed timelines of continuous delivery. I've built frameworks from scratch, migrated legacy suites to modern BDD paradigms, and embedded quality into pipelines deploying multiple times per day.

"Quality is not a phase at the end of development. It's a discipline that runs through every commit, every pipeline, and every release."

At Persistent Systems, I currently lead QA automation for Wells Fargo's M2 Accounts platform — serving millions of U.S. banking customers across online account management, card services, and fraud workflows. Before that: IQVIA's clinical trial platform, DBS Bank's Singapore marketplace, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's global edtech platform.

I'm selectively exploring opportunities to evolve toward QA architecture, platform engineering, and developer productivity — roles where engineering quality is treated as a first-class discipline.

Contact
Location
Fremont, California, USA
Industry Domains
Banking & Fintech Healthcare Data EdTech Travel & Marketplace Online Banking Clinical Trials
Education
Bachelor of Technology · April 2014
RVR Institute of Engineering, Hyderabad

Capabilities

Skills & Market
Positioning

Ten years of automation across enterprise banking, clinical, and edtech platforms — mapped against what senior SDET roles demand in 2025–26.

Core Strength
Test Automation Frameworks
Selenium WebDriver
95
Cucumber BDD
92
Serenity BDD
86
Karate Framework
82
REST Assured
80
Languages & Tooling
Engineering Stack
Java
88
Maven
85
Jenkins CI/CD
80
Git / GitLab
85
Postman
82
Process & Leadership
QA Strategy
Agile / Scrum
92
JIRA / ALM QC
88
Test Strategy
85
Code Review
80
BrowserStack
78
Skill / Area My Experience 2025–26 Demand Verdict
Selenium + Java8 yrs · enterprise scale⬆ Core✓ Strong fit
Cucumber / Karate BDD5+ yrs across 3 clients⬆ High✓ Strong fit
CI/CD PipelinesJenkins integration⬆ Essential~ Add GH Actions
API / Microservices QAREST Assured · Postman⬆ High✓ Strong fit
Playwright / Cypress2 yrs⬆ Rapidly growing✓ Good fit
AI-Assisted Testing1+ yrs⬆ Emerging fast✓ Good fit

Career

10 Years of Impact Across
Enterprise Engineering

Persistent Systems · Wells Fargo
Senior Engineering Lead — SDET
Mar 2022 – Present
📦 M2 Accounts — Modernization of Wells Fargo's core online banking platform serving millions of U.S. customers
  • Architected multi-channel coverage across UI and API layers using Karate, Selenium, and REST Assured — safeguarding millions of daily banking transactions from regression.
  • Automated Smoke, Functional, and Regression suites triggered on each deployment via Jenkins — reducing manual QA effort by ~60% and accelerating release cadence.
  • Owned QA signoff for production releases across account management, card services, fraud detection, and overdraft workflows — directly responsible for quality of $B+ transaction infrastructure.
  • Led requirement analysis and design reviews to catch testability gaps before development begins, significantly reducing the cost of late-stage defect discovery.
KarateSelenium WebDriverCucumber BDDREST AssuredJenkinsBrowserStackGit
Persistent Systems · IQVIA
Engineering Lead — QA Automation
May 2021 – Mar 2022
📦 ASAP — Automation of Statistical Analysis Plan for clinical trials; reduced first-draft creation time by 50%+
  • Delivered automation for IQVIA's PAF framework in a highly regulated FDA-adjacent environment — clinical trial data where test failures carry real patient-safety implications.
  • Instituted GitLab PR-based code reviews for the QA team — improving script quality, reducing flakiness, and building a reusable test library that accelerated new story coverage.
  • Served as QA lead across all Agile ceremonies — sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives — translating Product Owner intent into precise test coverage.
PAF FrameworkSeleniumData DrivenJenkinsGitLabALM QC
Persistent Systems · Wells Fargo
Engineering Lead — QA Automation
May 2021 – Mar 2022
📦 Online Claims — Fraud transaction resolution platform serving all 50 U.S. states, mobile-enabled
  • Built UI + API automation using WAF (Wells Fargo's hybrid BDD stack: Selenium, Java, Cucumber, TestNG, Rest Assured, MongoDB) — full regression automation for a mission-critical fraud processing system.
  • Configured virtual services and test data environments (SV Portal + OASIS), decoupling test execution from live backend dependencies and enabling parallel test runs.
  • Drove release estimation and QA planning, preparing documentation and delivering signoffs for production pushes.
WAFSeleniumTestNGMongoDBJIRABrowserStack
HCL Technologies · DBS Bank Singapore
Senior Test Engineer
Mar 2019 – May 2021
📦 DBS Marketplace — Singapore's first one-stop platform for Cars, Property & Travel
  • Led migration from Katalon Studio to BDD framework (Cucumber + Selenium + Java + JUnit) — modernizing a legacy suite, enabling parallel execution, and halving maintenance overhead.
  • Introduced a Git branching strategy for the QA team, enabling structured cross-team collaboration and eliminating the merge conflicts that had previously delayed releases.
  • Developed reusable page component libraries for shared business flows — reducing new test authoring time by an estimated 40%.
Cucumber BDDSeleniumJavaMavenJenkinsGitJIRA
Cognizant Technology Solutions · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Associate — Test Automation Engineer
Mar 2015 – Mar 2019
📦 HMH EdTech Platform — World's largest pre-K–12 educational content platform serving millions of students
  • Built automation using Serenity BDD (Selenium + Java + Cucumber + Maven) for a platform relied on by millions of K–12 students and educators across the US.
  • Stabilized nightly regression runs by analyzing daily environmental failures and hardening scripts against transient issues — significantly improving CI pipeline reliability.
  • Presented UAT results to client stakeholders directly, communicating quality status to non-technical audiences and building confidence in the release process.
Serenity BDDSeleniumJavaCucumberJUnitMavenJenkins

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Open to the Right
Opportunity

I'm selectively exploring SDET, QA Architect, and Developer Productivity roles where quality engineering is a first-class discipline.

If you're building a platform that millions of people rely on and need someone who understands both the engineering depth and the business risk of poor quality — let's talk. I respond within 24 hours.

Email
mubarak.shaik263@gmail.com
Phone
+1 341-345-2915
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/mubarak-shaik
Location
San Francisco, CA · Open to Remote & Hybrid