Shudipkumar Wagh

PROFILE SUMMARY

QA Manager / Head with 17+ years of experience leading quality engineering across CTRM platforms, education, and insurance domains. Proven expertise in designing and driving QA strategy, governance, and high-impact test automation initiatives.

Hands-on specialist in Python and PyTest-based automation frameworks, API testing, and CI/CD integration, with a strong track record of improving test coverage, accelerating release cycles, and enhancing product reliability. Actively leverage AI to elevate test case quality, optimize coverage, and speed up automation development and maintenance.

Built and continuously use an AI-driven QA agent using Microsoft Copilot for generating, refining, and validating test cases aligned with functional and business requirements.

An n8n enthusiast with a passion for building offline, personal chatbot workflows and automation pipelines. Also create short-form Instagram content using AI tools as part of a personal content automation system.

Extensive experience with Azure DevOps for end-to-end test management, requirements traceability, release coordination, workflows, and defect lifecycle management.

CORE SKILLS

Selenium Python pytest AI-Driven Test Case Design AI-Enabled Test Coverage Optimization AI-Accelerated Test Automation Development AI Agent Creation (Microsoft Copilot) API Automation REST API Testing TestNG Java QA Management Test Strategy QA Governance Release Management Risk-Based Testing SDLC STLC CI/CD Agile Scrum Azure DevOps (Boards, Test Plans, Bugs) Defect Management Quality Metrics CTRM n8n Automation AI Animation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Manager / Head of QA (Functional) .0

Peninsula Petroleum / Peninsula Data Services Pvt. Ltd. - Pune, Maharashtra, India

Current

Own end-to-end QA delivery for a mission-critical CTRM platform supporting enterprise trading and risk operations
Final release sign-off authority responsible for go / no-go production decisions
Lead and mentor a 20+ member QA team including manual and automation engineers
Designed and implemented a Selenium-TestNG automation framework adopted by the QA team for the initial years on a specific module, and subsequently led the migration to a pytest-based automation framework for a different module
Actively use AI on a continuous basis to improve test case quality, reduce redundancy, and increase functional coverage
Created and actively use an AI-based agent using Microsoft Copilot for test case generation and refinement based on functional and business requirements
Actively use AI to accelerate test automation development, refactoring, and ongoing maintenance
Designed and executed API automation using Python requests
Integrated automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines
Used Azure DevOps for test case management, defect tracking, sprint planning, and reporting
Reduced regression execution time by ~60% through automation optimization
Publish defect trends, test coverage, and release quality metrics to senior leadership

- 2018

SHUDIPKUMAR WAGH

QA Manager/Head

PROFILE SUMMARY

CORE SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Manager / Head of QA (Functional) .0

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