Kiran K.

Lead Automation Architect – Playwright with deep expertise in designing and building enterprise-grade scalable automation frameworks and enabling shift-left quality for microservices, cloud, and AI-enabled platforms. Experienced in microservices integration testing with WireMock and Testcontainers (PostgreSQL/MySQL). Performed contract testing and CI/CD-driven integration pipelines. Implemented observability-based quality gates (p95 latency, error budgets) and automated resiliency checks to support reliable releases. Expert in Java, Playwright, TypeScript, JavaScript, Selenium, Appium, and REST API automation, with strong Azure & AWS CI/CD experience. Integrated message queues, databases, and distributed services into automation frameworks to support event-driven validation end-to-end. Leveraged OpenAI LLMs for test generation, and engineering velocity. Creator of AIDLC-Q™ (AI-Driven Development & Quality Lifecycle), an industry-proposed AI-augmentation framework embedding AI across intent discovery, AI-first test design, co-development, intelligent validation, predictive release intelligence, and continuous learning to enhance Agile and DevOps delivery confidence.