Mahipal is a Technical QA Architect and Lead with over 12 years of expertise in building scalable automation ecosystems for web, mobile, and data pipelines. He specializes in AWS cloud environments, with deep experience in ETL validation (AWS Glue), serverless architectures, and complex Salesforce migrations. A pioneer in 'Shift-Left' testing, Mahipal has scaled automation practices from the ground up at high-growth startups and global giants like Uber and IBM. He is an expert in Robot Framework, Playwright, and Selenium, consistently delivering 70%+ reductions in manual regression cycles through robust CI/CD integration and data-driven testing strategies.
Monitoring QA processes and various project meetings for clients across a broad range of industries.
Partnering closely with other cross-functional departments to work on process problems and challenges that affect customer satisfaction in the implementation of projects.
Facilitating QA ceremonies, identifying and removing impediments to success, tracking progress, and recognizing opportunities for continuous improvement.
Worked on various projects for Test Automation framework and tooling.
It includes coding with python/pytest framework and selenium for writing framework & dev-qa tooling.
Reduced manual testing time from 148 man hours to 44 man hours in 3 months efforts, for full regression of mobile app tests.
Caught 40+ critical level bugs via running automation timely on PRs and merges/release candidates
Caught 35+ crashes before release.
Acted as a contractor for several companies, working primarily on E2E test automation eco system, designing, setting up, writing frameworks, CI/CD integrations, and scripting.
Identified test scenarios, estimated test effort, and created test plans, facilitating QA ceremonies, identifying and removing impediments to success, tracking progress, and recognizing opportunities for continuous improvement.
Worked with functional modules, structure, and logic for testing system internals.
Critical ETL & AWS Focus: Spearheaded data validation for cloud-based processing. Hands-on with AWS Glue ETL workflows, including job monitoring, log analysis in CloudWatch, and validating output datasets in S3.
Implemented Robot Framework and Selenium-based solutions for Uber Bank and Money platforms, managing CI/CD design and third-party integrations.
Architected integrated frameworks for Web/API/Mobile, mentoring teams of Architects and Engineers on code reviews and data-driven utilities.
Designed and built different QA repositories, test utilities, and automation frameworks for different projects. Implemented test packages, classes, and test methods across all builds.
Led QA processes, applying QA culture and best practices to test solutions. Provided software developers with the right set of testing tools for automation scripting.
Education
SAFe Agilist Certification
Scaled Agile
2021 - 2021
Certified SAFeĀ® 5 Agilist
Scaled Agile
2021 - 2021
Advanced Certificate in Software Engineering for Cloud, Blockchain & IoT, Information Technology