Karthik Kodati
Quality Engineering Architect · Senior SDET · Test Automation Lead · AI-Powered Quality Engineering
Hyderabad, India · github.com/karthik-testauro
Summary
Karthik Kodati is a Quality Engineering Architect and Senior SDET with 9+ years of experience in enterprise test automation, framework architecture, API and event-driven validation, CI/CD quality gates, and AI-augmented quality engineering.
Experience
Zensar Technologies
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- Designed reusable page objects and dynamic locator strategies for Workday's generated UI.
- Introduced multi-country configuration and tenant-aware test execution.
- Enabled parallel and cross-browser execution.
- Added API integration coverage alongside end-to-end business flows.
Mphasis · Client: JPMorgan Chase
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- Validated Kafka event streams across financial-system workflows.
- Used observability tooling to trace and debug behaviour across services.
- Introduced automated quality gates into the delivery pipeline.
SMARTnCODE
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- Led the test automation transformation for the team.
- Reported a 40% reduction in test execution time.
Exaze
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- Automated Android and iOS test coverage.
- Integrated mobile tests with continuous integration.
- Owned release quality for mobile deliveries.
Progment
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- Established automation and quality practices for enterprise systems.
- Applied the same practices to public-sector systems.
Capabilities
Framework architecture · API and integration validation · Event-driven systems · CI/CD and quality gates · Mobile quality · AI-augmented quality engineering
Technical skills
- Automation
- Playwright, TypeScript, JavaScript, Selenium, Mobile automation (Android, iOS)
- APIs and integration
- REST APIs, SOAP integrations, Workday Integrations, Kafka
- Delivery and quality signals
- GitHub, CI/CD, SonarQube, Splunk, Dynatrace
- Enterprise domains
- Workday HCM, Payroll, Finance, Financial services, Public sector
- Current direction
- AI-assisted test generation, API testing workflows, Engineering tooling