Nishritha Damera

QA Automation Engineer

Testing GenAI and agentic AI products for consulting, private markets and HR, from Hyderabad, India.

Looking for QA Automation, SDET or AI Test Engineer work in an AI-driven product team.

AI products should earn trust before anyone depends on them. That’s the part I work on.

I’m Nishritha, a QA Automation Engineer on GenAI and agentic AI platforms for consulting, private markets and HR. I test end to end — UI, APIs, load and the cloud underneath — write Playwright automation in Python, run releases through CI/CD, and build frontend features in TypeScript and Node.js.

Practice

Functional testing first; now quality and release readiness from sprint to production.

I began with functional testing. Today I own quality and release readiness end to end.

In practice that means testing every sprint, running QA and production deployments through GitHub Actions, and debugging across Datadog logs, databases and Azure. When a live production issue appeared, I followed the logs back to its root cause.

Testing AI is its own discipline. Outputs shift from one run to the next, each run spends real money, and the cloud underneath behaves in complicated ways. So I validated Azure Service Bus auto-scaling, checked embedding indexing in Azure AI Search, and monitor usage and cost across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Serper while tests run.

I’ve built Playwright frameworks for smoke and regression testing with Allure reporting, tested multi-tenant setups and a shared component library, and work side by side with product managers and developers on requirements, bug analysis and workflow validation. On my current HR product I build frontend features in TypeScript and Node.js as well as test them.

Where a release gets checked
  1. InterfacePlaywright end-to-end and regression suites, shared component library
  2. APIs and loadREST, Postman, JMeter load runs
  3. DataSQL and MongoDB checks across tenants
  4. LogsApplication logs and Datadog
  5. CloudAzure Container Apps, Function Apps, Service Bus, AI Search
  6. AI spendOpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Serper usage and cost

Experience

Where I’ve worked and the AI products I’ve tested there, one project at a time.

Agentic Private Markets

QA Automation Engineer

– Present

HR and people operations Current

AI-powered HR performance platform

An AI-powered performance review and feedback platform: employee self-evaluations, 360-degree feedback surveys (including voice-based surveys run by AI agents), evaluator reviews and AI-generated performance reports, across review cycles with several stages.

  • Tested complete performance review workflows, from employee self-evaluation through feedback collection and evaluator review to report generation.
  • GenAI and voice AI testing: validated AI-driven conversations and voice-based survey interviews with AI agents, including transcript generation, transcription behaviour, follow-up questions, and the generated reports and workflow outcomes.
  • 360-degree feedback and review cycles: tested respondent management, survey launch and monitoring, review-cycle statuses and the transitions between stages.
  • Complex defect finding: identified and documented functional, UI, workflow and data-integrity defects, including incorrect survey and status updates, missing actions, respondent visibility problems, inconsistent workflow states and report-generation issues.
  • API and full-stack investigation: validated APIs and investigated issues across frontend and backend workflows to find where each one started.
  • Release validation: ran smoke and regression tests across QA and development environments, validated deployments, and performed production sanity checks on critical functionality.
  • Frontend development: build frontend features in TypeScript and Node.js, and test what I ship.
  • Collaboration: worked with developers to reproduce defects, verify fixes and improve application stability.
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Voice AI testing
  • API testing
  • End-to-end testing
  • Regression testing

Private markets · Agentic AI

AgenticPM — AI agents for private markets

An agentic AI platform for private equity firms, transaction advisory teams and investment bankers. Purpose-built AI agents support deal sourcing and market mapping, due diligence, portfolio monitoring and exit planning.

5,000+users20+countries~3 minsmall reports, down from 15–2050+component bugs found30%less manual testing

  • End-to-end, regression, smoke and release testing across UI, database and production for the List Builder, Project Chat, Reports, Artifacts and Admin modules.
  • Faster reports through an Azure Service Bus fix: small reports took 15–20 minutes and large ones about 30. While testing report generation at the cloud level, I found an Azure Service Bus autoscaling issue. After the fix, small reports finish in about 3 minutes and large ones in 5–7.
  • Lower AI cost per report: large reports that used the Excel query MCP tool were costing $40–50 each in model usage. Monitoring OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Serper usage during testing helped trace the root cause, and after the fix the cost per report dropped drastically.
  • Load testing: found that report generation and artifact generation were the bottlenecks under load, and the team improved both.
  • Component library testing: found 50+ rendering bugs in the shared library that every screen’s components are rendered from, including how components come out when downloaded as PowerPoint (PPT).
  • Regression automation: built Playwright (Python) regression automation with pytest and Allure, using AI-assisted development to write scripts faster, cutting manual testing effort by 30%.
  • Release ownership: handled 5–6 QA and production deployments, from release R3.6 to R4.4, covering branch cuts, environment variable updates, post-deployment validation and production smoke tests.
  • Tenant setup: created 5 tenants, including 1 production and 3 QA tenants, with configuration and database-level validation for each.
  • Production incident: traced a live production issue through application logs and Datadog, restored service within about 2 hours by restarting the container as a temporary fix, and documented the root cause for a permanent fix.
  • Playwright (Python)
  • pytest
  • Allure
  • JMeter
  • Azure
  • Datadog
  • GitHub Actions

Infinite Possibilities

QA Automation Engineer

– Present

Management consulting · Generative AI

Enterprise GenAI platform for a global consulting firm

A generative AI platform used by consultants across a global professional services firm, with AI chat, Skills, document summarization, document search and question answering, and report generation.

11K+users13+countries~35 minfull regression run40%more smoke coverage

  • Manual and automation testing for releases used by 11K+ people in 13+ countries.
  • Regression automation framework: regression for the platform was slow and manual, so I automated the high-priority document analysis, canvas and meeting-notes flows in Python and Playwright, then refactored them to a Page Object Model with class-scoped pytest fixtures and a shared browser context. A full run now takes about 35 minutes.
  • Smoke suite with dynamic test data: replaced hardcoded projects with a fresh project created on every run, and added negative and edge-case scenarios, giving about 40% more coverage and a clean environment each time.
  • Reporting and CI: integrated Allure reports organised by epic, feature and story, with screenshots and step logs, and set up a headless UI automation pipeline in Azure DevOps, so runs are repeatable and results are readable by non-engineers.
  • Flaky-test debugging: traced failures to environment changes, timing and fragile locators such as index-based selectors and screenshot timeouts, and replaced them with stable locators in a central locator module, so previously failing tests now run reliably.
  • Load testing for file uploads: built JMeter scenarios for 100-file, 200-file and multi-user uploads with automatic token refresh, analysed bottlenecks in Celery’s background processing, and documented the setup, giving developers concrete performance limits to work on.
  • Real-time (WebSocket) testing: tested multi-tab, multi-user, slow-network and large-batch scenarios while inspecting console and WebSocket traffic, and found critical status-sync bugs, each documented with video, logs and exact reproduction steps.
  • UI/UX revamp validation: tested every major module end to end and re-tested fixes alongside developers as they deployed, logging 60+ issues and shortening fix turnaround.
  • Test design for complex features: wrote test plans and positive, negative and edge-case scenarios from requirements, Figma designs and documentation for role-based access control, data retention, multi-language support, assistant creation and AI-generated documents.
  • UAT triage and release readiness: reproduced UAT-reported issues across environments, classified each as a bug, enhancement, environment-specific, duplicate or not-a-bug, wrote UAT guides and reviewed release notes, which cut back-and-forth between QA, developers and UAT.
  • API validation and exploratory testing: used Postman to confirm fixes directly against the API before the UI was ready, explored an AI deep-research feature, and found a duplicate-submission bug affecting many modules, catching issues before production.
  • Python
  • Playwright
  • pytest
  • Page Object Model
  • Allure
  • Azure DevOps
  • JMeter
  • Celery
  • WebSockets
  • Postman
  • Jira

Infinite Possibilities

QA Automation Intern

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  • Built Playwright (Python) smoke and regression suites with Allure reporting for an AI web application in the private equity domain.
  • Manual testing: test case design, execution, defect reporting, and reproducing issues with developers and product.

Skills

Technical skills, grouped by area.

Test automation

  • Playwright (Python)
  • pytest
  • Allure Reports
  • Selenium
  • AI-assisted test scripting

Types of testing

  • End-to-end testing
  • Regression testing
  • Smoke testing
  • Release testing
  • Load testing
  • Cloud testing
  • Component library testing
  • Manual testing
  • Exploratory testing

AI testing and cost monitoring

  • LLM feature testing
  • RAG testing
  • Azure AI Search
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Gemini
  • Serper
  • Usage and cost tracking

API, database and performance testing

  • REST API testing
  • Postman
  • SQL
  • MongoDB
  • Database validation
  • JMeter

Cloud and monitoring

  • Azure cloud infrastructure
  • Azure Container Apps
  • Azure Function Apps
  • Azure Service Bus
  • AWS
  • Datadog

CI/CD and DevOps

  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure DevOps
  • Git
  • QA and production deployments
  • Multi-tenant setup

Frontend development

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • HTML and CSS
  • Streamlit

Programming, AI and tools

  • Python
  • Anthropic API
  • Claude Agent SDK
  • MCP
  • Jira
  • Azure Boards
  • VS Code

Side builds

Python work outside of testing: data collection, NLP and a voice assistant.

Accreditation

Certificates from Anthropic, AWS and my internship.

Study

An engineering degree with a focus on artificial intelligence.

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B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering (AI)

Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology, Parul University Vadodara, Gujarat

First class with distinction

Write to me

Currently looking at QA Automation, SDET and AI Test Engineer roles in AI-driven product teams.

If your team ships AI features and wants someone who checks the output, the logs and the bill, I’d be glad to hear from you.