Nandkumar Ghatage

Experienced QA Manager and Test Architect with 12+ years of expertise in software quality assurance, automation, and team leadership. Adept at designing and implementing test strategies that ensure robust and efficient software delivery. Passionate about integrating DevOps, GitOps, TestOps, and DevSecOps best practices to achieve superior quality and operational efficiency.

An AI enthusiast with experience in prompt engineering, LLM fine-tuning, and leveraging cutting-edge tools like Hugging Face, and LangChain. Proven ability to foster collaboration among teams and deliver high-quality software solutions in dynamic, agile environments.

Core Skills:

• Programming Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript
• DevOps Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitLab, Jenkins
• Automation Tools: Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright, WebdriverIO, Rest Assured, Cucumber, Postman, newman-CLI, TestNG
• Testing Expertise: Web, Functional, Component, API, ETL(bigdata), Database, Security, Load, Stress, Mobile (Android)
• Contract Testing : Pact, Dredd,
• Load Testing Tools: JMeter, Locust, K6
• Security Testing Tools: OWASP ZAP
• AI Libraries: Torch, Hugging Face
• AI Agentic Frameworks: Pydantic AI, SmolAgent, LangChain
• Test Applications: VueJS, React, Microservices
• Enterprise Applications: Salesforce, AX Dynamics, Voucher Management System
• Other tools: JIRA, helm chart, docker-compose, NodeJs
• Management: Test planing, Resourcing, Training, onshore and offshore team handling

• Boosted testing efficiency by 30% by deploying custom automation frameworks for Web component,API, SSR applications
• Introduced agile testing practices, leading to a 25% improvement in project delivery timelines.
• Recognized for establishing robust quality processes that elevated product performance, reduced ticket lead/cycle time, and improved customer satisfaction.

• Fine-tune open source Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-it-fr LLM model for translation, Link: https://github.com/nand1234/llm-finetune-translator Task

• Built image enhancement and object/watermark detection app using open source model, Link: https://github.com/nand1234/AI-image-transformation-appz

• BDD style test case, Automated Script creation and execution using smolagent, Link: https://github.com/nand1234/AI-Test-Automation-SmolAgent

• AI pdf Question Answer Rag app (chat with your own PDF) using LangChain and chroma vector DB, Link: https://github.com/nand1234/AI-pdf-chat

• Rag-AI-Chatbot with memory to have conversion with your document, Link: https://github.com/nand1234/Rag-AI-Chatbot

• Certificate of Excellence, Best Performer in Manual Testing and Client Coordination (Procharge - US), 06/01/11
• Best Quality Analyst Award, GEP Worldwide, 05/01/14
• Hackathon winner, Smartbox Group, 09/01/23