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Hi, I'm Ashish Joshi, a Senior Quality Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience driving end-to-end QE initiatives for enterprise applications, especially in financial services. I excel at building robust automation frameworks with Java, Selenium, and API testing, and I enjoy mentoring distributed teams across onshore and offshore locations. I’m passionate about delivering high-quality software in Agile environments and collaborating with product and development teams to achieve real business value. In my work, I embrace modern tooling and AI-assisted approaches (e.g., GitHub Copilot and VS Code plugins) to improve test coverage, code quality, and release readiness. I thrive on turning complex testing challenges into reliable, scalable solutions and continuously improving processes through metrics and open communication.…Hi, I'm Ashish Joshi, a Senior Quality Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience driving end-to-end QE initiatives for enterprise applications, especially in financial services. I excel at building robust automation frameworks with Java, Selenium, and API testing, and I enjoy mentoring distributed teams across onshore and offshore locations. I’m passionate about delivering high-quality software in Agile environments and collaborating with product and development teams to achieve real business value. In my work, I embrace modern tooling and AI-assisted approaches (e.g., GitHub Copilot and VS Code plugins) to improve test coverage, code quality, and release readiness. I thrive on turning complex testing challenges into reliable, scalable solutions and continuously improving processes through metrics and open communication.

Ashish Joshi

QA Engineer, AI Engineer, Full Stack Developer, +3

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Hi, I'm Ashish Joshi, a Senior Quality Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience driving end-to-end QE initiatives for enterprise applications, especially in financial services. I excel at building robust automation frameworks with Java, Selenium, and API testing, and I enjoy mentoring distributed teams across onshore and offshore locations. I’m passionate about delivering high-quality software in Agile environments and collaborating with product and development teams to achieve real business value. In my work, I embrace modern tooling and AI-assisted approaches (e.g., GitHub Copilot and VS Code plugins) to improve test coverage, code quality, and release readiness. I thrive on turning complex testing challenges into reliable, scalable solutions and continuously improving processes through metrics and open communication.…Hi, I'm Ashish Joshi, a Senior Quality Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience driving end-to-end QE initiatives for enterprise applications, especially in financial services. I excel at building robust automation frameworks with Java, Selenium, and API testing, and I enjoy mentoring distributed teams across onshore and offshore locations. I’m passionate about delivering high-quality software in Agile environments and collaborating with product and development teams to achieve real business value. In my work, I embrace modern tooling and AI-assisted approaches (e.g., GitHub Copilot and VS Code plugins) to improve test coverage, code quality, and release readiness. I thrive on turning complex testing challenges into reliable, scalable solutions and continuously improving processes through metrics and open communication.

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Hi, I’m Ashish Joshi, a Senior Quality Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience driving end-to-end QE initiatives for enterprise applications, especially in financial services. I excel at building robust automation frameworks with Java, Selenium, and API testing, and I enjoy mentoring distributed teams across onshore and offshore locations. I’m passionate about delivering high-quality software in Agile environments and collaborating with product and development teams to achieve real business value.

In my work, I embrace modern tooling and AI-assisted approaches (e.g., GitHub Copilot and VS Code plugins) to improve test coverage, code quality, and release readiness. I thrive on turning complex testing challenges into reliable, scalable solutions and continuously improving processes through metrics and open communication.

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Work Experience

Lead QA Automation Engineer at Visa Inc.

April 1, 2013 - March 1, 2025

Led QA automation strategy for enterprise web and API applications; developed and maintained a Selenium- and TestNG-based framework; owned features for Visa Checkout, Tokenized Card, Express Checkout, Globalization, and Localization; built and managed test environments for main and patch releases; created API/UI automation scripts for regression and continuous validation of GenAI workflows; conducted accessibility testing with JAWS/NVDA; implemented cross-browser testing; collaborated with CI/CD teams; mentored junior QA; led migration from monolithic to microservices on Kubernetes; designed test plans and GenAI-specific prompt validation and output checks.

Escalation QA Engineer at Google

May 1, 2011 - April 1, 2013

Executed functional, integration, and regression tests for back-end services and web applications; wrote Java-based test scripts and integrated with Jenkins for scheduled runs; tested feedback collection and escalation tools for Chrome, YouTube, Gmail; validated batch processing and data integrity across environments.

QA Engineer at Williams-Sonoma Inc.

January 1, 2011 - May 1, 2011

Performed manual and automated testing of five e-commerce web applications; extensively used Selenium TestNG to automate UI and API/test data validations; created and maintained test cases, test data, and test plans; reported defects via JIRA.

QA Analyst at Wells Fargo

April 1, 2010 - January 1, 2011

Owned testing of multiple features as SME from inception to post-deployment for Wells Fargo Personal Banking; uploaded new test cases and updated regression suites in ALM; automated functional tests using QTP; collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure quality across releases.

Sr. SDET / QE Lead at Visa Inc.

April 1, 2013 - March 1, 2025

Led end-to-end Quality Engineering and Testing activities across enterprise payment applications. Defined and implemented test strategies, test plans, quality metrics, and release readiness criteria. Designed automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG. Leveraged AI tools for automation and improved onboarding process by 80% by enhancing internal knowledge base. Implemented API automation using Postman and Rest Assured; integrated test suites into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins; mentored QA teams; collaborated with stakeholders; performed backend validation with SQL.