I am Raja Gonen, a Senior SDET and Test Automation Architect with 15+ years of experience delivering enterprise-grade automation across UI and API for contact centers, SaaS platforms, financial services, and enterprise software. I’m known for leading QA teams, setting testing strategy, and raising automation and engineering standards across multi-team organizations. I’ve hands-on across the full automation stack—from designing scalable frameworks, writing code, sharing to onboarding, CI/CD integration, BDD adoption, and multi-environment test strategies—bringing consistency and structure to complex, fast-moving environments. Most recently I applied AI to push automation further—architecting an agnostic test generation pipeline, a GraphRAG knowledge system, and a suite of LLM agents that autonomously plan, generate, self-heal, and release Playwright tests—cutting test authoring time from days to hours. I also introduced event-driven re-indexing patterns for RAG knowledge bases and supported autonomous test generation pipelines.

Raja Gone

I am Raja Gonen, a Senior SDET and Test Automation Architect with 15+ years of experience delivering enterprise-grade automation across UI and API for contact centers, SaaS platforms, financial services, and enterprise software. I’m known for leading QA teams, setting testing strategy, and raising automation and engineering standards across multi-team organizations. I’ve hands-on across the full automation stack—from designing scalable frameworks, writing code, sharing to onboarding, CI/CD integration, BDD adoption, and multi-environment test strategies—bringing consistency and structure to complex, fast-moving environments. Most recently I applied AI to push automation further—architecting an agnostic test generation pipeline, a GraphRAG knowledge system, and a suite of LLM agents that autonomously plan, generate, self-heal, and release Playwright tests—cutting test authoring time from days to hours. I also introduced event-driven re-indexing patterns for RAG knowledge bases and supported autonomous test generation pipelines.

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I am Raja Gonen, a Senior SDET and Test Automation Architect with 15+ years of experience delivering enterprise-grade automation across UI and API for contact centers, SaaS platforms, financial services, and enterprise software. I’m known for leading QA teams, setting testing strategy, and raising automation and engineering standards across multi-team organizations. I’ve hands-on across the full automation stack—from designing scalable frameworks, writing code, sharing to onboarding, CI/CD integration, BDD adoption, and multi-environment test strategies—bringing consistency and structure to complex, fast-moving environments.

Most recently I applied AI to push automation further—architecting an agnostic test generation pipeline, a GraphRAG knowledge system, and a suite of LLM agents that autonomously plan, generate, self-heal, and release Playwright tests—cutting test authoring time from days to hours. I also introduced event-driven re-indexing patterns for RAG knowledge bases and supported autonomous test generation pipelines.

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Language

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Work Experience

Senior SDET / AI Test Engineer at 8x8
February 1, 2019 - Present
Senior SDET / AI Test Engineer responsible for architecture, test automation leadership, and platform-wide QA across UI and API. Built autonomous AI-assisted testing workflows, led automation initiatives across multi-team orgs, and delivered scalable automation for enterprise-grade environments.
Lead QA Engineer at Adstream Ltd
May 1, 2015 - January 31, 2019
Led QA strategy and automation for a SaaS content management platform, scaling the BD D test suite from 250 to 1,500 scenarios, delivering REST API automation, and coordinating weekly CI/CD releases with automated smoke and regression packs across four environments. Managed end-to-end QA across front-end and back-end builds, and mentored a team of QA engineers.
Software Test Engineer at Black Swan Data Ltd
September 1, 2014 - April 30, 2015
Streamlined Selenium WebDriver automation (Java/TestNG) for an in-flight entertainment web platform, automating 200+ test cases and delivering 10 test cycles across smoke, sanity, functional, and regression suites. Authored test cases for new features and scaled automation to 200+ automated cases via Selenium Grid; tracked defects with JIRA and maintained CI scripts.
Assistant Manager at Deloitte
January 1, 2013 - August 31, 2014
Led QA activities for a financial audit reporting platform used by Deloitte practitioners—centralizing 300+ test cases across 3 environments and delivering end-of-sprint releases with full regression coverage. Drove test planning, functional testing strategy, and introduced BDD automation using Cucumber-JVM and Gherkin; authored 100+ feature files and Selenium WebDriver scripts.
Senior Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies
June 1, 2006 - October 31, 2012
Drove test cycles across multiple projects, validating apps across 5 platforms (Android, iOS, etc.), and managing defects lifecycle. Wrote test cases from acceptance criteria, tracked defects, and validated across mobile and desktop platforms.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) at Osmania University
July 1, 2002 - July 1, 2005

Qualifications

ISTQB Foundation Level
January 11, 2030 - April 22, 2026
Certified Scrum Master
January 11, 2030 - April 22, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications