Hi, I'm Nishtha Malvia, an AI-enabled SDET Chapter and Test Engineering Transformation leader with 15+ years in Banking, Payments, Salesforce, and Digital Payments. I specialize in building scalable QA/automation ecosystems, championing Shift-Left and Shift-Right testing, and aligning QA with business outcomes using modern AI-driven tools and CI/CD practices. I design and implement AI-driven test automation, microservices, and web/mobile automation frameworks using Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, Cypress, Playwright, and Flutter. I have led multi-geography QA teams, managed stakeholders, and delivered end-to-end automation strategies across financial services, CRM, and payments domains.

Nishtha Malvia

Hi, I'm Nishtha Malvia, an AI-enabled SDET Chapter and Test Engineering Transformation leader with 15+ years in Banking, Payments, Salesforce, and Digital Payments. I specialize in building scalable QA/automation ecosystems, championing Shift-Left and Shift-Right testing, and aligning QA with business outcomes using modern AI-driven tools and CI/CD practices. I design and implement AI-driven test automation, microservices, and web/mobile automation frameworks using Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, Cypress, Playwright, and Flutter. I have led multi-geography QA teams, managed stakeholders, and delivered end-to-end automation strategies across financial services, CRM, and payments domains.

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Hi, I’m Nishtha Malvia, an AI-enabled SDET Chapter and Test Engineering Transformation leader with 15+ years in Banking, Payments, Salesforce, and Digital Payments. I specialize in building scalable QA/automation ecosystems, championing Shift-Left and Shift-Right testing, and aligning QA with business outcomes using modern AI-driven tools and CI/CD practices.

I design and implement AI-driven test automation, microservices, and web/mobile automation frameworks using Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, Cypress, Playwright, and Flutter. I have led multi-geography QA teams, managed stakeholders, and delivered end-to-end automation strategies across financial services, CRM, and payments domains.

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Work Experience

QA Chapter Lead / Test Automation Manager at Allica Bank
June 1, 2023 - April 30, 2026
Led AI-driven test automation for digital payments and online banking; implemented AI-driven test automation leveraging GitHub Copilot; automated and designed microservices using Kotlin and Rest Assured; built AI-enabled web automation frameworks using Cypress/Playwright (TypeScript, React, NX); practiced mobile development with Flutter; championed Shift-Left and Shift-Right testing, in-sprint automation, and CI/CD-driven automated deployments.
Test Automation Manager at KPMG
August 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023
End-to-end test automation delivery using Jira and Zephyr; automated CRM workflows for banking clients (Java, Selenium); established automation footprint for smoke testing; stakeholder management.
Senior SDET Specialist / Test Engineering Lead at TSYS (Global Payments)
November 1, 2020 - July 31, 2022
Unclosed Merchant batch, Debit/Credit Card Transactions; established test automation using SpecFlow, C#, NUnit, MSTest; defined operating model, roadmaps and automation objectives; stakeholder and cross-team collaboration; in-sprint (Shift Left) automation; DevOps pipelines (Jenkins, TeamCity) with Git; maturity models for QE practices.
Automation Analyst (SDET) at Barclays
February 1, 2018 - November 30, 2020
GUI and API automation (Java, Selenium, Rest Assured, Cucumber, Postman); automated Swift parsing for MT files; implemented Test Automation Strategy (Rally, Bitbucket, Git, Jira); PDF and Excel automation using Apache libraries; upskilled workforce as part of Test Transformation.
QA Lead / Team Lead at Accenture
March 1, 2010 - January 31, 2018
Led a team of 16 QAs across geographies; established QA roadmap and stakeholder management; system integration testing; contributed to QA governance and test strategy across SFDC/Insurance/Telecom domains.

Education

B.E (Electronics Communication) at Modi Institute of Technology, Kota (Rajasthan University)
January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2009

Qualifications

Selenium Certified
January 11, 2030 - April 25, 2026
SFDC Dev 401 training
January 11, 2030 - April 25, 2026
ASDA and ATA Training and certification
January 11, 2030 - April 25, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Telecommunications, Other