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I am Nishtha Malvia, an AI-driven test automation and quality engineering leader with 16+ years of hands-on experience in SDET roles, QA SecOps, and tech-focused consultancy. I excel at designing end-to-end testing strategies, driving shift-left initiatives, and delivering scalable automation across web, API, and mobile platforms. I have led diverse QA teams of up to 15 engineers, collaborated with product and design teams on system design using Figma, integrated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and mentored engineers on modern testing practices and performance and security testing.…I am Nishtha Malvia, an AI-driven test automation and quality engineering leader with 16+ years of hands-on experience in SDET roles, QA SecOps, and tech-focused consultancy. I excel at designing end-to-end testing strategies, driving shift-left initiatives, and delivering scalable automation across web, API, and mobile platforms. I have led diverse QA teams of up to 15 engineers, collaborated with product and design teams on system design using Figma, integrated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and mentored engineers on modern testing practices and performance and security testing.

Nishtha Malvia

QA Engineer, AI Engineer, Full Stack Developer, +4

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I am Nishtha Malvia, an AI-driven test automation and quality engineering leader with 16+ years of hands-on experience in SDET roles, QA SecOps, and tech-focused consultancy. I excel at designing end-to-end testing strategies, driving shift-left initiatives, and delivering scalable automation across web, API, and mobile platforms. I have led diverse QA teams of up to 15 engineers, collaborated with product and design teams on system design using Figma, integrated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and mentored engineers on modern testing practices and performance and security testing.…I am Nishtha Malvia, an AI-driven test automation and quality engineering leader with 16+ years of hands-on experience in SDET roles, QA SecOps, and tech-focused consultancy. I excel at designing end-to-end testing strategies, driving shift-left initiatives, and delivering scalable automation across web, API, and mobile platforms. I have led diverse QA teams of up to 15 engineers, collaborated with product and design teams on system design using Figma, integrated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and mentored engineers on modern testing practices and performance and security testing.

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I am Nishtha Malvia, an AI-driven test automation and quality engineering leader with 16+ years of hands-on experience in SDET roles, QA SecOps, and tech-focused consultancy. I excel at designing end-to-end testing strategies, driving shift-left initiatives, and delivering scalable automation across web, API, and mobile platforms.

I have led diverse QA teams of up to 15 engineers, collaborated with product and design teams on system design using Figma, integrated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and mentored engineers on modern testing practices and performance and security testing.

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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.

Lead SDET | AI Test Engineering Lead at Allica Bank

June 1, 2023 - April 1, 2026

Led AI-driven test automation initiatives and introduced a microservices test strategy using Kotlin and Rest Assured, increasing API test coverage to 95% and reducing production slippages. Built web automation frameworks with Cypress and Playwright for React/TypeScript apps. Enabled native mobile testing with Dart/Flutter. Implemented Shift Left and Insprint Automation, reducing automation backlog to zero. Shaped solution design discussions for web and backend, defined smoke tests, and integrated tests into deployment pipelines. Collaborated with designers using Figma and MCPs. Provided tech leadership for a team of 15 SDETs.

SDET Specialist at TSYS

November 1, 2020 - July 1, 2022

Built automation frameworks using SpecFlow, C#, NUnit; implemented CI/CD pipelines and automation strategies (Jenkins, TeamCity); established Maturity Models for Test Transformation and provided techno-managerial leadership for 13 SDETs.

Automation Analyst at Barclays

February 1, 2018 - November 1, 2020

Delivered API and UI automation (Java, Selenium, Rest Assured) and automated SWIFT message parsing and data validation.

Software Engineer to QA Lead at Accenture

March 1, 2010 - January 1, 2018

Led QA teams and delivered automation for enterprise systems, performed integration, functional, and SQL testing, and provided techno-managerial leadership for 20+ QAs.