SHANTANU VICHARE

Lead SDET & AI Quality Engineering Pioneer

10+ years of engineering excellence@PowerSchool

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The Lab

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AI Context Graph

Knowledge graph indexing 10,000+ test cases from legacy suites and full API docs across all product lines. Custom retrieval Skills ground every AI-generated automation in existing coverage — zero hallucinations, zero duplicates.

Multi-Agent QA Lifecycle

End-to-end pipeline via Atlassian MCP: auto-generate TCMs, human review, then AI builds Playwright automation. Downstream agents run i18n, WCAG, and security checks. 80% workload reduction.

Self-Healing Test Pipeline

CI/CD agentic workflow: test failures trigger a background AI agent that analyses artifacts, generates a Playwright fix via MCP, and raises a PR. Engineers review and approve — flaky test MTTR near-zero.

AI Test Gen from User Stories

Every automatable User Story flows through AI agents — Test Case Map generated, automation subtask created, GitHub Copilot background agent delivers a working Playwright PR. QA engineers shift to reviewing.

GitHub Copilot QA Orchestration

Custom Skills and instructions tuned for quality engineering: PR code review quality gates, test coverage checks, and automation workflow delivery integrated directly into the engineering pipeline.

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GitHub Copilot Agents
Playwright
Python
TypeScript
Atlassian MCP
Playwright MCP
Self-Healing Pipelines
AI Context Graph
LLM Evaluation
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Claude
OpenAI
Gemini
Cursor AI
RAG
Selenium
WebdriverIO
BDD
Robot Framework
Postman
OpenAPI
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
JMeter
Microservices

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Experience Timeline

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PowerSchool
November 2020 — PresentBengaluru, India (Remote)
  • Self-Healing Test Automation Pipeline: CI/CD agentic workflow where test failures trigger a background AI agent — analyzes logs, screenshots & pipeline context — generates a Playwright fix via MCP and raises a PR. No manual debugging. Flaky test MTTR near-zero.
  • AI-Driven Test Generation from User Stories: Operationalising a pipeline where every automatable User Story flows through AI agents to generate a Test Case Map, create a context-rich automation subtask, and hand off to a GitHub Copilot background agent that delivers a working Playwright PR.
  • GitHub Copilot QA Orchestration: Configured GitHub Copilot background agents with custom Skills and instructions for PR code review quality gates, test coverage checks, and automation workflow delivery integrated into the engineering pipeline.
  • AI Context Graph — Agent Knowledge Infrastructure: Built a context graph indexing 10,000+ test cases from legacy automation suites and full API documentation across all PowerSchool product lines. Eliminated hallucinations and duplicate test generation entirely.
  • Multi-Agent QA Lifecycle Orchestration — 80% Workload Reduction: Multi-agent pipeline via Atlassian MCP fetching Epics, User Stories, PRs and comments to generate TCMs. AI then builds Playwright automation; downstream agents run i18n, WCAG, and security validation.
  • Quality Strategy Ownership: Zero P0 production incidents over 4+ years on Schoology SaaS platform through shift-left practices, CI/CD quality gates, and proactive risk identification.

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FireEye (Mandiant)
March 2018 — November 2020Bengaluru, India
  • Python Automation Framework from Scratch: Built UI and E2E test automation frameworks in Python + Nosetests for enterprise security products — accelerating release cycles and establishing automation standards.
  • Cross-Functional QA at Scale: Partnered with security engineers and PMs to test complex threat detection systems — high-stakes product quality in a security SaaS context.

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Quick Heal Technologies
August 2015 — March 2018Pune, India
  • Security Research & Automation: Malware analysis, threat classification, and Python tooling to eliminate manual analysis workflows.
  • Foundation of prevention-first quality mindset applied throughout career.

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Education & Certs

MSc in Machine Learning & AI

Liverpool John Moores University • England

Expected: 2027 • In Progress50%
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PG Diploma in AI & ML

IIIT Bangalore

2025–2026

Bachelor of Engineering in IT

Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College • Mumbai

2012–2015

CERTIFICATIONS

CopilotXcelerate: AI-Powered Python for Data Science

upGrad2023

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

Simplilearn2019

Oracle Certified Expert Database SQL

Oracle2016

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