Chanukya Vempati

About Chanukya Vempati

With 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, I specialize in building robust and scalable automation frameworks while driving quality strategies for AI- and LLM-powered systems. My work spans traditional UI and API automation using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and Cucumber, as well as modern LLM test frameworks focused on validating correctness, grounding, consistency, and reliability of AI-generated responses.I actively work on AI-assisted testing, leveraging Playwright MCP and GitHub Copilot to accelerate automation development and improve engineering productivity. I’m also the creator of AutoMate, a Chrome extension that helps test automation engineers generate reliable CSS and XPath locators, addressing one of the most common pain points in UI automation. Within this time, I have achieved significant milestones, which include the following highlights of my professional accomplishments.Key Professional Accomplishments:• Developed Hawk, a comprehensive UI & API automation framework for the Pega Cloud org using Playwright, TypeScript, and Node.js, enabling scalable and maintainable automation.• Drove adoption of Playwright MCP and GitHub Copilot, enabling teams to generate ~52% of UI and API automation code via Copilot, significantly improving development velocity and consistency.• Designed and implemented a Jenkins master pipeline executing 40+ feature tests in parallel (10 threads), delivering results within 30 minutes to support automated code-movement decisions.• Built an LLM validation engine for agents to validate response accuracy, similarity, reliability, security leakage, hallucination, and content drift.• Created AutoMate, a Chrome extension that enables engineers to visually generate stable CSS and XPath locators, improving automation reliability and developer efficiency.• Designed Power BI dashboards for near real-time quality insights, contributing to a reduction in production defects from 32.2% to 10.1% within one year.• Built multiple UI automation frameworks from the ground up using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Protractor across large-scale enterprise systems.• Automated RESTful APIs using Playwright, Java, and Karate to improve test coverage and reliability.• Developed internal tools using Python and React to analyze automation failures and accelerate root cause analysis.• Built a smart PR validation system to improve CI stability and reduce merge time.

Experience

1. Senior Software Quality Architect

   Pegasystems

   Sep 2022 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Consistently spearhead the testing initiatives within a diverse Agile/Scrum team,advocating for test driven development and overseeing the creation andexecution of comprehensive EPIC test strategies for the Pega GOC Platform

Education

• GITAM University

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2006 — 2010