Hardik Shah

About Hardik Shah

Sr. QA Engineer with 10+ years of experience building automation frameworks that prevent bugs at scale — not just catch them.At TikTok, I led the global launch of Creator Subscriptions, Creator Monetization Center across 100+ countries, reduced load times by 74% through Redis performance engineering, and cut production incidents by 30%. I architect QA strategies end-to-end — from test planning through CI/CD delivery.My expertise spans:Ecosystem: iOS (iPhone), Android, Android Studio, Xcode, Linux, Windows, macOSAutomation / Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Pytest, XCUITest, Playwright, Cypress, BrowserStack,TestNG, JUnitBackend & Data Validation: Redis, Hive, REST API, Postman, Charles Proxy, Proxyman, JMeter, Locust,Languages: Java, Python, SQL, Shell, JavaScript, TypescriptInfrastructure & DevOps: Jenkins (CI/CD), Docker, Git (GitHub/SourceTree), Ansible, GitHub ActionsTools / IDE: Jira, IntelliJ, PyCharm, Trae, Xcode, Android Studio, ArcGISWeb Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, XPATHTesting: SDLC, Agile, Automated Testing, Quality Assurance, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Infrastructure,Whitebox Testing, Blackbox Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Accessibility Testing, PerformanceTesting, TDD, BDD, Shift-Left Testing, Cross-FunctionalAI Tools: ChatGPT, Claude (Anthropic), GitHub Copilot, PRD2Case, AimeExperienced across, consumer apps (TikTok), fintech (Upstart), health-tech (WeightWatchers)and GIS platforms (Esri).

Experience

1. Senior Software Qa Engineer

   TikTok

   Apr 2023 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   When a creator\'s income depends on your platform working flawlessly, quality isn\'t a phase in the release cycle it\'s the product.At TikTok, I led quality engineering for Creator Monetization one of the most complex, high-stakes surfaces in the company. Payments, subscriptions, content monetization, global compliance all of it live, all of it real money.I owned the QA strategy across three products built from the ground up: Creator Subscriptions, TikTok Series, and the Monetization Center, shipped across 100+ countries.What I care about most is building quality in from the start not catching failures at the end. That meant designing automation architecture that could scale, integrating quality gates early in the development cycle, and making sure every cross-functional partner engineering, product, compliance was aligned before a single line shipped to production. not one major payment incident or fund loss event across any of the products I owned.That\'s the standard I hold myself to.

Education

• The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering

  2007 — 2011

• Binghamton University

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Science

  2013

Skills

• Weblogic
• Javascript
• White Box Testing
• Manual Testing
• C
• Bugzilla
• Html
• Web Development
• Soapui
• Regression Testing
• Jasmine Framework
• Mysql
• Software Development
• Python
• Mobile Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Cases
• Junit
• Jboss Application Server
• Selenium Testing
• Java
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Automation
• Xml
• Rest
• Eclipse
• Testing
• Software Testing Life Cycle
• Test Planning
• Soap
• Quality Assurance