Shantanu Jain

About Shantanu Jain

I am a QA Engineering Leader & Test Automation Professional with 14+ years of experience ensuring software quality across FinTech, Payments, Networking, E-commerce, Robotics, and Cloud-native systems. Over the years, I’ve built and scaled automation frameworks, led cross-functional QA teams, and driven quality strategies for large-scale, high-availability platforms.Currently, I lead a team of automation engineers at Cisco, building full-stack QA solutions using Django, Flask, Bootstrap, and Python-based frameworks. Earlier, I was the Test Lead for Ola’s Accounting & Payments Tech team, where I delivered 80%+ API automation coverage cases) and ensured reliable payouts across millions of financial transactions.Recognized for innovation in QA and FinTech, I’ve won multiple hackathon awards, including: Google Agentic AI Hackathon 2025 – Breakthrough Idea Award (Let AI Speak to Your Money) Cisco Hack-ai-thon 2024 – Catalyst Case Craft (AI-driven test case automation)Beyond delivery, I am passionate about mentoring SDETs, hiring and growing QA talent, and continuously improving QA practices with BDD, CI/CD, and DevOps principles.Core Skills: Test Automation (UI, API, Contract Testing)| Cloud-native QA | Python, Java, Selenium, Pytest | CI/CD (Jenkins, OpenShift, Kubernetes)| Performance Testing (JMeter)| QA Strategy & Leadership | AI/GenAI in TestingI actively participate in industry hackathons, conferences, and communities related to AI, Cloud, and Testing technologies, bringing back learnings to strengthen team practices and drive innovation.

Experience

1. Engineering Technical Lead

   Cisco

   Aug 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   After successfully completing 5+ years at DNA centre, decided to move to a new role / new challenge / new learning. Joining service provider group within Cisco and part of CVT India team.I am part of Automation group within CVT and working on some cool tools and technology. Contributing to AI tooling and also helping team to build a new automation assistant tool. Also learning/contributing in UI development with Django/bootstrap flask.

Education

• Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2006 — 2010

• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Lalitpur

  12th, PCM

  2000 — 2006

Skills

• Scrum
• Unix
• Selenium
• Content Management
• Manual Testing
• Java
• Selenium Webdriver
• Soapui
• Ecommerce
• Sql
• Restful Webservices
• Test Planning
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Istqb Certified
• Maven
• E-Commerce
• Core Java
• Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Jenkins
• Api Automation
• Agile Methodologies