Shraddha Kulkarni

Staff Qa Automation Engineer Technical Project Lead & Delivery @Peek

San Francisco, CA, US

In this Staff-level role, I functioned as a Technical Project lead for Quality Operations, overseeing the strategic roadmap for automation, release governance, and cross-functional delivery across 10+ environments.1. Strategic Team Growth: Partnered with leadership to scale the QA organization from 3 to 12 engineers. Contributed to hiring, training, and documentation initiatives that optimized onboarding, enabling new hires to reach full sprint velocity within 4–6 weeks.2. Process Governance: Co-developed \"Shift Left\" methodologies with cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring technical risk assessment and quality standards were integrated into the earliest stages of project planning.3. Project Velocity: Directed the implementation of automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Postman) into the CI/CD pipeline, resulting in 30% faster feature delivery and an 80% reduction in regression defects.4. Technical Enablement: Led internal workshops and pair programming sessions to decentralize automation knowledge, empowering the entire QA engineering team to participate in PR reviews and strategic test decisions.5. CI/CD & Infrastructure: Collaborated with DevOps to architect automated build and release pipelines across 10+ environments using Docker. This cross-functional effort improved production release frequency and deployment accuracy.5. Compliance & Revenue Integrity: Managed the technical validation of complex projects with significant legal repercussions, including a state-level tax compliance overhaul. Collaborated with developers to validate core Master Graph calculations for commissions and revenue.6. Internal Tooling Optimization: Championed the technical updates for a proprietary Pricing Calculator to align with new master graph logic. Successfully delivered the tool as a live resource for Customer Support and Finance teams to ensure revenue transparency.