Romit Shringarpure

Quality Engineering Leader, Building AI into Testing

I build AI-powered testing systems that find defects faster, reduce manual effort, and make enterprise software reliable at scale. 10+ years of quality engineering experience, now focused on agentic testing, AI-assisted validation, and building the future of how software gets tested.

About Me

I've spent the last decade making enterprise systems reliable by building test automation frameworks, data validation pipelines, and quality processes from scratch. Now I'm focused on what comes next: using AI to fundamentally change how we test software.

Every day, I use AI tools in production work, not as experiments but as core infrastructure. I use Claude Code to generate test suites, build API validations, write documentation, and manage test workflows. I've built GPT-based anomaly detection systems that catch data quality issues such as schema drift, distribution shifts, and transformation errors that traditional rule-based checks miss.

I'm now building toward agentic testing: AI agents that can autonomously generate test cases, execute them, analyze results, and triage failures with human oversight at critical checkpoints. This is the future of quality engineering, and I'm building it in production, not just talking about it.

My background spans insurance, enterprise software, and healthcare data systems. These are complex, regulated environments where getting quality wrong has real consequences. That's what drives my approach: AI makes testing faster, but human judgment makes it trustworthy.

10+ Years of Quality Engineering
7+ Years of Team Leadership
AI-Powered Testing & Automation
AWS + GCP Cloud Native

How I'm Using AI to Transform Testing

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AI-Assisted Test Generation

I use Claude Code daily to generate Pytest test suites, API validations, and data pipeline checks. This is not one-off prompting. It is a structured workflow where AI generates tests following our framework conventions, and I review and refine them. Coverage has expanded to edge cases and boundary conditions we previously skipped due to time constraints.

Tools: Claude Code, Python, Pytest, REST APIs
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GPT-Based Data Validation & Anomaly Detection

I built AI-powered validation that monitors data pipelines across cloud databases. It detects schema drift, distribution shifts, and transformation anomalies that rule-based checks can't catch. Integrated into CI/CD as quality gates, these checks stop bad data before it reaches production or customers.

Tools: GPT API, Python, AWS (Redshift, DynamoDB, RDS), GitLab CI
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In Development

Agentic Testing Framework

I'm building toward fully autonomous test agents that can explore applications, identify testable scenarios, generate and execute test cases, analyze results, and file bugs with human review checkpoints. The goal: testing that scales with AI while maintaining the judgment that keeps systems trustworthy.

Tools: Claude API, Python, Pytest, Playwright

Beyond Code: AI Across the Entire QA Workflow

Testing isn't just writing code. I use AI tools for:

  • Writing and publishing Confluence documentation
  • Creating and managing Jira stories and bugs
  • Creating and managing test cases in Xray
  • Git operations including check-ins and merge conflict resolution
  • Sprint planning and backlog grooming

What used to take hours now takes minutes. The compounding effect: when test writing is cheap, coverage naturally expands.

Tools: Claude Code, Jira, Confluence, Xray, Git
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Where AI Gets It Wrong

AI in testing isn't magic. Here's what I've learned:

  • It gets confidently wrong by asserting incorrect status codes, misunderstanding business rules, and generating tests that look right but validate the wrong thing
  • Complex multi-step flows where context carries across services are still hard because AI loses the thread
  • Everything requires human review. Every single thing.
  • It picks up patterns fast but can't reason about why a test should exist. It only sees that similar tests do exist

The teams that win with AI testing won't be the ones that trust it blindly. They'll be the ones that build the right guardrails around it.

Skills & Expertise

AI & Intelligent Automation

Claude Code, GPT API, AI-Assisted Test Generation, GPT-Based Data Validation, Agentic Testing, Prompt Engineering, AI Workflow Automation

Test Automation & Frameworks

Python, Pytest, Playwright, Selenium, REST Assured, Robot Framework, API Testing, Data Pipeline Testing

Cloud & Data Infrastructure

AWS (Redshift, DynamoDB, RDS), GCP, SQL, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI), Docker, Git

Observability & Quality Metrics

Datadog, Splunk, Tableau, Power BI, SLOs/SLAs, Quality KPIs, Pipeline Monitoring, Anomaly Detection

Leadership & Program Management

Team Leadership, Scrum Master, Cross-Functional Coordination, Incident RCA, Quality Strategy, Stakeholder Communication

Professional Experience

QA Lead

Insurance Technology Company

2020 - Present

  • Lead quality strategy for cloud-based data products across AWS & GCP, driving automation-first and shift-left approaches
  • Built AI-powered data validation framework from scratch using GPT-based anomaly detection for schema drift, distribution shifts, and transformation errors across production pipelines
  • Use Claude Code daily for test generation, API validation, documentation, test management, and workflow automation
  • Architect and maintain Python/Pytest automation platform with CI/CD quality gates preventing defective builds from deploying
  • Lead incident RCAs for data-quality escapes; drive preventive actions including contract tests and pipeline observability
  • Define quality KPIs (coverage, defect density, cycle time) and use dashboards to drive decisions with Product & Engineering

SDET & Scrum Master

Enterprise Software Company

2016 - 2020

  • Built automated test frameworks for high-availability database features including replication testing across distributed nodes
  • Served as Scrum Master for cross-functional team of 8+ engineers, driving Agile adoption and consistent sprint delivery
  • Validated data integrity under failure conditions to ensure fault tolerance and consistency in distributed systems

Data Integration Developer

Healthcare Technology Firm

2015 - 2016

  • Clinical data integration ensuring seamless data flow between healthcare stakeholders with ETL validation and compliance testing

Business Systems Analyst

Technology Solutions Provider

2011 - 2013

Certifications & Education

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Licensed Scrum Master
Hexawise Test Design Professional

Education

M.S. Information Technology Southern New Hampshire University (GPA: 3.67)
B.Tech in Electronics India

My Take on AI in Testing

AI won't replace testers. But testers who use AI will replace testers who don't. The skill isn't prompting. It's knowing what to test and why. AI handles the how.

Most "AI testing tools" are wrappers around GPT with a nice UI. The real value isn't the tool. It's building the workflow that makes AI output trustworthy enough to act on.

I've seen AI generate 50 test cases in 10 seconds. 40 were useful. 8 were redundant. 2 were dangerously wrong. The future of QA isn't generating tests. It's building the guardrails that catch the 2.

Agentic testing is coming. AI agents that explore, test, and report autonomously. The QA leaders who build these systems today will define the field for the next decade.

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Location
Greater Boston