Tarun Kumar Babbar — AI QA Architect

Tarun Babbar
Pioneering AI-Native Quality Engineering

Tarun Kumar Babbar

Test Automation Architect with 18+ years building enterprise-grade automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, C#.NET, TypeScript) across UI, API, database, and E2E. Designed a skills-based AI automation framework fusing classical test automation with RAG, MCP, and Vector DBs. Built 8+ AI platforms and agentic QA systems — from RAG pipelines to multi-agent test copilots.

18+
Years in QA Engineering
8
AI Platforms Built
100%
Automation Adoption
~40%
Prod Defect Reduction
10
Projects Built
About

Architect of Quality.
Builder of AI Systems.

I lead quality engineering across both service-based and product-basedorganisations, architecting test automation and AI-augmented quality programs that scale with the business. I've taken teams from no automation to 100% automation adoption — building the frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering culture to make it stick.

Today I drive AI in Quality Engineering — LLM-driven test generation, RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and vector databases that turn QA from a bottleneck into an accelerator. From Selenium to Playwright, from C# to TypeScript to Python, I ship frameworks teams actually want to use — and mentor the engineers who run them.

Service & Product Org Leadership
0 → 100% Automation Adoption
AI QA Transformation
Selenium WebDriver & Playwright
RAG & Vector DBs (ChromaDB, Pinecone)
Multi-Agent Orchestration (LangGraph)
MCP Protocol for Tool Integration
Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions
C#, TypeScript, Python
BDD / SpecFlow / Cucumber
CI/CD & Quality Gates
Framework Architecture & Mentorship
Projects

Built to Solve Real Problems

AI-augmented QA platforms, RAG pipelines, agent systems, and production-grade test frameworks — all built in the last year.

QAE2E — Agentic Quality Engineering

End-to-end agentic QA platform: 6 specialist agents (RI → MT → AS → EX → DO → IQ) turn a requirement into analysis, editable coverage, Playwright automation, Docker-executed evidence, and release-confidence intelligence. Connects Jira, Confluence, Figma, GitHub, Zephyr, TestRail, and ships a real MCP server.

Next.js 15OpenRouterVercel PostgresPineconeMCPDocker

QA AI Dashboard

Unified platform: resume-job matcher (LLM-scored), QA interview prep RAG chat, test case generator from PRDs, AI learning tutor, document Q&A.

Next.js 15Neon PostgreSQLPrismaPineconeOpenRouter

QA Interview Preparation Kit

RAG-powered interview prep: PDF/DOCX knowledge base indexed into Pinecone, streaming QA assistant with grounded citations, and topic-organized Q&A browser.

Next.js 14OpenRouterPineconeTailwind

QA RAG Platform

Upload documents, ask AI-powered questions with grounded citations. Supports PDF/DOCX/TXT/MD, smart chunking, configurable embeddings, Pinecone vector search.

Next.js 14OpenRouterPineconeMammothTailwind

RAG Explorer

Transparent 3-panel RAG pipeline visualizer. Ingest PDFs/DOCX, watch chunking → embedding → ChromaDB storage → vector search → LLM answer via SSE.

ReactViteChromaDBOpenRouter

AI Test Architect (QA Copilot)

Multi-agent LangGraph system: PRD → test case generation, bug → regression selection, framework migration (Selenium → Playwright), Docker-sandboxed test execution.

LangGraphFastAPIChromaDBNext.jsDocker

Resume Job RAG

Full-stack RAG pipeline for QA job seekers. Upload resume → AI profile extraction → multi-source job search → eligibility filtering → LLM-ranked matches.

ReactExpressChromaDBOpenRouter

8-Layer Playwright Framework

Enterprise-grade Playwright framework with strict 8-layer architecture — POM, modules, fixtures, API layer, custom reporting, Docker, and sharding.

PlaywrightTypeScriptDockerGitHub Actions

Self-Healing Playwright Framework

AI-powered self-healing test framework using GPT-4 to detect and fix broken locators automatically when UI changes.

PlaywrightGPT-4OpenAITypeScript

QA Multi-Agent Assistant

Multi-agent system orchestrating specialized AI agents for test case generation and automation code production from requirements.

TypeScriptAI AgentsOpenAI
Expertise

Skills & Technologies

Enterprise-grade automation meets modern AI — across the full testing stack.

🛠 Automation & Testing

Selenium WebDriverPlaywrightSpecFlow / BDDCypressAppiumREST AssuredPostmanTestNG / JUnitPytestPerformance (k6, JMeter)

🤖 AI & LLM

RAG PipelinesMulti-Agent OrchestrationLangGraphMCP ProtocolLLM EvaluationPrompt EngineeringLLM-as-JudgeSelf-Healing TestsAI Observability

🗄 Vector DBs & Data

ChromaDBPineconepgvectorPostgreSQLSQLiteNeonETL Testing

🔧 Languages

C# .NETTypeScriptPythonJavaScriptJavaSQL

⚡ CI/CD & DevOps

Azure DevOpsGitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerKubernetesGit

🏗 Frameworks & Architecture

Page Object ModelSOLID PrinciplesAbstract FactoryMicroservicesNext.jsFastAPIExpress
Career

Professional Path

From quality engineering to AI-augmented test architecture — building systems that ship quality at scale.

Aug 2026 — Present

Solutions Architect

Coforge Limited, Pune · Hybrid
  • Stepping into a Solutions Architect role focused on test automation strategy, bringing prior experience leading QA teams and driving quality initiatives
  • Applying hands-on leadership background in test planning, team management, and process improvement to enterprise-scale automation architecture
  • Designing scalable automation frameworks, integrating continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines, and modernizing tooling across web, API, performance, and mobile
  • Committed to quality governance — establishing standards and best practices that scale across cross-functional teams
  • Passionate about mentoring engineers and building a strong quality-first culture, now applied at an architectural level
Jul 2025 — Jul 2026

Career Transition — Solutions Architect (Test Automation)

Self-Directed Learning, Pune
  • Spent a focused year diving deep into LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agents, and orchestration tools like n8n and Langflow
  • Strengthened skills in LangChain, Playwright, and TypeScript while building AI-augmented test architecture POCs
  • Built a POC framework combining AI-driven skills-based prompting with E2E test automation — github.com/TarunBabbar
  • Core focus: test architecture & strategy, CI/CD integration & DevOps, tooling & modernization (including AI-native tooling like RAG and agent orchestration), and quality governance
Jan 2018 — Jun 2025

Lead Software Engineer in Test | Test Automation Architect

Coupa Software, Pune
  • Architected full-stack automation suite (UI, API, DB, E2E) — transitioned 100% manual regression to 100% automated across 3+ product lines
  • Delivered 100+ major UI automation cases in 9 months using C#.NET + Selenium, reducing manual regression by ~70%
  • Built 50+ integration and 50+ API/database validation cases in 4 months, cutting production defects by ~40%
  • Architected environment-agnostic CI/CD with Azure Pipelines + GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 30%
  • Led, coached, and mentored 6 QA engineers — improved script maintainability by 30%, reduced script defects by 20%
Aug 2016 — Dec 2017

SW QA Engineer IV

Varian Medical Systems, Pune
  • Designed Selenium UI automation + VSTS performance frameworks, reducing regression time by 30%
  • Built WPF, MVC, and JavaScript integration testing utilities, saving ~4 hours/week across QA team
  • Spearheaded cross-team API automation strategy, reducing manual API testing by 50%
  • Championed SOLID principles and coding standards across 2 engineering teams
Aug 2010 — Aug 2016

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services, Pune
  • Architected enterprise test automation frameworks (C#.NET, Selenium, SpecFlow, Coded UI) — cut manual testing by 50%, boosted coverage by 20%
  • Migrated legacy KAF to Selenium with Abstract Factory pattern — 40% faster test execution
  • Owned CI/CD pipeline architecture and BDD strategy across 3+ development teams
  • Reduced onboarding time by 30% through structured training for 10+ new hires
Feb 2007 — Jul 2010

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Technologies, Pune
  • Validated 50% of critical Windows OS components across 2 dev teams, reducing critical bugs by 10% pre-release
  • Automated 30+ manual workflows, reducing processing time by 40%
  • Identified 50+ defects, validated 20+ Design Change Requests, reduced resolution time by 40%
Education

Where It Started

🎓

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Modi Institute of Technology, Kota

Connect

Let's Build Something

I help organisations make quality an accelerator — taking teams from no automation to full AI-powered quality engineering.
Open to Lead / Architect roles in AI-powered QA and Test Automation.
Let's talk about your quality roadmap — reach out below.

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