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Siddharth Kala

Head Of Quality Assurance
Berlin

Summary

Experienced QA professional with a strategic mindset, leading a quality engineering team in developing robust, scalable, and AI-assisted testing systems. Skilled in test automation, CI/CD integration, and quality governance for cloud-native architectures. Demonstrated success in team leadership, integrating AI for intelligent testing, root cause analysis, and query automation. Proficient in mentoring, promoting best practices, and aligning testing strategies with business objectives.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
2010
2010
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Head of QA

APCOA
06.2025 - Current
  • Pioneered AI-driven quality initiatives, including automated test case generation, root cause analysis, intelligent database query recommendations, and RAG-based document retrieval from Jira and Confluence, significantly accelerating decision-making and test coverage.
  • Led a high-performing QA team, providing mentorship, performance oversight, and strategic planning to align quality goals with broader engineering and product roadmaps.
  • Defined and executed a comprehensive, pyramid-based test strategy, achieving 95% unit test coverage along with full API and UI automation, ensuring scalable and risk-mitigated delivery pipelines.
  • Championed CI/CD transformation by enhancing Azure DevOps pipelines, integrating Cypress, Appium, WebdriverIO, and backend test suites—driving continuous quality validation across platforms.
  • Accelerated test execution by reducing API automation cycle time from 27 minutes to 10 minutes through strategic parallelization and resource optimization, enabling faster release velocity.
  • Established cross-functional quality initiatives, fostering collaboration between development, DevOps, and product teams to unify testing protocols and boost release reliability across multiple product lines.
  • Implemented a scalable regression automation framework using TypeScript, Appium, and WebdriverIO, achieving 92% coverage of critical workflows and reducing manual testing effort by over 80% within six months.
  • Led quality risk assessments and compliance readiness for major releases, ensuring auditability and regulatory alignment in high-stakes delivery environments.



Senior Quality Analyst

APCOA
01.2024 - 05.2024
  • Designed and implemented scalable test plans and automation suites using Cypress, Appium, and Rest-Assured, achieving 90% E2E test coverage across critical user journeys.
  • Collaborated closely with product and development teams to optimize testing cycles and improve test data management, reducing bottlenecks in sprint delivery.
  • Led code reviews for React-based UI components and maintained robust regression test suites across four major projects, contributing to a 35% reduction in escaped defects over 12 months.
  • Integrated automated API regression testing for Spring Boot microservices using Rest-Assured and Jenkins, accelerating release velocity by 40% across quarterly deployment cycles and ensuring consistent backend service quality.
  • Drove quality advocacy across teams by promoting reusable test components and early defect detection, enhancing overall engineering efficiency and product stability.

Senior Quality Analyst

ThoughtWorks
12.2018 - 12.2023
  • Mentored a QA team of 4 engineers, guiding efforts across UI, API, and performance testing to ensure consistent quality practices and technical upskilling.
  • Developed reusable test automation frameworks leveraging Selenium, Cucumber, Cypress, and K6, promoting maintainability and scalability across projects.
  • Led proof-of-concept (PoC) initiatives for evaluating and adopting modern automation and performance testing tools, including K6 with Grafana-based reporting dashboards.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes for microservices-based architectures, ensuring seamless test automation integration and release readiness.
  • Streamlined deployment and testing workflows by integrating Google Cloud services into Jenkins pipelines, reducing build and test cycle times by 30% across 14+ microservices over a 12-month period.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication

Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College
Berlin, Germany
08-2010

Skills

  • Programming Languages (Java, JavaScript, TypeScript & Python)
  • AI-driven test automation
  • Proficient in Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions
  • Experience with Cypress, Selenium, and Appium, Supertest , Rest Assured, Browserstack
  • Cloud & Infrastructure (Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Performance Testing & Monitoring (K6, Gatling, Jmeter)
  • Agile and DevOps delivery
  • Test strategy development
  • Quality assurance tools assessment
  • QA Leadership and Governance

Timeline

Head of QA

APCOA
06.2025 - Current

Senior Quality Analyst

APCOA
01.2024 - 05.2024

Senior Quality Analyst

ThoughtWorks
12.2018 - 12.2023

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication

Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College

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