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Shama Ugale

Shama Ugale

Senior QA / Test Automation Architect — AI/ML and multi-app scenarios

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Pune, Maharashtra, India
Joined November 2025
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Summary

Deep practical expertise in test automation focused on complex, real‑user scenarios: Shama builds and demonstrates test orchestration for multi‑user, multi‑app and multi‑device flows (e.g., Teswiz) and integrates visual testing and CI practices to increase coverage for cross‑platform interactions. confengine+2
Experienced in testing AI/ML and conversational interfaces: she has researched and presented strategies for testing conversational AI (NLP/voice bots), covering automation approaches, non‑determinism, Botium/Selenium integration and CI pipeline automation. youtube+2
Active community contributor and educator: frequently speaks at conferences (Agile India, TestCon, Selenium/SeConf), creates slide decks and blog posts, and mentors teams on upskilling and implementing test practices. agileindia+2
Hands‑on QA engineering and leadership across enterprises: career history includes senior QA and technical lead roles across product and services companies (ThoughtWorks, ACI Worldwide, Sears Global Technology, Parkar Consulting Group and Xnsio) showing strengths in test architecture, CI/CD and automation framework development. applitools+2

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Testing Conversational AI — Strategy to Automation (conference talk / slides)

January 1, 2020

Talk and accompanying slide materials on strategies and automation approaches for testing conversational AI (NLP/voice bots), covering challenges of non-deterministic outputs and ways to integrate bot testing into CI pipelines.

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Applitools — author contributions (visual/AI testing topics)

Author page and posts relating to visual testing, Selenium topics and applying Visual AI (Applitools) in end-to-end testing.

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Hobbies

Community speaking, mentoring and running workshops on testing and test automation; blogging on QA topics. wordpress+1