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ShantanuVr/README.md

Hey there! I'm Shantanu Vichare πŸ‘‹

πŸš€ Lead QA Engineer @ PowerSchool | πŸ€– Agentic AI & Self-Healing Automation | πŸ›‘οΈ DevSecOps | β›“οΈπŸ“ˆ Blockchain & Quant Explorer

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🎯 About Me

"Breaking software to make it unbreakable, automating everything to innovate faster."

I'm a Lead QA Engineer with ~11 years of experience transforming how teams approach quality. My journey spans from the malware research trenches at Quick Heal to architecting agentic AI test platforms at PowerSchool β€” where I own QA strategy for Schoology with zero P0 incidents over 4+ years.

πŸ”₯ What makes me different?

  • πŸ€– Agentic QA Pioneer - Built a multi-agent test platform (GitHub Copilot Background Agents + Playwright / Browser / Jira MCPs) that cut manual QA effort by 80%
  • 🧠 AI Context Graph Architect - Anchors LLM agents to live OpenAPI contracts β†’ 90%+ first-pass test accuracy, zero hallucinated steps
  • πŸ—οΈ Framework Builder - Shipped 4+ automation frameworks (Playwright, WebdriverIO, Codeception, Robot)
  • πŸ›‘οΈ DevSecOps in CI/CD - OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, SAST/DAST & dependency gates across Bamboo, GitLab & GitHub Actions
  • πŸ” Security DNA - 3 years of malware research & vulnerability testing (Quick Heal + FireEye / Mandiant)
  • β›“οΈπŸ“ˆ Side Explorer - Blockchain carbon credits (Solidity / Web3) and quant trading (SMC / ICT)

πŸŽ“ Education & Learning

πŸŽ“ Degree πŸ›οΈ Institution πŸ“… Year
M.Sc. Machine Learning & AI Liverpool John Moores University, England πŸ”œ 2025 – 2027
PG Diploma, AI & ML IIIT Bangalore πŸ”œ 2025 – 2026
B.E. Information Technology Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, Mumbai βœ… 2012 – 2015

πŸ… Certifications

πŸŽ“ Credential πŸ›οΈ Issuer πŸ“… Year
CopilotXcelerate: AI-Powered Python for Data Science Upgrad 2023
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Simplilearn 2019
Oracle Certified Expert, Database SQL Oracle 2016

πŸ’Ό Professional Journey

β”Œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”
β”‚  2023 - Present  β”‚  πŸš€ Lead QA Engineer     β”‚  Powerschool                          β”‚
β”‚  2020 - 2023     β”‚  πŸ”§ Sr. QA Engineer II   β”‚  Powerschool                          β”‚
β”‚  2018 - 2020     β”‚  πŸ§ͺ SDET                 β”‚  FireEye Cybersecurity                β”‚
β”‚  2015 - 2018     β”‚  πŸ”¬ Threat Researcher    β”‚  Quick Heal Technologies              β”‚
β””β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”˜

πŸ† Key Achievements

🎯 At PowerSchool

  • πŸ† Zero P0 incidents across 4+ years leading Schoology QA strategy
  • πŸ€– Architected a multi-agent test platform β€” Copilot Background Agents + Playwright / Browser / Jira MCPs
  • 🧠 Shipped an AI Context Graph β†’ 90%+ first-pass test accuracy, zero hallucinated steps
  • πŸ“ˆ API regression coverage 55% β†’ 95%; 80% QA effort reduction across the tribe
  • ⚑ Cut regression runtime ~70% with containerized, parallel cloud-native runners
  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Mentor 20+ engineers across 6 Agile squads

πŸ”₯ At FireEye (Mandiant)

  • πŸ—οΈ Built UI + security test frameworks from scratch for Linux, Windows & Mac endpoint products
  • πŸ“‰ Cut release escape defects ~35% release-over-release
  • ⚑ Shortened regression cycles ~40% with Python + Nosetests E2E suites across 8+ releases
  • 🚦 Part of the Go/No-Go release decision team; ran CI/CD on Jenkins
  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Uplifted 15+ incoming engineers on Python, Selenium & Robot Framework practices

πŸ›‘οΈ At Quick Heal

  • πŸ”¬ Automation-first malware triage β€” reclaimed ~12 analyst-hours/week for deeper threat research
  • 🚨 Led 50+ customer escalations & RCAs, feeding insights into product detection roadmap
  • πŸ› οΈ Shipped 2 threat-detection capabilities into Quick Heal products (millions of endpoints)
  • ✍️ Published security blogs read by thousands

πŸš€ Innovation Highlights

  • 🧠 AI Context Graph adopted by 3+ product teams as the self-healing QA backbone
  • β™Ώ Specialist QA agents for accessibility (WCAG 2.1), i18n & security NFR validation
  • πŸ“Š MERN-stack release cockpit β†’ checklist time ~4 hrs β†’ ~15 mins
  • πŸ”„ Record-&-Play β†’ Playwright test converters
  • πŸ›‘οΈ Reusable DevSecOps blueprint β€” OWASP ZAP + Burp + SAST gates, caught 30+ vulns pre-prod

πŸ› οΈ Tech Arsenal

Languages & Frameworks

Python TypeScript PHP Solidity C++

Testing & Automation

Playwright Selenium Robot Framework Codeception WebdriverIO

AI & Agent Tooling

OpenAI Claude Google Gemini Cursor Copilot MCP RAG

Security & DevSecOps

OWASP OWASP ZAP Burp Suite SAST/DAST CEH

DevOps & Cloud

GitHub Actions GitLab Jenkins Bamboo Docker

Blockchain & Web3

Ethereum Web3.js Foundry


οΏ½ Career Showcase β€” QA Automation & Security Engineering

Open-source work reflecting my 10+ years in QA engineering, test automation, and security research. These are the projects I point recruiters and hiring managers to β€” production-grade, inspectable, and built to outlive a single sprint.

Autonomous QA agent for VS Code / Cursor that treats your PR as the prompt.

  • 🧠 Three-agent pipeline: Git diff β†’ AST Context Graph β†’ LLM orchestrator over MCP
  • πŸͺ’ Maps every changed symbol to its real consumers via ts-morph β€” no hallucinated imports
  • πŸ§ͺ Emits grounded Jest / Vitest / Playwright / Cypress tests in a human-review pane
  • πŸ”Œ Model-agnostic (OpenAI, Anthropic, local llama.cpp) via Model Context Protocol
  • πŸ›‘οΈ Strict JSON contract + human-in-the-loop β€” zero silent writes

TypeScript Agentic AI MCP VS Code

Playwright E2E suite that rewrites broken selectors on the fly β€” no LLMs required.

  • 🧬 Captures a semantic fingerprint per element (text, label, ARIA, siblings, classes, attrs)
  • βš–οΈ Scores live DOM candidates with six weighted signals (text 0.45 β†’ id 0.05)
  • πŸ” Emits both CSS & XPath, re-captures after each heal β€” future-proof across refactors
  • πŸ” Fully deterministic: zero LLMs, zero API keys, every decision is reproducible
  • πŸ“œ JSON audit trail per heal β€” CI- and compliance-friendly

TypeScript Playwright Vitest Zero LLMs

🚧 More QA & security engineering projects landing soon β€” ⭐ follow on GitHub to catch the next drop.


🌱 Side Projects & Domain Explorations

🌱 Carbon Credit Blockchain Ecosystem

A comprehensive suite for carbon credit tokenization, trading & verification

Repository Description Tech
🏭 carbon-credit-token-suite ERC-1155 carbon credit tokens with role-based access Solidity, Foundry
πŸ”— registry-adapter-api REST API adapter between Official Registry & Chain TypeScript, JWT
β˜€οΈ iot-solar-sim IoT Solar Plant Simulator with blockchain anchoring TypeScript, Fastify, Prisma
πŸ” evidence-locker Content-addressed evidence storage for carbon verification TypeScript, IPFS, S3
πŸ›’ carbon-credit-buyer-marketplace Demo marketplace for carbon credit trading Next.js 15, TypeScript
πŸ” carbon-explorer Public explorer for the Carbon Credit system TypeScript, React

πŸ“ˆ Trading & Financial Analysis

Repository Description Tech
πŸ“Š OHLC_ANALYZER No-Code Backtesting Platform with Smart Money Concepts Python
πŸ’Ή Advisor Personal Trading Advisor for XAUUSD & EURUSD Python

πŸ“Š GitHub Stats

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🎯 Current Focus & Aspirations

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  root((Shantanu's Journey))
    AI/ML Mastery
      PGDM @ IIITB 2026
      MSc @ LJMU 2027
      Data Science Transition
    Quant Trading
      SMC & ICT Strategies
      Algorithmic Trading
      Market Microstructure
    Blockchain Innovation
      Carbon Credit Systems
      DeFi Exploration
      Web3 Development
    Applied AI
      Healthcare Models
      Traffic Flow Optimization
      Financial Analysis
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🌱 Building Towards

  • πŸ₯ Healthcare AI - Models for small clinics & diagnostics
  • πŸš— Traffic Optimization - ML for flow management
  • πŸ’° Quant Trading - SMC, ICT & Technical Analysis models
  • 🌍 Carbon Markets - Blockchain-based credit verification

🀝 Let's Connect!

I'm always excited to collaborate on:

πŸ€– AI-driven automation & testing tools Β· ⛓️ Blockchain & Web3 projects

πŸ“ˆ Trading algorithms & financial analysis Β· 🌱 Sustainability & carbon credit systems


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