Shubham Thakur

As a Senior Consultant, I am driven by a deep curiosity and ambition to achieve mastery, consistently seeking resourceful and accountable approaches to complex challenges. My empathetic and pragmatic perspective allows me to deliver impactful and sustainable solutions, ensuring client success and continuous growth.

Experience

Senior Consultant

Deloitte · May 2025 – Present

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• Engineered an AI-native test case generation pipeline, building a full stack RAG-based vector application that allows an AI agent to read functional requirements and intelligently generate component and end-to-end test cases.
• Architected and built a scalable, end-to-end automation pipeline for a new identity management (IAM) system, successfully serving and collaborating with over 170 application teams and multiple API vendors.
• The pipeline fully automated the CI/CD test cycle, integrating test data generation, UI (Selenium), API (Rest Assured), and ETL data load execution, culminating in automated defect logging.

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Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting USI · May 2025 – Present

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• Project: AI-Native Test Generation & Evaluation Platform.
• Designed and implemented an AI-native test generation and evaluation platform using RAG pipelines and LLMs, enabling autonomous test creation from functional requirements, relevant to legacy system functionality.
• Built semantic validation pipelines using embeddings and vector similarity to assess relevance, retrieval accuracy, and duplication of AI-generated test cases, achieving 85%+ validated semantic accuracy.
• Defined AI quality metrics including relevance score, coverage delta, redundancy ratio, and acceptance confidence for AI outputs.
• Implemented human-in-the-loop validation workflows to safely promote AI-generated artifacts into execution pipelines.
• Demonstrated the platform to 8+ Fortune 500 clients, reducing test case creation effort by ~60% and enabling AI-driven QA adoption.
• Received Outstanding Performance Award for successful implementation of the Test-generation and evaluation solution.
• Directed model evaluation of AI-generated test artifacts using benchmark datasets, OpenAI Moderation API, and custom evaluation scripts over a 6-month period, achieving a 92% correlation between automated scoring and SME validation across 5 programming languages and 800+ test cases.

Consultant

Deloitte · Jun 2021 – May 2025

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• Led multiple automation teams (up to 8 engineers) as Test Lead, owning the complete test strategy, design discussions, cross-team collaboration, and test planning for major go-lives.
• Shipped a robust, multi-platform automation framework for the Summer EBT program, integrating UI (Selenium), Mobile (Appium), and API (Rest Assured) testing, resulting in 120+ defects found in SIT and single-digit UAT defects.
• Developed and maintained multiple automation frameworks from scratch using Java, Selenium, and TestNG, creating over 700+ automated test scripts and 60+ page objects for Kentucky's core healthcare marketplace and Salesforce portal.
• Maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, enhancing framework stability and updating flaky tests to ensure high-value, continuous regression.
• Specialized in complex ETL and Conversion testing, writing and validating 80+ SQL Server Stored Procedures and API-based data load processes to ensure 100% data integrity for critical financial and marketing campaigns.

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Consultant - SDET

Deloitte Consulting USI · May 2021 – Apr 2025

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• Project: KYID - State-wide Identity & Access Management Platform (Mar 2024 - Oct 2025).
• Led quality strategy for a state-wide IAM platform supporting 170+ applications and 4.5M+ residents across healthcare services.
• Designed scalable automation across UI, API, and ETL layers, focusing on data integrity, failure isolation, and regression risk reduction.
• Managed and mentored a team of 12 QA engineers, validating 1800+ test cases and identifying 400+ SIT defects, while maintaining single-digit UAT defects.
• Project: Summer EBT Program - State Benefits Platform (Mar 2023 - May 2024).
• Served as Test Lead for a high-visibility public benefits platform with aggressive release timelines.
• Built a unified automation framework covering Web, Mobile, and API testing.
• Led a team of 3 testers, validating 500+ test cases and ensuring successful go-live with <10 UAT defects.

Business Technology Analyst

Deloitte · Aug 2018 – May 2022

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Analyst - Quality Engineering

Deloitte Consulting USI · Aug 2018 – Apr 2021

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• Responsible for development of enterprise-grade TestNG automation frameworks, automating 500+ test cases for healthcare marketplaces serving 1M+ users.
• Designed ETL and data quality validation strategies using SQL-based checks across staging and landing layers.
• Stabilized automation suites by identifying and eliminating flaky tests across multiple releases.

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Ex Co-Founder

Deliger · Jun 2017 – Jun 2018

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• Deliger - a B2B platform providing restaurants, mess and tiffin centers semi-perishable and non-perishable commodities.