Shajahan Pulikkal

Shajahan Pulikkal

Chief Automation Architect - Test Service Delivery, UST

Biography

Shajahan is a professional focused on automation engineering, currently employed by UST. With diverse QA roles spanning the UK, India, and the USA, he has successfully transformed projects using automated testing and BDD methodologies. Shajahan presently serves as the Chief Automation Architect in Test Service Delivery at UST, where he showcases his passion for developing innovative QA tools and strategic test automation solutions. His presentations at national and international conferences have provided valuable guidance to numerous professionals seeking to adopt industry best practices in test automation. Shajahan’s digital transformation journey has had a lasting impact, earning him recognition as an ‘Emerging World Technical Leader’ by Tech City UK. Furthermore, he has contributed valuable papers on test automation to SIGIST as part of the British Computer Society Chartered Institute of IT.

Additionally, Shajahan and his UST team are focused on implementing Gen AI capabilities to streamline various stages of the testing lifecycle.

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