Vikram Erlapalle
Principal Software Tester
Pune
Summary
Principal AI Software Tester with 9+ years of QA experience, including 4+ years in RAG application testing for AI-driven organizations. Expertise includes LLM evaluation, hallucination detection, semantic search QA, and prompt engineering validation across large repositories (10,000+ docs). Skilled in leading cross-functional teams of 3+ members and proficient in end-to-end testing across API, backend, database, UI, and client-server applications in domains such as Security (Antivirus), Email, CRM, and Helpdesk Ticketing Systems. Experienced in testing diverse development projects, aligning testing with customer requirements, and applying modern software development and QA methodologies.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Software Tester
Xdge AI
06.2022 - Current
- Led comprehensive AI testing strategy for enterprise RAG-based platform serving 10000+ users across major workplace applications (Slack, Gmail, JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce, MS-Teams).
- Key Achievements:
- Developed robust QA processes for RAG-based systems, ensuring consistent semantic relevance and minimizing hallucination-related issues.
- Led QA team of 4 members, implementing end-to-end testing frameworks for Deep Research Workflow (DRW), Smart Meeting Assistant, and Collection features
- Technical Responsibilities:
- Tested semantic search, summarization, AI endpoints & integrations
- Requirement analysis, sprint planning, JIRA workflow management
- Responsibility of handling and testing End-To-End Application
- Guiding and reviewing of test spec & test cases
- Critical Test cases execution & bug filling.
Sr. QA Engineer
Quick Heal Technologies Ltd.
09.2018 - 10.2022
- Endpoint Detection and Response is the product which provides the root cause analysis of the malicious activities happening on the endpoint. It is the product which is going to be used by IR’s and SOC Team. Users can take remediation actions as well on the malicious Process, File or Registry events.
- Technical Responsibilities:
- Worked on EDR & UEM products from scratch, including requirement gathering.
- Participated in sprint planning and story discussions, defining story scope with stakeholders.
- Performed analysis of 3rd-party applications and contributed to AWS POC tasks.
- Prepared and reviewed test specifications and test cases.
- Identified root causes of issues and provided project demos to stakeholders.
- Responsible for API, UI, functional, localization.
- Handled bug filing and tracking.
Tester
QuantumLink Communication Pvt. Ltd
08.2015 - 08.2018
- Project Understanding, Analysis, Requirement Gathering
- Test case writing and execution
- Bug reporting and tracking.
Research Executive
Max Secure Software Pvt. Ltd.
06.2014 - 10.2015
- Static malware analysis/Virus Testing
Education
B.E. - Information Technology
Wainganga College of Engineering (Nagpur University)
Nagpur, Maharashtra01.2013
HSC - Science
Yashawant Vidhyalaya
Latur, Maharashtra01.2007
SSC -
Yashawant Vidhyalaya
Latur, Maharashtra01.2005
Skills
- RAG - LLM & AI Testing Expertise
- LLM Behavior Testing (zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought)
- Hallucination Detection & Mitigation Testing
- LLM Output Validation
- Model Regression Testing after fine-tuning or model updates
- Expertise in functional, API, integration & regression testing
- Backend & Database Validation (SQL queries)
- Expertise Smoke & Sanity Testing
- Exploratory & Ad-hoc Testing
- Defect Reporting & Tracking (JIRA)
- Requirement Analysis
- Cross-Browser & Cross-Platform Testing (Compatibility testing)
- Test Plan Preparation
- User Interface (UI/UX) Validation
- Strong Debugging & Troubleshooting Skills
- Databases: MySQL, NoSQL, Vector Databases
- AWS: S3, CloudWatch, Athena, Amazon Elasticsearch
- Virtualization Exposure: vCenter, ESXi Servers (VMs), Hyper-V
- API Testing: Postman
- Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, macOS
- AI Testing Tools: OpenAI, TestCraft
- AI Automation Platforms: BrowserStack (Low-Code Automation), Tonicai
- Project Tools - JIRA, Zephyr, Agile/Scrum Methodologies
Technologies / Tools Used
Interests
Hobbies : Badminton, Swimming, Travelling by road
PERSONAL DETAILS
- Date of Birth : 1990-02-15
- Marital Status : Married
- Temporary Address : C17 -Little Earth, Ravet, Pune
- Permanent Address : Shivamaya building, Latur (Maharashtra) - 413515
Timeline
Principal Software Tester
Xdge AI
06.2022 - Current
Sr. QA Engineer
Quick Heal Technologies Ltd.
09.2018 - 10.2022
Tester
QuantumLink Communication Pvt. Ltd
08.2015 - 08.2018
Research Executive
Max Secure Software Pvt. Ltd.
06.2014 - 10.2015
B.E. - Information Technology
Wainganga College of Engineering (Nagpur University)
HSC - Science
Yashawant Vidhyalaya
SSC -
Yashawant Vidhyalaya