MANIKANTA GARIKAPATI

AI & GenAI Test Engineer

Hyderabad 3+ yrs exp 92 · Outstanding

About

AI/GenAI & Automation Test Engineer with 3+ years of experience in AI-powered RAG and enterprise application testing. Skilled in LLM evaluation, prompt testing, hallucination and bias detection, grounding validation, semantic search, AI response quality assessment, API testing, and test automation. Hands-on experience with Playwright, TypeScript, Selenium, Java, Cucumber, Postman, and functional/regression testing. Achieved 98% test coverage and contributed to a Best Project Award.

Skills & Expertise (50)

Generative AI Advanced

8.5/10

Years Exp

Prompt Engineering Advanced

8.0/10

Years Exp

Typescript Intermediate

7.5/10

Years Exp

Selenium WebDriver Intermediate

7.5/10

Years Exp

REST API Testing Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Python Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Agile Intermediate

7.0/10

Years Exp

Defect Triage Jira RTM Root Cause Analysis VS Code Defect Management Test Planning Test Case Design UAT Usability Testing Git GitHub Integration Testing IntelliJ IDEA Scrum GitHub Copilot Claude ChatGPT Google Gemini Cursor n8n Page Object Model RAG LLM Evaluation Hallucination Detection Semantic Search Embeddings Vector Databases Playwright Java Cucumber BDD TestNG Accessibility Testing JavaScript Postman JSON HTTP Status Codes Functional Testing Regression Testing smoke testing sanity testing System Testing Exploratory Testing

Work Experience

Junior Consultant – AI & Automation Test Engineer

XEBIA

Feb 2025 - Present

Led end-to-end QA as the primary QA point of contact across requirements, test planning, execution, defect management, and release validation. Tested AI-powered RAG applications, validating response accuracy, relevance, completeness, consistency, and grounding against retrieved source content. Evaluated LLMs for hallucinations, factual inaccuracies, bias, ambiguous queries, edge cases, and unsupported questions. Validated embeddings, semantic search, document retrieval, ranking, chunking, metadata retrieval, and downstream response generation. Designed prompt-comparison tests, evaluation datasets, and benchmark queries to improve response quality and reduce hallucinations. Conducted API testing with Postman and automated functional/regression suites using Playwright, TypeScript, and Cucumber BDD. Automated critical scenarios, contributing to 98% overall test coverage; managed defects and collaborated with AI engineers, developers, data engineers, product owners, and business analysts. Contributed to project quality excellence, resulting in a Best Project Award.

Technical Assistant – QA Tester

ENDO INDIA PAR FORMULATIONS

Jul 2020 - Aug 2022

Performed functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, accessibility, usability, and UAT testing. Designed and maintained test cases based on business requirements and user stories. Conducted REST API testing using Postman and validated backend service behavior, request/response data, and accuracy. Collaborated with cross-functional teams on defect analysis, fix validation, release testing, and Scrum activities.