QA Lead
Sanjana S
QA Lead at Kiebot. Champion of shift-left testing, UX validation, and the test strategies that catch bugs before they hit a sprint review.
About Sanjana
Sanjana leads quality engineering at Kiebot, where she has built a QA practice that pairs exploratory testing with deep automation. Her work covers test strategy, manual and automated regression suites, accessibility audits, and the user-experience checks that decide whether a release feels right to a real customer. She writes about quality engineering, UX testing, and what it really means to "shift left" on a fast-moving product team.
Recent highlights
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Built Kiebot’s reusable Cypress + Playwright automation harness.
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Designed the UX-testing playbook used by Kiebot’s designers and engineers.
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Trained 30+ junior QA engineers through Kiebot’s internal academy.
Articles by Sanjana
User Experience (UX) Testing
In our fast-paced digital world, the significance of user experience (UX) cannot be overstated.
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The Future of QA: Automation vs. Manual
Is manual testing dead? Explore the evolving landscape of Quality Assurance and where automation fits in.
Read article →Eval-Driven QA: How to Test AI Features Without Going Crazy
Traditional QA assumes deterministic outputs. AI features do not give you that. Here is how the QA practice changes — and why it is liberating.
Read article →Questions Sanjana gets asked
When does Sanjana recommend automating a test?
When the path is high-traffic, stable in behaviour, and expensive to verify manually. New features get exploratory testing first; automation comes once the behaviour settles.
What is the most under-rated QA practice?
Watching the product with a stopwatch. Latency, jank, and confusing flows do not always look like bugs in a ticket — they show up as time wasted by the user.