Bharadwaj Pendyala is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience in test automation, quality engineering, and applied AI. He is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, where he built and owns a Slack-based agentic workflow platform used by more than eight engineering teams that reduced operational cycle time by 30%. His work focuses on making AI agents reliable in production through tool-call validation, regression strategies for multi-step workflows, observability, and quality gates.
Earlier he worked as an SDET and automation engineer at Tide, Joveo, huddl.ai, Accenture, and Cognizant, building custom and hybrid automation frameworks with Cypress, Jenkins, LeanFT, and JMeter across financial services, ad-tech, and enterprise SaaS. He has hands-on expertise in automation testing, manual testing, API automation, and performance testing, works with test-driven and behavior-driven development, and is a certified Agile Scrum practitioner and IEEE Professional Member. On TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest) he authored guides on Selenium with Cucumber and TestNG, the Gauge framework, CSS selectors in Selenium, and building a CI/CD pipeline with Travis CI.
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Selenium
Automation Testing With Selenium, Cucumber & TestNGCucumber is a BDD framework for automation testing with Selenium. Run your first Cucumber script & leverage TestNG capabilities to perform parallel testing.
December 25, 2025

Automation
Travis CI Tutorial: Build CI/CD Pipeline with Travis CI | TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)Learn how to set up a CI/CD pipeline with Travis CI in this Travis CI tutorial. Discover step-by-step instructions for integration with GitHub and TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest).
September 3, 2024

Selenium
CSS Selectors in Selenium: Pro-Tester's Mastering GuideCSS Selectors in Selenium are used to identifying a user desired HTML web element. Here I will show different ways of identifying CSS Selectors, like a pro!
November 7, 2023

Selenium
Performing Test Automation With Gauge FrameworkGauge is an open source test automation framework, ideal for cross browser testing. Learn how to use it with a Selenium grid. Find out more.
November 16, 2023