Authors
Meet the engineers and architects writing for the Total Shift Left blog — API test automation, shift-left strategy, AI-native testing, and CI/CD integration.
Rishi Gaurav
Founder, Shift-Left API
15+ years architecting API test automation, CI/CD platforms, and self-hosted AI testing infrastructure
Rishi is the founder of Total Shift Left and Shift-Left API, with deep expertise in building both technology products and technology services businesses. He has worked with customers including Microsoft and PayPal, and previously scaled Leapwork's India operation from 0 to 250 people across product, sales, and support. He has spent more than a decade designing API test automation and CI/CD platforms for regulated enterprises in BFSI, healthcare, and the public sector — work that informs his writing on self-hosted LLMs, contract testing at scale, and shift-left strategy. He is a frequent author on AI API testing, OpenAPI-driven automation, and on-prem deployment of testing platforms.
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Total Shift Left Team
API Testing & Automation Engineers
10+ years in API testing, CI/CD automation, and shift-left quality engineering
The Total Shift Left team writes about API test automation, shift-left testing, and no-code quality engineering for modern development teams. With deep expertise in OpenAPI, Swagger, REST/SOAP testing, and CI/CD integration, we help teams ship better APIs faster.
52 articles
Parveen Kumari
Senior API Automation Expert
10+ years specialising in API test automation, schema-aware test design, and CI/CD integration
Parveen is a senior API automation expert at Total Shift Left. She designs schema-aware test generation strategies, contract-testing workflows, and CI/CD integrations for enterprise QA teams. She writes about practical, day-to-day API testing topics — coverage gaps, regression patterns, test data management, and how to operationalise AI-generated tests inside a real engineering pipeline.
34 articles