Mar 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• At Udaan responsible for:
• Built the application development org., and ramped up the Application dev team from 0 to 90 member team including 3 managers.
• Led the launch of Wondermart Connect MVPs in three months, achieving a 4x increase in user engagement.
• Actively involved in Hiring, mentoring, and coaching Engineering and QA teams.
• Managing multiple programs simultaneously for Udaan (B2B) and Wondermart (B2C) applications using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Working closely with Product, Business, Engineering, QA, and Operation to deliver high-quality projects on time in Udaan's fast-paced environment.
• Implemented the engineering team's best design, development, and code quality practices and developed debugging consoles.
• Handling multiple Problem areas and ensuring the velocity is met by the App dev team and software engineers for Wondermart and Post order flow like Returns, and Chat Bot.
• Lead scrum team to design, implement, test, and deliver the Udaan and Wondermart application from prototype through production.
• Defined test strategy for releases and developed automation framework for WebApp, Mobile app & Webservices.
• Improved the stability of Infra and Core systems with reliable and stable systems.

Apr 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• At Ola responsible for
• Managing deliverables for Ola Play and Consumer app on Android, iOS platforms.
• Managing a team of 30 members.
• Managed team for Tier 1 teams like Consumer app, pricing, booking API, Ola website, Ola share, care, Corporate, and App Platform, and Connect simultaneously.
• Created automation framework using Appium for both Android and iOS for Consumer app and driving test automation for UI and Restful web service.
• Continuous Process Improvements (Productivity/Optimizations).
• Conducting demos for the Product Managers as part of the UAT Phase.
• Experience working with project teams to ensure overall delivery.
• Manage projects in JIRA and Confluence and lead daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Ability to set clear expectations and attend Scrums as needed.
• Managing product backlog, and active participation in sprint planning and execution.
• Identifying needed resources for projects, hiring, mentoring, and delivering the projects.
• Coordinate dependencies with external teams and other scrum teams.
• Ensuring team backlog is ready available and provided by the Product Owner before sprint starts.
• Setting up Jenkins pipeline for CI and CD and maintenance of the same.
• Performance and Load testing using JMeter.
• Created ORG level Automation framework for OLA which can be used to Automate Android, iOS, Selenium, and REST APIs

Oct 2017 – Mar 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jan 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore Area, India

• Lead of Release Engineering and Core SDET Platform which includes Development of various Automation tools including Backend, Mobile, Web, and In-house Automation utilities.
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, sprint demo, sprint exit, sprint retrospective, and Scrum of Scrum.
• Worked on various User Stories involving MCM, iOS, Android, and Windows Content Locker Applications on both SaaS and On-prim environments.
• Developed App Automation framework on Android & iOS
• Set up CI/CD for app automation which runs in Parallel / Distributed mode.
• Set up Release engineering process and workflow for Mobile app releases and backend deployments.
• Set up KRA's for various SDET levels.
• Streamlined the hiring process for SDET/QAE and was instrumental in growing the SDET team to 4X.
• Setting up Automation strategy for core Tier -1 services and thus reducing overall regression time by 60%.
• Set up metrics to monitor the performance of mobile apps.
• Integrated cloud device farm for frontend automation.
• Streamlined regression testing strategy for mobile apps and integrated Test Rail with automation framework to maintain traceability.

Mar 2008 – Dec 2014 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore, India.

• At Nokia responsible for:
• Management activities – involved in Preparing ART Plan, High-Level Design Documents, UI design
• Preparation of test plan, review of test cases, scheduling and monitoring testing activity. Effort estimation. Preparation of System Test Summary Report.
• Leading a team of 12 Test Engineers.
• Test Contact for Test Automation activities which includes both White Box and Black Box testing
• Quality Gate Keeper for all the deliveries
• Worked as Scrum Master for both the Development and Testing team
• Test planning for Functional, Non- Functional, Regression and Integration Domain Testing
• Defining Non-Functional Testing targets and reviewing test cases
• Part of the testing team in executing Functional, Non-functional, Regression & Smoke Testing
• Key user for Test Management tool ( Mercury QC) – Creating requirements, Providing Test results, and statistics for management, reviewing test cases, and Providing test details to platform regression, Language testing team
• Interaction with IOP team GCF conformance certification and LVT team for language variant testing
• Test Automation Lead – Responsible for End – End automation of Acceptance and Reliability Test cases using STIFF, ASTE, And T-Driver scripts
• Error Manager – Follow up with the team from the defect assigned till the defect get closed to make sure that the quality process is followed in all stages and follow up with other if the defect needs to be fixed by other teams.
• Maintaining Team Wiki page - Updating the progress of the project to management

May 2007 – Feb 2008 · 9 mos · Shenzhen, China · On-site

• As an implementation engineer for Huawei in Shenzhen, China, I led the deployment and implementation of the IMPS server. This involved setting up a failover cluster, implementing LVS for improved TPS, and conducting operator-specific application testing and UAT. Additionally, I performed onsite field testing, including system and IOP testing with Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung devices. I also led Installation-System Test and utilized JMeter for performance testing, concluding with the execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using Desktop and J2ME IM Client.

Aug 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore, India.

• Development using Shell.
• Performed Installation-System Test, Performance Testing using JMeter.
• Performed UAT using Desktop and J2ME IM Client.
• SNMP based management testing using MIB browser, I9000.
• Failover Cluster of server setup and performed LVS setup and achieved better TPS.
• Linux/UNIX-based systems testing, good at commands, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Prepared Test Bed setup and Performed Installation, System Test
• Operator specific application testing.
• Performed High Availability setup.