Jan 2021 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Played a key role in defining and implementing Quality Engineering (QE) principles, focusing on forward-looking automation strategies that aligned with business objectives.
• Provided leadership, guidance, training, and mentoring to facilitate the implementation of QE principles and test automation across project teams.
• Devised an automation strategy that included roadmaps, tools, frameworks, and approaches.
• Contributed to and worked on enhancing the test maturity within the delivery process and adopted next-generation automation solutions.
• Coached and managed distributed automation and SDET teams.
• Defined coding standards, processes, and best practices for Test Automation (UI, API, Mobility).
• Offered guidance to team members and the organization on various technical aspects, including new tools and techniques, best practices, emerging technologies, change control, and software licenses.
• Developed an A/B Comparison Tool for PDF (Java).
• Created Text, Excel, XML A/B report comparison tools (Java).
• Worked on Health Check Automation for a Finance Upstream project.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Roles & Responsibility :
• Leading SDET team here @Snapdeal. Working on various Test Automation Frameworks as a Test
• Architect for different applications (Web, BackEnd, and Mobile).
• BackEnd API Automation using Rest assured Framework & Client Jar
• Front End UI automation using Selenium Webdriver & Java
• Mobile Automation using Appium
• Manage the Complete Automation phases from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Reporting.
• Execute NonFunctional (Security & Performance) tests. Security testing of E-commerce website & usage of tools like ZAProxy for same. Performance tests using Jmeter and certify that the application meets accepted performance metrics and sustains the desired load in real time environments
• Collaborating and working effectively across teams/organizations (Product Owners, Developers, Product management)
• Working closely with team to provide QA estimates for proper release sprint planning.
• Collating daily testing summary and publishing the dashboards of test execution for the sprint cycle & Updating Jira status with proper test case documentation and status.
• Trained and mentored team on implementing the automation best practices and processes.
• Implemented Automation Dashboard with Klov & also integrated with jira tool for autologging failure’s & analysis
• Mockito Framework for testing dependent Services.
• Monitoring Production system via different tools Grafana, Kibana and Icinga
• CI/CD – for all projects
• Effective usage of Devops tool – Jenkins, Maven for automation
• Effective usage of Code Coverage Tools - JaCoCo, SonarQube
• GitLab usage for automation code delivery
• Databases - MongoDB, SQL
• Worked on Data Platform

Oct 2007 – May 2015 · 7 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Automated tests that helped save man-hours and achieve a quick turnaround while maintaining quality.
• Managed regression testing and end-to-end testing cycles.
• Integrated automated testing with Jenkins CI.
• Escalated bugs to developers with insightful and effective communication, resulting in timely product fixes.
• Participated in search product launches, including Monetization, Search History, Search Alerts, Search My World, and various features on SRP.
• Participated in product and feature design, providing valuable feedback.
• Understood product requirements, formulated test plans, test strategies, and test cases.
• Worked closely with the development and product teams to deliver quality search products, operating within an aggressive weekly release cycle.
• Participated in weekly product/project tracking team meetings.
• Automated test cases for search products using Selenium WebDriver.
• Participated in pre-product launch bug bashes.
• Debugged to identify the root problems and communicated them to the development team.
• Participated in bug prioritization planning with the product and development teams.
• Monitored dashboards for Hudson jobs.
• Utilized GitHub for automation code delivery.
• Collaborated with globally distributed offsite/onshore teams.
• Led projects and provided training to junior and intermediate Quality Engineers.
• Responsible for sign-off on various features owned by the search team.
• Worked as SPOC for the Search offshore team in Bangalore.
• Played a key role in search product launches that led to an increase in revenue through monetization, enhanced user engagement, and increased traffic for Yahoo! Search. Received Bravos from Yahoo! for my contributions.

Jan 2005 – Oct 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India