Jan 2021 – Mar 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Technology leader passionate about designing and developing solutions that make a difference.
• Championed shift left to start early automation by implementing various processes and use of tools like Playwright.
• Experience with deploying Automation framework docker containers to AWS to ensure seamless CI/CD pipeline to execute smoke testing scenarios.
• Improved product quality by implementing rigorous testing protocols and identifying areas for improvement.
• Led a team of 30+ quality engineers to streamline processes and enhance overall product performance in onshore/offshore model
• Defined testing and acceptance strategies and determined quality assurance benchmarks.
• Introduce new tools and technologies to automate existing web and mobile applications. Playwright was used due to ease of implementation
• Established a culture of continuous improvement within the testing team, fostering professional growth and skill development.
• Championed innovation within the test department through research into emerging trends in technology and methodologies.
• Increased product reliability by conducting rigorous performance, security, and usability testing.
• Familiar with cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Managed vendor relationships to ensure timely delivery of high-quality third-party testing services when necessary.
• Played a pivotal role in the development of an organization-wide quality assurance framework, driving consistency and excellence across all testing activities.
• Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.

Mar 2014 – Jan 2021 · 6 yrs 10 mos

• Managing a team of 20+ consultants both onsite and offshore for different mobile apps for iOS and android. Responsible for deciding test strategy and test planning for all mobile apps on iOS and android.
• Work with different stakeholders and decide the testing time lines and ensuring the project remains within the budget allocated.
• Responsible for guiding team towards best practices in testing mobile apps on different OS for e.g. iOS, Android and Windows platforms.
• Responsible for researching on different automation tools for mobile apps and guiding team towards creating PoC.
• Responsible for setting up Performance testing center of excellence and guiding the organization towards best practices in performance testing.
• Involved in strategy in designing framework and using Perfecto and Appium using Java. Tools eclipse(Junit and TestNG)
• Introduced automation for smoke scenarios for build acceptance for mobile devices by utilizing the Perfecto and Appium tool.
• Attended different meetings/conferences to understand change in trends in testing and responsible for recommending different processes and strategy to improve QA functions effectively.
• Established security test strategies to conducted penetration testing and security tests.
• Established a team of 3 testers to conduct web applications security testing by building suite in SOPA UI Pro to check different vulnerabilities.
• Worked with different team to come with chat sheet to check for vulnerabilities. XST, SQL Injection, HTML injection, XPath injection and DOM based cross scripting.Responsible for delivering a technical roadmap for the in-scope applications.
• Assisted with capacity planning and management to forecast infrastructure demand.
• Manage the performance of key service providers through SLA management, bench-marking and audits.
• Help the QA director in selecting the vendors based on internal POC’s and demos.Improve the productivity of the QA staff and increase the maintainability and usability.

Apr 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Sep 2007 – Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Nov 2003 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mohali India