Rahul Bhatnagar

QA Manager

Gurgaon, Haryana, India17 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 13 years of experience in Quality Assurance.
  • Expert in Agile Software Development methodologies.
  • Proven ability to manage and mentor QA teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance Specialist in the E-Commerce and Media sectors with strong Agile expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Quality AssuranceAgile Project ManagementTest AutomationAgile MethodologiesTest Planning

Other Skills

Application DevelopmentAutomation ScriptsCloud ComputingCloud DevelopmentContainerizationContinuous DeliveryDatabase TestingDefect TrackingDevOpsGUI TestingHadoop EcosystemIT AutomationJMeterKubernetesLeadership

About

An accomplished Quality Assurance Specialist with a forward thinking attitude and specializing in Agile Software Development. Driving the QA teams’ with outstanding success, backed by extensive 13 years of experience as Quality Assurance Engineer in Media, Analytics & E-Commerce domains, right from product planning to deployment in production. I’m highly technical and a very quick learner and with a proven ability to effectively manage the team. I have experience in hiring engineers for different roles and then mentoring & grooming them as per the project’s need. Also flexible enough to adapt to changes. My innovative ideas have helped out product managers with solutions to UX issues and requirements definition.

Experience

Kemp

Quality Assurance Lead

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Lithops technologies pvt ltd

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Jan 2017Jan 2020 · 3 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

Ogilvy & mather

Senior Lead - Quality Assurance

Mar 2016Jan 2017 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Key Result Areas:
  • Coordinating various project related activities involving project planning, execution and management in tune with the core business objectives; reviewing functional requirements and translating them into technical specifications
  • Designing test strategy, developing test plans and approving test cases and scheduling project for releases in coordination with project managers and clients
  • Adroit at executing various software quality assurance activities for enhancing the effectiveness of the application
  • Handling all the Production Releases and making sure that every release is being tracked properly.
  • Conducting systems analysis sessions for understanding client business processes as per management standards
  • Suggesting technology-based solutions for enhancing functional efficiency and achieving business excellence
  • Keeping activities focused on the business change objectives by providing a framework for senior management to direct and manage the change process
  • Acting as a Release Manager handling all the Release related activities.
  • Handling the customization, testing, training, support and the generation of new change request by proactive process improvement, also participating / leading team(s) in business requirement sessions
  • Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously and providing quality output.
  • Handling Multiple modules and involved in decisions on their release cycles
  • Responsible for team building, recruitment and training of new team members.
Test PlanningTest AutomationRegression TestingTest CasesSoftware Quality AssuranceManual Testing+10

Nextag

5 roles

Quality Assurance Team Lead

Promoted

Jan 2014Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Key Result Areas:
  • Monitoring project progress as per scheduled deadlines for various tasks and taking necessary steps to ensure completion within time and effort parameters
  • Managing a group of highly enthusiastic testers along with owning the responsibilities of a Scrum Master while planning & creating Agile Sprints
  • Expertise in writing SQL Queries, SQL Scripts and performing Database testing
  • Coordinate with multiple teams to setup and configure new systems and completed all implementation within the defined time limit.
  • Executing automation scripts on different browsers/environments & reported defects/results to the team
  • Troubleshoot the live site issues.
  • Moving the application from Development to Production Environment.
  • Execution of multiple testing projects in agile development framework
  • Deft in building scalable distributed data platform for storing and analyzing data using the Hadoop ecosystem
  • Spearheaded the re-architecture projects, with goal of completely transforming and modernizing company's infrastructure using big data analytics (Hbase/Hadoop).
  • Responsible for team building, recruitment and training of new team members.
Test PlanningTest AutomationSQLAgile MethodologiesTeam ManagementScrum+3

Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2012Jan 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Monitoring project progress as per scheduled deadlines for various tasks and taking necessary steps to ensure completion within time and effort parameters
  • Managing a group of highly enthusiastic testers along with owning the responsibilities of a Scrum Master while planning & creating Agile Sprints
  • Expertise in writing SQL Queries, SQL Scripts and performing Database testing
  • Coordinate with multiple teams to setup and configure new systems and completed all implementation within the defined time limit.
  • Executing automation scripts on different browsers/environments & reported defects/results to the team
  • Troubleshoot the live site issues.
  • Moving the application from Development to Production Environment.
  • Execution of multiple testing projects in agile development framework
  • Deft in building scalable distributed data platform for storing and analyzing data using the Hadoop ecosystem
  • Spearheaded the re-architecture projects, with goal of completely transforming and modernizing company's infrastructure using big data analytics (Hbase/Hadoop).
  • Responsible for team building, recruitment and training of new team members.
Test PlanningTest AutomationSQLAgile MethodologiesTeam ManagementDatabase Testing+2

QA Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2011Mar 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Accountable for writing, updating, reviewing test cases and creating test data
  • Performed browser, backward compatibility, backend (SQL queries), performance testing using jmeter, exception checking and access log manipulation
  • Verified alarms sent by sitescope, conducted load balancing checks using F5 for different binds, M1 internal monitoring tool
  • Conducted root cause analysis of live site bugs, exception analysis, checking http error code and analyze their effects
Test PlanningTest AutomationSQLAgile MethodologiesDatabase TestingAutomation Scripts

Quality Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2009Jan 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Accountable for end-to-end testing which includes testing business modules of live site (product shopping)
  • Organizing and imparting knowledge transfer sessions for team and also responsible for the allocation of work and developing goals on quarterly basis for team members
  • Handling creation and review of the test cases
  • Performing QA of the new features
  • Taking care of the estimation of time required for a release, creating test plan and daily status report for release/patch
  • Performed browser, backward compatibility testing, backend testing (SQL queries), exception checking and access log manipulation
  • Overseeing planning & decision-making with Managers for the code deployment from QA to production environment
  • Following-up & assisting the team individuals for releases by helping them in test case execution and bug verification
  • Developing consolidated weekly reports bugs and conducting root cause analysis
Test PlanningTest AutomationSQLAgile MethodologiesDatabase Testing

Catalog Quality Analyst

Jan 2008Dec 2008 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Carried out the manual Audit of the content/feeds provided by merchants as per the nextag criteria
  • Conducted testing of the quality of the content i.e. images, text, price, etc. and the alignment of JSPs
  • Made improvements in the quality of catalog, which includes modification in the product names, description and classification.
  • Looked after the bugs reporting and performed GUI Testing
Manual TestingGUI Testing

Education

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak

Master’s Degree — Masters in Computer Applications

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak

Bachelor’s Degree — Bachelors in Computer Applications

Jan 2001Jan 2004

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