Jan 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Driving critical backend and frontend automation tracks, including test automation, Firebase config optimization, and crash/ANR reduction, App startup time improvements, backend latency improvements significantly improving app stability and execution velocity.
• Introduced performance benchmarking for Android apps (CPU/memory/battery/load), leading to 40% reduction in app startup time and improved end-user experience.
• Streamlined release processes and improved build predictability for Telco partners by eliminating low-quality builds, enhancing stability, and ensuring timely deliveries—resulting in a 3x faster release cycle and improved partner trust.
• Represented the engineering function in external partner calls, ensuring timely resolution of tech queries and build quality issues
• Driving app AI initiatives, hygiene calendar actionable, GTM of business-critical features.
• Built and nurtured a positive team culture by resolving conflicts, setting clear expectations for underperformers, and mentoring new hires across QA, BE, and Android domains.
• Initiated and established group-level process improvements, architecture discussions and contributed to internal knowledge sharing, enhancing engineering excellence and stakeholder visibility.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 · 11 mos

• Lead a team of 7 engineers, and played an instrumental role from the QA side in onboarding 3 new customers, resulting in 10M device activations with the 1Weather app preloaded. This significantly boosted revenue for the 1Weather business and improved DRR.
• Achieved over 90% test automation coverage for backend APIs, enabling faster, scalable, and more reliable releases. On the android side, we achieved 50% regression test automation and helped us in releasing high quality builds faster.
• Owned end-to-end performance benchmarking for the Android app, building custom automation scripts to measure CPU usage, battery impact, memory utilization, and cold start time—now actively used by the frontend QE team
• Mentored junior QA engineers on tools like Charles Proxy, Profiler, and performance testing, while also assisting with framework enhancements and peer reviews.
• Actively contributed to defining the automation roadmap through regular sync-ups with engineering leadership
• Independently led QA ownership for multiple projects 1Weather, Swish news and folders app ensuring quality coverage across all critical systems.

Jul 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Worked as an individual contributor and played an instrumental role from the QA side by building automation test frameworks from scratch for both frontend and backend. These frameworks were later extended to other projects within InMobi and Glance. Also introduced performance testing setups and supporting frameworks to ensure system scalability and stability under high load.

Oct 2019 – Jul 2020 · 9 mos

• Currently working on two projects O&O and Blink and have the following responsibilities:
• Complete ownership of automation testing for both the projects. Also, identifying the new tools/technologies to solve the challenging requirements for the project.
• Creating solutions for functional and integration test automation needs for both backend and frontend testing.
• Taking care of the framework requirements. Scaling and modifying frameworks wherever needed.
• Performance benchmarking of android application. Parallelly, working on an internal automation tool setup to capture and analyze the profiling data.
• Load and stress testing of backend services in the distributed environment.
• Involved in multiple POCs to benchmark the application performance to get the new projects onboard.

Jun 2019 – Oct 2019 · 4 mos

• Experience in creating various type of the automation framework i.e. BDD using Cucumber, Test and Data driven frameworks
• Hands on experience on Appium automation tool for both Android and iOS mobile applications.
• Hands on experience on Selenium Webdriver and Grid. Have utilised the same for mobile application testing using Appium.
• Have created a framework using UIAutomator and Espresso to test the Android application
• Hands on experience in Performance Testing with JMeter of Webservices(SOAP & REST) , API and Web Applications.
• Have done the setup of ATC(Augmented Traffic Controller) for controlled environment in Automation TestLab.
• Having good working experience on different type of DBs i.e. Mongo, Cassandra, MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle.
• Having good working knowledge of Agile Methodology and am currently following the same
• Experience on Test Management Tool and Bug tracking tool: JIRA, Rally, TestLink
• Knowledge Acquisition and team building
• Leading a team, Test Planning and Estimation
• Resource Forecasting and Planning
• Unit Testing, debugging, Integration testing, Black box testing, Performance testing
• Technical Skills :
• Languages : Java , Android(basic)
• Appium, Selenium Webdriver, Selenium Grid, Espresso, UIAutomator and JMeter
• Jenkin and Git
• NDCG for Search

Jun 2018 – May 2019 · 11 mos

Jul 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

Dec 2015 – Jun 2016 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Analyzed various tools for test management, test automation and performance testing and provide the best possible solution based on requirements.
• Worked with Java to use Selenium-WebDriver API library to write automation scripting.
• Used Eclipse to debug Java code and utilize Maven as project builder with internal Maven Dependency repository.
• Used Oracle for database testing and run SQL statement from Eclipse
• Locating elements using- XPath, CSS, Class, Name.
• Created Page Factory Model framework.
• Used Selenium Grid, Desired Capabilities, Remote Web Driver for distributing the execution in different machines, platforms and browsers.
• Used Maven to configure the dependencies and to run framework.
• Used GIT as repository and version control.
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Sep 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Designed a BDD automation framework from scratch.
• Create Reusable components for the framework.
• Create feature files for behavior driven testing.
• Directly communicate issues and enhancement to the client via daily Call and Chat
• Writing the automation script for various Test scenarios for different platforms in order to cover 100% business requirements
• Peer review of code written by team member.
• Script execution, debugging the Scripts, result evaluation and defect reporting to both manual team and Client as well
• Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports.
• Preparation of knowledge based and informational documents for future training of the new resources.

Jul 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Communicated issues and information to the client via daily Calls and Chat.
• Automated the whole Nuance web application using the existing selenium Automation framework
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test Data.
• Preparation of Test scenario, Test Cases to cover 100% of business requirements
• Peer review of Test cases prepared by the team members.
• Reviewed Defects raised by team members and performed defect analysis.
• Test case execution, result evaluation and defect logging in Mercury Quality Centre.
• Preparation of daily, weekly and monthly status reports.
• Continuous interaction with the client on various phases and involvement in UAT
• Analysing Production Defects, Root cause analysis, Performance analysis of the application