Vinod K. — QA Manager

In Paytm, I'm serving as a Senior Lead SDET / QA Manager in the Insurance vertical. I'm leading and managing a high-performing QA team of 12-18 members, ensuring effective collaboration, skill development, and high-quality deliverables across multiple projects. Professional Responsibility: - QA Strategy & Planning: Develop a QA strategy that aligns with business objectives to ensure welldefined and effective quality processes. Create test plans with clear objectives, timelines, and resource allocations. - Team Leadership & Management: Lead the recruitment, training, and mentoring of QA team members to build a quality-focused team. - Automtation & Test Process Management: Manage the creation, review, and execution of test cases, ensuring comprehensive coverage. Implement the automation frameworks & CI/CD to enhance efficiency and ensure thorough test coverage. - Quality Metrics & Reporting: Define and track key quality metrics to assess testing effectiveness. Provide regular status reports on testing progress, defect trends, and quality risks to stakeholders. - Collaboration & Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate quality throughout the development lifecycle. Maintain clear communication with stakeholders about quality standards and testing outcomes. - Process Improvement & Best Practices: Continuously evaluate and enhance QA processes, tools, and methodologies. Stay updated with industry trends to implement best practices in testing. Assignments: - Designed and implemented a robust API automation framework using Java, Cucumber, and Rest-Assured, achieving 95% test stability. - Spearheaded automation of end-to-end product flows via API, component API automation, E2E UI flow automation, and API mocking. - Using AI tools - Copilot, Cursor.ai, Gemini & ChatGPT to enhance automation efficiency. - Previous Role: Managed the QA responsibilities for the Paytm Lending team, leading lender integrations for personal loan journeys with partners like L&T, Poonawalla, and Tata Capital Finance Ltd. - CI/CD Integration: Configured Jenkins for scheduled test execution and automated result sharing via email.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech QA Automation Lead with extensive experience in test strategy and automation.

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Experience: 15 yrs 11 mos