Feb 2023 – Aug 2023 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Highly skilled QA and Test Automation Lead with a proven track record in end-to-end system integration testing and full-cycle test management.
• I've successfully reduced QA cycle time by 30% and critical bug resolution time by 40% by implementing robust defect triaging in Jira.
• My expertise includes extensive API testing (Postman) and automating 100% of API test cases with Python-requests, leading to a 90% reduction in manual QA effort and significantly accelerating feature rollouts.

Apr 2018 – Feb 2023 · 4 yrs 10 mos · On-site

• Designed and implemented test strategies using Java, Selenium, TestNG, Jenkins CI/CD, and Maven increasing test coverage to over 95% and enabling a successful launch with minimal defects.
• Mentored a team of over dozen engineers, promoting best practices and fostering collaboration. Led teams through agile sprints, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Architected AWS data pipelines to automate data ingestion and metadata checks, reducing validation time from 2 days to 15 minutes and boosting data accuracy.
• Implemented Jira-based defect triaging process, reducing resolution time for high-priority bugs by 80% and improving sprint completion rate.
• Acted as QA liaison across product and engineering teams, ensuring timely delivery of sprint goals and alignment on acceptance criteria.
• Built real-time dashboards in Tableau and Superset to monitor test outcomes, SLA/SLI adherence, and SEO metrics, driving informed release decisions.

Dec 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos · On-site

• 1) Leading Test efforts, Product Validation and Verification, Data Analytics and Dashboard.
• 2) Test activities Ownership, Test Planning, Test Case Design ,Test Execution, Test Effort Estimation, Coordinating between onshore and offshore teams , Defect Tracking, Test Reporting
• 4) Product health monitoring in Beta and Production environment using Tableau analytics tool.
• 5) Automation using Selenium WebDriver for Webpage driven applications and Appium for Mobile apps.

Sep 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos · On-site

• Product Requirement Document reviews, Test cases design, Test cases Execution.
• Component Testing , System Testing, End to End Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing , Alpha Testing, Load Testing , Performance testing.
• Validate Placeshifting firmware (Watch TV Anywhere) on Satellite and Cable Set Top Box, Gateways, Network Media Streamer.
• Validate Audio-Video Streaming Quality, Control and streaming Protocol on iOS and Android clients.

Jan 2007 – Aug 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India