Jagrit Gyawali

Operations Associate

Leeds, England, United Kingdom11 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Quality Engineering and Test Strategy.
  • Proven leadership in cross-functional teams.
  • Strong background in API Testing and Automation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering Manager with expertise in Media and Travel industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality EngineeringTest Strategy

Other Skills

Test PlanningIT ProjectsChange ManagementCreative IdeationIntegration StrategiesTeam ManagementProblem SolvingCoachingPerformance ReviewsSupervisory SkillsInspiring LeadershipCommunicationMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralAgile TestingManual Testing

About

A Competent Software Quality Engineering Manager with expertise in leading cross-functional teams, implementing testing best practices, and driving quality initiatives. My technical knowledge and strategic mindset have enabled me to ensure high-quality software delivery and in managing successful QA programs across multiple industries, including big tech, social media, and e-commerce. My Career Highlights: ★ Quality Engineering ★ Software Delivery ★ Test Strategy ★ Test Team / Squad Leadership ★ Line Management ★ API Testing ★ API Test Automation Coaching/ Training ★ SoapUI ★ BDD ★ Continuous Integration ★ Agile Testing ★ Database Testing ★ SQL ★ Coaching and Mentoring ★ Kafka ★ Docker ★ SpecFlow ★ TFS ★ Git ★ Test Plan ★ Octopus ★ SoapUI ★ Jira ★ Postman

Experience

Bbc studios

Test Manager

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs

  • ⦾ Responsible for Quality Strategy, Innovation, and Practices for BBC Studios products.
  • ⦾ Build a Test-Driven Engineering Culture and Quality Engineering Strategies.
  • ⦾ Manage Quality Engineering team, including test specialists, principal testers, and senior professionals
  • ⦾ Handle appraisals, overall QA Line Management, and QA recruitment across the organisation.
  • ⦾ Align engineering practices and test solutions with Engineering Managers and Architects.
  • ⦾ Ensure quality and innovation in product testing and release, aligned with stakeholder requirements.
  • ⦾ Establish a centre of excellence for testing and position the division as an industry leader.
  • ⦾ Grow and mentor technical and leadership skills within the team, creating development opportunities.
Test PlanningIT ProjectsChange ManagementCreative IdeationIntegration StrategiesTeam Management+8

Meta

Engineering Lead, Software Quality

Aug 2022Feb 2023 · 6 mos · United Kingdom

  • ⦾ Building a Test-Driven Engineering Culture and Quality Engineering Strategies
  • ⦾ Leadership and Management of Meta products, Ownership of Quality Road Map
  • ⦾ Leadership in Feature Launches working with Cross Functional Partners
  • ⦾ Providing Leadership to Multiple Test Teams (onshore/ offshore) across different time zones
  • ⦾ Strategic and Tactical Support to Broader Engineering Orgs for their Quality Needs
  • ⦾ Defining QA metrics & Impact and Fostering Data Driven Mindset for QA Efficiency
  • ⦾ Leadership in Automation Efforts working with Engineers and SDETs
  • ⦾ Contributing to Test Prioritisation, Code Reviews, Process Improvements, Efficient Releases
  • ⦾ Ownership of Team Building, Resource Management, Roadmap Planning, Leadership Reviews
  • ⦾ Assessing Specific Quality Issues for the Products and Identifying Trends/Improvements
  • ⦾ Identify, Test, Track, and report KPI Trends over the course of the Projects
  • ⦾ Partnership with the Infrastructure Team to Leverage Automation For Better Reliability and Scalability
Test PlanningIT ProjectsChange ManagementCreative IdeationIntegration StrategiesMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central+9

Jet2.com and jet2holidays

5 roles

Test Specialist

Jan 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • ⦾ Overall management of Overarching Quality Engineering Process.
  • ⦾ Incorporating business wide testing strategies into the teams.
  • ⦾ Ownership the future testing direction, producing long term roadmaps, adoption plans and POC projects.
  • ⦾ Responsible for defining a robust test strategy which focuses on ensuring all systems are scalable,
  • independently deployable and aligned with the future roadmaps.
  • ⦾ Providing comprehensive test plans (implementation guidance, high level estimates and risk analysis information) for new system features requested by the business
  • ⦾ Working alongside the development teams to ensure solutions are built with quality in mind and
  • implemented according to defined principles. This involves planning input, coaching, reviews and sign-
  • off of proposed solutions.
  • ⦾ Providing direction and support to 3rd party development teams to ensure they are working to our
  • expected quality guidelines.
  • ⦾ Working alongside Development Managers to define ways of working for new technologies and
  • approaches to ensure the teams are building high quality, testable software.
  • ⦾ Engaging with the testing community, facilitating wider discussions on architecture, new technologies
  • and ways of working which help contribute to the long-term roadmap.
Test PlanningIT ProjectsChange ManagementCreative IdeationIntegration StrategiesMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central+9

Test Team Lead

Promoted

Jul 2018Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • My primary responsibility is to drive continual professional excellence within the QA practice through effective capability development, resource management, delivery of quality assurance and clear leadership.
  • Role Highlights
  • ⦾ Line managing Software Testers across different Scrum Teams
  • ⦾ API test Automation strategy, SoapUI /Swagger coaching/training to testers across Jet2Holidays
  • ⦾ Develop/review test plans and test strategies including dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for such plans
  • ⦾ Work with software developers and product owners to assist in improving development
  • practices to meet quality standards
  • ⦾ Facilitating and coaching Rapid Testing Process and techniques like mind mapping, user stories testing and goal-based testing
  • ⦾ Heading the Sprint Planning liaising with Developers, Business Analysts and Product owners to make the development process Test led
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralProblem Solving

Senior Test Analyst

Oct 2017Jul 2018 · 9 mos

  • Senior Test Analyst for one of the UKs leading Airline and Holidays company.
  • Highlights of my responsibilities at Jet2Holidays are as follows:
  • ⦾ SOAP UI automation Point of Contact for Jet2Holidays API automation
  • ⦾ Defect management responsibility
  • ⦾ Regression pack amelioration
  • ⦾ Developing the Test team through Brown Bags and Training sessions
  • ⦾ Monitoring and reporting on testing progress
  • ⦾ Escalation point for testing issues along with the Test Team Lead
  • ⦾ Sprint Review presentation preparation
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralProblem Solving

Software Test Analyst

Apr 2017Oct 2017 · 6 mos

  • Test Analyst for one of the UKs leading Airline and Holidays company.
  • My role involved providing input to development requests from the business, script writing, executing scripts, bug raising and retesting, estimating, evaluating risk and prioritising test cases.
  • Highlights of my contribution to Jet2Holidays as a Test Analyst:
  • ⦾ API automation tests using SoapUI incorporating Groovy scripting
  • ⦾ As a SOAP UI automation Point of Contact for Jet2Holidays, help and aid provided across Holidays teams in API automation.
  • ⦾ Documentation on different areas in Jet2Holidays
  • ⦾ Regression pack amelioration
  • ⦾ Sprint Review presentation preparation
  • ⦾ Overnight Release

Test Consultant

Apr 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr

  • Contract Test Analyst
  • My role involved providing input to development requests from the business, script writing, executing scripts, bug raising and retesting, estimating, evaluating risk and prioritising test cases.
  • Highlights of my contribution to Jet2Holidays:
  • ⦾ Functional and non-funtional testing
  • ⦾ API automation tests using SoapUI incorporating Groovy scripting
  • ⦾ Documentation on different areas in Jet2Holidays
  • ⦾ Regression pack amelioration
  • ⦾ Overnight Release

Sparta global

2 roles

Software Test Consultant

Apr 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr

  • I worked as a contract Test Analyst for one of the UKs leading Airline and Holidays company.
  • My role involved providing input to development requests from the business, script writing, executing scripts, bug raising and retesting, estimating, evaluating risk and prioritising test cases.
  • Highlights of my contribution to Jet2Holidays:
  • Functional and non-funtional testing
  • API automation tests using SoapUI incorporating Groovy scripting
  • Documentation on different areas in Jet2Holidays
  • Regression pack amelioration
  • Overnight Release
  • Live CSS checks

Software Development Engineer in Test

Oct 2015Mar 2016 · 5 mos

  • Having completed the training on Software Development Engineering in Test which was focused on agile methodologies, business thinking & analysis and cutting-edge development tools, I am a qualified Test Consultant.
  • Following were the modules covered over the period of 12 weeks.
  • Business and Analytical Skills
  • Software Testing and SQL
  • Web & Web Design
  • Mobile & Web Testing
  • Agile Methodology
  • Ruby as a Programming Language
  • Automation with Ruby in Testing
  • Consolidation
  • Cucumber and BDD

Freelance

IT Solutions Consultant

Sep 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

  • As a consultant, my role encompassed understanding the client's business objectives and system requirements, and effectively translating them into tangible business solutions. I successfully spearheaded multiple projects, specifically targeting the delivery of web-based solutions tailored to meet the needs of small enterprises.

Education

University of Greenwich

Master's Degree — Management of Business IT

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Cardiff Metropolitan University

Bachelor's degree — Computing

Jan 2010Jan 2013

London college of Engineering and Management

Advanced Diploma — Computing

Jan 2009Jan 2010

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