Feb 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

•  Led a team of 10 automation engineers, enforcing coding standards, reviews & best practices.
•  Built Cypress test framework with GitLab CI/CD, reducing manual intervention by 50%.
•  Introduced Mochawesome, Allure for real-time reporting, boosting stakeholder visibility.
•  Reduced flaky tests by 50% through robust selectors, auto waits and retry mechanisms.
•  Collaborated with product managers to align acceptance criteria with automated tests.

Feb 2018 – Feb 2023 · 5 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India · Hybrid

• Managed a 20+ member automation QA team, achieving 92%+ on-time delivery.
• Delivered 98% automation coverage, ensuring zero production defects across releases.
• Applied shift-left testing and leveraged Playwright to reduce defect resolution time by 30%.
• Boosted customer satisfaction by 30% through proactive communication & risk control.

Oct 2016 – May 2017 · 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

• Improved response times by 40%, throughput by 25% with defined performance SLAs
• Reduced issue detection time by 35% & achieved 98% compliance with performance monitoring dashboards.

Aug 2009 – Jun 2016 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad · On-site

• Improved product quality by 20% using risk-based testing by continuous tracking and analysis of quality metrics.
• Reduced QA costs by 40% via open-source tools adoption and cut regression time around 30% with test tagging.

Mar 2006 – Mar 2009 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad · On-site

• Implemented a Selenium POM framework that cut execution effort and improved delivery accuracy by 25%.
• Secured additional QA resources by presenting strategies to leadership with better estimation and planning.

Jan 2005 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bagalore

• Reduced post-release defects by 30% via effective defect tracking and resolution.
• Developed and executed UAT Test Plans with 95% pass rate.

Aug 2003 – Nov 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Scope : Kalypso for KrazyKat LLC, USA

Jun 2000 – Aug 2003 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• NeoMedTech-MTS (Management of Medical Transcription System )
• This application is primarily meant for the medical transcription and allied business where the application services providers primarily caters to health service providers such as hospitals, clinics, and individual doctors. The application service providers generally work with a network of transcribers to convert voice files into transcribed document files, which could be retrieved at a later date, by the respective doctor.