Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 9 mos

• ● Head of QA for NXP’s Secure Service 2GO Platform.
• ● Involves 4 QA teams consisting of 18 QA members and automation test leads.
• ● Build and enhance UI and API automation for regression and user acceptance testing.
• ● Working with partners like Mastercard and Visa for contactless payment.
• ● Developing structured test plans, test strategies and test reports.
• ● Proactively raise issues for the growing team before they become a problem.
• ● Manage headcount, hiring, onboarding.
• ● Drive execution of functional, component, automated regression testing in Agile environment.
• ● Define and monitor QA Metrics, Test Reports, Test Logs, and Quality Trends.
• ● Implement, gather and report team/project metrics.
• ● Coach engineers and align QA & testing practices across teams.
• ● Test Engineering point of contact for senior leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• ● Strong people management experience skills including hiring, developing, and retaining talent.
• ● Manage tests end-to-end in coordination with product teams and testing vendors.

Oct 2016 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ● Led a team of 11 consisting of both manual testers and automation testers.
• ● Preparing test plans, reviewing test cases for fortnightly and major releases.
• ● Coming up with Automation framework strategy.
• ● Define and drive test measurements and metrics and KPIs/SLAs.
• ● Manage blockers, obstacles, and dependencies.
• ● Driving automation and leveraging CICD workflows and QA automation workflows.
• ● Analyze complex defects/issues, provide guidance/work methodically to isolate root cause found during and
• after software release.
• ● Involved in hiring of QA team members across Qwikcilver.
• ● Testing according to regulatory and compliance of RBI for Gift Cards.
• ● End to end ownership of automation toolkit development.

Jul 2012 – Oct 2016 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• Lead a team of Eigh people, which is responsible for QA of everything related to Rich Media.
• Built the team from ground level, which involved hiring, training and scaling the team from two members to a current size of six.
• Coaching and mentoring them for future roles.
• Currently running an initiative to automate testing of rich media on mobile devices (iOS and Android) using Appium to reduce the testing cycle from 5 man-days to less than a day.
• Driving Third Party Certification, which involves certifying third party ads on InMobi ad-network.
• Interact with third parties (Celtra, Flashtalking etc.) on a weekly basis to resolve outstanding issues, to check on status, set expectations and drive towards closure of certification.
• Involved in publisher certification.
• Brought in testing best practices for QA.

Dec 2005 – Jul 2012 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Joined as an automation engineer for EMC Corporation as client.
• Promoted as Module lead for automation module of the project.
• ISTQB certified.
• TCS certified Test Manager.
• Set up two teams (Netapp and NXP Semiconductors) projects from ground level which again involved hiring, training and scaling the skill levels of the team.
• Remotely handled the test team from United States, Netherlands and from Bangalore.
• I was the SPoC between clients, my team and TCS management.
• Coordinating with clients for resolution of escalations.
• Strong experience in NAS testing, both manual and automated.
• Involved in effort estimation, test planning
• Test lead for CIFS protocol testing team (Manual and automation for Netapp).
• Test lead for automation module for Celerra Manager (an EMC2 product).
• Test lead for automation testing of SAP modules for supply chain management of NXP Semiconductors- Netherlands.
• Drive the weekly targets of automation test case development.
• Drive the resolution of automation test script bugs
• Interaction with the clients for planning, implementing and execution of automation test scripts.
• Effort estimation.
• Re-testing and verification of bugs that are fixed.
• Performing installations, configurations, and troubleshooting.
• Execution of manual and automation test cases.
• Major Clients:
• NetApp India
• EMC Corporation
• NXP Semiconductors