Bharath Krishnareddy

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in Quality Assurance.
Expert in leading cross-functional teams in testing.
Proficient in automation tools like Selenium and Jenkins.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceTest ManagementAutomation TestingTesting

Other Skills

API TestingAgile TestingAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsAndroid SDKAppDynamicsAutomation FrameworkBlack Box TestingBug TrackingCI/CDCompatibility TestingDatabase TestingDefect Life CycleDefect TrackingDocker

About

Dynamic and results-driven Engineering Manager specializing in Quality Assurance with over 12 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams across automation and manual testing. Proficient in developing and executing robust quality strategies, utilizing hands-on expertise in tools such as Selenium, RestAssured, Jenkins, and CI/CD to enhance testing efficiencies and streamline processes. Known for collaborative leadership, mentoring, and driving defect reduction through test automation, while ensuring alignment with product goals and quality standards to achieve customer satisfaction and product reliability Test Management Tools: JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr. Automation Testing: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Rest Assured, TestNG APM Tools: AppDynamics, Newrelic Rest API Testing using: POSTMAN Programming Languages: Java Scripting Language: Shell Scripting Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA Database : MySQL, Mongo DB Operating Systems: Win 2003/2007/2010/2016, UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS Productive Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook) Others: Docker, TestNG framework, AWS(EC2, IAM, ELB, RDS).

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

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Engineering Manager - Test Engineering

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead and manage a team of 11 testers, overseeing a diverse skill set comprising manual
testers, automation engineers, and performance testers.
Guides and coaches the team members for improving their performance.
Provide leadership and technical guidance to a team of skilled quality professionals.
Manage the creation and execution of manual and automated test cases for functional,
regression and end-to-end testing, including both back-end and front-end testing of entire
system, subsystems and interfaces to other systems.
Communicate complex technical requirements and issues appropriately to various
audiences: Engineering, QA teams, Operations, executives, customers.
Focus on continuous improvements including usage of appropriate tools and frameworks to
manage testing process , automation and performance testing.
Formulate and manage the development and implementation of quality goals working with
development and product leaders.
Perform resource allocation, evaluates progress and results regarding team activities and
goal attainment .
Ensure QA activities are tracked and executed from new development implementation to
release management to comply to process and procedures.
Collaborate across all teams such as product managers, development managers, architects
and operations.
Provide status updates to the stakeholders and senior management team.
Lead the adoption of JIRA for test case management, improving traceability and facilitating
seamless collaboration across different teams.
Act as the first point of contact for addressing any production issues, providing timely
solutions or debugging and fixing issues to minimize the impact on end-users.

Quality AssuranceTest ManagementAutomation TestingDefect TrackingTeam LeadershipJIRA+2

Pharmeasy

Engineering Manger - Test Engineering

Sep 2021 – Jul 2022 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading and Mentoring a team of 7.
Building and streamlining the QA process from scratch.
Handling the quarterly planned features delivery by proper planning and estimations.
Coordinating between Dev, Product and Program teams and working closely to meet deadlines.
Sync up with product teams to understand the new features and help the team to strategies and drive the entire test process.
Helping the team in building the automation framework and tools.
Reviewing and approving all projects Test Deliverable.
Coordination between different stakeholders/multiple lines.
Hiring and Inducting new team members for the org and team.
Monitoring the production issues and understanding the features from user perspective and improving the test inventory.

Quality AssuranceTest ManagementAutomation FrameworkTeam LeadershipJIRA

Appdynamics

Lead SDET

Jun 2015 – Sep 2021 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Rural, Karnataka, India

Trained junior testers in company standards, testing protocols and software such as JIRA , Selenium Basics, Test Case Creation, Bug Root cause Analysis , Log Analysis etc.
Worked alongside management to develop testing and improvement plans.
Delegated work tasks and monitored performance.
Provided continued maintenance and development of bug fixes and patch sets for existing web applications.
Actively participated in automation of functional and regression testing.
Created detailed test cases for use on diverse projects.
Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and purposely looked for additional areas to review.
Discussed requirements and processes with product managers and developers.
Attended meetings with quality assurance, developers and project managers to assess scope and sequence of project.
Wrote test cases and scripts for use with Selenium Web driver and core JAVA
Wrote a automation framework from scratch using TESTNG, Selenium Web driver in java.
Tested Rest API's Manually using Postman
Participated in Smoke, Functionality, Integration, System and Regression testing
Good knowledge about TESTNG and Page Object Model Framework

Automation TestingSeleniumTestNGRest API TestingJIRAQuality Assurance

Welldoc, inc

Quality Analyst

Sep 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Involved in Function, Regression, Integration and UI testing of different independent modules.
Setting up QA environments on IIS server and configured all the windows subscribers in Dev and QA environments.
Involved in extensive DB testing.
Involved in conducting Demo and training for Team Members/Company.
Trouble shooting all the exceptions coming on production identifying the root cause and getting it fixed.
Understanding the architecture and working on RabbitMQ.
Part of the Production response team from QA.
Involved in doing time zone testing.
Involved in doing UTI (Unified Testing Initiative) criteria on Android and iPhone devices.