Gaurav Taneja

QA Manager

Delhi, India16 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16+ years of expertise in software testing across multiple domains.
Proven track record in developing automation frameworks from scratch.
Strong leadership skills with a focus on team growth and efficiency.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned QA leader in the SaaS industry with extensive automation expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Automation TestingQuality Assurance

Other Skills

API TestingAgile MethodologiesAlert SystemsAndroidApache AntAppiumAutomationC#Cross-functional Team LeadershipFramework DevelopmentGitGithubJIRAJMeterJava

About

16+ Years in Software Testing with strong expertise multiple domains like - Ream Money Gaming, edTech, ecommerce, hospitality, travel, real-estate, embedded systems and others. Extensive expertise in: - Automation Testing - Quality Assurance - Project Management - API Automation - Release Management - Defect Management - Software Testing - Team Management - Agile & Scrum An effective leader with excellent communication, negotiation and relationship building skills. Strong forte in building teams, scaling to next level expertise and growing teams career goals exponentially. Strong hands-on with implementing innovative testing strategies and improving work efficiency multi-fold and decreasing work stress. A key player in transforming product quality from "stable" to "robust" for high scale products. Excellent proven expertise in developing and scaling Automation framework from scratch for all platforms and building high performance teams.

Experience

16 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Junglee games

2 roles

Associate Director - QA

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Senior Engineering Manager - QA

Jun 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Byju's

2 roles

Sr. QA Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Jun 2022 · 2 mos

QA Engineering Manager

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Fabhotels

2 roles

Director of Engineering - QA

Promoted

Oct 2020 – Jan 2021 · 3 mos

QA Engineering Manager

Apr 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

Heading QA Team for FabHotels.com. Responsible for handling all end-to-end testing tasks for both B2C and B2B operations. Strong expertise in Automation Testing of all platforms like - Website, Mobile site, Android App, iOS App, API Testing. Very strong hands-on on manual testing.

Automation TestingManual TestingAPI TestingTeam ManagementQuality Assurance

Info edge india ltd

3 roles

Testing Lead

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs

Automation of Regression, Smoke Suite for all platforms (Website, Mobile site, Android App, IOS App, API with Backend validations)
 Developed Automation Framework from scratch.
 Setup robust automation team.
 Innovated and developed Automation Dashboard -- a Web Application to run automation scripts from web page.
 Setup code review process and code review tool.
 Headed all architecture discussions along with team members for scripts.
 Given time to time presentations/ automation sessions on any new technology required for team to adapt.
 Closely involved in agile software development life-cycle methodologies.
 Achieved 90% automation of total regression suite reducing manual testing time by 150 man hrs to ~5 hours for more than 4200 test cases.
Live Monitoring Framework
 Developed framework and scripts for live monitoring with monitoring of most important functionalities 24 X 7.
 Alerts sent on every failure through various means like: sms, email, slack etc.
 Sending alerts if site performance gets slow. Helps us in early detection of any issue and prepares us for the resolution.
Manual + Automation testing
 Managing automation and manual teams efficiently for ensuring timely project completion. Developed quality standards through participating in initial software developmental stages. Validated and enhanced the existing QA plan and strategy.
 Prepared, designed and led the Test Strategy and Test plan for all the projects. Reviewed activities such as Requirement review, Design Review, Test Strategy Review and Test Case Review.
 Successfully worked on assignments for release planning. Also involved in product backlog meetings, product reviews and deciding upon further course of action.
 Implemented best practices for enhancing performance of team and maintaining pace with current technological change and development.
 Effectively and clearly communicated with different levels of stakeholders in application delivery, QA and business groups.