Honey Desai

QA Manager

Navsari, Gujarat, India8 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led high-performing QA teams to deliver reliable software.
Implemented AI-driven testing approaches for enhanced efficiency.
Established risk-based testing practices reducing defect leakage by 30%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA and Release Management expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Quality AssuranceQa ManagementTest AutomationDevops CollaborationSoftware TestingTest Case DesignApi Testing

Other Skills

Ai in testingQA strategyTest plansQuality governanceJenkinsAzure DevOpsSmoke TestingFunctional TestingRegression TestingSystem TestingPOSTMANREST APITeam LeadershipSoftware TestBusiness Analysis

About

🔹 Quality isn’t just about finding bugs — it’s about building trust. As a QA & Release Manager, I help teams deliver software that is reliable, scalable, and user-centric. Over the years, I’ve built and led high-performing QA teams, implemented robust automation frameworks, and introduced AI-driven testing approaches to enhance efficiency and accuracy. I thrive at the intersection of strategy, technology, and people: • Designing and implementing end-to-end QA processes that reduce risk and improve release confidence • Leveraging automation and AI to predict defects, streamline testing, and accelerate delivery • Coaching and mentoring teams to embrace quality as a shared responsibility across the organization I believe the future of QA isn’t just automated — it’s intelligent, proactive, and impactful. My goal is to enable teams to not only deliver faster but to deliver smarter, turning quality into a true competitive advantage. 💡 Let’s connect if you’re passionate about QA, AI in testing, or building high-performing tech teams.

Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Shorthills ai

2 roles

QA Manager

Promoted

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

Lead end-to-end QA ownership for multiple enterprise web applications, supporting weekly production releases.
Define and implement QA strategy, test plans, standards, and quality governance aligned with business and engineering goals.
Manage and mentor a QA team of 8–10 members, conducting regular 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching, and career development.
Lead hiring, onboarding, and team-building initiatives, scaling QA capacity to support product and release growth.
Drive manual testing excellence across functional, regression, UAT, and UI validation testing.
Define and drive automation implementation strategy, including tool selection, framework direction, and test identification (oversight role, not coding).
Collaborate with automation and DevOps teams to integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
Own release quality and readiness, including regression sign-off and production readiness validation for weekly releases.
Support production deployments, validating critical workflows during go-live and coordinating with DevOps teams.
Participate in post-release verification (PRV) and provide post-production defect triage and root cause analysis.
Establish risk-based testing practices, contributing to a 30% reduction in defect leakage.
Manage defects, test execution, and QA reporting using JIRA and Azure DevOps, ensuring transparency and traceability.

Software Quality AssuranceAi in testingQA Management

Lead QA & Release Engineer

Sep 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

Trader interactive

2 roles

Senior QA Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 mos · Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Designing test cases and test scenarios by going through the Functional Requirements & User Stories for new products and modifications to existing products.
⦁ Performing end-to-end testing of the work-flow which included Smoke, Functional, Regression and System Testing for web applications and websites.
⦁ Working with AWS S3 bucket,Cloudwatch and ElasticBeanStalk to monitor logs errors, rollback releases ,check data lake exports and monitor health of an application while in test.
⦁ Implementing framework for testing REST API using POSTMAN
⦁ Using GitBash(Shell Command Line) to run crons on dev server to test dealer market insights functionalities.
⦁ Working with GitHub and Continuos Integration tool Jenkins to Publish release tags ,deploy code on QA,Dev and Production environment.
⦁ Managing branching, merging, tagging and other source control tasks in Git. Work with cross-functional teams to test and release code for shared repositories into production.
⦁ Working with DevOps Engineer to test configuration of New-relic monitoring system to new repositories. Also, Participate in network,security, load and performance tests to ensure application is production ready Implement
⦁ Performing Compatibility testing of applications for dynamic and static content of browsers using HTML Ids and XPath in Selenium.
⦁ Logging errors and communicate to all required parties through defect tracking system JIRA
⦁ Participating in daily standups, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings.
⦁ Working with Product owner to identify critical features and with the Project Management team to ensure deadlines are met.

Associate QA Analyst

Jul 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Freddie mac

Database/ETL Tester

Apr 2018 – Jul 2018 · 3 mos · McLean,Virginia

⦁ Involved in ETL process testing using DataStage ETL tool.
⦁ Performed Integration, End-to-End and UAT testing.
⦁ Performed extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
⦁ Involving in writing SQL queries and Database Checkpoints to verify data quality and calculations, reviews
⦁ Deployed Autosys file (.txt and .jil) in Autosys database.
⦁ Run UNIX jobs in Putty to validate input and output files.
⦁ Verified column mapping between source and target.
⦁ Participated in regular project status meetings and QA status meetings.

Utilisave, llc

IT Intern

May 2016 – Mar 2017 · 10 mos · Greater New York City Area

⦁ Reviewed functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables. Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications.
⦁ Verified data Integrity by performing backend testing by writing SQL Queries
⦁ Validating the data files from source to make sure correct data has been captured to be loaded to target tables.
⦁ Performed UAT testing across numerous software components before latest version release to test for any functional problems/defects and customer usability purposes.
⦁ Researched, acquired and documented EDI standards and methodologies from various utility companies.