Oct 2022 – Sep 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Established and led a high-performing QA and SDET in-house team of 30+ professionals, including a few SDET managers.
• Hired and onboarded over 10 QA professionals from a reputable QA resource provider organization and conducted comprehensive training programs to equip them with the necessary skills and knowledge for working effectively in the organization.
• Involved in automation architecture, resource planning, and hiring to build a high-performance team.
• Implemented streamlined QA and release processes to optimize workflow efficiency. Introduced effective quality assurance practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality software.
• Implemented agile and Scrum methodologies using Jira to streamline project management, enhance collaboration, and improve productivity.
• Developed a streamlined interview process to assess candidates' skills, experience, and cultural fit efficiently.
• Collaborated with hiring managers and team members to define job requirements and create interview criteria.
• Interviewed over 500 candidates to identify and select qualified candidates for various positions within the organization.
• Designed and facilitated team bonding activities that encouraged collaboration, communication, and teamwork.

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

• In my role as the first Quality Assurance (QA) professional at Zepto, I developed a comprehensive framework that automates testing for web, mobile, and APIs. This framework is currently being utilized across the team within the company.
• I created a performance testing infrastructure and framework at Zepto, utilizing tools such as Gatling, Scala, Jenkins, AWS, and more. This infrastructure and framework are now widely adopted by all developers within the organization to effectively test the performance of their services.
• Implemented continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to streamline the testing process.
• We execute over 300 daily tests for our Android and desktop applications, as well as more than 1200 tests for our backend services, and ensure the quality and reliability of our software, with a pass rate of 95%.

Apr 2021 – Nov 2021 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked on app automation and automated test cases for the feature assigned in the sprint.
• Was part of the on-call team to support regression testing of the app.
• Automation suite execution, fixing locators, or fundamental issues due to changes in the user journey.
• Created Jenkins jobs for our automation suite for different device and environment configurations.
• Was also mentoring intern SDETs with tools setup and fundamental understanding of tools used in the test framework.

May 2020 – Feb 2021 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Tested and evaluated an in-house layout curation tool developed from scratch for Wynk Music and Xstreams apps.
• Provided knowledge transfer sessions to team members on utilizing the tool and creating layouts for different widget types.
• Conducted performance testing of APIs using Gatling.
• Developed a Python and Selenium-based web scraper to gather trending content from various sources.
• Contributed to the core framework for extracting app performance data using Historian (Android resource usage details).
• Created an end-to-end automation suite that generated layouts on the web and verified them on the mobile app.

Aug 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• One of the first QA members in the EShop team.
• Contributed to setting up the QA process.
• Worked on functional testing and delivering features.
• I was contributing to Sprint planning, task prioritization & distribution, and decision-making activities.
• Worked closely with DevOps to set up containerized infra with Docker and Kubernetes for microservices.
• I was owning QA & Pre-prod environment setup, deployment, and maintenance.
• Created API automation suite using Karate for the EShop team.
• Created a dependency-based core framework using Nexus that was across teams for API/Web Automation.
• Created a bash command-based script which was used by the Engineering team to perform some tasks without opening the Kubernetes dashboard.

Dec 2017 – Aug 2018 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Worked on a framework to automate the Web + APP journey combined, create an app on the Web, and verify app functionality on Android/iOS devices.
• Worked on Protractor and Jasmine framework to automate web app scenarios. •Was responsible for deploying the builds on QA servers.
• Fixed a lot of test cases that were failing due to the web app revamp in a very short span of time and increased the passed % of the suite to 94 from 68.

May 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida

• I was working as a QA Trainee and was contributing as a functional tester.
• Worked on multiple in-house projects as a functional tester.
• Created a POC with my mentors using selenium for a client and converted it into a deal with the organization for the automation of that project.
• Created an API testing suite using Jmeter and wrote helpers like dynamic test data generator, DB Utils, etc in Java and used them as a jar with Jmeter.
• Contributed to framework creation for app testing using Appium and Java.