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Karan Arora

QA Manager

Dubai, United Arab Emirates15 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in Quality Assurance.
  • Expert in automation and performance optimization.
  • Strong background in CI/CD integration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance specialist with a focus on automation in the Media & Entertainment industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

AutomationProduct ManagementDebugging

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBugzillaClient Co-ordinationEngineeringJavaJenkinsJiraLinuxManual TestingMySQLPerformance TestingQuality AssuranceRegression TestingRequirements AnalysisSQL

About

๐๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐’๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: With over a decade in Quality Assurance, I specialize in enhancing product quality and application performance through advanced white-box testing. My expertise includes identifying root causes of system latencies, debugging integrated systems, and optimizing connectivity issues. I am proficient in setting up automation from scratch for web, mobile, tv applications, web service testing, and integrating these into CI/CD pipelines ๐๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ: ๐†๐€๐‚ โ€ข Entered the dynamic shipping and logistics domain with GAC, a leading provider of shipping, logistics, and marine services โ€ข Focused on delivering quality outputs and automating applications/processes ๐Ž๐’๐ ๐Ÿ. Collaborated with product managers to develop a robust UI automation framework for mobile, tv, and web platforms, achieving: โ€ข Reduced execution efforts for functional QA through automated scripts โ€ข Integration of automation pipeline with development pipeline, triggering scripts post-build success and sending reports to stakeholders โ€ข Utilization of automation scripts by the support team for post-deployment testing ๐Ÿ. Improved application performance and reduced load times by adding loggers, exposing time-consuming asynchronous calls, and assisting developers in refactoring ๐”๐‡๐†/๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฆ โ€ข Reduced post-deployment operational costs by automating apis using the rest assured framework ๐๐ž๐ฐ๐ ๐ž๐ง โ€ข Contributed individually to functional testing and created automation utilities for clients, automating rigorous tasks like bulk user creation and test bed creation ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž: โ€ข ๐€๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐“๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ: Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured, Webdriver I/O, Postman, SuitTest โ€ข ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐ˆ/๐‚๐ƒ: Microsoft Azure, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins โ€ข ๐‹๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฌ: Java, TypeScript โ€ข ๐“๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐ž๐›๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ : E2E testing, Mobile testing (iOS, Android), BrowserStack, TV Testing, Quality Center, Charles proxy ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ: Outside of my professional role, i am passionate about health and wellness, focusing on the integration of mental and physical health. my goal is to help individuals navigate challenging times and achieve their physical development goals ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐€๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ: As a servant leader, i am dedicated to continuously improving applications by enhancing usability and performance, and accelerating these processes through automation. Let's connect to explore synergies and drive impactful outcomes together!

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Appro.ae

Quality Assurance Team Lead

Apr 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 1 yr 2 mos ยท Dubai ยท On-site

Gac group

Quality Assurance

Feb 2024 โ€“ Apr 2025 ยท 1 yr 2 mos ยท Dubai, United Arab Emirates ยท On-site

Osn

Automation & Functional Testing Specialist - OSN at Dubai

Mar 2020 โ€“ Jan 2024 ยท 3 yrs 10 mos ยท United Arab Emirates

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Techcarrot

Quality Assurance Lead

Mar 2020 โ€“ Sep 2020 ยท 6 mos ยท United Arab Emirates

AutomationEngineeringAgile MethodologiesJiraTestRail

Unitedhealth group

Quality Consultant

Sep 2018 โ€“ Jan 2020 ยท 1 yr 4 mos ยท Gurgaon, India

AutomationEngineeringAgile MethodologiesJira

Newgen software

2 roles

Team Lead

Jul 2017 โ€“ Sep 2018 ยท 1 yr 2 mos

AutomationEngineeringAgile MethodologiesJiraTestRail

Sr. QA/Testing Engineer

Aug 2013 โ€“ Jul 2017 ยท 3 yrs 11 mos

AutomationAgile MethodologiesJenkinsJiraTestRail

Value first digital media pvt ltd

QA/Testing Engineer

Jun 2012 โ€“ Aug 2013 ยท 1 yr 2 mos ยท Gurgaon, India

JiraTestRail

Alert enterprise

Quality Management Associate

Jun 2010 โ€“ Jun 2012 ยท 2 yrs ยท Chandigarh Area, India

  • Job responsibities include Software testing(GRC based application), Test Case management , Defect life cycle management, Documentation reviews and internal coordination between Developement, Solution Management , Documentation and QA teams.
  • Supporting product implementation teams. Reposible for Internal training and mentoring.
  • Build deployement on MSSQL,MySQL, and OracleDatabases. Familiar with Apache Tomcat web appication server and its hosting.

Education

Maharshi Dayanand University

BTech โ€” Computer Science Engineering

Jan 2005 โ€“ Jan 2009

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