Dec 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · India

• Snapshot: I owned end-to-end QA and SDET for a fintech SMB platform, leading a 20-person team to ship reliable Android/iOS and web releases at startup speed with customer-first quality.
• Defined QA strategy, pod-level processes, and OKRs/KPIs, clarifying ownership, eliminating ambiguity, and lifting release consistency across squads and services.
• Built test architecture and CI workflows (Appium, BDD, TestNG, AndroidJUnit4), broadening automation coverage and cutting regression cycles by double digits while improving stability.
• Drove R&D on no-code automation to empower manual QA, accelerating test creation, reducing flakiness, and shortening feedback loops for developers.
• Translated top user pain points from Insights into test scenarios and acceptance criteria, improving reproduction rates and fix velocity for high-impact issues.
• Centralized reporting and data-backed view of quality, enabling faster prioritization and clearer trade-offs.
• Tools/Skills: Appium, Behave, Pytest-BDD, Cucumber, Android, iOS, Android Studio, TestNG, AndroidJUnit4, Mockito, Postman, Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, OKRs, KPIs, RCA, release management, vendor management.

Aug 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Snapshot: I built the India QE team from scratch for a hyper-growth edtech platform, leading automation strategy and execution across global mobile/web projects.
• Hired and led a blended QE team (manual and SDET), establishing QE as the single point of accountability for end-to-end release quality and standards.
• Set up a mobile device lab with STF and standardized frameworks (Appium, TestNG, AndroidJUnit4), increasing parallel runs, improving suite stability, and accelerating feedback cycles.
• Instituted multi-layer testing (unit, functional, performance, stress, acceptance) and peer reviews, reducing defect leakage pre-release and raising confidence in production deployments.
• Diagnosed production issues using logs and monitoring, shortening triage time, improving RCA quality, and informing hardening and performance improvements.
• Partnered with DevOps on CI/CD quality gates to speed safe deployments and shorten regression time by double digits while maintaining high coverage.
• Tools/Skills: Appium, STF device lab, TestNG, AndroidJUnit4, Mockito, Espresso, Android Studio, Postman, Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, BDD, RCA, performance testing, stress testing.

Apr 2018 – Jul 2018 · 3 mos

• Snapshot: I led SDET/QA for Hike Messenger and Hike Games across Android, iOS, and Windows, owning test strategy and release quality for multiple titles from pre-alpha to post-release.
• Managed QA cycles end-to-end for multiple titles, coordinating with engineering, product, and art to meet aggressive release cadences at scale across platforms.
• Authored and evolved comprehensive test plans; stayed hands-on to identify, troubleshoot, and file issues clearly, improving turnaround time and fix quality.
• Led onboarding, gaming platform, and personalization testing; automated P0 flows using Appium and Android UI Automator to protect critical paths and prevent regressions.
• Investigated crashes, memory leaks, and network usage via DDMS/Android Studio and Visual Studio, contributing to crash-rate improvements and better runtime performance.
• Hired, mentored, and developed testers; maintained device inventory and tooling to support teams beyond QA and strengthen delivery discipline.
• Tools/Skills: Appium, Android UI Automator, Android Studio, DDMS, Visual Studio, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Git, test planning, device lab, performance and reliability testing, defect management.

May 2013 – Jul 2018 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Jul 2012 – Apr 2013 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Snapshot: I tested large-scale social and mobile games end-to-end across iOS, Android, and Windows, with focus on security, performance, and release readiness.
• Planned releases and daily test tasks; communicated clear status and triage to keep builds on schedule.
• Performed security testing, uncovering exploits using Charles and Cheat Engine to prevent abuse and revenue impact.
• Executed functional, performance, and memory/network usage testing across devices, surfacing issues early in the cycle.
• Contributed to defect management and cross-team communication to ship stable updates regularly.
• Tools/Skills: Charles Proxy, Cheat Engine, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, defect management, test planning, performance testing, security testing, mobile testing.

Apr 2010 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• worked onsite as in-house tester at the client's place on various web based games for different social networks. The team works on preparing and executing various test cases for different checklists. Proper documentation of bugs, Regression and Retesting are the major tasks done by the team. Updating the checklist with the new test cases whenever a new feature is added in the application.