Nitin Singla

Product Manager

Canada7 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in technical delivery and QA leadership.
  • Expert in building testing teams and strategies.
  • Strong advocate for Agile methodologies and best practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned QA and Automation expert in Retail and Banking sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Qa AutomationTest Management

Other Skills

API TestingAccessibility TestingAgile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsAppiumAutomation FrameworkAzure DevOps ServerAzure DevOps ServicesBDDBusiness AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsBusiness RequirementsCI/CDCloud ComputingCommunication

About

- 15+ years of experience in Technical Delivery Manager, QA Leader, Engineering Manager, Sr. QA Manager, Project Management, Test Manager, SDET Architect, System Design, Business Analysis, Solution Architect. - Expertise in building up Testing Teams / Test Strategy at Organization Level / Testing Best Practices. - Strong knowledge of Agile (Scrum) theory, values, principles and practices. - Strong hold on Test automation with enhanced automation framework design and implementation and manual testing. - Domain Expertise in Banking/Finance/Telecom/Digital Entertainment/Mobility/Retail. - Advocated and evangelized good testing practices, like pair programming, code reviews, Exploratory Testing, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Hybrid frameworks and POM design pattern. - Possess remarkable people management, facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution skills.

Experience

7 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Kroger technology & digital

QE Lead - KROGER USA (RETAIL/OMS)

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Managing the project testing scope and delivery for medium to large-sized projects and portfolios.
  • Introducing best practices and industry standards for implementing QA processes.
  • Ensuring end-to-end QA delivery of the project is meeting all deadlines.
  • Managing offshore and onshore teams to participate in design, develop and integrate platform solutions.
  • Handling and playing a key role in successful go-live of multiple critical enhancement releases.
  • Involves in reviewing and maintaining Quality procedures related to the project.
  • Designed in-house automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, Appium, TestNG and POM design pattern.
  • Overseeing the implementation of quality control procedures at each stage of the project.
  • Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external.
  • Working with the team for test case/test data reviews.
  • Helping team in identifying key problems to aim for zero defect slippage.
  • Ensuring proper documentation is recorded and tracked in Confluence related to Testing methodologies and testing strategies.
  • Meeting with stakeholders and vendors, ensuring transparency and timely communication of potential risks or issues.
  • Working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on projects goals and timelines.
  • Analyzing project requirements and consult with client leadership to ensure agreement on work requirements.
  • Root cause analysis for defects by employing debugging methods and checking Dev logs
  • Develop and track quality metrics, risk assessments, and test coverage reporting.
System IntegrationTechnical LeadershipQA AutomationTest ManagementAgile MethodologiesJava+4

Bell media

SDET Lead/QA Lead - Bell Canada (Digital Ecommerce)

Sep 2021Sep 2023 · 2 yrs · Hybrid

  • Led Defect Trailing and Review the Test Scenarios/ Test Cases with Business.
  • Executed and testing User Stories and involved in estimation of all the testing stories single handedly.
  • Designed and implemented BDD Automation Framework for the client (Java, Cucumber, Selenium).
  • Sent weekly QA status reports with defect trends, testing metrics, and risk assessments to client stakeholders.
  • Test Planning, Analysis, Design and Execution in Agile methodology by understanding the product backlogs, Sprint iterations, Scrum sessions and defect triage meetings.
  • Executed parallel browser testing on various machines using Browserstack and performed cross browser testing.
  • Executed the Test cases and review the results to get the Business approval for UAT.
  • Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement.
BDDJavaCucumberSeleniumAgile MethodologiesTest Planning+3

Td

QA Lead (Banking/Finance/Payments)

Sep 2019Sep 2021 · 2 yrs · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid

  • Drove and created the end-to-end testing strategy for testing Send Money with Zelle, Bill Pay functionalities for ACH transactions and Online Banking transfers.
  • Analyzed the Business Requirements and closely work with the Business Team to get the clarifications addressed.
  • Data validation using SQL queries.
  • Migrated legacy test cases to modern automation framework, improving test coverage and efficiency.
  • Collaborated with DevOps for CI/CD integration of test scripts via Jenkins pipelines.
  • Experienced with defect lifecycle management.
  • Designed and implemented BDD Automation Framework for the client from scratch.
  • Created and led QA test automation framework, promoting and improving testability, creating and automating reusable comments and identifying ways to automate the L1 test cases.
  • Coordinated between Technology and Business to ensure all the outstanding issues are being addressed, fixed, and retested.
  • Supervised all test activities, enhance, develop, and execute manual and automated test scripts, record and track software discrepancies.
  • Scheduled, evaluated project health, dashboard reporting of multiple sub-projects of CME.
  • Acted as key role on customer relationship building.
SQLAutomation FrameworkDefect ManagementCI/CDAgile MethodologiesQA Automation+1

Google

QA Lead/Project Lead - Google USA (Digital)

Sep 2017Sep 2019 · 2 yrs · Redmond, Washington, United States · Hybrid

  • Send weekly status report of Automation script development & execution.
  • Participate in daily SCRUM meetings and provided updates to the SCRUM master.
  • Monitor the progress, co-ordinate with different application interface partners involved in the releases.
  • Designed, executed, and maintained RestAssured API automation framework using Java/Maven/TestNG.
  • Prepared Functional/regression Test Cases/Scripts in TestRail under Test Plan, And Reviewed Test Requirements, Creating Test Plans and Test Strategy documents.
  • Involved on testing the new functionality based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues, Defect Management by Logging and Tracking bugs during execution in Jira.
  • Drive the overall unit test automation strategy single-handedly to accelerate preparation and execution of testing activities.
  • Worked on automated test framework for Google Android TV, capturing KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for evaluating TV performance.
  • Implement automated acceptance testing within sprint using Java, Selenium, TestNG.
  • Ensured that all the test cases are updated in the TestRail along with Master test plan; Generating Matrices Reports and Charts for Defect Analysis to analyze statistical nature of the defects.
API TestingJavaSeleniumTestNGAgile MethodologiesDefect Management+2

At&t

3 roles

QA Project Lead AT&T, USA (E-Commerce)

Promoted

Jun 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hybrid

  • Developed automation framework on Web and Mobile app for my QA team that was later adapted by other QA teams to extend their automation coverage.
  • Executed and convert manual test plans and procedures as well as end-to-end scenarios into automated tests in order to improve test coverage and resource efficiency.
  • Code automated unit test scenarios to be used as regression tests during development integration and QA cycles.
  • Worked in Agile methodology, delivering product sprint wise, attending scrum calls, attending grooming sessions and sprint planning calls for sizing the project for Testing team.
  • Defect management - Created and executed test cases, scripts and monitor the bugs using HP Quality Center & ATT’s TDP(Technology Driven Platform).
  • Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
Automation FrameworkAgile MethodologiesDefect ManagementTest PlanningQA AutomationTest Management

Test Lead - AT&T, USA (E-Commerce)

Promoted

Mar 2015Jun 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hybrid

  • Plan for the project and analyze the requirements, define the implementation plan and deliverables for the sprint.
  • Plan for integration, testing plan and other strategies.
  • Prepare project work breakdown structure (WBS).
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams and other internal and external stakeholders to remove impediments.
  • Prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and review Defect Report, Test Summary Reports and manage these reports using JIRA.
  • Partners with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog.
  • Review and validate the test cases, test deliverables and conduct UAT.
  • Prepare reports to the management and the project stakeholders like project status reporting, weekly reporting.
  • Monitor and report the status and progress of each test phase to different stakeholders and to agreed CMT standards.
  • Coaching/Mentoring of new associates.
  • Communicate project progress, concerns, and project related issues to senior authorities.
Test PlanningDefect ManagementAgile Methodologies

Test Engineer - AT&T (E-Commerce)

Feb 2010Mar 2015 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Hybrid

  • Creation and Execution of manual High level Test scripts.
  • Reviewing of Test scripts and test execution.
  • Attending requirement specification walk-through & giving feed-back/ inputs.
  • Reviewing design documents, Visual Comps and mock-ups to verify if they are in sync with project specifications.
  • Providing testing estimation for projects.
  • Involved in providing testing status updates to the onsite PMs.
  • Direct interaction with teams, mainly development, back-end and data teams to be in sync in understanding the functionality of the system by arranging solution walkthrough to ensure a better work environment.
  • Issue Detection, Reporting, Prioritizing, Tracking & Documentation.
  • Mapping of requirements to the test cases, generating defect report, and Overall testing sign off.
Manual TestingTest ExecutionDefect Reporting

Education

IIT Bombay - Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management

Advanced Certificate Programme in Business Analytics — Business Analytics

Jul 2011Jul 2012

Guru Nanak Dev University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jun 2005Jun 2009

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