Dec 2020 – Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

• Led the horizontal Technology teams with more than 80 engineers across all functions of Olx Autos Transaction, Classified and Financing business streams for delivering end-to-end products with the help of CI/CD, ephemeral environments, and automation testing across all the services.
• Responsible for defining quarterly and yearly OKRs for the teams and regular check-in for same.
• Responsible for SDLC process enhancements and implementation across the organization.
• Spearheaded the adoption of microservice architecture and TDD, improving system scalability and reducing downtime by more than 50% with help of SLI/SLOs and continuous monitoring and Incident management process.
• Nurtured a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, resulting in a 30% increase in employee engagement and retention.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align technology initiatives with business objectives and ensure successful product launches.
• Hired and set up the QA team from scratch and within 1.5 years took the team from zero automation to 100% automation of services and user journeys and enabled CI/CD with full implementation of Test Pyramid.
• Automation frameworks set up in Node.js, Selenium, Appium, and Rest Assured that provide the capability to generate and test application functionality in 8 countries. It reduced the overall regression time by more than 1/8 of the existing time to run the regression for each release.
• Ephemeral environments setup and enablements in the CI to save the cost of test infrastructure.
• Performance framework and validation implementation for the organization using Gatling and Grafana.
• Guiding development teams for UT/IT and helping them in automation framework setup using Cypress.
• Enabled and implemented Contract testing in the organization for all the services.
• Set up the complete JIRA process to enable SDLC and market support process. This helped with better reporting to various stakeholders.

Apr 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Handled the quality delivery and agile delivery practices at one of the renowned clients (McKinsey) of ThoughtWorks in the financial domain. Was leading a team of 20+ engineers, that was responsible for developing and maintaining the internal admin tools for McKinsey. Worked with the Project lead to increase the team size by more than 30%.
• Led the automation framework setup using Node.js and Cypress.
• Enabled developers to honor TDD and inculcated the test first behaviors.
• Implemented the API automation using APIGEE and performance testing using LightHouse and Gatling.
• Prior to that was responsible for the quality of projects for client Global Media (One of the largest Out of Home Advertisement Media houses). Handled Client UATs and on-site deployments ensuring the increase in business metrics (no of impressions) by more than 20% within a year.
• As a QA community lead, led multiple workshops for QAOps, JMeter, Infrastructure testing, Security Testing, BDD, Cucumber frameworks, Automation Reporting frameworks, and Performance testing.
• Worked and Chaos Engineering and provided POCs to customers.

Oct 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Responsible for quality deliverables for Catalog Management System, Pricing Systems (CashBack Engine, Shipping Engine), and Promo System.
• Led a team of more than 30 QA and automation engineers across 3 teams.
• Enabled the culture of automation first and groomed all the manual QA engineers as SDETs.
• Enabled the concept of BDD and with the help of product managers implemented the concept of BDD using JBehave, Java, and Serenity.
• Enabled DB testing, cache testing, API testing, and Performance testing for all the services owned.
• Worked on multiple data migrations and enabled the team to use automation scripts while performing No-SQL data migrations

May 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Worked in co-ordination with Bulletproof (Australia) for delivery of quality projects for clients such as Woolworths Australia and Ebay Australia.
• Lead a team of offshore and onshore employees for coaching as well as delivering automation stuff for multiple projects of Woolworths.
• Developed an automation framework for UI and API automation using Java and Serenity(Selenium + Appium + Reporting) from scratch.
• Coached multiple team members on automation framework development.
• Implemented performance testing framework using JMeter.

Feb 2010 – May 2014 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Noida Area, India

• Responsible for overall Test-planning, scheduling and execution of Test plan for a product named "InDesignServer".
• Worked on development of test automation framework using Java and Flash.
• Was responsible for setup and managing the complete test infrastructure spanning across more than 80 test machines.
• Prior to that worked as a developer for a UI automation tool, named "Testwerk" using Java.
• This was a in house tool developed and used in Adobe for automation of internal desktop based products. I was responsible for its transition from the US counter-part and then addition of new capabilities to enable the automation for Photoshop and InDesign products.

Sep 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Honeywell is a leading worldwide provider of Aerospace, Automation & Control Solutions, and Speciality Materials & Transportation Systems.
• I majorly worked on the automation of the Next Generation Flight management System for test automation.
• Groomed and guided new team members for flight simulators, test automation for embedded systems and running the automated tests on flight simulators.

Aug 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Worked on writing using test cases using C++ and Vector Plus for the FMS (Flight Management System) developed for Boeing 787.
• Major responsibility was writing automated test cases using C++ and running the same on flight simulators.