Jan 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Jan 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Scaled the QA team at Junglee Games through strategic hiring, structured mentorship of interns, and targeted skill development, fostering a highly capable and quality-driven team.
• Served as a key stakeholder in the PokerStars migration to Junglee Games, contributing to platform consolidation and enhanced integration to support a unified and scalable poker experience across India.
• Architected and implemented a comprehensive automation strategy covering REST APIs, Flutter UI, and WebSocket layers, ensuring platform compliance and seamless integration.
• Drove platform scalability, expanding Poker coverage from 2 to 12+ platforms, and establishing cross-device testing standards that supported faster, more reliable releases. Designed and implemented Build Verification Tests (BVTs) as CI quality gates, enabling early defect detection and daily release confidence.
• Managed QA environment configurations across dev, staging, and production-like ecosystems in close collaboration with DevOps, ensuring test consistency and execution stability.
• AI-powered regression suite optimization, using persona-based usage patterns and risk profiling to drive intelligent test case selection, dramatically improving test efficiency.
• Standardised regression strategy and pre-release QA readiness across pods — including smoke test reliability, backend service automation, and structured test planning. Championed a Shift-Left Testing approach: embedding QA in early development stages, introducing test planning during grooming, aligning on P0 test cases with devs, conducting ADR walkthroughs, and enabling early integration-level automation to reduce bug cycles.
• Launched and led a QA upskilling initiative to train manual testers in automation, significantly elevating team-wide technical maturity.

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Oct 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · India

Feb 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led QA efforts during the Medlife merger and Thyrocare acquisition, driving successful testing and integration of products, systems, and databases. Designed and rolled out custom automation frameworks for regression, sanity, load testing across web, mobile web, and Android apps. Defined QA test planning, execution standards, and release-level testing for all product features. Established best practices for quality gates, defect triaging, and release sign-off in coordination with PMs and Engineering leads. Conducted cross-functional reviews and streamlined communication with internal and external stakeholders. Mentored junior QA engineers and established career paths, trainings, and internal QA knowledge sessions.

Jul 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Led test automation for Company Creation and QuickBooks Online Billing modules. Facilitated agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stakeholder demos, retrospectives. Built automation frameworks enabling robust UI/API coverage, improving release stability. Managed QA releases across global regions and ensured multi-region test coverage.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2017 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• Designed and implementes cross-platform backup client solution for Vodafone NL and Reliance Jio, supporting contact, image, and file sync. Developed native Android apps with robust sync and recovery architecture. Worked closely with international clients; traveled to the US and France to collaborate on project rollouts, client onboarding, and integration validation. Managed business accounts for key telco clients, participating in roadmap and feature planning.