Feb 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Ahmedabad · Hybrid

• Scaled the India Quality Engineering team from 2 to 85 members within two years, building a culture of excellence by actively guiding and mentoring in functional and automation testing.
• Automated metric-based measurements and designed maturity metrics to track progress.
• Setup Performance Engineering vertical, implemented Performance framework, Test plans, Reports templates etc. and rolled out Performance Testing across products.
• Introduced niche technology Automation Frameworks like Playwright, WebdriverIO, Robot, Rest-Assured etc. to gain maximum Test Automation coverage.
• Working with Product, GTM (Go to Market), Customer Success, Solution Engineering and product Support teams to understand customer requirement and pain area better way and preparing test strategy accordingly.
• Acting as a Role Model to the team, motivating and helping them for various collaboration activities like Blog and White Paper writing, Webinars, Tech-Talks, Technical workshops etc.

Feb 2016 – Feb 2021 · 5 yrs · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Driving QA Vertical at Anblicks Technologies. Involved in mentoring/grooming and managing QA team, designinig QA stretegy, Designing and Implementing Autoation, Performance testing, help writing POC, Process establishment, recruitment etc.

Jul 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Worked with QA Lead/Managers at DigitasLBi network offices at Paris and London on company's Digital Media product suite (AEP) and a large scale AEM integration of 35+ multilingual websites of Michelin Tyres. Worked closely wtih business managers, developers, project managers/directors, onsite test team to ensure projects are completed on time and to specification.
• Acting as a Line Manager that includes responsibilities like groom team on various QA/Testing areas, setting up yearly objectives, conducting annual appraisal reviews and supporting on any critical issues. Also authoring various QA artifact template, process documents, motivate team to follow proper processes, conducting various technical workshops, presentations etc.
• Achievements:
• Instrumental in tracking project’s day to day activities and progress via confluence, task assignment, Jira administration/triaging, QA Deployments, providing release sign-off, authoring test strategy per release etc.
• Created Keyword driver Automation Framework using Selenium, TestNg. Integrated automation suit with Jenkins CI server using Maven that support deployment of 30 different sites from single instance and execute test scripts accordingly.
• Performed R&D on Mobile automation for Michelin Mobile Stream on tools like Appium, Selendroid etc. and created a POC.
• Created automated web service test scripts using SoapUI for all the REST service.
• Integration testing of different components, third party integration, checking through logs, JMS Service, ActiveMQ service and putty.
• Data verification: Verifying data across databses like MongoDB, MySql, SQL Server that is fetched from various Facebook pages (1.3 Bn approx..), scaled and indexed from Hadoop Big Data clusters(Octopus)
• Researched about latest happenings (tools and technology) on QA, its compatibility and implementation with current project; Mentored team for different tools like Selenium, SoapUI latest offering etc.

May 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Ahmedabad

• Worked on a US based leading media company Scripps Networks’ internal application as a QA Lead. Worked closely with Onsite QA Lead, Project Managers, Program Managers and Onsite Architect leading a team of 6 people.
• Achievements:
• Lead team of 6 QA Members, Assigning task into Rally, Mentoring team for various user stories and testing methodologies.
• Maintain Test Plan per Sprint, Review Test cases, Analyze test executions and defect, prepared test matrices and send to Management.
• Participated in Client Communication, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retrospective, Client Demo.
• Actively performing various testing activities like test management, test case creation and review, test case execution to move the story from Backlog to Accepted State.
• Web service Testing using Jmeter/SoapUI – REST and SOAP.
• Preparing Automation scripts for regression testing using Selenium Webdriver.
• End to End integration testing form all 3 layers – Liferay, Alfrecso and Jetway and also with other 3rd party Application integration.

Aug 2009 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Vadodara

• Worked as a Senior Test Analyst for the Client Solbright and SFW.
• Worked on Domains like Online Advertisement UK Government's Carbon Credit portal.
• Worked as a Onsite Co-coordinator from UK, handled offshore team of 4 members.
• Prepared and Review Test plan,, Test Scripts and various QA Matrices.
• Performed Accessibility testing according to WCAG rules.
• Prepared Performance test planning, participated in Capacity planning.
• Developed Keyword Driven Framework with Selenium Web Driver
• Developed Data Driven Framework with Selenium and TestNg
• Automated Test cases for Online Advertisement domain with QTP 9.5
• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, Usability, Cross Browser and Exploratory testing.

May 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Worked as a QA Analyst - II.
• Worked on various domain like Social Networking, E-Learning, POS, Restaurant Industry. Performed Functional, Regression, Usability, Exploratory, Integration testing. Prepare and Execute test Scripts/Cases and create various QA Matrices.
• Write automation scripts using QTP 9.2, Selenium. Used Grinder 3.0, WebLoad to perform Load/Performance testing.

May 2006 – Apr 2007 · 11 mos

• Worked as a Software Testing Engineer.
• I have tested few Major Modules(Allergy Shot, EMR, Prescription, Schedulat, CheckIn-ChekOut and Lab (HL7)) of a large HealthCare application , IMS.
• Also performed functional testing of IPS, MOS (Meditab Online System) and EVR system.
• Performed Database Conversion for few projects.

Dec 2005 – Apr 2006 · 4 mos

• 5 Months project training as software developer (Trainee). During this training I was involved to develop a web based ERP system in PHP, MySql with a team of 10 members.