Vipul kavadia

Operations Associate

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 14 years of experience in QA leadership.
  • Expertise in automation and team development.
  • Proven track record in enhancing product quality.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA Leader with extensive experience in E-commerce and Travel industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Automation LeadershipTeam ManagementTest Strategy DevelopmentRelease ManagementTesting Process ImplementationEnd-to-end Qa ManagementIntegration TestingFunctional Testing

Other Skills

API TestingAgile MethodologiesAppiumAutomationAutomation Suite DesignAutomation with Robot FrameworkAutomation with SeleniumCross-Functional CollaborationDB TestingDevice LabsDevice Labs IntegrationDomain ExpertiseEcommerceEspressoExtent report

About

Experience QA Leader : Over 14 years of proven experience in building and leading high-performing teams, managing a diverse group of 13 SDET engineers in dynamic environments. Team Development: Expertise in defining competency structures and setting OKRs tailored to various levels within the team, promoting continuous improvement and talent growth for QA engineers Automation Leadership: Experience in Guiding the Automation team from ideation to implementation, significantly enhancing testing efficiency and product quality. Domain Expertise: Comprehensive quality assurance experience in E-commerce, Retail, Payments ,Travel and Insurance sectors, focusing on delivering high-quality systems. Strategic Mindset: Committed to developing and executing robust test strategies and automation solutions aimed at achieving optimal time-to-market results. Hiring: Experience in Coordinating strategically with talent acquisition and HR teams to develop robust interview frameworks and cadences specifically tailored to QA engineering roles. Strategic Mindset: Committed to developing and executing robust test strategies and automation solutions aimed at achieving optimal time-to-market results.

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
6 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Cred

2 roles

SDET Manager

Promoted

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

  • Team Management and Cross-Functional Collaboration: Managing and leading a team of 14+ QA and SDETs who handle frontend and backend and collaborating across different Lines of Business to enhance operational efficiency and quality assurance processes.
  • Team Development: Expertise in defining competency structures and setting OKRs tailored to various levels within the team, promoting continuous improvement and talent growth for QA engineers
  • Automation Leadership: Guided the Automation team from ideation to implementation, significantly enhancing testing efficiency and product quality.
  • Domain Expertise: Managing different POD Payments, Garage, Insurance, Shield and CSIT focusing on delivering high-quality systems in CRED.
  • Strategic Mindset: Committed to developing and executing robust test strategies and automation solutions aimed at achieving optimal time-to-market results.
  • Hiring: Coordinated strategically with talent acquisition and HR teams to develop robust interview frameworks and cadences specifically tailored to QA engineering roles.
  • Tools and Technologies: Introduced and integrated device labs for mobile app testing for automated and manual executions on in house set up and done POC with provider Lambda Test and Browserstack.
  • Introduced and implemented GitHub pipeline for all the automation execution pipelines for mobile apps and different job runs are set up on different alignments
  • Streamlined processes on RCAs, bug analysis, performing non-functional testing for Mobile Apps, documentations on frameworks and release engineering. This improved dev-testing and build-quality, thus reducing QA time on easily reproducible bugs.
Team ManagementCross-Functional CollaborationAutomation LeadershipDomain ExpertiseStrategic MindsetHiring+3

Technical Lead

Dec 2019Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

Make my trip

2 roles

Principal QA Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2019Dec 2019 · 8 mos

  • Developed optimal test strategy (including Functional, Non-Functional, Analytics and automation) ` and test plans for short term and long-term projects both.
  • Managed the Make my trip iOS app release management which has 90M+ users and 10+ different modules in single app.
  • Provide input on release readiness, reviews, and communication with stakeholders. Hands-on testing experience on various applications. Contributed heavily and implemented testing process to infrastructure initiatives
  • Regularly reviewing the PRs to bring in better coding standards and decrease maintenance of the tests
  • Developed Stubbing framework for IOS Client with WireMock Sever for fault injection testing and Mocking scenarios with XCUI Test framework.
Test Strategy DevelopmentRelease ManagementStakeholder CommunicationHands-on TestingTesting Process ImplementationStubbing Framework Development

Lead SDET Engineer

Dec 2016Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Snapdeal

Senior SDET

Jul 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Project: Snapdeal Seller App
  • Headed the QA org overseeing the e2e qa of seller app and deployment of scalable technology solutions to support the company's rapid growth.
  • Established and led a team of 8 QA members of mobile, backend and web engineers in Bangalore, India, focusing on building complete seller ecosystem for snapdeal.
  • Designed and implemented Robust automation suite from scratch using appium on mobile automation
  • Automated 100% of sanity test cases and 80% of regression test cases and the respective suites to the dev build pipeline which resulted in saving QA bandwidth by almost 30% for every release and this ensured QA got quality builds from the engineering team every release
End-to-End QA ManagementScalable Technology SolutionsAutomation Suite DesignRegression Testing

Walmart

Engineer -QA 2

Dec 2012Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos · BANGALORE

  • Project: Sam’s Club (www.samsclub.com)
  • Involved in the end to end integration testing of the product which includes different applications the website, order management system, customer service center application.
  • Requirement analysis, finding out test scenarios, test case design and complete ownership on E2E testing.
  • Have automated the various modules of project through Selenium Web driver using TestNG Framework, Page object model and Maven.
  • Have helped new team members through KT process to get hold of the application pretty quickly.
  • Have Gone to USA for Project delivery for short trip and interacted with Business and Leadership.
Integration TestingRequirement AnalysisTest Case DesignAutomation with Selenium

Symphony teleca

SDET

Oct 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore,India

  • Project: Advantage UI and RPM (IRI)
  • Validate UI Modules and verifying the reports creation modules for various client with e2e flows.
  • DB testing by writing SQL queries and stored procedures Perform Functional/Regression Test/ UAT for product.
  • Performed the automation of modules through Robot framework with Keyword Driven testing
UI ValidationDB TestingFunctional TestingAutomation with Robot Framework

Education

Arya College of Engineering & I.T, Jaipur

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

Kailash vidya vihar,Nimbahera(Rajasthan)

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