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 2021 – Present · 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 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

Make my trip

2 roles

Principal QA Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Dec 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 2016 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Snapdeal

Senior SDET

Jul 2015 – Dec 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 2012 – Jul 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 2010 – Dec 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