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- Lead role in designing and building a new BDD web automation framework using Playwright/Python/Behave/Cucumber- Supervised/mentored offshore automation team tasked with automating tests on a native Android application using Appium/Node.js - Executed a shift-left strategy of testing by implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions- Achieved automation improvements in execution time by 30% and reduced false positives by 50%- Identified and led an initiative to integrate API testing for both manual and automated testing, significantly reducing testing times- Created dashboards to track testing & development metrics using Zephyr and Jira- Performed manual sanity, smoke & regression tests for web and native Android applications

- Supervised/mentored a team of five automation engineers embedded across eight product teams- Led efforts to improve, scale and optimize existing automation frameworks using Ruby/RSpec/Watir/Taurus/Postman- Created and executed on testing strategy for a DynamoDB to PostgreSQL migration- Led testing efforts on a conversion from a REST API only (no UI) product to a Single Page Application product. - Led efforts to integrate & standardize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions across all product teams- Supervised the integration/roll out of TestRail across all automation projects- Created dashboards to track testing metrics using Jira, TestRail and custom reporters- Performed manual sanity, smoke & regression testing- Created and led monthly team coding sessions, onboarding documentation, and take-home assignments, improving team knowledge and onboarding efficiency.

- Led the design and implementation of a Ruby/BDD/Watir/SeeTest/Appium global automationframework supporting 30+ product teams and 200+ automation engineers.- Integrated Appium, SeeTest, and Watir test frameworks to support smoke, integration,functional, API and performance testing including parallel testing and CI/CD pipelinemanagement.- Created test environment management systems in Ruby on Rails, achieving 99% systemavailability.- Trained teams on BDD methodologies and created sandbox environments for automationtesting.- Built an automated API to manage encryption and decryption of device data using proprietaryencryption schemes.- Designed and taught a comprehensive framework and coding training course for engineers.