Key Achievements:Strategic Leadership: Led an Agile team, achieving a remarkable 30% efficiency improvement in the continuous validation of web applications, system-to-system interfaces, and complete software solutions.Innovative Automation: Designed and executed automation scenarios for diverse system interfaces, resulting in successful validations and reducing manual efforts by 60%.Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborated with 15+ stakeholders to optimize test plans… Show more Key Achievements:Strategic Leadership: Led an Agile team, achieving a remarkable 30% efficiency improvement in the continuous validation of web applications, system-to-system interfaces, and complete software solutions.Innovative Automation: Designed and executed automation scenarios for diverse system interfaces, resulting in successful validations and reducing manual efforts by 60%.Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborated with 15+ stakeholders to optimize test plans, enhancing overall testing efficiency and ensuring alignment with project goals.Defect Reduction: Successfully reduced the defect rate by 20% through effective communication of quality metrics and resolution of code defects.Performance Testing Excellence: Executed over 10 performance test strategies, ensuring seamless functionality of critical software components.Process Optimization: Identified and implemented 8 process improvements, contributing to a more efficient testing framework and mentoring over 20 junior team members.Additional Responsibilities:Demonstrated leadership in overseeing test teams across diverse projects, domains, and locations.Strategically enhanced test automation by building repeatable infrastructure, minimizing manual efforts, and empowering QA engineers to expand automated testing skills.Proactively led customer calls, reviews, and stakeholder meetings to ensure effective communication, gather feedback, and address concerns or challenges.Optimized testing practices, streamlined processes with development activities, reducing redundancy and mitigating risks, enhancing efficiency across multiple projects.Proficient in the Software Test Lifecycle, encompassing Test Planning, Strategy, Design, Estimation, Execution, Data Creation & Validation, Review, and Defect Reporting & Verification.A dedicated learner committed to staying abreast of industry trends and technological advancements. Show less

- Act as a client advocate for prominent customers, driving their interests and ensuring their success- Regularly interact with clients, understanding their requirements, and suggesting suitable products- Lead client demos, customer engagements, and Early Adopter Programs for GA'ed products- Manage the end-to-end testing lifecycle of products, including requirement analysis, test execution, and delivery to production- Review quality specifications and technical design documents,… Show more - Act as a client advocate for prominent customers, driving their interests and ensuring their success- Regularly interact with clients, understanding their requirements, and suggesting suitable products- Lead client demos, customer engagements, and Early Adopter Programs for GA'ed products- Manage the end-to-end testing lifecycle of products, including requirement analysis, test execution, and delivery to production- Review quality specifications and technical design documents, providing timely and meaningful feedback- Prepare and maintain a test automation platform for TDD/BDD, conducting product functional reviews, and creating requirement traceability matrices- Manage the software quality process, including defect prevention, metrics collection, team leadership, and issue resolution- Monitor QA testing activities to ensure the quality and functionality of assigned systems, maintaining effective communication with development leads, project managers, and senior management throughout the project lifecycle Show less

Key Achievements:Subject Matter Expertise: Directed the testing life cycle for a portfolio of 20 features as the SME for IBM Notes Calendar.Automation Excellence: Spearheaded the creation and enhancement of automation for the Calendar, automating the CDCI life cycle, including BVT, FVT, and SVT cycles, resulting in a 40% improvement in testing efficiency.Stakeholder Engagement: Led daily status meetings, weekly defect review calls, and stakeholder discussions to ensure… Show more Key Achievements:Subject Matter Expertise: Directed the testing life cycle for a portfolio of 20 features as the SME for IBM Notes Calendar.Automation Excellence: Spearheaded the creation and enhancement of automation for the Calendar, automating the CDCI life cycle, including BVT, FVT, and SVT cycles, resulting in a 40% improvement in testing efficiency.Stakeholder Engagement: Led daily status meetings, weekly defect review calls, and stakeholder discussions to ensure effective communication within the team.Customer Empowerment: Produced and delivered multiple informative collaterals for IBM Notes, empowering customers to navigate their journey confidently.Automation Framework: Formulated and executed the automation framework for IBM Notes, contributing to a 30% reduction in manual testing efforts.DevOps Automation: Automated the DevOps process using Jenkins, creating pipelines for job execution that resulted in a 40% acceleration of the deployment process.Additional Responsibilities:Engaged in extensive client interactions, understanding their requirements, suggesting products, and driving client demos, customer engagements, and Early Adopter Programs. Show less

Key Achievements:Subject Matter Expertise: Directed the testing life cycle for a portfolio of multiple features as the SME for IBM Notes Calendar. Automation Excellence: Spearheaded the creation and enhancement of automation for the Calendar, automating the CDCI life cycle, including BVT, FVT, and SVT cycles, resulting in a 40% improvement in testing efficiency.Stakeholder Engagement: Led daily status meetings, weekly defect review calls, and stakeholder discussions to… Show more Key Achievements:Subject Matter Expertise: Directed the testing life cycle for a portfolio of multiple features as the SME for IBM Notes Calendar. Automation Excellence: Spearheaded the creation and enhancement of automation for the Calendar, automating the CDCI life cycle, including BVT, FVT, and SVT cycles, resulting in a 40% improvement in testing efficiency.Stakeholder Engagement: Led daily status meetings, weekly defect review calls, and stakeholder discussions to ensure effective communication within the team. Customer Empowerment: Produced and delivered multiple informative collaterals for IBM Notes, empowering customers to navigate their journey confidently.Automation Framework: Formulated and executed the automation framework for IBM Notes, contributing to a 30% reduction in manual testing efforts.DevOps Automation: Automated the DevOps process using Jenkins, creating pipelines for job execution that resulted in a 40% acceleration of the deployment process.Additional Responsibilities:Engaged in extensive client interactions, understanding their requirements, suggesting products, and driving client demos, customer engagements, and Early Adopter Programs.Key Achievements: Skills: Communication · Test Management · Python (Programming Language) · Test Automation · Continuous Integration (CI) Show less

Onsite Lead for Energy and Petroleum client from IBM.

Worked as a Quality Analyst for one of the leading Banks in Investment banking for APAC region - collected requirements, generated test plans, test designs, and built test cases successfullyEfficiently used Quality Center to manage a library of 1000 test cases. Reorganized test case hierarchy reducing time to prepare test suites from 1 day to several minutesCollaborated with developers and Quality Analysts in a 10-person team to enhance the software qualityFacilitated defect status… Show more Worked as a Quality Analyst for one of the leading Banks in Investment banking for APAC region - collected requirements, generated test plans, test designs, and built test cases successfullyEfficiently used Quality Center to manage a library of 1000 test cases. Reorganized test case hierarchy reducing time to prepare test suites from 1 day to several minutesCollaborated with developers and Quality Analysts in a 10-person team to enhance the software qualityFacilitated defect status calls and successfully managed to report, track, and resolve software defectsGenerated test reports, and testing schedules for coordinating each testing cycle Show less

Engaged in testing activities and actively contributed to the testing lifecycle