An innovative and forward-thinking QA leader with over 17 years of experience in various leadership roles. I have expertise in project management, test management, product management, and pre-sales engineering. I am also skilled in strategic and tactical planning, client relationship management, corporate governance, and change management.With a domain expertise that includes retail, e-commerce, logistics, insurance, wealth management, and core banking, I haves worked with top companies in the industry. I am currently serving as the Director of QA at SHOPUP, Bangalore, where I am responsible for overall QA operations across all business units. I have set up test automation frameworks, defined QA processes and metrics, and set up agile processes and Jira workflows. He has also implemented CI/CD strategies for build deployments and release management.Before this current role, I have served as the Lead of QA at Fitch Ratings in London, where I set up QA processes and metrics, implemented automation frameworks, and managed vendor relationships. I have also developed performance test strategies and CI/CD strategies for test automation.As the Test Manager at Nous Infosystems, Bangalore, where he set up a QA team in Coimbatore location and increased team size from 10 to 40. I have implemented shift left and right approaches in projects with the help of CI/CD and managed multiple high-profile projects including end-to-end delivery.I am a test automation and performance testing expert and has worked with tools such as Katalon Studio, UFT, LoadRunner, Neoload, JMeter, QTP, MySQL, Oracle, ALM, Test Rail, Jira, VS Test manager, Github, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, SoapUI, Confluence, Browser stack, and Lambda test. I am also skilled in test and project management, product management, CI/CD, databases, agile project management, head of QA, and API testing.Irsath holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. He is fluent in English, Tamil, and Hindi.