Mehal Patel Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, MO, US

United States

United States

• Led all aspects of software quality assurance and test engineering in Zelis CCS technology organization.
• Led delivery teams with end-to-end accountability and responsibility for ensuring the quality of our products that enable the continued growth of Zelis.
• Built and expanded high performing global QA/Test Engineering team.
• Managed offshore vendors for software testing and knowledge transfer process from external vendors to internal team member.
• Designated Full-Stack, Hands-on Quality Assurance leader, designed the Test Automation framework architecture and Manual testing framework to support Manual/Automation testing needs and easy integration with Azure.
• Championed the automation transformation with automation first mindset for the QA Engineering team and ensured that all software products meet the highest standards of quality through automation. This transformation.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Led all aspects of software quality engineering and test automation in AutoAlert technology organization.
• Designated Full-Stack, Hands-on Quality Assurance/Test Engineering Director, involved in the Web and Mobile UI/API Manual and Automated testing.
• Championed the culture change and transformation in the organization which led to a successful shift from waterfall to Agile Methodology.
• Managed associates following principles of servant leadership that resulted in a high-performance team.
• Defined and documented QA standards and processes for QA/Test Engineering department.
• Designed and implemented testing framework from scratch to support Manual/Automation testing needs and easy integration with CI tools like Jenkins.

Milwaukee, WI & New York City, NY

• As a Test Engineering (QA) Director, involved in planning/performing Automated testing using open-source technologies (Selenium: WebdriverIO, Node.js, Chai, BDD, Cucumber, Gherkin, Gitlab) and Manual testing.
• Managed and oversaw the daily operations of the test engineering department.
• Collaborated with product owners, test engineers and development team on product development and release processes.
• Involved in hiring, building, and leading a Test Engineering/QA team.
• Involved in product roadmap and test planning meetings and gave feedback on its impact on the test engineering department.
• Supervised the orchestration, implementation, and assessment of software testing initiatives conducted by both onshore and offshore teams, ensuing adherence to project milestones and quality benchmarks.

Mission, Kansas

• Managing all aspects of software QA and test automation in Vinsolutions technology organization.
• Created automation framework for UI/API testing and reusable template for software test engineers
• Perform Automated Testing, Manual Testing and Defect Tracking for car dealer's Web Sites, CRM, Marketing/Campaign, Inventory Management and DMS integration.
• Design and develop the automation script in Selenium Webdriver and UFT.
• Created automated scripts for Vin Mobile app / websites using Mobile Labs Trust
• Integrated Jenkins with QC(ALM) for test set execution for CI/CD release process

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City, Missouri Area