Have set up testing process, testing practices, and kickstarted testing activities for the project and Provided end to end testing cycle deliverables from implementation phase till production delivery including System test and UAT phase

- Set up QA processes and Best practices for handling aggressive release schedules of product.- Built QA teams by hiring best industry standards talent, resource allocation.- Release management with quality assessment of release candidate by ensuring all cross functional team deliverables.- Goal setting & yearly/half yearly performance assessment.- Mentoring QA directs & team for quality execution/deliverables. - Training on quality management tools/technologies & processes.- Hands on experience on testing practices which includes test plan preparation,test strategy design, delivery, risk management & mitigation.- Good in setting up test automation framework, functional testing using Selenium, Java and testNG.- Solid understanding of Product life cycles like Waterfall,iterative, Agile scrum processes & methodologies.- Worked across multiple projects with aggressive timelines.- Experience in managing virtual teams, client interaction & collaborating with cross functional teams.- Production monitoring & addressing customer facing issues.- Managing desktop, mobile web based projects & native real estate mobile apps.

Hands on experience as QA manager, Responsible for QA delivery for weekly releases, implementation of QA processes/standards and QA in charge for all QA aspects in the organization• Establishing multiple QA teams from the scratch• Leading QA function and QA point of contact in the organization• Leading test automation framework development using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG• Supporting CI/CD and Devops for product releases at organization level• Establishing & implementing quality processes and QA best practices from the ground up• Helping team to transition from traditional model to Agile• Budget control, Resource management, technical talent acquisition, problem resolution, delegation, performance evaluation, decision making, mentoring/coaching

- Identifying project scope, Planning QA activities, formulating test strategy, managing test execution, review of activities, decision making, task prioritization, root cause analysis and test reporting. - Taking care of test automation using selenium, maintain existing test suite in working condition, review of test scripts, enhancing automation coverage for feature additions.- Recruiting, Resource allocation, managing training for the team, managing day to day activities, evaluating performance of team, conducting appraisals and analyzing data in order to improve efficiency of team. - Mentoring and Coaching of team, problem solving and conflict resolution.- Team motivation, responsible for recommending rewards and recognition for the team. - Co-ordinate with project stake holder(Dev, Product and onsite QA teams) for technical clarifications regarding the builds and product features which helps in prioritizing the tasks and decision making - Provide regular status updates to Management with respect to project and team.- Organizing team meetings, Brainstorming sessions, building relationship within team with team building activitiesAchievements: - Took over MapQuest QA team, identified gaps and organized team activities which resulted in smooth delivery of releases as per schedule - Have lead MapQuest product QA by building and expanding the team from 7 to 14 members by accepting challenge of setting up new team for new product component delivery. - Hired the resources and got them up to speed in very short time when new teams had to set up for Route planner, MMX beacon project deliverables which helped to reach high technical confidence from onsite stake holders. - Have set up end to end testing process, guidelines and templates needed for widget launches which resulted in appreciation from onsite project stake holders - Delivered very urgent Qa requirement for City’s Best testing

Responsibilities:- Lead the offshore QA team, resource utilization with task allocation, prioritization - Formulating Test strategy, Creation of Test Cases and Test report using Test Link- Facilitating QA environment/test set up and Build deployment to QA,- Mentoring team, handling test deliverables, Defect Review and prioritization.- Managing end to end testing, Managing Customer related issues/comments and facilitating UAT tests, Creating release notes for release candidate build qualification- Coordinating with development team in facilitating bug fixing and resolving issues.- Interaction with onsite team lead and reporting team status to onsite on daily basis.Achievements:- Smoothly managed offshore qa team which resulted in appreciation from onsite QA manager.- Identified as single point of contact for answering to client comments/questions during the UAT test by client, which helped product manager to improve the client relationship and satisfaction- Taken the initiative in getting requirements/specification document well refined with effective review comments which resulted in avoiding wrong implementation of some of features and thus saved considerable cost saving.- Have done extensive back end log analysis for to confirm that a critical issue found is not third party service related which resulted in dev fixing the bug which otherwise would have been resulted release roll back.

Responsibilities:- Coordinating to get requirements, functional and design specification documents.- Writing test cases, executing test cases, reporting defects through bug report.- Providing the technical support and suggestions to improve the design and functionality of product for usability.- Conducting training to enhance functionality and standardization for Team members.- Providing all relevant information to developers in order to facilitate bug fixing and resolving issues.- Maintaining and updating test plans, test cases, test environment and defect reports.Achievements:- Worked independently as sole responsible person for setting up test process, test strategy along with individually executing testcases providing release support.- Took over the responsibility of testing entire Asset management product when there was no test team set up and there was no management guidance with respect to handling quality of product.

Responsibilities:- Understand specification Document and design documents.- Installation, setting system environment variables and editing dependent files for the product.- Testcase creation, Test execution, bug reporting- Coordinating with onsite dev team for facilitating bug fixing- Training new Team members as per project requirement. Achievements:- Was member of pilot team to represent company in Australia to get testing project in India Due to outstanding performance in the job assigned, my deputation period was extended by one more month and also resulted in getting testing of product outsourced to India team.