Self-driven and Dynamic IT (QA) leader with strong project leadership skills. 11 years of Expertise in Quality Assurance within Telecom, healthcare, and Retail domains.Have worked with telecom industry giants (as clients) - AT&T, TELUS (Canada), Time Warner Cables.Hands-on experience of Working on both Waterfall & Agile projects.Roles performed : - Associate Manager - 3 years - Accenture - TELUS (Canada) QA engagement. - WLN (Wireline) Portfolio Manager of an OSS-BSS-based project with a team size of 15. The portfolio included WLN Network service Provisioning, Assurance & Activation network operations, Workforce management, and Mediation zone in Waterfall, Agile and hybrid modes. - Responsible from Project initiation to closure, Time & Cost estimations, resource management, Release management, Risks, and mitigation Handling. - Created QA Reports, Release health check reports for senior Management & Client based on Project's standard KPIs.- Test Lead - (Accenture - AT&T) QA Engagement- QA Team Lead for the Project with a team size of 9 members. -Documented test Plans, test Approaches, test Strategies, risk calculations involving all the stakeholders.-Automated Regression suite using Selenium (Java) and reduced QA cost up to 20 % per release.-Worked on an internal Accenture -POC "SAP Retail Factory" as a Test Lead involving, Data Modelling, data gathering through different SAP systems (CRM, POSDM, ECC), and conducting End to End test flows with Hadoop - SAP HANA and Tableau. -Worked in Agile, worked closely with BAs and tested builds in scrums.-Created Automation scripts using Selenium (Python & Java).-Performed different kinds of testing like Smoke test, black box, white box, GUI, Functionality, unit, integration, Regression, Usability, Mobile testing, System, UAT (User Acceptance)of web and client/server applications, Automation testing.-Documented defects using Quality Centre ALM, Bugzilla, JIRA, ClearQuest-Prepared QA Status reports determining product quality and release readiness.