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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Independently managing a 12+ member QA team and partnering with SDMs/TPMs/PMs/SDETs to drive planning/development/coordination and test strategies of bi-weekly feature releases.Managing all aspects of QA team, including performance reviews, career development and training as required.Driving org wide QA initiatives and establishing best practices in automation and manual testing activities with an estimated gain in time of 3 weeks per release cycle and 45% improvement in automation stability.Establishing QA roadmaps, defi ning quarterly goals and partnering with customers/stakeholders to deliver an overall test strategy.De fining, tracking and improving QA Metrics to measure team productivity, development progress, product quality and operational excellence.Interviewed 60+ QAE candidates and actively mentored QAEs/QAMs to drive their own development and learning by discussing career goals, strengths and areas for development, and identifying development activities.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Greater Seattle Area

Designed and reviewed test plans and test strategies covering functional and non- functional tests for features compatible across FOS, Android, iOS platforms and Desktop Applications on Windows and Mac Operating Systems.Drove org wide initiatives and improvements - Test Rail Onboarding, QA OnCall Scheduling, One Stop Shop QA documentations, Test Plan/JIRA templates, Release Management Processes, Deprecation of OS versions for testing based on half-yearly user metrics.Optimised regression test suites reducing sign-off cycle by 2 days and saving 1.5 manual resources per test cycle.Led team wide automation initiatives and reduced 7 days of manual testing efforts by developing keywords using C++ keyword based automation framework.

Greater Seattle Area

Prepared Test Plans and Test Cases based on functional requirements and design specifications for multiple projects.Collaborated with Developers, Product Managers and User Experience Researchers and contributed towards developing features to enable better user experience.Identified and filed bugs in JIRA and conducted weekly bug triages with development leads and product managers to prioritize and fix the bugs.Developed and executed automation scripts and increased the P0 automation coverage from 15% to 75%.Interviewed Software Test Engineer candidates and mentored team members on product and Quality Assurance practices.Created stories in JIRA and participated in Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming and Sprint Retrospective meetings and tracked Sprint progress.Extensive experience in UI testing, API testing, Manual Regression testing, Manual End-to-End testing, Black Box Testing, Multi-Browser testing.Led bi-weekly Sprint Release testing and coordinated with development team to track testing status and software quality.

Greater Seattle Area

Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Document, System Requirement Specifications and Use Case document to set testing strategy and objectives.Prepared Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Effort estimation document for System testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.Tested Device Detail Pages across Browsers and on Mobile (Android and IOS) devices and Tablet devices manually and using Selenium Web Driver.Performed Regression Testing of web applications and organized bug bashes with related teams to track down the bugs.Involved in developing an automation framework using Selenium Web Driver to conduct Smoke testing of Device Detail Pages after launch.Collaborated with LTPMs, PMs, Site Merchandise Teams and Developers across Market Places and logged defects using SIM (Simple Issues Management) tool.Created and executed automation scripts for DAMS (Device Ads Management Services) API testing across Market Places using Selenium Web Driver and TestNG.

Mysore, Karnataka, India

Led a 4-member team and tested multiple complex projects involving functional and non- functional testing - Performing static testing on business requirements, preparing traceability matrices, test scenarios/test cases, developing SQL queries, test case execution, preparing defect reports and updating project status to the client through status calls/reports.Scripted and executed automated test scripts using UFT to uncover web application defects during regression testing, reducing manual testing efforts by 50% per test cycle.