I am a Software QA Manager with 16.5+ years of overall IT experience.Managing a team of 40+ team members, including of 8 leads, in planning and comprehensive testing in 10+ projects and their PODs simultaneously.Managing the QA policies and standard procedures resulting in overall improvement in software quality.Managing web based, cloud based, Mobile app, API testing using both manual and automation testing.Implemented automated testing tools and frameworks which reduced the project delivery timeline by 50%.Implemented Azure Devops test management tool for managing user stories, test cases and bugs to smoothly managing testing.Involvement in full project life cycle from requirement gathering, development, testing, delivery and support.Creating Test Plan and Test Strategy documents for various projects.Responsible for providing Test Estimations, Risks and Mitigations for hassle free delivery of project.Following Agile and Kanban testing methodologies in different projects.Responsible for selection/allocation of eligible team members in project considering project timelines and cost.Managing Daily Scrum call, client calls, different management calls, cross team calls and KT calls.Extensive collaboration with cross functional teams to ensure quality goals and timely delivery.Regular team evaluation and training sessions to enhance team members’ skills and knowledge.Direct Reporting to Project Head or Delivery Head for regular delivery updates.Extensive experience to work with different development methodology viz. Agile, Devops, Incremental model, Waterfall & V-Model.Responsible for selection/allocation of eligible team members in project considering project timelines and cost.Extensive experience in different testing types viz. Integration, Functional, System, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, SIT, UAT, GUI, Browser Compatibility, Usability, Data Migration, Mobile App, DB Testing, Basic security and Performance testing.Know how to work in tight and restricted timeline with limited resources without compromising product quality.Ability to demonstrate strategic thinking when developing test scenarios and cases, identify failures and their root causes, define corrective actions, raising defects, communication with cross teams, escalations, etc.Formally communicate with Client, Management and Cross Teams for status update and project discussion.Efficiently creating daily and weekly status reports with complete analysis for internal team and clients.Providing UAT Support from Onsite and Offshore to client because of strong functional knowledge.