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Results-driven Quality Engineering Leader and Test Architect with 12+ years of experience building scalable, automation-first QA ecosystems for cloud-native, distributed platforms. Proven expertise in SDET practices, test architecture design, and AI-driven testing strategies, enabling high-quality releases across enterprise systems. Led QA transformation for platforms supporting 100+ engineers, reducing regression cycles from 2 days to 4 hours and cutting production defects by ~70%. Strong background in CI/CD pipelines, microservices testing, and cloud platforms (OCI), with growing focus on AI-assisted test automation, intelligent test generation, and self-healing frameworks. Recognized for driving engineering excellence, quality at scale, and cross-team leadership, while mentoring teams into high-performing automation contributors.
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Principal Engineer – Quality Engineering Lead / QA Manager
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Jan 2023 - Present
Owned quality strategy for Oracle’s Observability Platform, ensuring release readiness and platform reliability across 3 teams (~100 engineers) supporting mission-critical infrastructure monitoring for global enterprises e.g. PayPal, Zoom, and Uber. Defined QA strategy and release governance while acting as Scrum Master for two cross-functional teams (~25 engineers), improving sprint execution and enabling a shift from hotfix-heavy releases to predictable monthly production deployments. Brought down regression execution time from over 2 days to under 4 hours by designing and implementing enterprise-grade test architecture for UI and API automation across distributed microservices systems, enabling automation at scale across 4000+ daily executions. Collaborated closely with product management and engineering leadership to drive go/no-go release decisions, proactively identifying delivery risks and ensuring production stability for a platform supporting enterprise-grade monitoring and alerting systems. Mentored engineers and upskilled manual testers to contribute to automation frameworks, enabling cross-team ownership of quality engineering and reducing manual testing effort by ~50% while improving overall engineering productivity. Improved testing coverage and automation maturity, reducing production defect leakage by ~70%, strengthening platform reliability for enterprise customers running mission-critical workloads on OCI. Established standardized automation frameworks, testing guidelines, and CI practices across multiple teams, improving delivery predictability and ensuring consistent quality for a large distributed engineering organization. Led organization-wide QA transformation initiatives, aligning engineering leadership with quality strategy and delivery risk management.
Test Lead
Dish Network
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Led a team of 6 QA engineers, owning end-to-end test strategy and delivery for multi-platform OTT streaming applications used across connected TV ecosystems. Designed and implemented a cross-platform automation framework supporting Fire TV, Roku, Verizon STB, and LG Smart TVs, enabling scalable validation across diverse device ecosystems. Built and integrated GitLab CI/CD pipelines to execute automated test suites across multiple environments, improving test reliability and accelerating continuous delivery cycles. Drove early requirement reviews with product and engineering teams, improving feature clarity and reducing validation cycles, enabling faster sprint completion and smoother releases. Introduced an automated regression pipeline that significantly reduced manual testing effort and improved regression coverage across critical streaming workflows. Strengthened shift-left testing practices, enabling earlier defect detection and reducing late-stage production fixes, improving overall release stability.
Senior Test Engineer
Wolters Kluwer
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Designed and implemented a BDD automation framework using CodeceptJS and Puppeteer, enabling maintainable test scenarios and improving regression coverage for web applications. Built Azure DevOps CI pipelines to trigger automated test execution on code merges, enabling continuous validation and faster feedback during development cycles. Integrated BrowserStack for scalable cross-browser testing, ensuring consistent functionality across multiple browsers and environments. Conducted hands-on training sessions on CodeceptJS and Puppeteer, enabling broader team adoption of automation and significantly expanding regression test coverage.
Test Engineer
SSP India Pvt Ltd
Jan 2018 - Jan 2021
Developed and maintained automated regression suites using Selenium WebDriver (C#, NUnit, SpecFlow), improving test reliability and reducing manual regression effort. Performed API testing and service validation using ReadyAPI and SOAP UI, ensuring correctness of backend services and integrations. Collaborated closely with developers during test planning, defect triage, and root cause analysis, accelerating defect resolution and reducing retest cycles.
Test Engineer
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Jan 2014 - Jan 2018
Created comprehensive test plans, test cases, and traceability matrices, ensuring full requirement coverage across system testing phases. Implemented Selenium + Cucumber automation framework, enabling reusable automated sanity suites for faster build validation. Performed database validation using SQL queries and root cause analysis, improving defect diagnosis and system reliability. Actively participated in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives) to clarify requirements early and reduce ambiguity-driven defects.
Education
Master of Technology [Dual Degree] - Suresh Gyan Vihar University
2009 - 2014 · Afghanistan
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master I and II
Scrum.org · 2024
Associated Certified Software Test Engineer
Global Association for Quality Management · 2018
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