Accomplished and results-driven Test Team Lead with over 12+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Automation, and Test Strategy Development. Expertise in managing large multi-site teams, leading automation frameworks, and implementing Agile (Scrum, BDD, and TDD) best practices. A proven leader adept at mentoring and inspiring teams, aligning test strategies with business goals, and driving process improvements. Passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions with rapid release cycles while ensuring robust stakeholder management.
Senior Test Engineer
· Managed and Lead the team of 8 members from offshore and the end- to-end testing lifecycle for key banking applications, ensuring quality and system integrity throughout.
· Lead Scrum ceremonies, driving continuous improvement in Agile practices and ensuring that testing was completed on time, contributing to the successful launch of major features.
· Implemented automated testing frameworks that decreased manual testing effort by 30%, resulting in more efficient release cycles.
· Collaborated closely with development and business teams to ensure requirements were accurately captured and fully tested.
· Played a key role in defining project scope and estimating QA efforts, ensuring optimal resource allocation and successful delivery.
· Participated in walkthroughs and review meetings to finalize documents and ensure comprehensive testing scope coverage.
· Coordinated with the Onshore Team to establish work priorities and resolve queries.
· Transferred knowledge and trained team members on project-specific requirements.
· Tracked changes and additions to requirements and implemented the changes to the test scenarios and cases ensuring the test coverage
Test Engineer
• Analysis & review of Business Requirement Document.
• Working with Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts and Project Management to review the requirement documents (Requirement Analysis), solution proposal documents, coordinate test and implementation activities.
• Preparing test artifacts such as test cases for the new and old features based on functional specification documents.
• Test Execution - Execution of the test case and documentation of the test results.
• Daily / Periodic deliveries, status reporting and project communications to QA Leads and Managers
Open to both onsite (UK) and remote roles.