Arpan Bhargava

Driving Quality Engineering Transformation & Customer Engagement Leading QE transformation initiatives focusing on customer-centric delivery and digital innovation. Implementing platform-level test strategies and leveraging Gen AI (e.g., GitHub Co-Pilot) to enhance Dev/Test lifecycle efficiency and shift-left testing practices.

🔹 Accelerating Delivery with Automation & Virtualization Championing faster routes to market through advanced test automation ( Web and Mobile) and service virtualization (e.g., Wiremock). Delivered high-impact cloud transformation, technology re-platforming, and migration programs.

🔹 Leadership, Growth & Strategy: Managing a team of 40+ QE professionals across web and mobile automation stacks. Responsible for account growth, revenue generation, operations, and technical solutions. Spearheading build and deployment processes, pipelines, and test management via Azure DevOps.

🔹 Collaboration & Portfolio Oversight: Working closely with development, business, and operations teams to deliver on strategic roadmaps. Partnering with POs for backlog management and prioritization. Engaging with platform leads and clients to ensure delivery excellence.

🔹 Governance, Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement: Leading program-level timeline and budget management. Providing executive-level visibility through KPI-based reporting in stakeholder forums. Owning roadmap creation and implementation for migration, testing, and QE strategies.

🔹 Driving Innovation Across Platforms: Collaborating with third-party Quality Managers to implement next-gen test tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, and test strategies across diverse delivery models. Experience spans functional, regression, UAT, A/B testing, NFT, penetration testing, and continuous testing in cloud/container environments.

🔹 Technical Transformation & Cloud Expertise: Successfully led DevOps, DevSecOps, and next-gen QE tooling transformations, including web and Mobile. Experienced in AWS and Azure cloud migrations, Greenfield and ADM programs, and enterprise-scale delivery initiatives.

• Worked as a Test Manager /Scrum Master with testing experience in hand.
• BDD Automation using Selenium+Java and CI using Jenkins, VSTS
• Test Strategy/plan creation, Defect management, Test planning/execution
• Driving all Scrum ceremonies (Lookahead, Estimation sprint planning, standups, review, and retrospectives) for the complete product life cycle and ensuring process improvement
• Encouraged continuous improvement culture through retrospective meetings.
• Enhanced team productivity by facilitating daily stand-up meetings.
• Managed stakeholder expectations, and fostered good working relationships.
• Led sprint planning sessions, and ensured alignment with business objectives.

• Responsible for writing the Test strategy Preparing and executing the test scenarios
• Monitoring and controlling of Test progress
• Worked as a part of a distributed team spanning the US, switzerland,India, and Singapore
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Team Management, Client Management Functional testing, Database Testing, SIT, UAT, and Defect Management.
• Successfully delivered on tasks within tight deadlines.
• Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.

• Worked as OSS/Network Test lead for Next Generation Access products (FTTP/FTTC) for UK Customer
• Responsible for Timebox delivery as part of Agile Delivery Model
• Tested and Implemented the FTTP/FTTC as a greenfield project
• Led an NGA(Next-generation access) team of 15 Members spread across the Test Planning, Network Designing, Test execution (Functional/Automation) etc.

• Writing and execution of test case for Different Core/Access Routers
• Network topology and Resilience testing
• Shell scripting for Automation
• L-2/L3 Protocol testing.

• Testing of Network Management System (NMS/EMS) for Optical CommunicationMaking Test Plan, Test script, Preparing Testbed, executing test suits, Reporting Errors.
• Led the team for testing of Service Pack, Feature Pack and E-Patches.
• Maintain the Documentum database of all Tellabs 6300 product line.
• Execution of Regression Testing/Automation Testing/PA Build and final release of NMS.
• Install/upgrade/downgrade/migration of UNIX Servers.

• Optical SDH Network installation for PGCIL, India
• Commissioning and testing for Optical fibre network
• UAT with the customer