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Ashish Mahidhariya

Ashish Mahidhariya

Norwich,NFK

Summary

  • Senior QA Automation Engineer and Test Lead with 8+ years of experience delivering quality engineering across large scale web, customer facing, and digital platform applications.
  • Proven track record of leading QA activities across multiple agile projects, supporting platform test strategy, safeguarding sprint quality, reviewing test coverage, and driving release readiness in close partnership with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, and senior stakeholders.
  • Strong background in functional and non functional testing, risk analysis, defect triage, regression governance, release sign off support, and continuous process improvement.
  • Experienced in building automation frameworks from scratch, selecting the right automation technology stack, mentoring QA engineers, and improving team capability through structured training, code reviews, and hands on support.
  • Driven individual with exceptional analytical and problem solving skills, combined with robust background in software development and quality assurance methodologies. Proven ability to lead cross functional teams and implement effective QA processes to enhance product reliability. Thrives on delivering high quality results and continuous improvement.
  • Critical thinker and problem solver drives process improvements by scrutinizing current systems. Applies out of the box thinking to analyse risk, overcome obstacles and secure desired results while seeing bigger picture. Translates data into meaningful, actionable insights.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior QA lead

Aviva
Norwich, Norfolk
2024.04 - Current
  • Partner with Product Owners to analyse requirements and story acceptance criteria, ensuring test coverage aligns with business scope and sprint objectives.
  • Work closely with Scrum Masters on bug triage, project status, requirement timelines, and sprint delivery risks to support smooth execution.
  • Provide QA oversight for sprint releases, ensuring scoped requirements are delivered to the expected quality standard at the end of each sprint.
  • Lead weekly QA catch ups to review goals, milestones, testing priorities, blockers, and project delivery status across active work streams.
  • Review test cases and test coverage across 4 projects, improving consistency, completeness, and alignment to requirements.
  • Support the team with test plan creation, risk analysis, test activity reviews, and quality governance across smoke, regression, and functional testing cycles.
  • Review smoke and regression execution reports, track quality trends, and help ensure release decisions are made with clear test evidence and risk visibility.
  • Review release notes and collaborate with delivery teams to support smooth releases and demos.
  • Provide monthly updates to senior management on QA activities, resource allocation, workload priorities, testing progress, and delivery risks.
  • Manage resource and task allocation based on project workload, sprint scope, release demand, and team capacity.
  • Lead QA automation capability uplift through training sessions, practical assignments, code reviews, debugging support, and hands on mentoring.
  • Improved the QA team’s automation capability by 65% through structured coaching, practical learning plans, and ongoing technical support.
  • Selected the automation technology stack and designed the automation framework architecture from scratch, including scalable folder structure, reusable libraries, and execution standards.
  • Built automation that supports parallel cross browser regression execution, automated reporting to stakeholders, and TestRail integration for coverage and execution visibility.

Senior QA Engineer

Conga Software
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
2022.08 - 2023.09
  • Actively participated in requirement reviews, offering valuable suggestions to both Business Analysts and Developers in agile model.
  • Coordinated with three cross-functional sprint teams and provided regular updates on QA activities, progress, and obtained estimated time of arrival (ETA) for open defects from each team.
  • Managed sprint stories and defects, aiding QA team members in estimation, initiating test case writing with peer reviews, and concurrently maintaining automation scripts.
  • Assisted developers in proper defect reporting by providing essential proof, test steps, API responses, environment details, and logged-in user information.
  • Prepared requirements traceability matrix to ensure comprehensive coverage of all requirements with corresponding test cases.
  • Monitored daily progress of sprint stories and defect statuses to ensure timely release.
  • Produced weekly reports on defects, sprint statistics, and conducted project risk assessments for managers and stakeholders.
  • Assisted manager in developing test plan, providing required data for test report, and participating in monthly project progress meetings.
  • Executed test suites for smoke and regression testing, also responsible for creating test cycles in qTest for manual test case execution.
  • Tasked with conducting smoke and regression testing, and responsible for release sign-off document, which encompasses all details of release.
  • Provided functional query support for documentation to sales team and actively participated in production testing. - Documented QA process to onboard newcomers in project.

QA Engineer

Azilen Technologies
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
2017.05 - 2022.07
  • Skilled in understanding Software Requirement Specification and identifying required software Test Scenarios.
  • Conducted diverse black box testing methodologies, including Functionality testing, Compatibility Testing, API Testing, and Regression testing.
  • Executed comprehensive regression and functional testing using Selenium scripts with Jenkins to ensure quality of web application and facilitate continuous deployment.
  • Played key role in task estimation and prioritization.
  • Created and Tracked defects in jira and generated data for critical Reports.
  • Maintained regular communication with development team to address defects identified during testing.
  • Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors.
  • Actively participated in regular weekly project status meetings, collaborating with teammates and team lead to discuss ongoing project risks.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Programming

GTU
India
2016

Diploma - Computer Science And Programming

GTU
India
2013

Skills

  • Automation and Programming: Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, TestNG, Maven
  • Test Management and Delivery: Jira, TestRail, qTest, Agile/Scrum, requirements traceability, defect triage, release sign off support
  • API and Data: Postman, REST API testing, MySQL, MongoDB
  • Quality and Non Functional Testing: Functional testing, integration testing, UAT, exploratory testing, smoke testing, sanity testing, regression testing, cross browser testing, accessibility testing, performance testing, JMeter
  • DevOps and Tooling: Git, GitHub, Jenkins, CI ready automation reporting
  • Continuous improvement initiatives
  • Process Improvement
  • Team Leadership

Projects

  • CCL (conga component library): it’s a common component library which is used by another application team to develop their application, lower level components like buttons, text box, labels, icons, High level Components like Grid, Advance search, date picker, Column selector, Component layout editor, view management, basic search, typeahead component etc.
  • Conga Admin Portal: Admin Application is consist modules like User, Roles and permission management, organization management, schema management, configuration management, translation workbench etc. all this module is used by many application teams to maintain user and roles and permission for their application users also they widely used configuration management for component which is used in there application.
  • RMS (Moody’s Analytics Company): RMS is a natural calamity Data research company which collects the data and shows statistics and analytics on past, current and future information with proof of documents.
  • Mindscope (Staffing and recruitment web application): Mindscope is a Recruitment site for various companies and candidates. It is a classified portal for employers and candidates in Canada, And they are providing staffing and recruitment related solutions like they have different modules like company, candidate, preferences, job structure etc.
  • Mint (HR management system): HRMS system provides so many modules like employee Detail, leave management, timesheet management, Employee Training Management, Sprint Management, Employee evaluation, Project management, Policy Management apart from this, we have reports like allocation report, leave report, timesheet report, attendance report, payroll report. It's not only encapsulating an Employee Tracking System product but also a powerful Employee Relationship Management, Scheduling, Email Management, Reporting, Analytics etc.
  • Ikreawi (Mobile application): Medical students’ assessment mobile application based on question answer and account management with in-app purchase option also includes Web services testing and API performance testing.
  • FILM WRAPS (Solution for Automotive Kit Designing, Editing and Plotting): Project provides kit designing solution specifically for the automotive industry. Earlier, the client was using third party software for designing and plotting kits for the automobiles. The requirement of the client was to develop a solution that would allow their users to login to their account, search, edit and plot custom kits. In addition to that, the client needed an interface for the administrator to perform data activity and configuration.

Personal Information

Title: Senior QA Engineer

Competencies

5,5,4,5,5,4

Certification

STQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL).

Timeline

Senior QA lead

Aviva
2024.04 - Current

Senior QA Engineer

Conga Software
2022.08 - 2023.09

QA Engineer

Azilen Technologies
2017.05 - 2022.07

Diploma - Computer Science And Programming

GTU

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Programming

GTU
Ashish Mahidhariya