Himanshu Kumar
Edinburgh
Summary
Experienced QA professional with expertise in project scoping, estimation, and team leadership. Proficient in managing QA teams, overseeing both automation and manual testing processes, and conducting functional and API testing. Skilled in utilising tools such as Jira, Confluence, Selenium, Playwright, and GIT version control to ensure seamless project execution. Adept at implementing BDD automation frameworks and leveraging programming languages like Java and Python to enhance testing efficiency. Familiar with cloud technologies, including GCP, to support scalable solutions. Committed to delivering high-quality software solutions through meticulous testing strategies and effective team collaboration.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
QA lead
Tata Consultancy Services
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
10.2022 - Current
- Managed all QA aspects like requirement gathering, project estimation, resource alignment & management, project documentation & report, live implementation support and post live support of multiple projects whilst maintaining strict deadlines.
- Managed a team of four Quality Engineer at offshore and ensured all projects implemented successfully within the project timeline.
- Identified skill gaps within the team and organized relevant training sessions.
- Coached team members on best practices, functionality knowledge, business knowledge and improved overall team performance.
- Reduced knowledge gap among team members by giving cross functional KT and involving them in different projects.
- Managed complex projects, ensuring high-quality outputs and participated in agile scrum meetings leading to better alignment with project goals.
- Ran customer insight programs and provided reports detailing survey outcomes for improved planning.
- Directed the creation of test plans test cases and end of test report to validate application functionality.
- Collaborated with stakeholders in setting and completing service quality assessments.
- Identified bugs, risks and anomalies, applying action to prevent reoccurrence.
- Utilised JetBrains WDIO for automating browser tasks, improving test accuracy.
Test engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
New Delhi, India
03.2017 - 09.2022
- Optimized test processes for enhanced efficiency and results.
- Tracked defects using bug tracking tools like ALM, leading to quicker resolution times.
- Ensured adherence to quality standards by rigorously following the set protocols during each phase of testing.
- Managed end-to-end testing process to ensure software quality.
- Coordinated with development team, ensuring seamless workflow integration.
- Identified bugs by performing comprehensive system assessments.
- Designed effective test cases for comprehensive coverage of system features and functions.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
SDM College of Engineering and Technology
Dharwad, India 08.2012 - 06.2016
Skills
- Project scoping and estimation
- Team Leadership
- QA team management
- Automation and manual testing
- Functional testing
- Jira and confluence
- Selenium(JetBrains WDIO)
- Playwright
- API Testing(Cypress)
- Java and Python programming language
- GIT version control
- Cloud technologies familiarity(GCP)
- BDD automation framework
Accomplishments
On the Spot Awards in TCS(Multiple Times)
Best team Award in TCS (Multiple Times)
Languages
English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent
Timeline
QA lead
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2022 - Current
Test engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2017 - 09.2022
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
SDM College of Engineering and Technology
08.2012 - 06.2016
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