Ankit Shah

• Scaled team productivity by 40% through agile implementation and mentorship, resulting in 3 team promotions.
• Designed structured training programs on automation frameworks, reducing dependency on senior engineers by 25%.

• Pioneered critical testing tools:
  Android SDK Crawler – reduced crashes by 75% through automated PR sanity checks.
  Load Runner (100K RPS capacity) – optimized load testing, achieving 35% cost savings.
  IntelliJ APK Performance Plugin – streamlined performance debugging for Android apps.
• Implemented CI/CD governance with automated PR testing, cutting release-blocking bugs by 60%.

• Partnered with Engineering and PM teams to align automation priorities, accelerating feature releases by 20%.
• Automated 90% of regression testing, reducing manual effort by 88% and preventing 50+ production incidents annually.

• Increased automation coverage by 30% YoY, boosting team velocity.
• Delivered $150K+ in annual savings through tooling efficiency and process automation

Leadership & Strategic Initiatives Test Automation & Framework Development Performance Engineering & Scalability

• Built and Scaled Analytics Platform: Led end-to-end development of an analytics platform from scratch, enhancing data-driven decision-making across Whatfix products; improved user engagement insights by 40%.
• QA Leadership: Managed a team of QA engineers, ensuring zero critical defect leaks in production through robust test strategies, CI/CD integration, and release governance.
• UI Automation Framework: Designed a data-driven automation framework using Selenium, Java, and TestNG, reducing regression testing time by 70% and improving test coverage.
• Analytics (ETL) Pipeline Testing: Validated data accuracy and performance of ETL pipelines, ensuring 99.9% reliability in processing 1M+ daily events.
• High-Scale Load Testing: Architected JMeter-based load tests to validate system scalability, enabling infrastructure optimisations to handle 1M+ events/day with .

• Scaled QA Team from 3 to 15 Engineers, hiring and mentoring top talent to ensure high-performing teams aligned with product quality goals.
• Drove Zero-Defect Releases by implementing robust QA processes, reducing production escapes by 90% and improving product stability.

• Built API Automation Framework using RestAssured + Gherkin (BDD), accelerating test execution by 60% and improving cross-functional collaboration.
• Developed UI Automation Framework from scratch using Protractor + Jasmine, reducing regression cycle time from 5 days to 1 day.
• Mobile Test Automation: Led Android testing (real + virtual devices) via Appium, ensuring 95% test coverage across 50+ device configurations.

• Load & Scalability Testing: Designed JMeter-based tests to validate system performance under 10K+ concurrent tickets, optimizing microservices to handle 5X traffic spikes.
• Test Management & Reporting: Implemented TestLink for centralized test tracking, improving visibility with automated reports for stakeholders and leadership.

• Established CI/CD Best Practices in staging, reducing deployment failures by 70% through automated quality gates.
• Introduced Shift-Left Testing, embedding QA early in SDLC to cut defect resolution time by 50%.

• Designed and executed 300+ test cases to validate microservices functionality in both integrated and isolated environments, achieving 99.5% reliability in production releases
• Developed data-driven API automation framework using RestAssured + TestNG, reducing regression time by 65% while increasing coverage by 40%
• Created 50+ Postman collections covering critical API workflows and automated execution via Newman, saving 10+ hours/week in manual testing
• Integrated API tests into CI/CD pipeline to enable zero-touch regression validation for every deployment

• Engineered a data-driven UI test framework using Selenium/Java/TestNG that reduced regression time by 60% while increasing coverage to 50% of critical user flows
• Built a Jenkins integration that automated overnight test execution and email reporting, enabling 150% faster defect triaging for morning standups
• Developed an analysis tool bridging Klocwork (C/C++ performance) and SonarQube (C#/Java/Xcode quality), reducing code review overhead by 8 hours/week