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Gopal Krishna

Gopal Krishna

QA Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

Results-driven SDET manager with over 12 years of experience in leading and managing software testing teams. Skilled in designing and implementing test automation frameworks, writing automated test cases, and defining testing strategies to ensure high-quality software delivery. Proven track record in mentoring and coaching SDET team members to deliver results while fostering a positive team environment. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. Passionate about continuous improvement and keeping up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager

PharmEasy
10.2022 - Current

Leading the Storefront Consumer Test engineering Team.Played important role in setting up the correct release process,setting up the automation suites with 99% success metrics on Web and >90% in Android and iOS apps. Motivated team to achieve extra mile and deliver the business releases on time.


Achievements :

  • Designed , Architected and built Event Automation Framework . This helped to reduce the Data Analytics issues by 90% . This Saved 1 man day of QA effort per app release.
  • Zero P0 issues post application release to play store.
  • Zero code revert on web deployments.
  • Built the web scraping tool to identify the dead-links and images. This helped us to identify the wrong configuration done by business team on blogs , category pages.

Engineering Manager

PharmEasy
Bengaluru
03.2021 - Current

Leading the Consumer Search, Recommendation ,Discovery and Payments backend Test Engineering team . Identifying risks from features getting developed proactively and mitigating the risk . Aligning Dev and Product Management teams on release plans and QA timelines. Building utilities,tools to reduce manual effort and making the release seamless.


Achievements :

  • Search backend releases are made with >90% automation testing.
  • Played key role in benchmarking Elastic search performance using Gatling . This helped team to optimize the performance and reduce the cost by 20%.
  • Key contributor to benchmark the Order Management System performance by planning and executing 2X, 4X load testing with different load patterns.
  • Core member of Hiring and mentoring team . Scaled team from 15 to 30 talented SDETS.


Technical Lead

PharmEasy
02.2020 - Current

Key contributor in certifying the functionality of Payment System . Benchmarking the performance of Order system and Payment system.


Achievements :

  • Designed and built automation suites for Order payment system . Which reduced manual testing effort by 60%.
  • Owned entire payments test environment and made sure all the business features released ontime without environment issues.
  • With effective communication with Juspay,Phonepe made sure team's are unblocked for testing .
  • Benchmarked payment system performance using Gatling.


Software Developer

Swiggy
12.2018 - 02.2020
  • Responsible for developing manual and automation test plans for Swiggy android and iOS application
  • Developed automation tool to test analytics events
  • Ui automation framework development using Appium,Selenium and testNg
  • Responsible for reporting on testing progress to stakeholders, including project managers, developers, and QA teams
  • Conducting code reviews
  • Built tool to monitor android app performance and app size analysis.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Disney+ Hotstar
03.2018 - 11.2018
  • Test automation
  • Appium, Selenium , JAVA, Cucumber , testNG

Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance

Mavenir Systems
Bengaluru
10.2015 - 03.2018
  • Responsible for executing end to end scenarios on IMS flows.
  • Creation of test environment for integration testing from scratch , which includes VM creation , network configuration and application deployment.
  • Automated SIP android SDK using Java,, which reduced manual effort to zero and made release cycle faster by 40%
  • Performed UAT testing of client place T-Mobile USA and ship the product on time.
  • With good debugging and log analysis bugs are reported with all the core details.
  • Mentored 2-3 junior engineers and helped them to grow technically on SIP and IMS flows.

Senior QA Engineer

Sonim Technologies
Bengaluru
03.2013 - 10.2015
  • Played key role in designing test planning , Test cases for Sonim Push to talk Application.
  • Deployed to client location ATT-USA for User Acceptance testing.
  • Effectively managed and communicated with different stakeholders to make the app release on time.
  • Active member of Hiring panel and helped team to hire talents.
  • Ensured Zero production issues and reverts.


Test Engineer

LGSI
Bengaluru
10.2010 - 02.2013
  • Responsible for execution on Regression and sanity testing on LG android devices.


Education

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science

Karnataka State Open University
01.2010 - 04.2013

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science

MES RNS Polytechnic sirsi
01.2006 - 04.2009

Skills

Python, Java

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Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager

PharmEasy
10.2022 - Current

Engineering Manager

PharmEasy
03.2021 - Current

Technical Lead

PharmEasy
02.2020 - Current

Software Developer

Swiggy
12.2018 - 02.2020

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Disney+ Hotstar
03.2018 - 11.2018

Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance

Mavenir Systems
10.2015 - 03.2018

Senior QA Engineer

Sonim Technologies
03.2013 - 10.2015

Test Engineer

LGSI
10.2010 - 02.2013

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science

Karnataka State Open University
01.2010 - 04.2013

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science

MES RNS Polytechnic sirsi
01.2006 - 04.2009
Gopal KrishnaQA Manager