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Harsha Galgali

Harsha Galgali

Bengaluru

Summary

I'm a Techno Functional Project Manager (QA & Analytics) with 10+ Experience in delivering the quality products to the market with Showcasing Versatility and flexibility. Currently, working at Johnson Controls - Sensormatic Division.

Handled and delivered CMS platform migrations, Complex customizations in AEM & Sitecore CMS based Websites and Applications . I have shipped 30+ Mobile Applications(Android & iOS) and 10+ Web applications, worked on Smart TV and streaming applications as well. Having worked with products ranging from Million Users applications to the startup ideation prototypes, i can fit right in any work setup. In these 10 years curiosity & flexibility were the biggest learning. Worked in Agile teams, Lean Startup teams, catered to marketing and sales teams, Worked closely with Entrepreneurs, Hustlers, Tech Architects, UI/UX designers, Product Mangers, Analytics teams, Data scientists, Managed Contractors, Was a contractor, Worked with Multiple Vendors and list goes on.

So Hire me :)


"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein

Overview

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10

Years of Professional Experience

4
4
Certifications
32
32

Mobile Applications

14
14

Websites

2
2

Content Management Systems

Work History

Functional Project Management - II

Johnson Controls International
Bengaluru
04.2020 - Current

Primarily this role demanded to be the bridge for Content development team, digital marketing team and IT team. Capturing the marketing requirements and translating them to the IT teams for CMS customizations and being part of the content lifecycles and marketecture was the essence of the role. Role involved supporting the digital marketing lead generation goals by

  • Ensuring platforms are up and functioning through regular QA and regression testing & Automation
  • Providing the best possible User Experience
  • Verifying leads are making it to the required endpoint


Work spread across few areas


Improve User Experience & Site Search Capabilities


  • Introduce robust, three-tier navigation with logical taxonomy giving users direct access to content
  • Continue building the solution content rewrite project, ensuring that the site maintains consistency, accessibility, and UX on a global level
  • Partner with JCI IT to implement and test and correct functionality of XML sitemaps, making Sensormatic content more searchable
  • Continue to consult with IT teams to improve site search and responsiveness to increase page views by 5% from 1.86 to 1.95 pages per session
  • Collect and evaluate feedback generated from HotJar on Site Search to capture the Voice of the Customer

Continuous learning, Ideation, Exploration and Experimentation in QA, Analytics and Applying Machine learning concepts to Website Improvements


  • Explore more about Automation of Regression Testing frameworks which is AI and ML driven. Target to automate 80 to 90% of User stories of Sensormatic site & Set up dedicated system for exclusive use in testing all forms every day and Increase day-to-day responsibility for ensuring that all pages and sections of our website are thoroughly tested before release
  • Coach the team on latest trends of Testing and QA, including training on Selenium, Exploratory Testing, Appium and others
  • Automate testing of newly released pages using LinkedIn Inspector to ensure preview images and meta text are captured
  • Experiment on the existing Sentiment Analysis framework

Technical Responsibilities & Role Involvement

  • Assisted in preparing Sitecore/Pardot lead-gen workflow to support Day One and final disentanglement objectives from JCI platform
  • Worked with GDM & BOP teams to implement and administer rigorous QA and UAT protocols to ensure a seamless switchover from JCI platforms
  • Ensured marketecture continues to work as expected with no disruption in service
  • Verified Sitecore Tracking, Security/Privacy/Consent, Forms, Reporting, and Uptime
  • Limited Google search displacement including implementation of Google Analytics 4



Lead - Software Test Engineer

Apple - Adecco
Bengaluru
11.2018 - 04.2020
  • Managed testing cycles, including test plan creation, development of scripts and co-ordination of user acceptance testing for Adobe Experience Manager(CMS) software which Apple uses and customizes for their Digital Content for Mobiles and Internal websites
  • Authored and maintained well-organised, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations.
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every 4 weeks and well-organized sprints.
  • Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results.
  • Evaluated, defined and analysed metrics of Authors and Apple digital content writers trends through SQL, BI tools to understand competitive environments and assess current strategies.
  • Completed unit and regression tests on Apple's AEM authoring platform and individual modules each 2 weeks.

Quality Assurance Lead

Wowlabz
Bengaluru
07.2015 - 10.2018
  • Tested and Shipped over 20+ Mobile & Web apps.
  • Lead a Team of 3 testers Played the important role in successfully setting up the quality assurance and mobile release cycle plans & processes in the company.
  • Coached and motivated few team members from QA team to develop competencies.
  • Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases by providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
  • Created process flow guidelines, procedures and case templates.
  • Product Portfolio - Wowlabz Here are some of the products that i have tested & Shipped. 1. Riffiti 2. Retale 3 , PatientDoc - Pracman , Mara Messenger , Mooshak. 4 , Worked with Some of the Complex Internal Mobile Apps for HDFC, Schneider etc

Software Test Engineer

Amazon.com
Bangalore
12.2012 - 06.2015

Amazon Instant Video enables customers to instantly stream or download more than 200,000 titles, including new release movies and next-day TV shows. In addition, Amazon Prime members can watch thousands of videos at no additional cost to their membership. Amazon Instant Video is available on Kindle Fire, on the web, on the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, Roku, and on 300+ Internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes. Our service is available to customers in the U.S., UK, Germany, and Japan. The Bangalore QA Team for AIV owns quality for various Client applications that are developed in AIV.

Roles & Responsbilities

1. Preparation and review of test process documents

2. Preparation of test cases & data validation,

3. Execution of end to end scripts, Defect Management,

4. Prepared user manuals, reusable document and training documents for stakeholders, Reusable test assets created - test scenarios, testcases,

5. User manual, presentations regarding End to end product

6. Tools Used JIRA, TestRail, Fiddler, Autoplay, Putty, ADB,ETL, Robotium & Many open source testing tools for responsiveness, crash debugging tools and other internal tools.

Business Analyst - Intern

Knowledge Streams
Bangalore
07.2012 - 09.2012
  • Business analysis learnings for the products of storage giants like Emc2 & Netapp.
  • Lead Generation, Requirement Analysis.
  • Evaluated consistency and importance of different business intelligence data against needs to determine optimal courses of action.

Education

Bachelors of Engineering Computer Science - Computer Science

Vishweshwaraiah Technological University
09.2008 - 05.2012

Skills

    Exploratory Testing

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Certification

Lean Product Management

Timeline

Functional Project Management - II - Johnson Controls International
04.2020 - Current

Sports Data Science and Analytics

10-2019

QA Strategy

07-2019
Lead - Software Test Engineer - Apple - Adecco
11.2018 - 04.2020

Exploratory Testing

06-2018

Lean Product Management

01-2017
Quality Assurance Lead - Wowlabz
07.2015 - 10.2018
Software Test Engineer - Amazon.com
12.2012 - 06.2015
Business Analyst - Intern - Knowledge Streams
07.2012 - 09.2012
Vishweshwaraiah Technological University - Bachelors of Engineering Computer Science, Computer Science
09.2008 - 05.2012
Harsha Galgali