HIMANSHU MUNGOLI
Senior Test Manger
Bangalore
Summary
With close to 15 years of experience as a transformational QA leader, I have consistently driven test automation innovation and provided high-performance team leadership in the banking, AdTech, and telecom ecommerce domains. My expertise lies in developing and implementing cutting-edge strategies to optimize testing processes and ensure the delivery of high-quality software products. I have a proven track record of success, effectively streamlining operations, reducing costs, and enhancing overall efficiency. My strong leadership skills and ability to inspire and motivate teams have resulted in improved collaboration and increased productivity.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Test Manager
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
09.2021 - Current
- Automated end-to-end testing of Cognitive Algorithmic Trading system (web UI, APIs, logs, memory), reducing defect escape rate by 35%.
- Implemented EOD/Intraday Risk Monitoring automation, cutting manual validation time from 8 hours to 45 minutes daily.
- Designed memory leak detection framework that identified 20+ critical issues pre-production.
Automation Test Lead
Barclays Technology Center India Limited
11.2018 - 09.2021
- Automated testing of web applications, APIs, and microservices in a migration project from monolithic to microservices architecture.
- Led microservices migration testing (40+ APIs) using Citrus Framework, accelerating release velocity by 40%.
- Established CI/CD pipeline with Selenium/Cucumber UI automation, reducing regression cycles from 5 days to 2 days.
- Utilized Rest Assured for individual API testing.
- Implemented real-time monitoring using ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), reducing issue detection time from hours to minutes and cutting production incidents by 40%.
- Developed WireMock stubs for 50+ dependencies, enabling offline API testing and saving 120+ cloud testing hours/month.
Senior Quality Analyst
Talentica Software Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 10.2018
- Automated testing of Real-Time Alerts in the AlphaSense platform using Rest Assured and Serenity.
- Integrated Evernote and OneNote with the AlphaSense UI for testing and automation using Postman and Selenium.
Quality Analyst
Talentica Software Pvt Ltd
04.2014 - 03.2016
- Manual and automation testing of Mobile Ad SDK in Android and iOS applications.
- Automated testing using Appium for mobile applications and APIs.
Test Engineer
Infosys Technology Pvt Ltd
06.2010 - 03.2014
- Automated testing for Vodafone eShop using Selenium.
- Performed functional and non-functional testing, including JMeter for performance.
Education
B. Tech - Information Technology
National Institute of Technology
Bhopal 01.2006 - 01.2010
Skills
Selenium (Java)
TestNG
Cucumber (BDD)
Appium (Java)
Rest Assured
Postman
Serenity
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Loki
Grafana
Prometheus
JMeter
Jenkins
Azure Pipelines
Git
Citrus Framework
MySQL
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Oracle
WireMock
Jira
TestRail
Azure Test Plans
JavaScript
Python
Unix
Windows
Experience in applying design patterns in test automation
Azure Pipelines
Technical Excellence And Roi
- Architected 7+ automation frameworks (Selenium/Java, BDD Cucumber) adopted as enterprise standards across 4 organizations.
- Automated 90% of repetitive test cases, enabling zero-defect releases for algorithmic trading systems.
Business Impact
- Instrumented real-time monitoring (ELK) that reduced production incidents by 40%.
- Instrumented Prometheus Grafana Monitoring that reduced system outages by 35% through metric based alerting.
- Implemented Loki+ Grafana log analytics that cut troubleshooting time by 75% for trading system.
- Featured as 'Automation Champion' in Barclays internal tech symposium 2020.
Leadership And Digital Transformation
- Scaled and led high-performing QA teams (4-6 engineers) across projects at Standard Chartered & Barclays.
- Championed shift-left testing initiatives that reduced defect leakage by 35% and saved 300+ engineering hours/quarter.
- Recognized by management for pioneering test automation that cut regression cycles from 5 days to 3 days.
Timeline
Senior Test Manager
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
09.2021 - Current
Automation Test Lead
Barclays Technology Center India Limited
11.2018 - 09.2021
Senior Quality Analyst
Talentica Software Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 10.2018
Quality Analyst
Talentica Software Pvt Ltd
04.2014 - 03.2016
Test Engineer
Infosys Technology Pvt Ltd
06.2010 - 03.2014
B. Tech - Information Technology
National Institute of Technology
01.2006 - 01.2010