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JEEVAN P

Bengaluru

Summary

Highly organized and dependable professional with a proven track record of effectively managing multiple priorities while maintaining a positive attitude. Skilled at taking on additional responsibilities to ensure team success and achieve collective goals. Willing to go above and beyond to contribute to a collaborative work environment and drive overall success.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Director - QA

Upstox
10.2022 - Current
  • Head the QA org of 40+ SDET/QA and Performance Engineering teams for various portfolios.
  • Accountable for the high quality releases across Mobile apps, desktop, web, and Backend applications. Maintained the 0 Critical defects leakage.
  • Promoted Shift-Left testing practices across the org.
  • Strategizing new testing initiatives like Chaos testing. Optimizing the execution time to speed up the release cycles.
  • Built strategies for automated tests and performance suits for the CI/CD Integrations.
  • Implemented the Quality Gates code coverage with 90% gating criteria.
  • Established and continuously improving robust QA processes, testing techniques, strategy and best practices.
  • Setup the highly efficient Center of Excellence (CoE) teams. Provided various trainings for the tech/non-tech QA teams to be technically scalable.
  • Built strong relationships with executive leaderships, cross functional stakeholders, and CS teams.
  • Evaluated Gen AI based approach for test case design and functional automation.
  • Been part of NPS score improvement for the company.
  • Set and achieved the Quarterly QA KPIs aligning to the company and QA Goals.
  • Reduced budgetary expenditures by effectively negotiating contracts for more advantageous terms.
  • Participated in the ISO 27001 Audit & Certifications. Led the QA team to successfully achieve the Auditing outcomes.
  • Active member of POSH committee.

Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

ClearTax
06.2021 - 09.2022
  • Responsible for handling next generation B2B, B2C and Platform taxation products from the business delivery for both web and mobile platforms.
  • Responsible and Lead the Automation efforts for SaaS based products by mentoring and guiding them with the program plan and execution.
  • Hired and built the QE team from ground level up to around 20 members team in the very short span along with building the first and second line leadership teams.
  • Involved in setting up the common process across the Org like Environment consolidation, Branching strategy, Deployment ownership, Jira process.
  • Improved the Quality across the products by introducing new processes for the faster turn around with better quality.
  • Responsible for various metrics and data preparation for the leadership and executive team presentation.
  • Been part of evaluation and appraisal process.

Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

Altisource Business Solutions Pvt.Ltd
06.2013 - 02.2021
  • Products handled -> www.hubzu.com & www.owners.com
  • Accountable for the releases of Hubzu and Owners.com websites and mobile apps.
  • Managed & lead 12 members QA/SDETs of Functional/Automation and Perf. engineers.
  • Spearheaded, Explored and Initiated UI Layout Automation for Hubzu & Owners applications and successfully incorporated into the Automation process which reduced the layout testing efforts from 2 days to couple of hours.
  • Handled & lead the scrums by organizing Scrum ceremonies like Grooming, Planning, DSM, Retrospections, Follow-ups, velocity trackers, Process Improvements.
  • Lead the design review meetings, RCA and process oriented discussion, Identifying dependencies.
  • Produce reports regarding non conformance of products, daily production quality, RCAs & quality trends.
  • Accountable for scheduling tasks, technical guidance, staffing, performance appraisals, learning & development for the team members, work plans.
  • Implemented the CI/CD in our regular deployment process included Sanity & Regression with the support of DevOps.
  • Mentoring, grooming the team members to grow their skills to the next level by providing & organizing adequate knowledge sharing sessions.

Principal Engineer, QE

Yahoo! Inc.
06.2005 - 06.2013
  • Products: Yahoo! Homepage, My Yahoo!, Toolbar (Bookmarks, Downloads, Cricket/Finance) and Yahoo! HotJobs
  • Involved in design review meetings, Sprint Planning & Release Planning.
  • Worked on the functional automation with Selenium & security testing with the help of in-house tools.
  • Define the overall test strategy of front end modules and APIs for Yahoo properties mentioned above.
  • Accountable for the high quality releases.
  • Remove bottlenecks to create a friction free environment to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Worked on Media Content Automation for validating the output of all the feeds for partner providers for Global News Workflow.
  • Monitoring the Hudson jobs (CD) regularly and attend immediately if any blockers/failures on CD model.
  • Involved in creating Special Interest Groups for Usability, Accessibility Testing.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

HMS Institute of Technology
Tumkur, Karnataka
07.2002

Skills

Test Management:

  • Jira, Bugzilla, Xray, Zephyr, Test Director

Performance Test Tools:

  • JMeter, Kite, YSlow, Locust, Pagespeed

Program Management:

  • Agile, Kanban, Scrum Master, Waterfall

Test Automation:

  • Java, Selenium, Appium, BDD
  • UI Layout Automation
  • Jacoco, Sonar

Testing Types:

  • Mobile Apps, Web, API, DB Testing
  • Usability, Accessibility, Security Testing

Cloud Tools:

  • AWS, IAM
  • Cloud Search, Dynamo DB

Analytical Tools:

  • Google Firebase, Google Analytics, Crashlytics

Monitoring:

  • Mix Panel, Coralogix, SumoLogic

QA Management:

  • Team building
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Process improvement
  • Hiring and retention
  • Decision-making
  • Goal setting
  • Leadership development
  • Multitasking and organization
  • Employee development
  • Team collaboration
  • People management
  • Cross Team Coordination

Additional Information

Customer Obsession:

  • Find ways to improve the customer experience.
  • Go through app ratings/reviews every day, understand the pain points of the customers &
    address them by providing them the resolutions.
  • Keep track of social media reviews for the products to keep up / Improve the Quality.


Performance Engineering:

  • Set up the Prod scaled down performance test infrastructure for UI, Server & DB layers.
  • Handled the performance testing for UI layer using JMeter & Locust tools for simulating the load with
    constant/No constant throughputs based on the requirements.
  • Experienced in creating scripts & running them for the REST web services and DB queries.
  • Published performance numbers & depicting the Response Time of 90th, 95th, 99th percentile along
    with the load distribution.
  • Worked with cloud platforms to manage resources, optimize costs, and ensure the scalability of applications for the load test environments.
  • Conduct weekly OpEx meet to review the metrics of App latency, App reviews/ratings, App Crash rates.
  • Ensured to maintained the Crashlytics score is > 99.5%
  • Ensured to maintain the Pagespeed and Webpagetest score is > 95%


UI Layout Automation:

  • Initiated & successfully incorporated UI Layout Automation which is unique in the internet
    industry using Galen Framework built on Selenium.
  • With Galen, a typical home page UI testing (Across 4‑5 major browsers, 2‑3 mobile devices /
    tablets) that takes a day or two, takes less than 10 minutes.
  • Finds misaligned layout in a web application of a mere 1 px difference as well which bare
    eyes cannot catch.
  • Conducted Org wide Tech Talk on Layout Automation @ Altisource.


Functional (App/Web) & API Automation:

@Upstox

  • Created and maintain the automated pipelines for CI/CD working with DevOps, seamless execution and completes 5000+ functional automated test cases in 3 hours.
  • Achieved 90% API test automation coverage across the tier 1 services.

@ClearTax

  • Evaluated the automation framework for Web, mobile and APIs. Achieved 50% coverage across.

@Altisource

  • Evaluate, design and guidance to implement test automation frameworks (UI, Functional, BE) with Selenium & REST Assured.
  • Lead the test automation efforts to increase the coverage > 80%


Security & Accessibility Testing:

  • Prepared high‑level security test cases for the manual execution across teams.
    Owning the security scans like SAST, VAPT & analyze the security reports for each releases, prioritize for the fix
    based on the criticality & ensure to get it fixed, then to production roll out.
  • Been active member of the Bug bounty programs at Yahoo!
  • Evaluated websites and applications for compliance with accessibility standards like WCAG and ADA.
  • Explored various tools and screen readers for testing the accessibility areas.


Regression Releases:

  • Handled many parallel projects & regression for each sprints in Scrum to deliver high Quality
    features to production with No or very minimal production defects. Regular lookup on the
    regression test cases & effective usage of automated test cases.
  • Reduced the regression effort from 3 working days to 1 working day by prioritizing the test
    cases at Yahoo!.
  • Optimized the functional regression cycle from 1 week to 2 days at Upstox.

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Kannada
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Beginner (A1)
Tamil
Beginner (A1)

Timeline

Director - QA

Upstox
10.2022 - Current

Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

ClearTax
06.2021 - 09.2022

Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

Altisource Business Solutions Pvt.Ltd
06.2013 - 02.2021

Principal Engineer, QE

Yahoo! Inc.
06.2005 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Engineering -

HMS Institute of Technology
JEEVAN P