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Kamal Jeet

Bengaluru

Summary

Senior Engineering with comprehensive experience in leading diverse teams and implementing effective quality assurance strategies. Possess strong leadership skills, adept at streamlining processes to boost efficiency and accuracy. Noted for ensuring product compliance with industry standards and customer requirements while delivering tangible improvements in operational efficiency. Skilled in project management, team leadership, and process optimization. Excel in communication, problem-solving, and strategic planning to deliver exceptional results in complex technical environments. Contribute positively to team dynamics to foster collaboration and drive project completion.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager

Walmart
BENGALURU
02.2023 - Current
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams such as operations, sales and marketing to ensure alignment on product objectives.
  • Analyzed quality assurance data, trends, weakness and opportunities to identify areas of improvement within the engineering department.
  • Investigated customer complaints, implemented corrective actions to reduce service now incidents reported by Walmart associates
  • Delivered comprehensive QE reports to Senior leadership on a quarterly basis
  • Maintained an effective relationship with Development and Product leadership for associate experience and productivity apps.
  • Process and Initiatives - Streamlined Jira process, QE Dashboard process, Release process, Manual and automated Quality Gating resulting savings of 300+ person days in a calendar year
  • Initiated and managed document library projects across various software updates
  • Led teams in developing pipeline templates and implementing Gen AI based unit test creation.
  • Effectively assist in implementing automation strategies across 13 diverse teams
  • Automation - I have prepared automation charter and plan for the complete org for 30+ QE team members
  • Lead the team of SDETs to come up with a common automation framework for 30+ miniapps
  • Successfully coordinated efforts to establish a unified CT framework within the devops team.
  • Implemented automation resulting in quarterly savings of 2 FTEs
  • Shorten the QE cycle by 3 days for a superapp release that is inclusive of 40+ miniapps, resulting 100 person days savings in a single release
  • Team Collaboration - Worked with 33+ teams to come up with integration test plan for release level testing
  • Implemented Quality Gates to guarantee comprehensive team operations, reducing reliance on QE resources.
  • Managed a team of 20 SDETs to streamline automation framework
  • Developed a progressive pathway for 5 SDETs
  • Conducted thorough assessments of the performance of 20 SDETs during year-end appraisals
  • Achieved two promotions by influencing leadership and demonstrating fast-track growth potential
  • Conducted performance evaluations to identify opportunities for improvement in one associate's work
  • Increased productivity by taking charge of performance tests and savings through separating performance scripting and execution from environment setup.
  • Helped teams to find out multiple DB indexing bottlenecks to optimize pod scaling.

QA Manager

Ola
BENGALURU
01.2022 - 02.2023
  • Enhanced efficiency of Jira process automation within One's engineering team
  • Instituted the QA Oncall initiative to address and rectify automated test failures on a daily basis. This led to the resolution of 150 test case issues during one sprint.
  • Enhanced risk management by incorporating QA On call support into weekly deployment processes
  • Facilitated daily scrum sessions for QA and development team.
  • Guided QA team in designing API test framework.
  • Created a detailed plan for ensuring complete test coverage through Sanity and Regression testing
  • Contributed to the improvement of coding standard and test coverage for 2 teams through participation in Code review process
  • Facilitated cross-team collaboration to pinpoint common problems in testing environment
  • Assessed and implemented a unified platform for storing test cases
  • Provided guidance to team members on building regression checklist and test case repository
  • Standardized the Bugs Triaging procedure
  • Successfully implemented strategies for enhancing automation framework by overseeing a group of 38 SDET experts
  • Established progress pathways
  • SDETs were assigned tasks for achieving growth milestones, resulting in improvements in automation and org-wide impact.
  • Developed a robust test automation infrastructure for enhancing team capacity.
  • Conducted year-end appraisals for 6 SDETs and successfully advocated for salary adjustments for 3 individuals due to their significant contributions.

Senior QE

Amazon
BENGALURU
10.2017 - 12.2021
  • Delivered test strategies for 3 complex retail systems, implementing manual and backend automation modules to enhance the test life cycle.
  • Increased test coverage comprehensively by implementing automation at the component level during the implementation stage, leading to no P0 bugs in both UAT and post-production. Additionally, this initiative resulted in a reduction of three days' worth of regression effort every sprint.
  • Automation and CI/CD - Delivered automation on different native AWS services (REST APIs, SQS, API gateways) and integrated automated test suite for CI/CD
  • Executed white box testing and improved the Amazon wide API automation framework for supporting Rest API test automation suite, as a necessary step in CI/CD.
  • Automated processes resulted in a reduction of 30 days worth of manual QA work during a 6-month timeframe.
  • Ensured seamless collaboration with Product team to define requirements and set test exit criteria for successful product launch
  • Worked with the product team to understand FDI changes as per new government laws and decoded use cases into test data requirements to sign off on the new retail model.
  • Delivered informative test talks and brown bag sessions focused on AWS API automation, performance testing, and cloud authentication, benefiting a team of more than 100 QA engineers at the BU level.
  • Owned QA QTR for each quarter, highlighting contribution to quality assurance within the organization
  • Led cross-functional collaboration resulting in the creation of impactful QA metrics for page 0
  • Implemented effective strategies that led to the successful qualification of test cases for automation, aiding in achieving the 100% automation target for Retail org.
  • Reviewed goals of 3 junior QAEs, enabling them to progress to the next level through effective mentoring
  • Utilized AWS services including SQS, Lambda, cloud-auth, and AWS auth to optimize test environments.

QA Lead

Publicis Sapient
BENGALURU
12.2016 - 10.2017
  • Managed the development of Test strategies and planned automation for 2 Backend API projects
  • Managed a team of 3 QAEs, overseeing the assignment of QA and Automation tasks
  • Facilitated the attainment of automation goals for project delivery through mentorship of QAEs
  • Successfully implemented automation solutions for Rest APIs
  • Automated 50+ test cases to reduce QA regression cycle by 3 days for every release
  • Utilised Java, Rest API, Jenkins, Groovy, and Spock to enhance TTCs (Test Tooling Capabilities).

Senior QA Engineer

Eurofins IT Solutions
BENGALURU
11.2015 - 12.2016
  • Successfully executed test automation strategies for multiple projects
  • Effectively supervised a team of 2 QAEs, responsible for assigning and monitoring QA and Automation tasks
  • Provided guidance to QAEs to enhance automation effectiveness for project completion
  • Successfully automated the comparison process for various order xml formats
  • Developed C# and Selenium-based automation frameworks to automate more than 500 test cases, thereby improving the efficiency of the test automation suite for regression and project delivery in a timeframe of 10 months.

Senior QA Associate

Publicis Sapient
BENGALURU
08.2014 - 11.2015
  • Responsible for end-to-end QA delivery and successfully implemented test automation in 3 projects.
  • Provided people management by guiding junior QAEs in their professional development
  • Achieved successful deployment of automation solutions for SOA APIs
  • Streamlined the automation process of three projects with a total of more than 100 test cases.
  • Utilized a diverse range of Technologies and Automation frameworks including GEB, Spock, Groovy, Java, and Selenium.

Senior Development Engineer

Aditi Technologies Pvt Ltd
BENGALURU
02.2010 - 08.2014
  • Developed an extensive collection of 500+ test cases for evaluating functionality and user experience
  • Implemented automated solutions for enhancing the efficiency of more than 100 test cases on the web UI
  • Enhanced efficiency in data validation procedures through the use of excel and VBA utilities.
  • Developed and implemented server side scripts to deliver json data for diverse client needs
  • Proficient in utilizing technologies and automation frameworks such as javascript, java, vba, olap, oltp

Education

Master of Science - Computer Applications

Punjabi University Patiala
Patiala
05.2008

Skills

  • Leading Tools and automation
  • People Management
  • Process automation
  • Test Strategy
  • Test Planning
  • Automation Planning
  • Test Automation
  • Selenium
  • Performance Engineering
  • CI/CD
  • Project Oversight
  • Vendor Sourcing
  • Decision-making skills
  • Prioritization
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Requirements Analysis
  • System Architecture
  • Cross-functional team management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Training and mentoring
  • Mentoring and Coaching

Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager

Walmart
02.2023 - Current

QA Manager

Ola
01.2022 - 02.2023

Senior QE

Amazon
10.2017 - 12.2021

QA Lead

Publicis Sapient
12.2016 - 10.2017

Senior QA Engineer

Eurofins IT Solutions
11.2015 - 12.2016

Senior QA Associate

Publicis Sapient
08.2014 - 11.2015

Senior Development Engineer

Aditi Technologies Pvt Ltd
02.2010 - 08.2014

Master of Science - Computer Applications

Punjabi University Patiala

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