Nishant Sahai
Associate Principal in Quality Engineering, LTIMindtree
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced IT professional with 12 years of expertise across diverse roles, currently working as a Test Manager and Test Architect at LTIMindtree. Skilled in Testing, Automation Engineering, DevOps, and emerging technologies such as Cloud Services, Data Science, Generative AI, and AI/ML. Consistently acknowledged as a top performer within the organization over the last decade. Strong team player, adaptable, and results-driven with commitment to continuous improvement. Skilled in various testing tools and methodologies, with collaborative approach to achieving project goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
2010
2010
years of post-secondary education
18
18
Certificates
Work History
Associate Principle in QA/Test Architect
LTIMindtree
01.2023 - Current
- Managing and Leading Test Team of 11 members across 2 enterprise products.
- Driving Automation work.
- Leading DevOps Activity for the Project.
- Testing critical features and analyzing customer issues.
- AI Adaption in Projects.
- Providing consultancy to different products in an account and organization.
- Test Strategy, Test Estimates, Test Planning.
- Helping Management with release plans.
- Helping Development with requirement understanding.
- Taking session for team on several topics.
- QA defect management.
- Exploring different testing tools.
- Driving test teams, addressing their concerns, handling bottleneck.
- Have been answering customer, support and client quires.
- Have been analyzing security vulnerabilities.
- Have been doing Product documentation reviews.
- Answering support and customer queries.
- Managerial role for the Team - Feedback, Appraisal.
- Helping management to make sure that releases deliverables happen on time.
- Technically evaluating new Project Proposal at account level.
- Working on critical issues and escalations.
- Taking sessions and mentoring others on different topics.
- Have worked on different production co-existing evaluation and testing like Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas InfoScale.
Test Lead & Test Manager
LTIMindtree
01.2019 - 04.2023
- Managing and leading Test Team of 9 members.
- Leading DevOps Team for the Project.
- Driving Automation work.
- Testing critical features.
- Test Strategy, Test Estimates, Test Planning.
- Test Management, QA defect management.
- Exploring different testing tools.
- Driving test teams, addressing their concerns, handling bottleneck.
- Answering support and customer queries.
- Managerial role for the Team - Feedback, Appraisal.
- Helping management to make sure that releases happen on time.
- Technically evaluating new Project Proposal at account level.
- Team collaboration.
- Problem-solving aptitude.
- Troubleshooting and Debugging.
- Analytical thinking.
- Self-motivation.
- Excellent communication.
- Taking session for team on several topics.
- QA defect management.
- Driving Automation work.
- Have been answering customer, support and client quires.
- Have been analyzing security vulnerabilities.
- Have been doing Product documentation reviews.
- Answering support and customer queries.
- Managerial role for the Team - Feedback, Appraisal.
- Helping management to make sure that releases happen on time.
- Technically evaluating new Project Proposal at account level.
- Working on critical issues and escalations.
- Have worked on different production co-existing testing like Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas InfoScale.
Test Specialist
Mindtree
07.2016 - 12.2018
- Test Strategy, Test Estimates, Test Planning.
- Test Management, QA defect management.
- Answering support and customer queries.
- Helping management to make sure that releases happen on time.
- Driving WinQual, Performance, Regression Testing.
- Automating test cases using coded UI and framework designing.
- Maintaining TFS driver Coded UI automation framework.
- Testcase executions during test cycles.
- Testcase design for new features.
- Maintaining hardware Inventory used by Team.
- Giving product KT to new joiners.
- DevOps Task for setting up Build Environment and Automated CI/CD Infra.
Senior Software Engineer
Mindtree
07.2014 - 06.2016
- To Understand the functional requirements of the application and identifying test scenarios, attending calls and getting clarification if any.
- Setting up all variety of trust seal locally on Web Servers.
- Developing test case covering all scenarios identified and updating test cases in management tool.
- Developing and testing end to end flow for trust seal and CT.
- Reviewing other project member test case.
- Identifying Regression test cases.
- Testing turning on/off of trust seal based on malware scan when Akamai front- end servers are used.
- Testing behavior of trust seal and seal splash when it is hit from different geographical location to Akamai Server edges using Akamai header plugins.
- Involved in System, Functionality, Merge, Sanity and Regression Testing.
- Client-side Performance check for SSL order search.
- Handled Load balances - F5, Citrix, A10 for SSL Certificate Management.
- Setting up of Web Server Apache, IIS on Linux, and Windows with SSL Certificates.
- NSG Kicker test on all supported flows and browsers.
- Running test automation for sanity check.
- Testing Akamai cache refreshes it entry on TTL expiry by monitoring https request/response header.
- Testing CT feature is supported in all life cycle flows in all brands and all locale for Extended Validity Certs.
- Customer and Issuer having option of opt-in and opt- out from CT.
- Checking browser compatibility across all supported browsers.
- Analyzing and Troubleshooting issues, generating root cause analysis report.
- Updating the test cases based on the Change Requests/Enhancements.
- Bug logging using Jira, bug verification.
- Identifying and verifying impacted areas on bug fixation.
- Attending sync-up meeting between QA and Dev.
- Once release is over analyzing improvement areas.
Software Engineer
Mindtree/LTIMindtree
09.2012 - 06.2014
- Involved in System, Integration, Sanity, Functionality and Regression Testing.
- Executing Build Acceptance Test for Upgrade, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL, Linux Platform, Windows Platform, PreDeduplication.
- Involved in Functionality, Migration, System, Localization, Beta testing across different features - Backup and Recovery, Upgrade, Job Scheduling, Storage.
- Testcase creation, modification, defect to test case creation.
- Reviewing other project member test cases.
- Testing product on different windows server and desktop versions, Linux versions.
- Interoperability Testing with different products.
- Code Coverage testing.
- Identifying scenarios on new feature, developing testcase, doing exploratory testing.
- Log analysis and generating report based on issues root cause analysis.
- Creating documents on worked features, utility tools, troubleshooting and uploading in SharePoint repository.
- Storage Testing - Data Management Lifecycle, Tape Drive, Tape Instance, Robotic Tape Library, Disk Cartridge, Ex-HDD, NAS, SAN.
- Configuring ESXI Servers for testing activity.
- Maintaining and tracking platform compatibility chart for different cycles of testing.
- Knowledge transfer to other team member on Build Acceptance Test, feature, troubleshooting.
Education
10th - Science
KPS Kadma
12th - Science
KPS Kadma
B.E - Computer Science and Engineering
BNM Institute of Technology
08.2008 - 06.2012
Professional Certificate Program - Generative AI and Machine Learning
IIT Roorkee and Simplilearn
Skills
Functional Testing
Regression Testing
Product Automation
Product Performance Testing
Web Application Testing
API Testing
Penetration Testing
WinQual Testing
Vulnerability Assessment
Storage Testing
Localization Testing
Python Programming
Core Java
C# Programming
Coded UI
Perl Scripting
PowerShell Scripting
Batch Scripting
Selenium
Rest Assured
PyTest Framework
TestNG Framework
Robot Framework
Cucumber BDD Framework
PyWinAuto
MS-SQL
Postgres
AWS
Azure
Kubernetes
Python Data Science
Data Analytics with Python
Generative AI Prompt Engineering & ChatGPT
Jira
Etrack
Toro
Zephyr for Jira
JMeter
Postman
WireShark
Nmap
Power BI
Test Design
Test planning
Test documentation
Test strategy development
Test estimation
Resource Planning
Customer Escalation handling
Answering support queries
Data Science with Python
Gen AI in Testing
Advance Generative AI
Machine Learning
Deep Neural Network
NumPy
Pandas
Matplotlib
Seaborn
Scikit-learn
Keras
TensorFlow
Computer Vision
Agent AI
Azure Cognitive AI
Windows
Linux
Hypervisors
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Decision-making
Leadership
Certification
ISTQB-Foundation
Timeline
Associate Principle in QA/Test Architect
LTIMindtree
01.2023 - Current
Test Lead & Test Manager
LTIMindtree
01.2019 - 04.2023
Test Specialist
Mindtree
07.2016 - 12.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Mindtree
07.2014 - 06.2016
Software Engineer
Mindtree/LTIMindtree
09.2012 - 06.2014
B.E - Computer Science and Engineering
BNM Institute of Technology
08.2008 - 06.2012
12th - Science
KPS Kadma
Professional Certificate Program - Generative AI and Machine Learning
IIT Roorkee and Simplilearn
10th - Science
KPS Kadma
Accomplishments
- Crest Award, Individual excellence award in Business Vertical.
- Gold Pillar, Silver Pillar and Bronze Pillar for being top performer for multiple years in Mindtree.
- Several Mastermind Award for different work like Driver Qualification Testing, Performance Testing, Automation, Feature testing and DevOps works.
- Several Spot-on, Hi-Fi, A-Team for Feature Testing, Automation Work and Problem Solving.
Recognitions
- Crest Award, Individual excellence award in Business Vertical.
- Gold Pillar, Silver Pillar, Bronze Pillar, For being top performer for multiple years in Mindtree.
- Several Mastermind Award, For different work like Driver Qualification Testing, Performance Testing, Automation, Feature testing, DevOps works.
- Several Spot-on, Hi-Fi, A-Team, For Feature Testing, Automation Work, Problem Solving.