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Rahul Kumar

Bengaluru

Summary

I am a highly skilled and 13+ Years experienced Software Quality Assurance Lead with a passion for ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. With a proven track record of success in implementing effective QA strategies and leading teams, I excel at driving process improvements, enhancing product quality, and maximizing customer satisfaction.


Strong leadership skills: As a seasoned Lead, I have successfully led cross-functional teams of QA engineers, testers, and analysts, guiding them towards achieving project goals and delivering high-quality software solutions.

Agile methodologies: I have extensive experience working in Agile environments, implementing QA processes and strategies that align with Agile principles.

Test automation: I am proficient in designing and implementing automated test frameworks and harnesses using industry-leading tools, such as Selenium, Cucumber and TestNG. By leveraging automation, I have significantly reduced testing cycles, enhanced test coverage, and improved overall efficiency.

Process improvement: I am adept at analyzing existing QA processes, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing effective solutions. Through the implementation of streamlined processes and the adoption of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices, I have successfully increased the efficiency of QA teams and reduced time-to-market.


Quality assurance best practices: I stay updated with the latest industry trends and best practices in software quality assurance. By leveraging my in-depth knowledge of QA methodologies, standards, and tools, I consistently ensure that our software products meet the highest quality standards and exceed customer expectations.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr.Quality Assurance Lead

Baker Hughes GE
08.2021 - Current

Worked on Cloud based platform creation to run and productive various analytics models at scales. Platform is being build using microservices architecture hosted on cloud services (AWS). Along with the webservices, platform also offers an Angular UI shell to give customer an integrated feel.

· Lead automation and QA testing effort and team of 10 SDETs.

· Using Automation frameworks based on Selenium, cucumber, and Java native http client and integrated.

· with Jenkins build CI to integrate various application automations.

· Understanding requirements and accordingly preparing Test strategies, developing Test plan and resources.

· Apply experience on Non-Functional testing – Performance, load, stress, failure modes, longevity and availability using JMeter.

· Reliability testing for long running test setups and system monitoring.

· Providing technical guidance to the team, solving technical obstacles for them, and making sure they have the right infrastructure to work etc.

· Define QA processes, monitor and improve through continuous improvement principles.

· Review test strategies and plans and keep QA org in-check.

· Provide effective performance feedback through employee recognition, rewards.

· Work with talent acquisition teams to have hiring drives and individual walking interviews.

· Coach, mentor and develop staff, including overseeing new employee on-boarding and providing career.

· development planning and opportunities.

Software Engineer 2

Dell
01.2020 - 08.2021

· Leading 6 QA team members.

· Identifying Automation Scenarios from the set of Testcases/User stories identified in cycle.

· Developing Web Automation Testcases for the identified Automation Scenarios

· Performed Cross Browser Automation using Selenium GRID with Sauce Labs Cloud Integration.

· Reviewed the Code prepared by other teammates and suggested improvements if required.

· Running Smoke regression suite after every build and publish the detailed reports with the bugs detected
Running Full Automation suite for every Release and analyze the root cause of Failed scripts Worked on Maven-Build Management tool.

· Defined test cases from technical specifications and stories.

· Involved in the design and development of a keyword-driven automation framework using Selenium WebDriver.

· Captured the logs from the script execution by using log4j Logging API.

· Participated in Optimizing and Maintaining the Test framework using TestNG and Selenium WebDriver.

· Worked on Version Control Tool Jenkins for Nightly Automation Build.

Sr.Test Engineer

HARMAN
10.2015 - 12.2020

Software Engineer

Vcreate Software
04.2011 - 08.2015

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science And Engineering

DR.MGR UNIVERSITY
Chennai, India
03.2011

Skills

  • Java
  • Penetration Testing
  • Test automation expertise
  • Test Planning
  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Performance Testing
  • GitHub Actions
  • Data Structure and Algorithm

Timeline

Sr.Quality Assurance Lead

Baker Hughes GE
08.2021 - Current

Software Engineer 2

Dell
01.2020 - 08.2021

Sr.Test Engineer

HARMAN
10.2015 - 12.2020

Software Engineer

Vcreate Software
04.2011 - 08.2015

B.Tech - Computer Science And Engineering

DR.MGR UNIVERSITY
Rahul Kumar