Rahul Mishra
SW Test Team Lead
Pune,MH
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven professional with extensive experience in Quality Assurance, Stakeholder Management, Business Requirement Analysis, and People Management across the Investment Banking, Security, and Insurance sectors. Currently serving as a Senior Test Engineer at Allianz Technology SE, complemented by ISTQB certification and a Scrum Foundations Professional Certificate (SFPC). Holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic & Communication Engineering from LNCTS, Bhopal (M.P.), showcasing a strong technical foundation. Recognized for exceptional teamwork and a proven ability to facilitate cross-functional coordination to ensure the successful delivery of software solutions while consistently demonstrating reliability and commitment to excellence.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SW Test Team Lead
Amdocs
03.2022 - Current
- Client and Stakeholder Management: Responsible for delivering detailed client reporting, presenting project status, quality metrics, risks, and mitigation plans. Collaborated closely with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals and timelines.
- API Testing Leadership: Over 3 years of proven expertise in leading REST API testing initiatives, ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable, and high-quality solutions across multiple products.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience guiding teams in testing Amdocs BSS/OSS applications, including Catalogue1, Digital1, Revenue1, NEO, ACF (Amdocs Conversion Fabric), Sky – Fallout Management System, and Brite-Bill, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and technical excellence.
- Team Leadership & Project Management: Successfully led end-to-end progression and regression testing cycles, ensuring release readiness, and product stability. Directed the team during the launch of Amdocs Conversion Fabric, BAP programs
- DRE & KPI Governance: Managed DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency) targets, continuously improving defect detection in earlier phases. Provided timely KPI updates, such as test coverage, velocity, defect metrics, and productivity indicators, to leadership and clients.
- Project Contributions: Played a pivotal leadership role in the successful launch of AT&T WLS, ensuring milestone adherence, quality delivery, and seamless cross-team coordination.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with supply chain and other cross-functional teams to streamline processes, remove roadblocks, and enable smooth delivery across development and testing phases.
- Telecom Domain Expertise: Extensive understanding of the end-to-end telecom customer journey and core BSS/OSS processes, enabling effective decision-making, requirement clarification, and user experience optimization.
- Modern Tech Utilization: Led the team in leveraging modern tools and technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, Camunda, Postman, JIRA, and PostgreSQL to enhance workflows, improve efficiency, and support automation where applicable.
Senior Test Engineer
Allianz Technology SE
06.2020 - Current
- Handling the project in capacity as QA Test Engineer.
- Extensive experience in performing Sanity testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, End-to-End testing and Non-functional Testing.
- Understanding Business / Functional Requirement thoroughly with help of Business Requirement document created on JIRA.
- Preparing QAP (Test Plan) for the release and giving estimation of testing efforts.
- Played role of test lead for brief time from onshore and as well offshore locations.
- Act as the single point of contact between Development and Manual Testing team.
- Analyzing requirements, preparing Test Scenarios, Test Data and Test Cases.
- Learned Selenium Web Driver 3.0, TestNG, Data Driven Framework, and Hybrid Framework. Using Core Java and Comfortable with OOPs concepts.
- Having sound knowledge on concepts of Tosca - Automation Testing.
Associate Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solution
05.2014 - 05.2020
- Handling the project in capacity as QA Test Engineer.
- Extensive experience in performing Sanity testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, End-to-End testing and Non-functional Testing.
- Understanding Business / Functional Requirement thoroughly with help of Business Requirement document created on JIRA.
- Preparing QAP (Test Plan) for the release and giving estimation of testing efforts.
- Played role of test lead for brief time from onshore and as well offshore locations.
- Act as the single point of contact between Development and Manual Testing team.
- Analyzing requirements, preparing Test Scenarios, Test Data and Test Cases.
- Learned Selenium Web Driver 3.0, TestNG, Data Driven Framework, and Hybrid Framework. Using Core Java and Comfortable with OOPs concepts.
- Having sound knowledge on concepts of Tosca - Automation Testing.
Education
B.E - Electronic & Communication Engineering
Lakshmi Narain College of Technology & Science
Bhopal01-2013
XII - undefined
K.V NO-1 Bhopal
Bhopal01-2009
X - undefined
K.V NO-1 Bhopal
Bhopal01-2007
Skills
Java, SQL, VB
Manual testing,PowerBI
Agile Methodology
System Testing
Python Programming
Object-Oriented Programming
Project Management
Test case development
Requirements Analysis
Manual Testing
Integration Testing
Defect Triaging
Software Development Lifecycle
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Core member of DevOps Implementation team for my project. Involved in On boarding process new resource in my project. Member of Cognizant Outreach committee which works for social causes. Responsible for keep track downtime data for whole team. Consecutively received accolade likes Pillar of the month, shining star for best performance in team. Participated In Robotics Workshop Held in IIT Bombay. Core member of DevOps Implementation team for my project. Involved in On boarding process new resource in my project. Member of Cognizant Outreach committee which works for social causes. Responsible for keep track downtime data for whole team. Consecutively received accolade likes Pillar of the month, shining star for best performance in team. Participated In Robotics Workshop Held in IIT Bombay.
Certification
ISTQB certified and completed certification of Scrum Foundations Professional Certificate (SFPC).
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.
Timeline
SW Test Team Lead
Amdocs
03.2022 - Current
Senior Test Engineer
Allianz Technology SE
06.2020 - Current
Associate Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solution
05.2014 - 05.2020
XII - undefined
K.V NO-1 Bhopal
X - undefined
K.V NO-1 Bhopal
B.E - Electronic & Communication Engineering
Lakshmi Narain College of Technology & Science