Sahil Kaushal
Quality Analyst Lead
Mumbai
Summary
Software-savvy quality assurance professional committed to confirming proper functionality and usability of software products before release. Plans test schedules and strategies according to project scope and delivery dates and monitors and tracks bug resolutions. Reviews software documentation to verify technical accuracy and completeness and to mitigate risks.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
QA Team Lead
Cogitate Technology Solution
04.2023 - Current
- Developed and standardized a comprehensive QA hiring process, ensuring consistent selection of candidates with the right skills, experience, and cultural fit.
- Delivered the highest quality in UAT, setting new standards for QA excellence and earning increased respect for the QA team within the organization.
- A key member of the core team, contributing to streamlining processes and defining KPIs, in addition to ensuring top-tier QA standards.
- Handled multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high levels of quality assurance standards.
- Led a team of QA professionals to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software releases.
QA Lead
Glean
4 2022 - 12.2022
- Lead and Mentored the team of five passionate QA and reduce the regression testing by a day
- Worked closely with the Product and Engineering team for prioritising the release plan
- Involved in Research and Problem solving for the upcoming features
- Lead the Quality of one of the vertical for the flagship search product.
QA Lead
Paytm Insider
02.2021 - 03.2022
- Worked on Improving user journey and increased user logins to 10x
- Played a key role in prioritising new features and release planning
- Continuous involvement in solving the users problems with new feature request by working along with Product team
- Played a role enabling all the teams for shipping the products with Quality.
Senior QA
Hive AI
01.2018 - 01.2021
- Worked as Sr
- Qulaity Analyst for the AI and ML Products
- Worked on A/B experiment, collecting insights and launch of the final product
- Actively worked on the customer reported issues, and getting them fixed on priority
- Continuous improvements towards the testing cycles.
Test Engineer
Reliance Jio (Marquis Technologies)
03.2016 - 01.2018
- Involved in core testing of mobile apps
- Involved in giving demo to various teams
- Worked with Mobile apps, android tv, and network router for home entertaining products.
Software Engineer
Cogitate technology Solutions
01.2014 - 03.2016
- Started working as an intern to a full time employee
- Hands on experience with overall working of a mobile app product, i.e from concept creation to the deployment
- Created an MVP of a Product, which served as a util to all the Mobile apps released.
Education
Bachelors of Engineering (B.E) in Computer Science -
Rayat and Bahra College of Engineering and Biotechnology
01.2010 - 04.2014
Skills
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Analytical Thinking
Debugging and RCA
Mobile Apps and Web Apps
API
Jira
Usability Testing
Product Research
User Research
User Journey
Mixpanel
Wireframing
Design Sense
Figma
Mindmaps - Xmind/Whimsical
Certification
Learn Modern Product Management (HelloPM), 01/01/23, 11/01/22
Accomplishments
- During covid mentored and helped transition of 10 folks from operations to QA
- Created MVP during Internship, which served as util product for 50+ apps
- Architected and implemented Multi-target approach in iOS to ship product to app store in less than a day time
Timeline
AINS 101: Increasing Your Insurance IQ
03-2024
QA Team Lead
Cogitate Technology Solution
04.2023 - Current
Learn Modern Product Management (HelloPM), 01/01/23, 11/01/22
04-2023
QA Lead
Paytm Insider
02.2021 - 03.2022
Senior QA
Hive AI
01.2018 - 01.2021
Test Engineer
Reliance Jio (Marquis Technologies)
03.2016 - 01.2018
Software Engineer
Cogitate technology Solutions
01.2014 - 03.2016
Bachelors of Engineering (B.E) in Computer Science -
Rayat and Bahra College of Engineering and Biotechnology
01.2010 - 04.2014
QA Lead
Glean
4 2022 - 12.2022