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Work History
Education
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Key Highlights
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Sreelabdha Das

Bengaluru,KA

Skills

  • Domain Expertise: Mortgage, Banking, Accounting
  • Testing Tools: JIRA, ALM, SOAP UI, Postman, Selenium, Playwright
  • Process Excellence: QA Metrics, RCA, Audits, Agile/Scrum
  • Database: Mongo DB, Oracle, Postgres, DB2
  • AI Tools: Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Power BI
  • Leadership: Navigating complex delivery environments, driving strategic problem resolution, enabling high-performing teams, optimizing resource allocation, leading impactful client demos, and fostering a culture of continuous knowledge sharing
  • Experience with agile project management
  • Project management principles
  • Lifecycle management in software development
  • Expertise in quality control
  • Group cohesion and motivation strategies
  • Experience in usability testing

Summary

Seasoned QA Leader with 14+ years of experience in Quality Engineering across Banking and Mortgage domains. I excel at building and mentoring high-performing QA teams, optimizing processes, and championing Agile delivery to ensure alignment with critical business outcomes. Certified PMP and CSPO with a track record of stakeholder alignment, continuous improvement, and delivering defect-free, high-impact releases.

Work History

QA Manager

Tavant
04.2023 - Current
  • Project: Xpanse LOS
  • Xpansedeveloping a highly scalable, configurable, multi-tenant LOS (Loan Origination System) platform and services. The application will enable internal and tenant users to efficiently manage tenants, products, tenant subscriptions, and user access.
  • Defined and executed end-to-end QA strategy for complex mortgage applications, ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory standards.
  • Led Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives to drive delivery cadence and team accountability.
  • Oversaw test planning, execution, and defect management across functional, regression, and integration test cycles.
  • Designed and maintained QA metrics dashboards to track test coverage, defect leakage, automation ROI, and sprint-wise QA throughput.
  • Conducted API testing using Postman and managed test environments hosted on AWS for seamless integration and performance validation.
  • Delivered client-facing demos, walkthroughs, and estimation sessions to ensure transparency and stakeholder alignment.
  • Integrated Microsoft Copilot into QA workflows to accelerate test case generation, defect triage, and documentation.
  • Implemented an AI-enhanced automation framework to streamline test planning, execution, and reporting.
  • Leveraged historical data and AI-driven insights to improve estimation accuracy, reduce manual effort, and enhance RCA efficiency.
  • Enabled team onboarding, internal knowledge transfers, and capability uplift through structured mentoring and documentation.

Senior Lead Quality Engineer

Tavant
07.2021 - 04.2023
  • Project: Velox Arc Home Implementation
  • Implemented Velox Broker Portal for Arc Home—a web-based solution for broker firms linked to lenders, enabling end-to-end loan lifecycle management for borrowers, including modules for 1003 form, product & pricing, re-pricing, and funding.
  • Oversaw QA strategy for upgraded mortgage platforms (Broker, Closing Disclosure, Loan Officer), enhancing data flow, integration, and delivery quality.
  • Contributed to Statement of Work (SOW) creation and early estimation efforts to align QA scope with business objectives.
  • Led QA planning and execution across Agile ceremonies, ensuring sprint alignment and proactive risk mitigation.
  • Taken care of automation strategy, estimation, and delivery across functional and regression suites, improving release velocity and coverage.
  • Delivered client-facing demos and walkthroughs to showcase QA progress and strengthen stakeholder engagement.
  • Mentored team members and facilitated internal training sessions to scale QA capability and ensure continuity.
  • Defined and tracked QA metrics including defect density, test coverage, automation ROI, and sprint-wise throughput to drive data-informed decisions.

QA Lead

Tavant
02.2016 - 07.2021
  • Project: FinXperience Broker Portal
  • This application is used for creating and tracking Loan details for an user (basically known as Borrower). It helps to create and track the whole Loan Cycle, major areas of the application are 1003 form, Product and Pricing ,Re-pricing and funding.
  • Directed QA for a web-based mortgage portal integrated with Encompass and MongoDB.
  • Managed production support, defect triage, and deployment validation.
  • Conducted regression, smoke testing, and project audits.
  • Led RCA initiatives and ensured testing sign-offs.

Senior Associate

Cognizant
05.2011 - 01.2016
  • Project: Intuit Quick Book Upgradation
  • QuickBooks, developed by Intuit, offers Pro, Premier, and Enterprise editions with industry-specific workflows, reports, and terminology tailored for small businesses.
  • Performed requirement analysis, authored and executed test cases, logged defects from change impact and report issues, supported root cause analysis, and conducted regression testing to ensure release stability.

Education

B. Tech - Information Technology

Biju Pattnayak University of Technology
India

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
  • Six Sigma Green Belt
  • ISTQB
  • Mortgage Bankers Association Certification

Key Highlights

  • Negotiated beyond SoW, as scope was changed, and scaled a T&M project from 2 to 8 QA engineers, driving a 4x increase in revenue.
  • Conceptualized and implemented custom tailored processes, which not only increased the productivity by 10% but also customer baselined those processes across organization.
  • Integrated AI into the QA process by embedding tools like Microsoft Copilot and designing an AI-enhanced automation framework to reduce manual effort, accelerate test planning and execution, improve estimation accuracy using historical data, and boost team velocity by 30% through smarter coverage and streamlined workflows.
  • Delivered a defect-free release, earning client appreciation and LinkedIn endorsements.
  • Identified critical QuickBooks defects for Intuit, driving a key product upgrade featured in that year’s release and enabling strategic project revenue growth of 20% for Organization.
  • Received multiple Quarterly Award over the years and TEA award for 2020 in for the QA contribution towards developing a Mortgage product for my organization and multiple successful implementation of different clients.
Sreelabdha Das