VIJAY HIREMATH
Bengaluru
Summary
Strategic Senior Manager with 14 years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, and cloud migration assurance across diverse industries. Led development of enterprise test strategies, coordinated cross-functional teams, and enhanced defect governance to ensure predictable releases in complex programs. Expertise includes API, web, mobile, Salesforce, and service-virtualization testing, complemented by leadership in Agile delivery and AI-driven quality practices.
Overview
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Work History
Senior Manager - Advisory Services
PwC
Bengaluru
- Lead Salesforce testing initiatives for AmeriHealth Caritas, aligning quality engineering across business processes, integrations, data validation, and release milestones in the healthcare domain.
- Owned quality planning for cloud migration and transformation programs, translating architecture and business risks into effective test scope, entry/exit criteria, governance, and executive reporting.
- Architect automation strategies across large Agile teams for API, web, and mobile journeys, improving coverage and strengthening repeatable regression execution.
- Mentored and guided cross-functional team of 10+ quality engineers; established working practices, reviewed deliverables, removed blockers, and built delivery accountability.
- Contribute testing approaches, estimates, delivery models, and differentiators to RFP responses and client proposals.
- Introduced AI-assisted prompt engineering for test scenario generation, accelerating adoption of AI-enabled quality practices.
Honeywell Migration - Testing Lead
Enterprise Migration Program
- Led the end-to-end testing workstream for the Honeywell migration, establishing the migration assurance strategy, scope, test phases, governance cadence, and quality gates from planning through go-live readiness.
- Drove risk-based prioritization and traceability to cover critical requirements, interfaces, user journeys, and operational scenarios prior to release decisions.
- Established defect triage and escalation mechanisms, monitored quality trends and blockers, and delivered readiness reporting to program leadership and business stakeholders.
- Coordinated SIT, regression, UAT support, integration validation, and workflow testing across application, data, infrastructure, and dependent teams to ensure continuity post-migration.
- Partnered with engineering, product, business, and operations teams to validate cutover readiness, manage testing dependencies, and support post-migration stabilization.
KP Mobility Healthcare - Cloud Migration QA Lead
Bluemix to Microsoft Azure
- Led Scrum-based quality initiative for migration of healthcare platform from IBM Bluemix to Microsoft Azure, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
- Developed a comprehensive strategy covering functional, integration, performance, security, regression, and migration validation, with measurable entry and exit criteria.
- Managed defects for program of 300 team members, establishing structure for triage, ownership, prioritization, escalation, and resolution tracking to streamline defect resolution.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -
Karnataka University
DharwadSkills
- Test strategy governance
- Quality engineering
- Cloud transformation assurance
- Salesforce validation
- Test automation frameworks
- Agile governance
- Agile methodologies
- Automation frameworks
- Cloud transformation
- Technology: Java, Groovy, Selenium, Perfecto, Postman, ReadyAPI, CA DevTest
- Platforms & Tools: Jira, Confluence, HP ALM, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Eclipse and MySQL
- Performance testing
- Defect resolution
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Cross-team collaboration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Quality strategy formulation
Personal Information
Title: SENIOR MANAGER | QUALITY ENGINEERING & CLOUD TRANSFORMATION
Certification
- Certified Cluade Developer-Foundations,Certified Partner Specialist Gemini Enterprise Agent Development, SC-300 - Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, AZ-900 - Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, AI-900 - Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals, AI-102 - Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - Scrum Alliance, Sales Agile Certification
Accomplishments
- Spearheaded testing for complex healthcare applications and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Championed automation frameworks for legacy systems and standardized QA playbooks across delivery teams.
- Strengthened program-level defect governance and cross-team decision-making in large, multi-vendor environments.
- Integrated AI-assisted test generation into quality engineering practices to improve ideation and coverage.
Timeline
Senior Manager - Advisory Services
PwC
Honeywell Migration - Testing Lead
Enterprise Migration Program
KP Mobility Healthcare - Cloud Migration QA Lead
Bluemix to Microsoft Azure
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -
Karnataka University