Senior Software Test Engineer - RIVIAN Automotive LLC (Contract) / BayOne Solutions Inc. (Contract) - USA
(2025-06)
Led end-to-end testing strategy and execution for complex business transactions, validating the complete lifecycle from front-end data entry through back-end financial reconciliation. Ensured data integrity, business rule compliance, and seamless information flow across integrated enterprise systems.
- Defined end-to-end test strategies and risk-based testing approaches for complex SAP and cloud integration projects
- Acted as QA lead across multiple Agile squads, owning quality strategy alignment with Product Owners and Engineering Leads while directly coaching automation and manual testers on execution and root-cause practices
- Championed shift-left testing practices by participating in requirement reviews, story refinement sessions, and early risk assessments, reducing downstream defect leakage
- Collaborated with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Engineering Leads to translate business requirements into comprehensive test plans and acceptance criteria
- Established release testing scope, entry/exit criteria, and quality gates to ensure production readiness
- Collaborated with automation teams to integrate regression suites into CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster feedback and improving release confidence
- Acted as the primary QA point of contact between Product, Engineering, Automation, and Business stakeholders
- Developed and maintained QA dashboards in Jira and Zephyr to track test execution, defect trends, release readiness, and quality metrics
- Presented quality metrics, release readiness status, testing progress, risks, and mitigation plans to Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and business stakeholders
- Monitored key quality metrics including defect leakage, defect density, test coverage, and sprint quality trends
- Produced release quality reports and provided go/no-go recommendations during release readiness review
- Led and mentored a team of 3 QA engineers, assigning and prioritizing test coverage across squads, reviewing test design and defect analysis, and removing blockers to keep sprint commitments on track
- Creating Test cases using AI tools like AI agents, Gemini and Glean
- Improved regression execution efficiency by 90% through Playwright automation coverage
- Developed and maintained Playwright-based automated regression test suites to improve release quality and test efficiency
- Testing complex data integrations between SAP, PLM and other Products
- Orchestrated R2 E2E Integration Testing across a complex landscape involving SAP S/4HANA (EWM, TM, and FSCM) and external cloud platforms, ensuring seamless data flow through SAP CPI middleware
- Executed Advanced O2C Workflows, specifically validating the "Order-to-Ship" cycle by synchronizing SD Sales Orders with EWM Outbound Deliveries and TM Freight Units, reducing cross-module data discrepancies
- Managed Test Data Orchestration for R2 sub-modules, utilizing SAP Gold Client to stage production-like data for "Warehouse Picking" and "Carrier Tendering" test cycles
Senior Software Test Engineer - RIVIAN Automotive LLC (Contract) / BayOne Solutions Inc. (Contract) / CareSoft global - USA & UK
(2022-02 - 2024-12)
Led the testing efforts for various modules within Supply Chain Management portal, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and quality releases.
- Held final QA sign-off authority for release readiness, leading risk assessment and defect-resolution decisions across cross-functional teams ahead of production deployment
- Collaborated on story refinement sessions to define detailed acceptance criteria and to ensure accurate estimation and prioritization of testing efforts
- Reported daily and weekly QA status updates, highlighting project risks, mitigation plans, and quality indicators to stakeholders
- Produced release quality reports and provided go/no-go recommendations during release readiness review
- Led peer review sessions for test cases and automation scripts across the team, enforcing traceability standards and raising overall test coverage quality
- Owned and Managed Confluence by documenting testing strategies and methodologies for complex integration modules
- Coordinating and Scheduling weekly Walk throughs on implemented features with automation team, Release cut-off meeting with cross functional teams, SIT sessions with integrations teams and Defect triage with core team
- Challenged and clarified ambiguous requirements with stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of project goals and preventing potential defects
- Detailed defect analysis using developer tools and conducted root cause analysis of defects, providing insights for process improvements
- Drove a QA process-improvement initiative — mandating Acceptance Criteria on every story — that cut defect leakage by 90%, then coached the wider team on adopting the new standard
- Created Test documents like Test cases, Automation feasibility checklist, Release Plan Notes and Post deployment checklist
- Monitored key quality metrics including defect leakage, defect density, test coverage, and sprint quality trends
- Built gadgets in JIRA to monitor Test case coverage, Defect tracking, Defect's RCA and Release status
- Performed various testing strategies like Functional testing, Database testing, Revalidation and Regression testing, Integration testing, API testing, UAT, ETL testing and end-to-end testing
- Test integrations with AWS services including API Gateway, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step functions and S3, ensuring seamless data flow and storage
- Tested and deployed a cutting-edge AI feature, optimizing performance and reliability
Software Test Analyst - Rishi Tech Pvt Ltd - UK
(2021-03 - 2022-02)
- Tested web applications across diverse ranges of desktop, tablet and mobile devices
- Liaising with developers
- Performed manual functional testing, Automation testing, Regression testing, integration testing, cross browser testing, End to End testing Test case creation, Test Report creation, bug reporting and closure
- Ensured data integrity and consistency through rigorous database testing, utilizing SQL in MySQL for data validation and manipulation
Software Analyst - IBM India Pvt Ltd - India
(2018-09 - 2019-03)
- Prepared test strategies and discussed testing goals for each Sprint with team, assigned User Stories to document test cases, test data
- Participating in Agile Events like Sprint planning meetings, Stand-up, Review and Retrospective
- Reported Testing status for current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings
- Liaising with developers to swiftly resolve defects
- Exploratory testing after bug fix and end of each sprint
Software Specialist - Dassault Systems - India
(2015-03 - 2018-09)
- Testing Web based applications
- Involved in requirements gathering from end users and performed feasibility study
- Worked on test scripts (using Selenium WebDriver with Java & TestNG) & execution on various scenarios
- Few of them are Login and Logout, Add/Edit/Search features for Users, Roles, Customers, License count, Handling various Alerts (simple and confirmation alert) & Pop ups
- Involved in manual functional testing, Automation testing, Regression testing, integration testing, cross browser testing, End to End testing Test case creation, Test Report creation, bug reporting and closure
