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LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/nagarajmali/
Education: B.E [Mech]-
Certifications: Chaos Engineering, Machine Learning from IIT-Madras, DS/Algos, Java
Summary:
Accomplished QA/SDET Manager & Strategic Planner who conquered all spectrum of quality assurance. Overall 15+ YOE in
Developing and implementing near and long-term technology strategies.
Have massive experience from waterfall to agile complex distributed systems, from services to minimal viable product [MVP]
release testing, Planning for system integration, upgrades, and alignment to optimize market needs.
Rich experience in building large scale distributed test Automation frameworks for apps/microservices & variety of domains ranging
from B2B/POS, e-commerce, Banking Finance Insurance, ERP, HealthCare, Automobiles to Aeronautical etc.
A strategic thinker adept at optimizing QA budgets, fostering cross-departmental collaboration, and cultivating a culture of quality.
Experience:
1. CIGNITI [ CoForge ] Hyderabad, India
Senior Test Architect
05/2023 – till date
• QA Manager for entire Modernization program in NT Bank-London. Established QA process from Requirement realization till
Release certification, built a team of 4 QAs.
• Improved time to market by 80%. Increased CSI by 60%. Transformed Defect detection capabilities by designing test
automation framework for entire premises of Global Fund Services-Asset Management [value chain 20+ Apps].
• Implemented early defect detection strategies & hence reduced cost on post prod support budget by 45%.
• Tech Stacks: Java, Selenium, cucumber, rest APIs, SQL, lean-FT/UFT, Jenkins, Bamboo CICD, Kubernetes, Docker, AZ,
Performance using JMeter, Grafana, Prometheus, Resilience testing using Gremlin. Postman, Rest-Assured, Jira, Confluence,
Azure agile board.
2. GoTo Financial [ Gojek / Tokopedia ]
Startup
B2B Platform→ MOKAPOS Point of Sale. eCommerce: GoStore.
Associate QA Manager
03/2022 - 11/2022
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Effectively managed cross functional Agile/Scrum Teams, of Front-end and Back-end, QA & a Scrum Masters.
Lead web/UI, Microservices APis/ Mobile test automations team.
Handled seamlessly the scale target of 25%+ customer base with very minor P1s.
Implemented variety of testing strategies, Shift-Left early detection /CICD/Spring Cucumber & covered more than 90%
coverage & heavenly reduced frequent release cycles. Api versioning, backward compatibility,
• All sort of microservices automated testing: Performance testing using Jmeter, selenium for UI, spring boot test for integration
tests, Gremlin for resiliency, Postman/HttpClient for Rest Apis, Kafka for messaging/unit testing.
3. Cigniti Technologies
Test Architect
PURE Insurance → OneShields Dragon Technology for End-to-End Policy Administration.
10/2017 - 02/2022
Key Accomplishments:
• PERT: Policy Extraction & Re-Creation Tool: Script-less Automation built from scratch that validated thousands of insurance
policies every night. This enabled us to speed up the release testing & hence faster sound quality prod deployments. This is a
groundbreaking design, that helped the client save release budgets. Its Highly scalable selenium + db based, automation
framework for concurrent policy creation & validations. Integrated/executed on concurrent distributed systems using AWS EC2
nodes, load balancer & triggered from CI/CD Jenkins pipelines.
• Overall, 72% of release time reduction with high quality check validations.
• Led the team of 12 Automation engineers, implemented end to end QA processes and quality metrics of measurements.
4. HCL Technologies Lead
5. PTC Technologies
6. Geometric Ltd Senior
Test Engineer
Senior Test Engineer
Test Engineer
11/2011 - 01/2017
03/2009 - 11/2011
10/2004 - 02/2009
