Alireza K.

About Alireza K.

As a Manager of Quality Assurance Automation at Bottomline Technologies, I have over 15 years of experience in leading and managing automation QA teams and building test automation frameworks and continuous testing pipelines. I am a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and an ISTQB Certified Advanced Test Manager with a strong background in computer engineering and SaaS technologies.I have successfully owned and implemented the automation testing strategy for multiple projects, improving quality visibility, team productivity, test execution time, and automated regression. I have also coached and mentored automation and manual QA engineers on improving quality metrics, standardization, root cause analyses, risk management, and quality trends. My mission is to drive distributed and cross-functional teams to achieve excellence and innovation in continuous testing in agile environments.

Experience

1. Senior Manager of Quality Assurance Automation Test Solution Architect

   Bottomline

   Sep 2022 — Present · Portsmouth, NH, US

   Led automation quality engineering initiatives for a major enterprise project at one of the world\'s largest companies, elevating testing standards across multiple products. Directed a distributed team of 45+ cross-functional QA engineers (spanning US, Europe, and India) while defining functional and performance automation strategies to drive efficiency, reduce defects, and accelerate delivery.Key Achievements* Reduced defect introduction by 25% by implementing pre-commit functional tests for Spring Boot applications: → Cut defect detection time from hours to minutes → Shortened time-to-resolve from days to hours → Blocked JPA-related defects in merge requests using containerized databases with production-like data* Slashed performance test development and maintenance costs by 30% through a custom Locust-based, code-driven framework.* Reduced regression testing time by up to 50% for select Scrum teams by optimizing parallel execution during releases.* Enhanced quality visibility with a multilevel, risk-based regression strategy, delivering critical path health feedback in minutes (vs. hours previously).* Boosted team productivity by 20% via real-time test execution reporting and self-monitoring dashboards for dynamic resource allocation.

Education

• National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'​

  Master's degree, Computer Engineering

  2002 — 2009

• Azad University (IAU)

  Bachelor of Veterinary, Veterinary Medicine

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Eclipse
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Xml
• Tfs
• Bugzilla
• Software Design
• Manual Testing
• Subversion
• Agile
• Quality Assurance
• Visual Studio
• Agile Methodologies
• Junit
• Object Oriented Design
• Javascript
• Uml
• Cvs
• Test Automation
• Git
• Test Driven Development
• Continuous Integration
• Databases
• Testing
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Design Patterns
• Ssrs
• Unit Testing
• Jira
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Nunit