Akhil Tewatia

About Akhil Tewatia

Software Testing Professional with 19+ years of work experience in managing multiple Testing projects across different platforms, handling geographically distributed teams, facilitating testing transitions and selling testing services to customers. Throughout my career, I have enjoyed working with both product-based as well as service-based companies, driving quality to mid-high magnitude project applications solving complex business requirements. Below is the real quick professional summary: • Hands-on from a technical point of view with a focus on effective QA strategy and processes.• A strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the company’s QA processes and strategies.• Have strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, in a continuous delivery environment with a strong sense of quality ownership making sure that quality is baked in from the start.• QA Management experience across multiple projects, off-shore, and on-shore.• A proven track record of building QA teams, managing the function and direction of the QA teams, including mentoring and coaching to QA team members, ensuring the success of the team’s manual and automation efforts.• Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes.• Technical expertise in Test Automation (hybrid framework), Testing Methodologies (Agile), Testing Processes, Tools (Selenium, JMeter etc.) and Techniques across the teams.

Experience

1. Associate Director - Quality Engineering

   Iris Software Inc.

   Jun 2022 — Present · IN

Education

• Jiwaji University

  Master's Degree, Computer Engineering

  2000 — 2003

• Delhi University

  Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science

  1996 — 1999

Skills

• Resource Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Selenium Webdriver
• Project Delivery
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Vendor Management
• Testing
• Waterfall
• IT Service Management
• Test Planning
• Sdlc
• Test Management
• Integration
• Requirements Analysis
• Pmo
• Waterfall Project Management
• Bpo
• Service Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Transition Management
• Test Automation Framework
• Team Management
• Jmeter
• Requirements Gathering
• Agile Project Management
• Watir
• Offshoring
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Outsourcing
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• User Acceptance Testing