Aparna Baishya

About Aparna Baishya

As part of my current role at J.P. Morgan, I lead the testing delivery for 6 globally distributed product teams within the multi-billion dollar Agency Security Lending business. My focus is on test automation, performance, and governance, as well as managing the non-prod environment infrastructure through a vendor team of support engineers.I have over 17 years of experience in software quality assurance, with a strong background in test automation, performance, and governance. I have led the effort for a 40% reduction in test execution time by implementing a scalable automation framework, accelerating release cycles and cutting manual effort. I have also led the design of 1,500+ test cases within 6 months, significantly increasing test coverage, reducing post-production defects, and enhancing release confidence.

Experience

1. Global Qa Lead - VP

   J.P. Morgan

   Apr 2022 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Managing the testing delivery for 6 globally distributed product teams for the multi-billion dollar Agency Security Lending business in JPMC, with a focus on test automation, performance, and governance. Also responsible for managing the non-prod environment infrastructure through a vendor team of 6 support engineers.• Led the effort for 40% reduction in test execution time by implementing a scalable automation framework (Rest Assured, Cucumber, Java and AI-enhanced testing techniques), accelerating release cycles and cutting manual effort.• Led the design of 1,500+ test cases within 6 months, significantly increasing test coverage, reducing post-production defects, and enhancing release confidence.• Transformed test environment management, restoring 250+ microservices post-data center migration, improving uptime, and implementing proactive monitoring to eliminate operational risks, optimized deployment process.• Strengthened system resilience by integrating JMeter-based performance testing, proactively identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing platform scalability.• Built the QA team from scratch, and helped them grow through continuous mentoring and guidance. • Defined and implemented QA governance frameworks, reducing production defects and driving standardization across automation, test strategy, and deployment best practices.• Exploring Generative AI & AI agents for intelligent test case generation, test data creation and test automation and debugging.

Education

• Cotton College, Guwahati

  Higher Secondary, Science

• Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning

  PGDIT, Information Technology

  2011 — 2013

• Assam Engineering College

  B.E., Electronics and Telecommunication