Archana Shirgaonkar

Senior Manager Quality Engineering @Publicis Sapient

Bengaluru, IN

Responsible for overall quality of a complex application, for a Tier 1 Trade Service Provider based in the UK.• Oversee QA delivery with 42 QA team members across 5 project teams focusing on achieving measurable improvements in quality.• Design and update test plans, strategies, estimations across all teams • Conduct end-to-end testing across squads and maintain regression testcases)• Maintained continuous progressive regression, introduced a test management tool and ensured comprehensive test coverage.• Interact with customers, plan and track releases• Identify and resolve dependencies, plan risk mitigation, and streamline processes.• Identified the process gaps and suggested the improvements.• Mentor teams on testing methodologies, defect triage, RCAs• Provide best practices, standards, and create test metrics• Assist and train QA team members on domain and cross-functional knowledge and practices• Established a Test Case and Test Data Review process, leading to a significant improvement in test coverage effectiveness, resulting in a 20% reduction in overall defect count and a 15% decrease in defect leakage. • Additionally, streamlined test execution processes, reducing test execution time from 4 days to just 1 day, resulting in significant time and resource savings for the project • Continuously monitored and reported QA metrics to stakeholders, driving decision-making and process improvements.• Multi-Tenant test environment management• Technology: Specflow(BDD), Selenium, MS SQL server, Jira, Zephyr, Azure Devops

SNDT University, Mumbai

B. Tech