Gururaj Desai

About Gururaj Desai

Innovative Quality Engineering Manager with 17+ years of experience building and leading QA teams across software quality assurance testing and performance optimization. Well-versed in developing test plans, cases, and strategies and implementing and tracking test KPIs with reports. Expert in test automation leveraging client libraries and frameworks• As a QA Manager, lowered attrition rate to 15%, increased employee satisfaction scores, and improved team productivity by 25% within 6 months by implementing career development, recognition, work-life balance, and team building programs.• As a QA Manager, increased delivery efficiency 20% by supporting quarterly capacity planning sessions and optimizing resource allocation and improved team efficiency 30% by establishing and mentoring offshore team members with training.• As a QE Lead, led and successfully delivered key revenue generating projects like User migration, AWS Cognito Integration (IdP, IAM, OAuth2.0, Lambda), Lifetouch Migration, Social Identity integration(Facebook, Google), Costco Integration.• As a QE Lead, developed and owned end-to-end REST API Service automation framework. Achieved 99% automation, limiting functional testing only during one-time new story testing activities during the sprints.• As a QE Lead, achieved Continuous-testing by integrating the automated test suites with CI/CD pipeline resulting in higher quality efficiency.Specialities: Software qualtiy management, Java8, Java 11, Test Automation, Maven, JUnit, testNG, Maven, QA Methodology, AWS Cognito Access and Identity Management Platform, User Migration, Cloud Migration, Mobile Testing, xCode, UIAutomation, REST Assured, Jersey, Selenium Webdriver, X-code Instruments, Appium, Jenkins, CI / Continuous Integration, Jira, Bamboo, Sauce labs, Java scripting, Fire bug & Black box testing.

Experience

1. Principal Software Quality Engineer

   Veeva Systems

   Jan 2025 — Present

Education

• B L D E As, Bijapur, Karnataka, India

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Test Automation
• Java
• Selenium
• Testing
• Javascript
• Junit
• Unix
• Eclipse
• Web Services
• Testng
• Webdriver
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Android
• Software Development
• Tomcat
• Mobile Applications
• Rest
• Servlets
• Hibernate
• Jdbc
• Jboss Application Server
• Linux
• Core Java
• Struts
• Automation Testing
• Bugzilla
• Mobile Applications Testing
• Mobile Web Testing
• Jboss
• Collections
• Data Structures
• Uiautomation
• Xcode4.3
• Instruments on Xcode4.3
• Git
• Mobile Testing
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)