Nikhil Warang
Director - Quality/Release | JioHotstar, Disney+ (MEA, SEA) | Release Management, GTM, App Distribution, Beta Testing, Store Management, QA Tools, Performance, Media Platform
- Role
- Director - Engineering (Test) at JioHotstar
- Location
- Mumbai, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nikhil Warang
12 Years of Quality, Productivity, and Release Engineering experience across Functional Testing, Performance Testing, and Delivering Products at huge scale. Strengths include rapidly identifying and automating Smoke, e2e, Regression, and Sanity Testing of critical business flows on both Front End and Back End.I focus on good User Experience and improving Testing + Release Processes via robust Automation, Monitoring, Alerting, and Reporting.Three time Rockstar award winner at Disney+ Hotstar.QA Ninja award winner at Coverfox.Have worked in various domains including OTT, Insuretech, and eLearning.Currently driving Releases for all client apps at Disney+ Hotstar, and improving Delivery Excellence, Beta Testing, and UAT.Built and directed the System Analysis Productivity Engineering team at Disney+ Hotstar to provide Instrumentation/Reporting/Alerting/Monitoring solutions and measure Productivity metrics. Led SRE and Incident Management initiatives as part of this role.Played an instrumental role in scaling Test Automation and improving Quality for the Disney+ Hotstar Website and Personalisation/Recommendation backend services.Has owned end to end Client as well as Service Releases at Coverfox.Built and managed an offshore QA team for Discovery Education from scratch while at Zeus.
Experience
Director - Engineering (Test)
Nov 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN
Education
Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, Bandra
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Telecommunications
2009 — 2013
Skills
- Docker
- Test Cases
- Client Co-Ordination
- Test Management
- Functional Testing
- Usability Testing
- Manual Testing
- Java
- Selenium Webdriver
- Client Liaison
- Python
- Mobile Testing
- Powerpoint
- Communication
- Performance Testing
- C++
- Test Execution
- Team Management
- Linux Server
- System Integration Testing
- Redmine
- Bugzilla
- Mantis
- Eclipse
- User Acceptance Testing
- Exploratory Testing
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Gemini
- Agile Testing
- C
- Microsoft Office
- Test Automation
- Interpersonal Skills
- Jira
- Jenkins
- Test Planning
- Django
- Matlab
- UI/UX Testing
- Interviews
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