Vinaya Tekale
Test Engineering Associate Manager @Accenture UK & Ireland
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WORK HISTORY
Test Engineering Associate Manager @Accenture UK & Ireland
Edinburgh City, GB
End-to-End Test Management**: Spearheaded test automation and end-to-end test management processes, including test estimation, planning, execution, and tracking. Test Strategy preparation for application modernisation using Microservices. Led the Functional, System, Integration, API, Backend, Database, Exploratory, Performance testing efforts. Build test automation using C#- SpecFlow in BDD, Java-Selenium-Cucumber, Cypress with TypeScript, API automation using Postman-newman. Test led efforts on projects in Health Sector, Public Sector services.**Test Leadership**: Result-driven Test strategy preparation for modernizing applications using Microservices and AWS Cloud services. Collaborated with Solution Architects, Dev, devOps, Business Analysts, UX Designers to embed shift-left techniques and determining test types and automation approaches needed to reduce defects.**Agile Testing Implementation**: Reduced test execution time by more than 70% by embedding shift-left testing using test automation. Improved product quality by adding exploratory testing strategies, CI/CD integration of test automation suites.**Coaching & Mentoring**: Expanded and led the test team from 4 to 22 members, providing leadership to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in best practices for test automation, formal manual testing, accessibility testing, Performance testing, Operational acceptance testing and exploratory testing approaches.**Automation Framework Development**: Steered the creation of automation frameworks in Java-Selenium, C#-NUnit, Java-Rest-assured, Postman-newman, ReadyAPI API Automation, and Java-Springboot to exercise both UI and service layers for web and microservices applications. Integrated the frameworks with Azure DevOps for continuous delivery.**Test Lead for multiple work streams** – Lead multiple test deliveries in parallel for Test Automation, RFCs, New Releases, comprising Onshore & Offshore individuals.
EDUCATION
JNEC
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Telecommunication
Mamta Kanya HIgh School
SSC, 10th Board
ABOUT VINAYA TEKALE
Experienced Test Manager and Test Automation Lead with extensive expertise in delivering large-scale, complex digital transformation testing projects on Cloud platforms across a wide range of challenging and diverse technologies and architectures, including SaaS, AWS, Azure, and Microservices. With a strong background in test management, I have successfully led end-to-end test deliveries in various industries, ensuring quality and precision in high-stakes environments.Proficient in all aspects of Test Planning, including estimation, tracking, monitoring, and stakeholder management. My technical proficiency spans multiple testing types, including Functional, UI, API, Accessibility, System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing, and Exploratory Testing. I am also adept at managing and implementing test automation strategies that deliver speed and efficiency without compromising quality.Led test deliveries with speed, quality & greater test coverage by implementing test automation using Java-Selenium with TestNG, C#- MSTest Framework, Nunit Framework-Specflow, Cypress-Typescript, API using Postman-newman, Performance testing using JMeter. CI/CD Tools - Jenkins, Git, GItlab, Gitlab Runners, Test/Project Management Tools: JIRA, VSTS, MTM, Rally.With active security clearance, I bring a high level of professionalism and attention to security in every project, ensuring compliance and safeguarding sensitive data. My proven ability to manage large, cross-functional teams, work under tight deadlines, and deliver results across diverse technical landscapes makes me an asset to any digital transformation initiative.
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