Yatish Upadhyaya

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ABOUT YATISH UPADHYAYA

I am a Quality, Automation, and Digital Transformation Leader with 16+ years of experience driving large-scale QA initiatives across complex, enterprise platforms. Specialized in building scalable, business-aligned quality strategies that improve product quality, enhance customer experience, and reduce time-to-market.I define and lead the QA and Quality Engineering vision by embedding quality early in the SDLC and enabling fast, reliable, and predictable releases. I work closely with executive leadership, product, engineering, and program teams to align QA initiatives with organizational goals and influence quality-driven decision. I firmly believe that quality is built in—not tested later.I have a proven track record in team and project leadership, with extensive experience managing and mentoring high-performing manual and automation teams. I foster a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous learning, and innovation, while recruiting top talent and enabling long-term career growth.I drive strong processes & governance, including Shift-Left testing across CI/CD pipelines, DoD, quality gates, release sign-offs, & risk mitigation planning. I am well-versed in Agile, TDD, and Kanban methodologies, with hands-on experience in iteration planning, release planning, backlog refinement, story pointing, velocity planning, and PI (Product Increment) Planning.My expertise includes designing and scaling automation strategies and frameworks across Web, Mobile, API, and Performance. I have hands-on experience with tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, BDD/Cucumber, Appium, JMeter, Postman, Pact, Hoverfly, Cypress, Eggplant (including AI), LoadRunner, UFT/QTP, and modern CI/CD tooling like Jenkins. I actively drive the adoption of AI-driven testing and digital quality transformation initiatives.Have played hands-on roles as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Business Analyst, enabling strong collaboration between business and engineering teams. I am proficient in requirements analysis, test strategy, estimation, and root-cause analysis, with strong experience across JIRA, Quality Center, TestRail, TFS, Confluence etc.I bring deep domain experience across QSR, E-commerce, Automobile, Banking, Logistics, and Life Sciences sectors, with strong exposure to client-server, cloud-native, DevOps, and API-driven architectures. PMP certified, and AWS Fundamentals certification, with a solid understanding of AI-driven systems, object-oriented programming, databases, and modern, scalable system architectures.