Dedicated and results-driven QA Lead with over 9 years of experience in leading quality assurance efforts for software development projects. Skilled in devising and implementing comprehensive testing strategies, managing cross-functional teams, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality products. **Professional Synopsis** 1. Led the QA group and supported all team members with scheduling, project tracking, estimates, and other leadership responsibilities. Experience in leading on-site and off-shore teams 2. Hands-on experience with STLC experience includes understanding the requirements, Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test case development, Test Summary Reports 3. Extensive experience in application Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression and End to End User Acceptance Testing. 4. Acted as liaison between development and business teams, providing visibility and clarity into business requirements to the development teams. 5. Test Methodologies: Expert in working with different testing methodologies like Agile/Scrum, V- Model, and Waterfall model. 6. Test Automation: Worked with Selenium IDE, and Selenium Web Driver using TestNG framework. Created automated test cases and suits for Functional and Regression testing based on software requirements using Selenium Web Driver. 7. Experience in configuring test suites, cross browsers, includes, excludes, methods etc. in TestNG xml 8. Good knowledge in Test Automation Frameworks like Data Driven, Hybrid and BDD/TDD. 9. Experience in build tools such as Maven, adding dependencies and maintaining pom.xml file. 10. Experience in creating page objects by using Page Object Model 11. API Testing: Experience in web services testing using Soap UI and Postman. 12. Participated in Scrum ceremonies, e.g., daily stand up’s, sprint planning, creating user stories with the help of the technical team, providing inputs, sharing details with the offshore team, and being responsible for overall successful releases. 13. Served as Defect manager, maintaining and monitoring the error log for all issues identified using HPQC / JIRA / JTrac. 14. Exclusively worked on Polisy400 during the test phase for the entire life cycle of the policy. 15. Developing a traceability matrix to understand the status and completeness levels of projects 16.Testing projects across domains while ensuring timely and issue-free deliveries