Strategic and results-driven Data Quality leadership with 21+ years of experience driving enterprise-wide software quality assurance, data analytics, and project management initiatives across healthcare, education, and telecom sectors. Adept at aligning data quality strategy with business goals to enhance product quality, accelerate delivery timelines, and optimize team performance. Proven expertise in leading cross-functional teams, implementing scalable automation frameworks, and leveraging data-driven insights to inform decision-making. Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) with deep knowledge of ETL processes, BI tools, Agile methodologies, and stakeholder engagement to deliver measurable business value. Continuing education in Data Science/ AI-ML with IBM Professional course. Scrum Alliance certified – Certified Product owner.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
SQA Manager (ETL, Salesforce)
MOBE for Life Inc.
04.2020 - 10.2025
Led Data Quality Engineering Team and implemented AI-driven test data generation.
Ability to effectively communicate complex technical requirements and design solutions in collaboration with Data and Analytics Team.
Ensured data integrity across 20+ ETL pipelines migrating enterprise data from on-prem to cloud DWH.
Designed data validation frameworks to detect and correct inconsistencies in DWH, improving reporting accuracy by 25%.
Project Management: Delivered consumer insights via Tableau and CSAT, SF_36, etc surveys.
Managed cross-team collaboration and building cohesive relations with other teams ex: marketing campaigns using Marketo.
Directed and implemented automation strategy and improved product delivery timelines.
Partnered with third party vendors for clinical data provisioning.
Hiring and employee bi-annually reflections.
Exploring and self-training on AI and machine learning tools for data profiling, anomaly detection, etc.
Data Analysis: CSAT surveys (product usage), SF-36 (patient-reported survey that measures health-related quality of life across eight domains) and General efficacy survey.
Understanding data architecture, data integrity, and data mapping principles. Ability to analyze data to produce key insights to support business decisions and presenting findings to stakeholders.
Partnered with Data Engineering and Business Intelligence/ Customer Intelligence teams to establish data quality KPIs and tracked reconciliation processes.
Conducted end-to-end data lineage validation, ensuring traceability from source to BI layer.
Led UAT efforts for multiple projects (portal / mobile apps), ensuring software applications met business requirements and were ready for deployment, resulting in a reduction of post-release defects.
Sr. Data Engineer / QA Lead
UnitedHealth Group (Optum)
11.2016 - 09.2019
Data quality checks for Talend jobs and REST APIs for MarkLogic DB.
Guided SDETs to implement Cucumber automation for API testing and deployment using CI/CD (Jenkins, Github) for deliveries and standardized test templates.
Managed cross-database API integration POC project (Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MarkLogic).
Conducted data analysis for production issues and proposed fixes.
Delivered features for technical improvement and mentored QA team.
Strong understanding of Big Data systems, Data lakes, Xwalk and Master Data Management (MDM).
Data analysis and business analysis – standardizing API across the board in Optum.
Test Lead (BI QA)( USA)
Pearson VUE
10.2008 - 10.2012
Validated ETL loads and BI reports (WEBI, Crystal Reports).
Led offshore coordination and QA process improvements.
Created test strategies and performed RCA for production defects.
Test Lead
Lionbridge Technologies
12.2006 - 09.2010
Managed QA for BI and WebApps projects.
Led onsite-offshore coordination and test planning.
Delivered monthly KPI reports and conducted client demos.
Sr. Test Engineer / Onsite Support (France/India)
BenQ India Pvt Ltd
01.2004 - 11.2006
Conducted manual testing in 3G/2.5G networks for Vodafone-SFR (France).
Reported network/software issues and trained client engineers.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Engineering
Sardar Patel College of Engineering
Skills
ETL Testing
Data Validation
Informatica DQ
Talend
SSIS
Big Data
NoSQL
MarkLogic
Hive
HBase
Cassandra
Oracle
Redshift
AWS services
BI Tools
Reporting Tools
Tableau
MicroStrategy
Business Objects
Test Automation
Cucumber BDD
Selenium
Postman
SOAPUI
API Testing
Data Provisioning
XRay
Swagger
SQL
XQuery
HiveQL
Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Project Management
Stakeholder Engagement
UAT
AI Tooling
Data Profiling
GenAI
Health Care Domain
Analytical Skills
Problem Solving
Organizational Skills
Microsoft PPT
Excel
Word
Personal Information
Work Permit: Valid Work authorization permit – EAD