Reyaz Basha Shajhan
Chicago,IL
Summary
Experienced QA Manager with 17 years of hands-on experience in quality assurance leadership, specializing in test automation using AccelQ, Selenium. Proven track record of leading teams in delivering high-quality software by implementing best practices in test automation, manual testing, and continuous improvement testing across various domains including [Finance, Pharmacy, Healthcare, E-commerce, Telecom, Warehouse etc.] Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and driving the adoption of Selenium and other testing tools to improve test efficiency and accuracy. Strong background in Agile methodologies, test strategy development.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
QA Manager
Photon InfoTech
05.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: This project involves about broadband (Telecom Services) web and application for the customer across United States
- Attending daily scrum meetings and providing updates on day-to-day work
- Attending agile ceremony meetings
- Attending PI/Quarterly planning for each quarter and the providing high level QA estimates for the features in Roadmap
- Writing manual test cases for all the user stories that has been implemented for every sprint
- Writing automation scripts in ACCEL-Q tool, web automation tool which helps to locate the elements for all the web elements in browsers and execute the scenarios
- Automation test execution can be defined to any email address while executing the test suite in ACCEL-Q and initiate before running the test suite and analyze test results and reports generated during testing to validate the feature functioning & raising bugs in Jira
- Smoke test execution in AccelQ automation for every build schedule to ensure stability
- Analyzing the automation failures for element id issues/environment issues and raising to the concern team and calling out the risk dependencies and efforts mitigation plan to the scrum meeting
- Leading QA team for this project with 2 offshore testing team and assigning the task for completion and work done for all the deliverables for each release cycle
- Coordinate with QA and business teams for system integration and UAT testing
- Work closely with peer developers and QA team members to ensure overall quality of solutions
- Attending defect triage meetings with stakeholders for the defect prioritization
- Working with external teams to get the Test data request for regression testing and production testing
- Production support during monthly release execute the Smoke test
- This project involves about broadband (Telecom Services) web and application for the customer across United States
Lead QA Engineer
Photon InfoTech
10.2014 - 04.2023
- Company Overview: This project involves E-Commerce, Pharmacy, Healthcare for the customer in United States where the user can be able to search for daily living products like (Shampoo, Toothpaste, Soap and Refill their prescription and schedule appointment with the Physicians
- Attending daily scrum meetings and providing updates on day-to-day work
- Writing cucumber scenarios for manual and automation test cases
- Write the code with conditions based on Selenium locators and execute in TestNG
- Smoke test execution for every regression build and ensure the stability
- Analyze test results and reports generated during testing to validate the feature functioning
- Coordinate with QA and business teams for system integration and UAT testing
- Attending defect triage meetings with stakeholder and defect prioritization
- Manual testing for AOS & IOS mobile applications
- Migration of app testing from previous releases to newest version to ensure the happy path
- Story review & analysis and setting up test data to offshore teams
- Providing QA-Sign Off for each app release by validating all test scenarios and devices tested with business requirements
- This project involves E-Commerce, Pharmacy, Healthcare for the customer in United States where the user can be able to search for daily living products like (Shampoo, Toothpaste, Soap and Refill their prescription and schedule appointment with the Physicians
Senior QA Engineer
Photon InfoTech
06.2012 - 09.2014
- Performed Functional/Regression testing in terms of project release and finding defects based on the requirements
- Involved in identifying the Regression Test Cases
- Automating web application (Selenium Web Driver) finding locators and executing the test scripts
- Test case review on each Mobile App versions (Functional & Regression)
- Writing automation scripts for adaptive (Selenium) Java
- Referring wires & comps to understand the requirement
- Meeting session with QA/BA to learn the project work
- Performed Functional & Regression testing and logging defects in JIRA
- Reporting to lead and QA managers in terms of delivery
- Test report preparation (Test coverage, Test execution)
- Providing updates to Onsite leads on daily basis over the QA sync up call
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology
Anna University
04-2005
Skills
- Test Automation with Selenium
- Quality Assurance Leadership
- Test Strategy Development
- Agile & Scrum Methodologies
- Manual & Automated Testing
- Selenium WebDriver
- Selenium Grid
- CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Programming Languages: Java
- Bug Tracking & Test Management Tools (Jira)
- API Testing (Postman)
- Load Testing (JMeter)
- Test Data Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Team Leadership & Mentorship
Certification
- Certified in Warehouse Management, 2024
- Certified in Selenium Web Automation, 2023
Notice Period & Availability
- Relocating to India for personal reasons, available for immediate discussions.
- Reachable via WhatsApp: USA +1 312-752-7786 & India + 91 98400 15995
Timeline
QA Manager
Photon InfoTech
05.2023 - Current
Lead QA Engineer
Photon InfoTech
10.2014 - 04.2023
Senior QA Engineer
Photon InfoTech
06.2012 - 09.2014
B.Tech - Information Technology
Anna University
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