About

Abhishek Gupta is a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer with over 9 years of professional work experience in manual and automation testing. He is proficient in formulating testing strategies and helping organizations deliver quality defect-free products. Currently, he is working at Dell and leading all QA activities, including daily regression test executions and manual testing activities. Abhishek has extensive knowledge of framework development from scratch with automation tools like Selenium WebDriver, Postman, Apache POI, Fillo, Jenkins, etc. He has achieved 85% of Regression test coverage and runs the test suite via Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and gets feedback daily. He has included both the testing aspect UI and API automation for better test coverage. Abhishek has reduced the production issues/incidents by 90% and maintained the same trend for the last 24 sprints. Abhishek is proficient in functional and non-functional testing and has worked closely with product owners/stakeholders and business people to understand their requirements and business rules. He is responsible for User Acceptance testing along with the user and communicating the feedback to the dev team. He has sound knowledge of the software development life cycle, software testing life cycle, defect life cycle, and extensive experience of working in an Agile environment with geographically distributed teams and collaborating using project management tools like Jira. Abhishek has built the QA team and established QA processes from scratch at the organization. He leads a team of manual and automation test engineers through better recruitment, training, and mentoring. He has experience in planning, estimations, and other project management activities. He is responsible for creating Test Plan, Test Summary Report, Test Scenario Document, Release Notes, and Configuration Guide and Install guide for every release. Abhishek is responsible for updating the higher management about the QA Roadmap progress and provides some quantifiable data in Quarterly business review. Abhishek leads Defect Prevention, Release and Test Management, and Knowledge Transfer sessions at the organization level. He focuses and reviews on Automation ROI QoQ and provides proactive support and consultation to other Project Managers, Product Managers, and Business users. He is involved in headcount planning and is an active member of the interview panel. Abhishek is responsible for technical onboarding of any new candidate in the team and briefs them about the project plan and progress. Abhishek has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from RGPV and a Diploma in Software Testing from Edista Testing