About

Gaurav Taneja is a Senior Engineering Manager with over 12 years of experience in software testing and a strong expertise in multiple domains including ecommerce, hospitality, travel, real-estate, and embedded systems. He has extensive expertise in automation testing, quality assurance, project management, API automation, release management, defect management, software testing, team management, and agile & scrum methodologies. Gaurav is an effective leader with excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship building skills. He has proven expertise in developing and scaling automation frameworks from scratch and building high-performance teams. Currently, he is working as a Sr. QA Engineering Manager at Byju's. In his previous role as Director of Engineering - QA at Fabhotels, Gaurav successfully developed an automation framework from scratch and achieved 90% automation of the total regression suite, reducing manual testing time by 150 man-hours to ~5 hours for more than 4200 test cases. He also developed a live monitoring framework and managed automation and manual teams efficiently for ensuring timely project completion. Gaurav has a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication) from Maharshi Dayanand University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from Symbiosis. He is proficient in test, QA, senior software engineering, web, mobile, iOS, Android, SDET, backend, Selenium, MySQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, and UI. With 8.95 years of relevant experience, Gaurav is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the field of software testing and quality assurance.