About

Rakesh Hansalia is an accomplished QA Lead with over 12 years of experience in software quality assurance. He has extensive experience in automation testing, functional testing, and domain expertise in Business Intelligence & Data Analytics. Rakesh has a proven track record of leading and managing teams to deliver high-quality products. Rakesh has experience in various technical areas, including automation testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java, RESTful API testing using REST-Assured and Postman, and ETL testing & writing SQL queries. He is also experienced in using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Version control system like GIT, and Build tool like Maven. Rakesh has worked on cloud-based (SaaS), web-based, and client-server enterprise software products. He also has experience in design cross-mobile compatibility, Interrupt, Usability, Content verification, and Functional testing on iOS, Android, and mobile cloud-based tools like DeviceAnywhere, PerfectoMobile. Rakesh has excellent working exposure in Agile methodologies, SDLC, STLC. He has experience in requirement analysis, test case design, execution, review, defect management, test effort estimation, test planning, test strategy, progress tracking, and testing metrics. He has experience in process management and improvement, risk management, root cause analysis, and initial troubleshooting with developer console and Splunk logs. Rakesh is currently working as a Principal Quality Assurance Analyst at Birst, where he is leading and managing a team of 7 QA automation engineers. He is responsible for test planning, coverage & gap analysis, QA deliverables, and QA Sign-off for releases (Beta & Production). Rakesh is also responsible for Visualizer, Designer 2.0, Dashboard, Admin 2.0 modules. He is involved in hiring new QA professionals to the team. Rakesh has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Software Engineering from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, and a Diploma in Computer Software Engineering from Ganpat University - B. S. Patel Polytechnic. He has also completed 12th Science from V P Ghetiya High School, Upleta, and A Z Kaneriya High School, Dhoraji. Rakesh's technical skills include Test Automation using UI Automation, Selenium WebDriver, REST-Assured, TestNG, XPath, POM, Cucumber BDD, Languages like Java, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Git, Git