Sandeep Shiralkar

QA Lead/Manager

Bethel, United States

#OpenToWork

About

 QA Lead with 18+ years of experience delivering high-quality web, mobile, and enterprise applications across banking, insurance, and e-commerce domains. Expertise in test strategy, API and UI automation, CI/CD integration, and cloud-based testing across AWS and Azure environments. Proven track record leading distributed QA teams, implementing automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Ruby), and improving release quality through data-driven QA practices. Strong stakeholder collaboration skills with hands-on experience in Agile environments and modern DevOps pipelines.

What I'm looking for

I am looking for QA/BA Lead/Manager role. I have 19+ years of experience in the industry.

Experience

QA/BA Manager

Horizon International Trade Inc.

Nov 2014 – Present

Product: SendTech | Areas: Shipments API (XML/JSON), RateGroups, Automation Rules, ShipAccel, Payment’s integration, Charge bee integration, Rates integration. Customers: VFS, JSR, Samaritan's Purse, Third Man records, Hudson Bay Company (HBC) etc… Responsibilities:  Single-handedly worked with HBC for requirements gathering, getting the apis built from developers after design was finalized by architects and testing efforts for API integration with OMS and WMS, validated Pierbridge XML requests and integration’s. Validated the process of parcel number generation until fulfillment for different carriers.  Work with the Product Manager, Engineering team and other business stakeholders to analyze requirements, software deliverable and create end-to-end test plans, document test scenarios, build and execute test cases, defect triage  Built API automation tests using Ruby and Cypress for UI automation for CI/CD integration using Gitlab and building new script in Playwright for feasibility check for future migration to playwright from Cypress. Leveraging major LLM powered coding assistance Copilot as a tool to complete automation faster.  Managed the Offshore testing team, Plan and project program testing milestones.  Utilize MongoDB for data validation and changes.  Working on payment integration with ShipAccel application for label printing using credit card.  Fraud rule checks within applications and using Darwanium and Ravelin apis to flag credit card accounts.  Collaborated with stakeholders to define quality stds and ensure adherence throughout the development life-cycle.  Drafted Epics, User Stories, flow diagrams, worked with UX designers for UI design.  Validated the ShipAccel application’s integrations with multiple e-commerce and ERP platforms, including Amazon, BigCommerce, eBay, Magento, MSDynamics, NetSuite, QuickBooks, RevolutionParts, Shein, Shopify, Squarespace, Temu, TikTok, Walmart, Wix, and WooCommerce, ensuring seamless data synchronization and functionality across systems.  Validated LLM-based service and rate recommendation engine for accuracy, hallucination detection, and performance reliability.

RubyCypressPlaywrightPostmanJMeterAWS

Team Lead

SLK Software Services Pvt Ltd

Dec 2010 – Oct 2014

Product: Enterprise Banking | Areas: Global Payments & Application Client Services, MDM - Mobile Device Management & Test Data De-Identification, PPM (Project Portfolio Management) & BMC Remedy Software, Concur T & E. Responsibilities:  Built and managed a team of 20 resources.  Managed work breakdown, task assignment and progress check-ins for the team  Coordinated with 7 inter-dependency teams for initial data store/ infrastructure setup.  Played a key role in designing and implementing test strategies and plans for the program.  Coordinated with offshore teams, review of project artifacts.  Collaborated with dependency teams across lines of business to plan and execute UAT.  Coordinated with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and specifications. Used HP Quality Center/ALM for maintaining Test Cases, logging defects, creating test plans and requirement traceability.  Conducted performance appraisal for reporting team members.

HP ALMTest ManagementUAT

Senior Engineer Software

JBA Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 2007 – Dec 2010

Product: Quoting Customer app | Areas: VA State – Rate Level Initiative, CA – CR and Maintenance Release (Mercury Insurance, LA, CA), Enterprise Customer Servicing/ Billing Application and Policy Self Services (PSS) (AIG/21st Century insurance, LA, CA). Responsibilities:  Temporarily lead the team offsite and managed multiple projects.  Contributed by drafting Test case and Peer Reviewing, executed test cases, identifying and documenting defects in a timely manner.  Distributed knowledge to the team members.  Built Data Driven Automation Framework using Selenium webdriver + TestNG.  Preparation of Configuration, Navigation Scripts, Object repository, Preparation of Library files, Recovery Scenarios.  Conducted regression testing to ensure the stability of existing functionality with each release.

SeleniumCucumberTestNGAutomation Framework

Education

Shivaji University

Shivaji University

Bachelor of Engineering · Electronics Engineering

Skills

AzureAWSKubernetesTypescriptJavaScriptCore JavaAngular JSMCP AI AgentsCopilot AIGitHubGitLab CI/CDQTPJMeterSOAP UIReadyAPIPostmanRubySeleniumPlaywrightCypress

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Marathi (Native or bilingual proficiency)