<p>Drive QA planning, estimation, defect governance, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for production issues.</p><p> Coordinate with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure release readiness and alignment with business requirements.</p><p> Led QA activities encompassing Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, and API services, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and adherence to stringent quality standards.</p><p> Engineered code-driven API and ETL automation frameworks using Python, Pytest, and the Requests library, incorporating Pandas and PySpark DataFrames for end-to-end data reconciliation against backend SQL databases.</p><p> Led and mentored a team of 6 QA engineers, performing test case reviews, sprint planning, and QA task allocation.</p><p> Performed end-to-end data reconciliation across source, staging, and reporting layers ensuring 100% data accuracy.</p><p> Designed and executed SQL queries for data reconciliation, transformation validation, and large-scale dataset verification across Snowflake environments.</p><p> Introduced AI-assisted approaches using GitHub Copilot and LLM tools to enhance SQL query development, test design, and defect analysis efficiency.</p><p> Verified environment setup, software versions, and database connectivity to ensure systems were installed and configured according to requirements.</p><p> Validated data across multi-layer architecture including landing, transformation (Silver), and reporting (Gold) layers.</p><p> Validated incremental and full-load ETL data ensuring accuracy across daily data refresh cycles.</p><p> Contributed to faster delivery cycles, resulting in timely product releases and increased customer satisfaction.</p><p> Improved data accuracy by implementing structured reconciliation across ETL pipelines.</p><p> Improved test coverage and efficiency through strategic test planning and resource allocation.</p><p> Delivered QA for 50+ Power BI dashboards ensuring accurate KPIs and reporting.</p><p> Reduced regression effort through optimized test planning and execution.</p><p> Successfully led and mentored a team of QA engineers across multiple projects, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.</p>
