Data Analytics Software Quality

Rajiv Batta ***** Golden Lane

818-***-**** (Cell) Granada Hills CA 91344

LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/rajivbatta Email: ***********@******.*** Professional Summary

Accomplished Software professional with 20+ years of experience driving quality initiatives and leveraging data analytics to enhance business performance. Expert in managing QA on global projects with budgets exceeding $50M. Effective leader directing 20+ member teams in the ad-tech, defense, financial and cloud-based security/archiving industries. Proven track record of increasing test coverage, reducing defect rates, delivering actionable insights that boost revenue. Combining strong technical expertise in automation and programming with a data-driven approach, I am uniquely qualified to lead cross- functional teams in optimizing software quality, data analytics and implementing innovative solutions. Work Experience

Director (SQA, Engineering Analytics) 2016-present Magnite (Rubicon Project), Playa Vista

Magnite is an online advertising technology firm helping clients optimize advertising revenue on display, CTV, Mobile devices.

Software Quality Improvements: Automated and executed over 500 test cases. Achieved a defect detection rate of 95% during testing. Increased test coverage from 50% to 70%. Streamlined the QA process (reducing testing time by 15% and increasing team productivity). Identified and resolved issues early in the development process (saving the company an estimated $50k in potential rework costs). Contributed to 200+ software releases impacting 1000+ users, ensuring a smooth rollout with minimal issues.

Big Data Analysis: Performed quantitative and qualitative data analysis on incoming inventory (over 500k entries weekly) that led to over 10% increase in quarterly revenue. Highlighted data-driven insights (based on diagnostic and predictive analysis) to a team of 5 data analysts to improve customer retention rates by 10%. Automated process using various technologies to perform ETL (saving the team 10 hours per week). Used CRISP-DM, KDD and SEMMA methodologies to identify cost-savings on structured data sets that resulted in a $30k savings.

Technical Stack Usage: Utilized JIRA to manage defects, resulting in a 20% faster resolution time. Automated tests (web applications and API) with Python, Selenium, Postman (reducing manual testing time by 30%). Utilized SQL, Python, Excel, PowerBI, Tableau and Microstrategy to automate data processing, reducing analysis time by 40%.

Leadership: Provided effective management (hiring, budgeting, testing strategies, establishing strong quality foundation etc.) to a team of 20+ engineers, mentored and trained over 10 junior QA engineers, instilled a culture of quality and proactive risk management, enhancing team skill levels and reducing onboarding time by 25%.

Hands On Experience: Big Data (Collect, Transform, Load, Analyze, Visualize). Test (Plan, Execute, Automate, Track defects in JIRA, Metrics, Guidelines etc.). Testings (Smoke, Function, Regression, Integration etc.). Collaborated with 10+ cross-functional teams, leading to 100+ successful feature launches. Partnered with over 6 departments on developing T-shaped skills, continuous automation and integration, increasing subject matter expertise. Manager SQA 2014-2016

Symantec / Veritas, Culver City

Veritas / Symantec Enterprise Vault. Cloud is a SaaS hosted cloud-based archiving service, which allows organizations to intelligently store, manage and discover email and all critical business information sources while providing easy and intuitive access for end users.

Software Quality Improvements: Planned, automated, and executed tests (over 400 tests), captured 7+ quality KPIs, increased test coverage (from 25% to 33%), reduced defect density, provided clarity to severity definitions, definitions of done and Ready etc.

Subject Matter Expert: Participated in establishing testing strategy, aligned QA efforts with business objectives, automated web applications and APIs using automation tools, collaborated with product teams.

Leadership: Managed 6-member team (hiring, budgeting, raises, bonuses etc.), mentored and trained a team of engineers at various seniority levels, promoted cultural values (i.e. out of box thinking, keep on exploring, knowledge sharing etc.).

Automation: Defined scope, selected tool, planned tests, set environment, developed test scripts, executed tests, track ed defects and created management reports.

Rajiv Batta 17447 Golden Lane

818-***-**** (Cell) Granada Hills CA 91344

LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/rajivbatta Email: ***********@******.*** Manager, SQA 2009-2014

ITG, Culver City

ITG is a specialized stock brokerage firm that provides clients with innovative technologies which span the entire electronic trading process, from pre-trade analysis to trade execution to post-trade evaluation. Design products and partner with clients to enable them to navigate complex markets and improve their performance.

SQA Responsibilities: Accountable for all aspects of SQA from planning, developing, automating using shell scripts to executing tests in a test-driven agile environment.

Management: Recruited and managed a team of 5 testers at various seniority levels at distributed locations around the world (i.e. US, UK, India, Israel and Australia), maintained annual departmental financial budget in conjunction with senior management (MDs, CIO) for software and hardware resources, and raises, bonuses and reviews.

Team Partnership: Collaborated with product and project teams to drive Test Driven Development and performed function, integration, regression etc. tests. Utilized agile methodology to track new requirements and defects.

Automation Experience: Developed and executed new tests that were repeatable covering regression, function, destructive, integration etc. scenarios on different platforms (i.e. API, Mobile, Java/J2EE, Web based and Windows based applications), to increase efficiency and reduce time to market. Education

MS, Computer Science, California State University Northridge, 1996 BS, Computer Science, India, 1989

Skills

Software Proficiencies:

Automation Frameworks (Linear, Modular, Data Driven, Key-value), API (Postman)

Programming (Python, JavaScript, Shell)

Test Automation (Selenium, Cucumber, Eclipse, Robot Framework, Test Complete etc.)

Agile Project Management (Rally, Jira)

Test case Management (qTest, SmartBear)

DB Management (MySQL)

Various Software Products (Microsoft Office, Google, Microstrategy, Jenkins, Git, Puppet) etc.

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