Project Manager Senior Technical

Pritesh Modi

Irvine, CA, *****. +1-984-***-**** **********@*****.***

Technical Expertise

Senior technical leader with 17+ years in IT and extensive experience managing cross-functional QA and development teams. Demon- strates adeptness in automation frameworks, data pipeline development, and rapid release processes while optimizing team performance. Skilled in driving process improvements and fostering collaboration across disciplines to enhance product quality and efficiency.

Technical Skills

•Programming Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, Shell Script, SQL

•Frameworks & Libraries: Node.js, Angular JS, HTML, CSS, JSON, Pytest, Robot, PyUnit, Testify, Behave, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG, Junit, Postman, Appium Mobile Testing, lxml, NumPy, Request, Pandas, Matplotlib, beautiful soap, openpyxml, Flask, Django, Pyspark

•DevOps & Build Tools: Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Gitlab, TeamCity, Bamboo, Groovy, Nexus, Artifactory, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket

•Testing & Databases: Confluence, QTest, HP-ALM, SQL developer, SQL Server, Oracle, Access, DB2, Mongo DB, MySQL

•Methodologies & Project Management: Scrum, Agile, Waterfall

•Platforms & Tools: Windows XP/2000/7/8, UNIX/ Linux, mac, Windows Server, Jira, Bugzilla, Rally

•Cloud: AWS (boto3, Secret Manager, EC2, lambda), Azure functions

Professional Experience

Infosys Jan 2018 - Present

Sr QA Automation Consultant Irvine, CA, USA

Implemented Selenium Test Automation framework and a Backend Test Automation framework using PyTest for a leading banking domain application, ensuring quality and scalability.

•Optimized the end-to-end testing automation suite to improve testing efficiency by 40%, aligning with rapid release cadences.

•Managed a team of five, driving performance through regular coaching and mentoring, which decreased the bug escape rate by 30% and boosted test coverage by 15%.

•Coordinated with product management to align testing strategies with business objectives, resulting in a 25% increase in code quality and improved cross-team communication.

•Introduced Cucumber for Behavior Driven Development, enhancing understanding of user behavior and business requirements and reducing ambiguous requirements by 18%.

•Integrated cloud-based testing using Sauce Labs to augment device compatibility testing by 30%, supporting a rapid and scalable release process.

•Built data pipelines and ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into target repositories, supporting data-driven decision making.

•Utilized AWS services and custom code with AWS SDKs for data integration, ensuring timely and lossless data transfers aligned with engineering values.

•Developed RESTful web services and implemented secret management using the boto3 library to securely record logs and deliver them to an Amazon S3 bucket.

•Analyzed business requirements to prepare comprehensive test plans, steps, and cases that support efficient team operations and project management.

•Oversaw the CI/CD pipeline deployment using Bamboo, contributing to a 20% faster release cycle and ensuring coordinated communication with international teams.

•Executed UNIX shell scripts to load data into SQL tables, and monitored error logs to debug and resolve order load failures in a timely manner.

•Designed reusable TestNG code, reducing maintenance efforts by 20% and supporting the overall architecture with best practices in software development.

Persistent Systems Ltd Sep 2013 - Dec 2018

Module Lead Pune, India

Led test planning, case creation, execution, and defect reporting to ensure robust validation of HPE SecureMail and Thermo Fisher Scientific projects.

•Automated regression tests using UFT, saving 15 hours weekly in manual testing and increasing team efficiency through timely communication of results.

•Established and maintained data pipelines and ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data reliably, reinforcing data quality and consistency.

•Implemented data quality checks and validation processes to ensure accurate and consistent data outputs, supporting scalable software architecture.

•Directed a medium-sized team of Developers and QA professionals, fostering a collaborative environment to meet product development objectives.

•Designed and developed the architecture for an enterprise web-based/SaaS secure cloud mail application, ensuring maintainability and

scalability.

•Managed build and release processes by troubleshooting Jenkins jobs and resolving test case failures for Python-Robot Framework

scripts, contributing to a rapid release cadence.

Leo Techno-Soft Pvt Ltd

Dec 2011 - Jul 2013

Tech Lead

Pune, India

Clients: WEBIP Role: Tech Lead Responsibilities:

•Lead the Implementation of Module and Mentor Team for technical and functional support.

•Development of Frontend and Backend Application using Python-Django web framework.

•Integration with Third party Instra API Service using Rest AP (Django-flask framework).

•Implemented robust Selenium WebDriver solution, boosting test coverage by 15%

•Integrated API testing with Postman for five projects, strengthening system robustness.

CGS India Pvt Ltd

Tech Lead

Clients: AL JASSAR LLC, Odoo ERP Role: Tech Lead Responsibilities:

Mar 2010 - Jun 2011

Hyderabad, India

•Develop a generic module to automate all the manual operations and common operations (Example -directory/files copy, directory exist or not, exe/bat file execution, windows registry read/write/modify, remote command service execution, copy, find and replace string, restart VM, xml parsing, logging module and other common operations) use while implementation of different product installer framework.

•Development of automated windows installer package installation process on any VM.

•Given training to team on Python and Jython including technical support.

•Configured automated email alerts for test execution reports, speeding up analysis process by 30%

•Updated and maintained Test Link tool for efficient test case management, resulting in 15% reduction in misplaced test cases.

Neesa Technologies Pvt Ltd Aug 2008 - Mar 2010

Project Leader Ahmedabad, India

Clients: Odoo ERP Role: Project Leader Responsibilities:

•Development of accounting business process and all accounting Multi Company, Multi Branch, Multi Location items feature.

•Standard functionality like vouchers, sales purchase entry, ledger entry bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, payment Vouchers and other functionalities.

•Custom Reporting development for all the complete sub modules functionality as per new/customizes requirements.

TinyERP- Pvt Ltd

Application Developer

Clients: Odoo ERP Role: Application Developer Responsibilities:

•Work as technical support role for any defects raise or for any application technical issues.

•Daily client meeting and provide offshore support for task allocated and show a demo of the functionality developed in weekly meetings.

•Develop user interface of applications using HTML, CSS, bootstrap, and JavaScript.

•Developed client-side validations using JavaScript form validations.

•Involved in consuming RESTful Web services to render the data to the front page.

•Used Ajax for requesting data and response processing.

Education

Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad, India

2007

Master of Computer application

Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India

2004

Bachelor of Computer Application

Certifications

•Certified Microsoft Technology Associate (98-381– Introduction to Python).

Jan 2007 - Jun 2008

Ahmedabad, India

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