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Prabhash Thakuri

@prabhashthakuri

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Senior QA Team Lead and Product Owner driving quality and data-driven delivery.

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What I'm looking for

I seek a collaborative, agile team role where I can lead QA and product efforts, drive automation, reduce defects, and shape product strategy while growing in leadership and data-driven decision making.

I am a results-driven Senior QA Team Lead and Product Owner with over seven years of experience in Quality Assurance and project management, leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable web and mobile products. I specialize in designing test strategies, optimizing QA processes, and bridging business goals with technical execution to improve product performance and user satisfaction.

My achievements include reducing production defects by more than 80% and improving QA cycle time by over 70% through process and test strategy optimization, building Cypress automation suites that cut manual effort by 80%, and owning product backlogs and release management for multiple ed-tech products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Sr. QA Team Lead

Innovate TechPvt Ltd

Oct 2023 - Jul 2025 (1 year 9 months)

Led a 14-member QA team and owned QA delivery for 10+ web and mobile education products, reducing production defects by >80% and improving QA cycle time by 70% through test strategy and process optimizations.

Test Strategy Cypress Automation Manual Testing Regression Testing CI CD Defect Triage Stakeholder Management

Mid-Level QA Engineer

Innovate TechPvt Ltd

Aug 2020 - Sep 2023 (3 years 1 month)

Managed BBT/QC operations and test planning for MST platforms, executed functional, integration, performance and security tests to ensure reliable application performance across modules.

Test Planning Functional Testing JMeter Burp suite Gitlab Trello Agile Scrum

QA Engineer

Dryice Solutions

Jul 2017 - Nov 2019 (2 years 4 months)

Supported cross-functional teams to deliver quality software by defining functional and non-functional requirements, creating detailed test cases, and managing bug reports and releases.

Manual Testing Test Cases SDLC Agile Documentation User Training

Project Coordinator

Dryice Solutions

Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 (5 months)

Coordinated implementation of a nationwide LRIMS project across 13 districts, prepared user manuals, trained 14 staff, and managed deployment logistics and documentation.

Project Coordination Training Documentation Logistics

Frontend Developer

FeatherWebs Pvt Ltd

Jul 2015 - Oct 2015 (3 months)

Completed a 3-month internship contributing to frontend development and UI/UX design for client websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Photoshop.

HTML CSS JavaScript UI UX Photoshop Frontend Development Graphic Design

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Islington College (Lingnan/Manchester/Lancaster University partnership)

Master of Science in Information Technology, Data Analytics

2021 - 2021

Activities and societies: Thesis/project: Heart Attack Prediction system using supervised machine learning; coursework in Data Engineering (Hadoop), Python and R programming, Data Warehousing and Big Data.

Completed M.Sc. IT and Applied Security with a major in Data Analytics, focusing on data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and cybersecurity-related coursework.

Islington College (Lingnan/Manchester/Lancaster University partnership)

Bachelor of Science in Computing, Computing

2017 - 2017

Activities and societies: Relevant projects: Carpool app (Android), Library Management System (.NET); coursework in project planning and management.

Completed a B.Sc. in Computing with coursework in application and web development, databases, data modelling, AI, operating systems, and agile SDLC practices.

HELP University

Diploma in Information Technology, Information Technology

2015 - 2015

Activities and societies: Relevant projects: Smart home appliances system (Raspberry Pi, Java/HTML), web development project.

Completed a Diploma in Information Technology covering programming, object-oriented design, computer architecture, and database concepts.

Brihaspati Vidyasadan School

Higher Secondary Education (HSEB +2), Science

2012 - 2012

Activities and societies: Trained and mentored peers; participated in school-level projects and coursework in science and computer subjects.

Completed higher secondary education (+2 HSEB) with a science major covering physics, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science; SLC completed in 2009.