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Sagar Bhalerao

@sagarbhalerao

India

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What I'm looking for

Actively seeking a Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance Lead, Test Manager, Test Lead, QA Architect, QA/QE Delivery Manager, E2E Test Delivery Manager, Senior Quality Analyst, Individual Contributor, Freelancer roles.

QA Manager / Quality Engineering leader with 16 years of experience driving end-to-end QA delivery for global enterprise programs. Built and led a distributed QA organization of 15+ engineers across multiple geographies, managing team capability, resource planning, delivery execution, and quality governance across enterprise programs. Experienced in onsite-offshore and distributed delivery models, with strong ownership of test strategy, SIT/UAT/E2E testing, risk management, release readiness, stakeholder communication, and quality metrics. Brings working exposure to automation, CI/CD-based continuous testing, API testing, shift-left practices, and AI-augmented Quality Engineering, with a focus on integrating these practices into predictable, scalable QA delivery and continuous improvement.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

QA Manager

Globant

May 2017 - Feb 2026 (8 years 9 months)

• Built and scaled a distributed QA organization from a small group to 15+ engineers across 3 global delivery centers — identifying high-potential engineers and mentoring 5+ team members into QA Lead roles through structured performance management and coaching.
• Owned end-to-end test strategy and test planning across 5+ concurrent enterprise SAFe programs — covering SIT, UAT, system

QA Lead

Creospan Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Dec 2015 - May 2017 (1 year 5 months)

• Led end-to-end QA activities across full Agile / Scrum sprint cycles — test planning, execution, defect lifecycle
management, and direct client reporting — ensuring timely, high-quality releases aligned to sprint goals.
• Introduced Selenium WebDriver automation using TestNG and Page Object Model (POM), significantly reducing manual regression effort per release.

Senior Quality Engineer

Cybage

Oct 2011 - Dec 2015 (4 years 2 months)

• Worked across the full test lifecycle — from requirement analysis and test planning through functional validation at each Agile milestone.
• Led cross-platform mobile testing across iOS and Android, coordinating with product owners and developers on scope alignment, status reporting, and stakeholder management to accelerate release approvals.

Quality Analyst

Agile Technosys

Apr 2011 - Oct 2011 (6 months)

Handled test planning and strategy across system, end-to-end, and UAT phases; coordinated with the development team on root cause analysis and critical bug fix validation under tight timelines to ensure stable, release-ready builds.

Software Test Engineer

Vasundhara IT Pvt. Ltd.

Feb 2010 - Mar 2011 (1 year 1 month)

Started career in software testing — created and executed test cases for UI, functional, and system testing, verified bug fixes with developers, and prepared test reports to support team-wide quality tracking across the product.