somesh rao
@someshrao
QA leadership and test automation expert driving enterprise-quality software across domains.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Quality Engineering leader with 20+ years of IT experience, including 15+ years in Quality Assurance and 5+ years in software development. I’ve delivered results through QA leadership, test strategy, automation frameworks, and enterprise product quality across Storage and Healthcare domains.
I’ve owned the end-to-end QA lifecycle—planning, execution, automation, defect management, and release sign-off—while mentoring a team of 7 QA engineers. I modernized legacy automation to Page Object Model (POM) using Java and Selenium, and increased quality effectiveness by introducing API and performance testing with k6.
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Senior QA Engineer
International SOS
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 4 months)
Owned QA execution for the ISOS Tracker web application (team of 5), maintaining daily regression/smoke automation suites and managing TestRail runs and reporting to avoid delivery slippage. Designed BDD UI automation tests, guided automation framework commits in GitHub, and coordinated sprint workflows in a Kanban model with Product and development teams.
Senior QA Engineer
Sephora
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 9 months)
Delivered QA for Sephora e-commerce releases by estimating testing effort, executing test cases on schedule, and updating test cases from stakeholder and team reviews. Documented sprint-wise priorities and scenarios in the Integrity test coverage sheet while participating in daily scrum and grooming sessions (team of 7).
QA Manager / Technical Lead
NetApp
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020 (3 years)
Led end-to-end QA for SnapCenter custom plugins supporting SAP HANA backup, restore, and clone operations (team of 7) across NAS/SAN environments. Served as a QA leadership role model, assigned and tracked QA tasks, and provided management updates along with stakeholder demos to validate quality outcomes.
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