Amol Ray
Providing experience, knowledge, and a work ethic that is unrivaled, I am an award-winning Software Development Engineer and E-Commerce Management leader. With over a decade of experience in Software Development Engineering and Testing, I have risen through the ranks and developed a strong rapport and outstanding results for the businesses that have been so fortunate to have hired him. I possess a high-level understanding of quality assurance, client/customer forward applications, automation framework, as well as data testing, gathering and analysis of data, test planning, execution, and ultimately deployment. Also possessing a keen ability to quickly assess discrepancies or problems, I am able to efficiently identify, assess, evaluate, and offer logical viable solutions, saving time and money for the company. Together, methodology and experience makes me a well sought after colleague for any IT organization.
Beyond my development as an engineer, I am also masterful in writing code, Technologies wise not depended, detecting bugs, and creating solutions where previously there had only been roadblocks. My technical skills are broad, giving me the ability to work with nearly any system that I am presented with.
Experience
Lead Quality Engineer
I joined GSPANN technologies back in India in Nov 2014 and started working for Macys from India and in 2016 GSPANN deployed me in Macys.com (USA) as QE. Macys believe in 3 main core pillars "A Growth Mindset ", "Collaboration" and "Agility and Speed ". Equally, Macys has provided an opportunities to rise career growth up to subsequent level. I have been delivering number of ongoing and short/long term Agile/ Lean responsive projects as QE and now beyond my QE deliverables I started delivering UI/Analytics development stories as a UI Dev.
Sr. QA Engineer
I indeed Xpanxion values quote “Honesty, Accountability, Innovation and Excellence”. I started my journey with Xpanxion International as Sr. QA engineer in Feb 2014 and very short time span, I received Innovative Idea of the year award. I provided and instigated an Innovative idea with their existing client automation framework. In Xpanxion I was not only handling automation projects but also performance testing projects from scratch. Did POC’s around 5 performance tools those are available in market and based on that piolet client elected tool for their project.
Sr. Associate QC
Synechron was game/career changer for me. I joined Synechron as Java developer and got an opportunity to develop Automation framework using core java and C# programing languages for one of the US based big Healthcare Insurance company, after conveying project successful. I encouraged to enhance Visual basic base automation framework for their very well know bank in USA.
Java Developer
I joined GN Solutions as independent contributor for their WebSphere/AS400 technology-based project. Involved in all the life cycle of software projects including requirement study, designing, development deployment and testing. Created web-base user interface using Advance java, servlet and JSP.
Academics
University of california Berkeley
University of North Maharastra. INIDA
Skills
- Mobile-First, Responsive Design
- Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
- Cross Functional Teams
- Agile Development & Scrum
Interests
Apart from being a Full-stack developer and Quality Engineer, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. Roaming to new places and understanding new peoples and their culture. During the warmer months here in San Francisco, I enjoy mountain biking and swimming. When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, I am an aspiring chef, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the QE and front-end web development world.
Awards & Certifications
Receiving awards for innovation, inspiration, and incentive, I have also proven to be an effective leader. Through my initiatives, I have helped to boost efficiency, problem solve larger team situations, and ultimately save the businesses I work with time and money, helping to boost their bottom line and drive profits. My innate understanding of not only code, but business and people, have continually made me the go-to professional in my field
- Received ‘Shining Star’ award in 2017 GSPANN USA.
- Received ‘Above & Beyond’ award in 2015 GSPANN INIDA
- Received Innovative Idea of the Year award in 2014 Xpanxion.
- Received Spot employee award in 2013 from Synchron
- Received Spot employee award in 2012 Synchron.
Recommendations
" Amol is a truly great QA engineering lead and team member. We worked together on a number of projects in the My Account area of macys.com and bloomingdales.com over several years. Amol goes over and above what a QA lead would do, and his dedication to the team has really helped us deliver quality features. He takes the time to understand what we're doing and helps other orthogonal teams as well. On another note, he self-organizes teambuilding activities such as potlucks, which everyone appreciates! "
Senior Product Manager at Macys.com
" Amol joined a project as our QA lead midway thru its completion and really took the reins to help bring it to the finish line. He quickly came up to speed on the use cases and created corresponding test cases. He also coordinated with the internal team to ensure environment issues and other priorities were handled in a timely manner to maximize efficiency. Lastly unlike many other tech leads, Amol confidently presented each test case to our business stakeholders as part of UAT and effortlessly fielded questions and took in feedback to be addressed with respective teams. We honestly could not have completed this project on time and defect-free without him! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication! "
Product Management - Digital, Mobile, E-commerce, Xoogler
" I have had the pleasure of working with Amol at Macys. He is one of the very few QA leads I have worked with who thinks outside the box. He goes above and beyond to test not just from an acceptance criteria or happy path point of view. He thinks in terms of the user and always asks the question how can we make our product more usable. He is also a great team player and is always willing to help and mentor others. He took the lead on deploying a really huge project at Macys. He helped conduct the UAT sessions that required stakeholders to sign off. He was very process oriented and was on top of things. From someone who led that project, I must say he made my life and everyone’s life so much easier. I will be more than happy to work with him again and I'm sure he is an asset to any team he works at in the future "
Sr. Program Manager at Macys.com
" Amol was part of my team in one of our Automation project.He has got amazing problem solving skills and positive attitude. He is very hardworking person and has got exceptional learning capability.He is like a Guru to me. It was a great learning experience with Amol, once task is assigned to him, then completion on time with quality is guaranteed always. His helping attitude deserves a speacial applause, goes to great length to help team members in their work.wish him all the best for his future endeavors."
Associate Manager at Western Union