

Results-driven Senior Software Engineer II with expertise in quality assurance and cross-functional project leadership. Manages comprehensive QA strategies and end-to-end testing processes, ensuring high-quality software releases. Drives team performance through effective mentoring and the establishment of standardised QA methodologies.
Senior Software Engineer II(Quality Assurance)| Nielsen (Feb 2011 – Present)
· Acted as QA Lead for multiple international projects across Australia, South Korea, Denmark, Poland, New Zealand, Norway, and Italy.
· Reviewed business and functional requirements and prepared test strategies, test plans, and effort estimations.
· Presented QA strategies and estimations to Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Product Owners, Project Managers, and development teams.
· Represented QA during Agile Daily Stand-up meetings and communicated testing progress, blockers, and release readiness.
· Led end-to-end QA activities including planning, execution, regression testing, defect management, and release support.
.Authored and maintained comprehensive test plans, QA strategies, and release documentation on Confluence, centralizing resources to foster seamless cross-functional alignment
.Executed rigorous manual functional and exploratory testing on new features to identify edge-case defects, ensuring high-quality user experiences prior to automation script development
· Customized and executed data validation tests through Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
· Leveraged Google Gemini to create and customize Python scripts for automating manual calculations.
· Leveraged Google Gemini to create Python scripts to invoke API endpoints, download output files, and validate results.
· Used Google Gemini to generate test case drafts, then reviewed and refined them to ensure accuracy and coverage.
· Customized and executed Apache JMeter load tests and analyzed performance results.
· Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software releases.
Recognition Awards in Nielsen
Bronze Award
The extra effort and your availability to extend working time allowed us to deliver on time the Arianna Plus R1 for Belgium. Your commitment contributed to this first step for our longer journey.
Silver Award
For the release of eDAM Italy. A Nielsen brand new product that went live perfectly on time and withoutstanding quality. You made this effort very personal, showing uncomparable energy and passion,beyond the expectations.
Silver Award
For all Fusion-iPort releases of Italy, Norway, Indonesia and Australia. I personally appreciated your commitment and passion on taking these product's quality very personal.
Gold Award
First complex eTAM solution in International markets done for HK. Chinese characters and VODlibrary created a good amount of planned and unplanned work for all our teams from Architecture through app dev to testing and support teams.
Gold Award
Long Service 10 years with Nielsen
Silver Award
We push forward with speed and agility for contribution towards Bi-science projects(Singapore, Indonesia, New Zealand)
Silver Award
On time delivery of Arianna Plus Beta Release
Silver Award
have stepped up and become QA Data Validation SME top performer in all products (GMD /Arianna) as evidenced by 100 Data Consistency defects logged in 2014. This has been done with a cooperative and coaching attitude.
Certified Tester (CTFL)
ACCP
ITIL