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Hi, I’m Hilori Patel. I am a results-driven QA Manager and Senior QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience leading distributed QA teams in financial services and enterprise IT environments. I excel at building QA governance, defining test strategies, and driving process improvements through automation and AI-assisted tools. I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with product, development, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software and measurable quality metrics.…Hi, I’m Hilori Patel. I am a results-driven QA Manager and Senior QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience leading distributed QA teams in financial services and enterprise IT environments. I excel at building QA governance, defining test strategies, and driving process improvements through automation and AI-assisted tools. I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with product, development, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software and measurable quality metrics.

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Hi, I’m Hilori Patel. I am a results-driven QA Manager and Senior QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience leading distributed QA teams in financial services and enterprise IT environments. I excel at building QA governance, defining test strategies, and driving process improvements through automation and AI-assisted tools. I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with product, development, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software and measurable quality metrics.…Hi, I’m Hilori Patel. I am a results-driven QA Manager and Senior QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience leading distributed QA teams in financial services and enterprise IT environments. I excel at building QA governance, defining test strategies, and driving process improvements through automation and AI-assisted tools. I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with product, development, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software and measurable quality metrics.

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Hi, I’m Hilori Patel. I am a results-driven QA Manager and Senior QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience leading distributed QA teams in financial services and enterprise IT environments.

I excel at building QA governance, defining test strategies, and driving process improvements through automation and AI-assisted tools. I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with product, development, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software and measurable quality metrics.

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Expert

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Expert

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English

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Work Experience

QA Manager / Test Lead at American Equity Investment and Life Insurance

May 1, 2024 - Present

Led a global QA team of 9 engineers across onshore and offshore locations, establishing governance standards, end-to-end test strategy for a Desktop-to-Cloud migration, and KPI dashboards. Directed REST API automation in a BDD/Cucumber framework, Selenium + Java regression testing, and comprehensive functional/SIT validation. Introduced AI-assisted test case generation and collaborated with product and development teams to ensure acceptance criteria and story testability.

QA Test Lead (Onshore Lead) at Lincoln Financial Group

April 1, 2022 - May 1, 2024

Owned end-to-end QA strategy for mainframe-to-cloud migration in Fixed and Fixed Index Annuity spaces, including functional, regression, and system integration testing. Created test plans, validated data transformation and AWS Lambda outputs, coordinated UAT, and led Selenium + Java automation for end-to-end regressions. Managed defects in HP ALM/JIRA and ensured environment readiness with DevOps.

Senior QA Automation Analyst at CGI Canada

March 1, 2021 - April 1, 2022

Designed and executed automated tests using Selenium and C# .NET (Page Object Model) for functional, regression, and SIT testing; authored complex SQL for backend data validation; mentored manual testers and collaborated with cross-functional Agile teams.

QA Automation Analyst at Konig IT Solutions

January 1, 2017 - March 1, 2021

Developed and executed test plans, cases, and automated scripts for web-based e-commerce using Selenium and Java; performed SIT, regression, API, mobile, and cross-browser testing; applied BDD with Cucumber/Gherkin, TestNG, Jenkins, and Maven CI/CD; tracked defects in JIRA and participated in Agile ceremonies.

Trainee Software Engineer at TatvaSoft India

June 1, 2015 - August 1, 2016

Manual functional testing; authored test cases and defect reporting in JIRA; developed ASP.NET/C# features and SQL stored procedures; contributed to test planning and UAT preparation.