Hi, I’m Ajay Yadav, a seasoned Staff Quality Assurance Engineer with 9+ years of delivering QA for cloud and desktop applications across Europe, the USA, and India. I have a proven track record of trimming regression cycles, driving CI/CD quality, and leading cross-functional feature teams. I excel at QA ownership, test lifecycle management, and building automation strategies, with hands-on experience in AWS and Azure deployments, ETL validation, API testing, and enterprise release governance. I enjoy mentoring teams in Agile/SAFe and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure high-quality releases.

Ajay Yadav

Hi, I’m Ajay Yadav, a seasoned Staff Quality Assurance Engineer with 9+ years of delivering QA for cloud and desktop applications across Europe, the USA, and India. I have a proven track record of trimming regression cycles, driving CI/CD quality, and leading cross-functional feature teams. I excel at QA ownership, test lifecycle management, and building automation strategies, with hands-on experience in AWS and Azure deployments, ETL validation, API testing, and enterprise release governance. I enjoy mentoring teams in Agile/SAFe and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure high-quality releases.

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Hi, I’m Ajay Yadav, a seasoned Staff Quality Assurance Engineer with 9+ years of delivering QA for cloud and desktop applications across Europe, the USA, and India. I have a proven track record of trimming regression cycles, driving CI/CD quality, and leading cross-functional feature teams.

I excel at QA ownership, test lifecycle management, and building automation strategies, with hands-on experience in AWS and Azure deployments, ETL validation, API testing, and enterprise release governance. I enjoy mentoring teams in Agile/SAFe and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure high-quality releases.

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Language

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Hindi
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Work Experience

Staff Quality Assurance Engineer at Baker Hughes
September 1, 2024 - Present
Leading the QA team at the program level for Cordant, a Baker Hughes web application for machinery health monitoring. Design and execute test strategies across multiple feature teams for AWS and Azure deployments. Delivered 6 quarterly releases and security patches with timely, bug-free deployments. Reduced regression cycle from 2 weeks to ~3 days through test case refactoring, automation of major use cases, and DevOps-enabled environment cleanup. Improved defect leakage by 20% via stronger smoke tests. Managed test suites (Rally, TFS) and project tools (JIRA, Confluence). Conducted UAT with stakeholders on higher environments, covering functional, database, and API validation. Reviewed automation scripts to enable daily regression runs and collaborated with Performance and Reliability teams for load testing on large datasets, multi-browser/multi-user scenarios. Enhanced application stability by replicating customer deployments and upgrade paths in internal test environments, reducing
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Baker Hughes
April 1, 2020 - September 1, 2024
Led QA for three Scrum teams focused on KPI, UI, and data alignment from two data sources into a web app. Executed functional testing, authored test strategies and cases, validated reliability, and conducted performance tests for Baker Hughes’ Condition Monitoring Desktop Application ‘System 1’. Collaborated with requirements and development teams for acceptance reviews, story testing, defect logging, and feature promotions from development to production using GitHub and Argo CD for logs.
IT Analyst & Scrum Master at Capgemini
January 1, 2019 - April 1, 2020
Acted as IT Analyst and Scrum Master for Nordea Bank data quality testing. Performed extensive SQL (Teradata) data validations across data warehouse semantic layers. Led workshops with BAs and business users to address data quality issues and align with regulatory reporting requirements. Implemented SAFe practices and coordinated PI Planning.
Associate Consultant at Capgemini
June 1, 2016 - December 1, 2018
Analyzed reporting solutions for regulatory reports (FINREP, MFI SE, ORBOF); performed regression testing; supported production reporting post Go-Live; prepared test strategies, timelines, and SIT/UAT documentation.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Telecommunication) at University of Mumbai
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2016
Diploma (Electronics & Telecom) at VESP Polytechnic
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2013
SSC (Class X) at Mahindra Academy
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2010

Qualifications

ISTQB Foundation Level
January 11, 2030 - May 21, 2026
SAFe 4 Scrum Master
January 11, 2030 - May 21, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Professional Services, Energy & Utilities, Software & Internet

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