• Build and maintain strong relationships with critical partners, including external suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders. • Apply industry-standard Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) processes and tools to develop or improve supplier manufacturing processes. • Participate in supplier audits to assess manufacturing process capability, quality risks, and compliance with quality standards. • Support the resolution of supplier-related quality issues by conducting root cause analysis and driving corrective actions. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the external supply base using proven methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma. • Manage Global PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) Level 1–4, including VPI PPAP submissions. • Audit global PPAP submissions as per established guidelines and standards.

• Design and implement comprehensive test strategies for Guidewire applications to ensure product quality and reliability. • Collaborate with development teams to understand product requirements and translate them into effective test cases. • Execute manual and automated tests using tools like Selenium and Cucumber to validate software functionality. • Identify, document, and track defects using appropriate tools ensuring timely resolution and retesting. • Develop and maintain test scripts for SOAP, WSDL, and REST Web Services to ensure seamless integration and performance. • Provide detailed test reports and metrics to stakeholders highlighting key findings and areas for improvement. • Conduct regression testing to ensure new features do not adversely affect existing functionality. • Utilize Core Java skills to enhance test automation frameworks and improve testing efficiency.

• Collaborate with client QA teams, developers, and offshore teams to understand requirements, identify gaps, and ensure accurate testing. • Design and execute test cases based on business requirements and system specifications, covering complex rules and workflows. • Provide clear effort estimates for manual testing tasks and deliver thorough test coverage. • Apply Agile methodologies to drive efficient testing processes, improve quality, and support continuous delivery. • Lead initiatives to enhance testing strategies, mentor junior QA team members, and ensure compliance with industry best practices in Guidewire Policy systems and P&C insurance.

• Testing Strategy & Leadership: Contribute to driving the overall QA strategy for Mirantis Secure Registry, Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, aligning quality goals with business objectives and release deadlines. • Evaluate and champion best-in-class testing practices and frameworks for distributed systems. • Lead risk analysis and test planning for large-scale, multi-cloud registry, infrastructure and container orchestration. • Architect test frameworks and infrastructure for validating microservices and infrastructure components in multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud environments. • Oversee the design of complex test scenarios simulating production-like workloads, resource scaling, failure injection, and recovery across distributed clusters. • Spearhead the development of scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.). • Leverage Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to build comprehensive automation coverage. • Promote test infrastructure-as-code and drive IaC forward on the team making sure the infrastructure code is repeatable, extensible and reliable. • Mentor QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques such as risk-based testing, chaos engineering, performance and load testing. • Serve as the QA authority in design reviews, production readiness assessments, and incident retrospectives (escaped defects). • Collaborate with devops engineers to refine monitoring, alerting, and debugging strategies for testing automation being run in CI/CD. • Establish quality gates, release readiness metrics, and data driven feedback loops to ensure released software is production quality. • Drive initiatives to integrate performance, security, and chaos testing into the development lifecycle. • Advocate for a culture of quality across teams and influence architecture decisions with testing in mind.