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Hepsiba - QEA Manager / GenAI QA Lead 14+ Years US Citizen Healthcare E-commerce, and Cloud-native SaaS Domain

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Location: Columbia, Missouri, USA

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Visa: US CITIZEN

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Hepsiba Dasari, U.S. Citizen, MO Employer No 469-564-0278 [email protected] LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hepsiba-dasari-sun2024/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: Teat Lead/Quality Assurance Manager with 14+ years of QA experience in Life Sciences/Healthcare, e commerce, and cloud native SaaS/PaaS. Skilled in test strategy, global team leadership, and high quality delivery. Expert in GenAI-driven test design, defect analysis, automation acceleration, and synthetic test data, with strong Agile and automation framework skills. Hands-on in scripting, defect management, SLAs, KPIs, and CAPA. Certified Advance Test Management and GenAI Tester focused on AI enabled quality engineering and continuous improvement. Technical Skills: GenAI: Test case gen, AI scenarios, AI defect classify, prompt engineering, synthetic data, AI automation, responsible AI. QA: Agile, DevOps, shift left, functional, regression, integration, UAT, performance, security. Tools: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Postman, Cucumber, Git, CI/CD. Test Mgmt.: Jira, ADO, Xray, Zephyr, ALM, TestRail; SQL, Oracle; QA metrics, RCA. Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP. Soft Skills: Communication, collaboration and teamwork, problem solving, adaptability, critical thinking, detail oriented. Certifications: ASTQB Advanced Level Test Management and Testing with Generative AI (CT-GenAI) Work History: Aug 2020 to Jan 2026 Cognizant -Client - Gilead Science Role: QEA Manager. Implemented GenAI-based test case generation (Copilot, TestGPT, LLM prompts), boosting test design speed 50 60%. Leveraged LLMs to generate boundaries, negative, and API test scenarios, increasing coverage and reducing manual effort. Built AI-driven defect classification to speed up root-cause analysis and triage. Created prompt engineering standards for consistent GenAI outputs across QA teams. Used GenAI agents to generate synthetic, privacy-safe test data. Integrated GenAI copilots with Selenium/Playwright/API frameworks to speed script creation and refactoring. Trained teams on safe, compliant GenAI usage aligned with enterprise governance. Oversaw test case and script reviews to ensure requirement traceability, full coverage, and alignment with business and technical expectations Directed QA operations across onshore, offshore, and multi vendor teams, driving collaboration, accountability, and timely delivery Facilitated release readiness and go/no go decisions using risk based assessments and quality metrics, including defect trends, SLAs, KPIs, and CAPA outcomes Other Experience: July 2018- June 2020 - Cognizant - Client Carnival Role - Senior Quality Assurance Lead Led the overall testing strategy and QA team oversight, developing and delivering robust testing strategies with integrated risk assessments. Coordinated testing efforts for gaming and management applications developed by Konami for Carnival casino platforms, including redeployment testing conducted at the third-party facility. Improved bug resolution rates by 25% by managing the complete defect Management lifecycle in Jira. Jan 2016: June2018 Myperfectbottle Role: Software Quality Assurance Lead Ensured the accessibility and usability of a major e-commerce platform, developing and executing comprehensive test plans that led to a 10% reduction in customer-reported bugs. Automated critical flows using Selenium WebDriver with Java, which reduced regression testing time by 30%, and validated payment gateway integrations across multiple currencies for secure transactions. July 2011 Aug 2015 AAP Role: Software Quality Analyst Validated retail and warehouse management system applications, including retail POS, store inventory, and payment gateway systems. Ensured the integrity of existing functionality through extensive regression and integration testing. Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment quality analyst artificial intelligence golang Connecticut Missouri