Ajay Satkar Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Quality Assurance Manager for an industry-changing, $200M+ lender-placed insurance legacy replacement program.* Provide QA people, process, and tools vision/leadership for the SSP program.* Manage Full-time associates and contractors, across multiple agile teams.* Provide priorities, direction, coaching, and support for all QA activities and environments.* Supported agile growth and community building.* Worked closely with DevOps to integrate QA process and automation* Spearheading Automation, Performance and Load testing efforts* Strategizing testing efforts to bring in efficiencies and effectiveness across the QA function on the program. * Jmeter, Load Runner expert. * Environment Manager - managing multiple QA environments * Release and Change Management Board * Identify and implement Micro-Services testing best practices and innovating test strategies * Proponent of Consumer-Driven Contract and services testing * Azure DevOps and Cloud Migration

Pune, Maharashtra, In

1. Leading a multishore Agile Scrum Team for an Industry changing IT implementation 2. Resource Planning, Forecasting 3. Resource Management, performance management 4. Recruitment Management 5. Vendor Management 6. Client Expectations management 7. Escalation management 8. Test Strategies/ Test Planning 9. Team Velocity tracking and velocity improvement solutions 10. Coach, build and ramp up teams per program needs. 11. QA Process Improvements 12. Risk Based Testing approach for applicable projects 13. Manage Functional, regression, performance, load, smoke, sanity, E2E, integration, adhoc, exploratory, grey box, DB testing efforts 14. Spring Planning, backlog grooming, running daily scrums, story pointing, feature sizing, retrospective sessions15. Implemented and lead sound defect management process16. Develop Test Coverage Strategies 17. Managing automation testing efforts 18. Managed performance, load and security testing teams 19. Managed Executive level and Project management communication and reporting 20. Engagement Management.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

1. Vital role in setting up the TCoE and was a part of governance team 2. Resource forecasting and performance Management 3. Recruitment Management 4. Project governance, Planning, Tracking, controlling and reporting5. Estimation and budgeting 6. Client/stakeholders Expectation Management 7. Managed functional, regression, performance, load, smoke, sanity, E2E, integration, adhoc, exploratory, grey box, DB testing efforts 8. Implemented and lead sound defect management process9. Prepared test plans, Test Strategies 10. Implemented many compliance projects for Affordable Care Act (ACA) 11. Managed vendor testing and healthcare exchanges testing with CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) 12. EDI SME on Bath and Real-time PPACA transactions for Healthcare. 13. 14. Develop Test Coverage Strategies 15. Participated in HP QC tool assessment and implementation 17. Managed automation, performance, load and security testing teams 18. EDI SME 19. Performed productivity analysis and provided productivity improvement solutions 20. Created Test Estimation framework and tool for better and accurate testing estimations 21. Participated and Managed User Acceptance Testing24. Managed Executive level and Project management communication and reporting 25. Coach, build and ramp up teams per program needs. 26. SOW, resource forecasting, planning, management

San Jose, Ca, Us

1. Lead team of high performance, multishore testing team of 10 testers/BAs. 2. Helped team improved testing efficiency by 35% by effective testing techniques, test data management, test data mining and defect management 3. Coordination with business users - Bridge between IT and business - helped improve the quality of the end product. 4. Effective use of testing tools. 5. Extensive performance testing 6. Introduced automation. 7. Introduced innovative ways of QA & Dev integration 8. Introduced cost effective test strategies.

London, London, Gb

1. Introduced a concept of reusable test assets 2. Improved testing time on the project utilizing reusable test assets. 3. Introduced Test Strategies to help improved the test quality, QA and Dev communication. 4. Introduced new way of traceability Matrix to ensure the proper test coverage.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

1. Implemented Test solutions for PONL’s development division.2. Lead team of 10 testing professionals supporting client’s testing needs. 3. Improved testing process to gain efficiency and effectiveness of the QA4. Helped reduced the defect leakage by creating and making team adhere to Testing Best practices.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

1. Was responsible for L2 IT Application support for LAM, Middle East and African regions. 2. Was SPOC and support executive for these regions on SIS*Bridge application.3. Reduced the overall ticket count by identifying and fixing the root cause of the major incidents. 4. Improved system performance by tuning the DB queries.