Ishita Joshi Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area #Onl (Open To New Locations)

- I'm looking to leverage my experience as QA Engineer along with management and people skills gained during my Masters. - Extensive experience in working under pressure, completing tasks before deadlines, clear communication, single tasking when you in fact are assigned to multiple projects and Conflict Management- Recently acquired skills - Negotiation, working in Agile environment, Networking, Asking for help(Still working on that..it's difficult!)

Mumbai Area, India

Promoted to serve as Automation Engineer/Lead, overseeing a team of 3 QA professionals for automating a web-based application.• Decreased manual effort and hours by almost 30%, by automating client’s insurance policy administration software – AdminServer, using Data Driven Framework• Accelerated average QA testing turn-around time by 25%, allowing company to gain a hold on new testing projects from Genworth Financials• Provided test estimates for project work items, created and reviewed the test strategies, coordinated all test review meetings• Encouraged team to follow Six sigma data driven quality strategy to improve test results• Led daily standups involving product owners and client stakeholders while working with the Scrum team to bring a QA perspective to development tasks

Mumbai, India

• Created and executed manual system and regression test scripts to ensure business requirements, specifications, and designs were met throughout code changes.• Contributed to process improvement by devising an Effort tracker in Excel leading to increase in on-time deliverables• Used Selenium Webdriver with TestNG using Java for functional testing• Used HP Quality Center to record all the bugs found and retested the fixed defects• Converted manual test cases to automation regression test suites and tested them using HP UFT for every release • Maintained and updated regression test cases and scripts

Master'S Degree, Information Technology Project Management, 3.9

Automation: Pdf file comparison, Tools: Windows PowerShell Formulated a project management plan to define the scope, time and cost.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology Project Management

Activities and Societies: Member of Student Council