Rajeev Shah Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, United States

• 15+ years of experience in various key roles in Quality Assurance / Engineering, Technical Program Management and Leading Teams.• Experienced in driving and coordinating QA test strategies, test planning and end to end execution for multiple major releases.• Liaison between QA Engineering and Development, Documentation and Escalation teams, driving continuous improvements in product features, test coverage and quality.• Strong believer in ongoing process improvements with a proven track record of championing several successful initiatives.• In depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle with emphasis on Test Methodologies.• Proven leadership and organizational skills. Excellent communication and presentation skills. • Over 7 years of experience leading deliverables across geographically distributed cross functional teams.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Facilitate teams’ progress on goals: Help my teams make and meet commitments withoutcoercion, assigning, or dictating the work. Providing all support to the team using a servantleadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.• Facilitate Communication: Assist with internal and external communication, improvingtransparency, and radiating information. Foster discussion, decision making, and conflictresolution.• Support and partner with the Product Owner: especially with respect to grooming andmaintaining the product backlog.• Leading the team’s efforts in continuous improvement: Help the team improve, takeresponsibility for their actions, and become problem solvers for themselves.• Eliminate impediments: Many blocking issues are beyond the team’s authority or will requiresupport from other teams. Actively address these issues so that the team can remain focused onachieving the objectives of the iteration.• Coordinate Teams: Ensure that interdependent teams from different locations working from acommon product backlog follow a well-defined and coordinated process• Coordinate effective Retrospectives: Work with other scrum masters to gather process feedbackacross all teams and act on improvements defined by the teams that can be leveraged across theorganization• Actively participate in Scrum of Scrums: Work with other scrum masters on a regular basis toconduct scrum of scrum meetings• Reports defects clearly in the JIRA defect tracking system• Work closely with software developer in order to preempt issues that may be present in theimplementation logic thus providing a relatively stable code.• Contribute to the Selenium Java Framework• Proactive attitude and a willingness to “go the extra mile” to get the job done well• Highly flexible and ability to shift gears when priorities change Partnered with release engineer toimprove CI process by configuring Jenkins jobs that led to quicker builds.

• Develop test strategies, specifications, and write test plans for comprehensive testing of Research Compliance Software.• Primary Point-of-contact for all queries regarding the EP2.0 application within Key Solutions and ones raised by Customers.• Test private builds and provide assessments to the development team regarding the fix and thereby help mitigate potential risks associated with the fix.• Work closely with software developer in order to preempt issues that may be present in the implementation logic thus providing a relatively stable code.• Assist in recreating the Bugs as needed by the development team for prompt resolution of open issues.• Responsible for running and analyzing regression results regularly in order to maintain sanity of features for every release.• Design, set-up and modification of testbeds to suit the topology required for testing and analysis of various features based on the release cycle.• Training and mentoring new hires on testing strategies, test plan documentation and execution, key application areas to be considered during test planning.• Well versed with complete Software Development Life Cycle.• Well versed with complete Life Cycle of a Bug and Bug filing tools such as Jira, Bugzilla.• Experience with version control tool CVS used as a central repository for maintaining feature scripts.• Responsible for review of Systems documentations - Functional Descriptions, Functional Specifications, Product Architecture Descriptions, Interface Descriptions, etc.• Participate in internal and external technical review of development designs and documents.• Versatile in multitasking between operational, development and support activities all in one day• Manage day-to-day tasks productively without management direction• Provide customer support on the application usage.• Setup and maintained a distributed & heterogeneous test environment for QA.

M.S, Industrial Engineering

Masters in Industrial Engineering

B.E, Production/Mechanical Engineering

Production Engineering