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Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Worked on System Test Plan Preparation and Requirements Streamlining, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data. • Responsible for GUI and functional testing, using Black Box testing techniques. • Experience in Test Execution, Test Results Analyzing and Defect Reporting using Rally and Regression testing• Web Service testing using Postman, verify various Get/Post calls.

Pune Area, India

- Lead on test Management platform, included development of Test Strategy and managing for Test Management tool. - Experienced in handling technical testing teams, resource forecasts, estimates, resource planning, budget management and fulfillment, creation of Test Strategies & Test Plan documents, implementation and roll out of these until the Test Closure Report- Facilitate new employees in early integration and assimilation into their new environment - Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations. Interaction with Product Owner to work on user stories and bridging the gap between PO and scrum teams- Accountable for creation of Test Plan, Test Suite, performing execution and reporting the status of the Hot Fixes and Service Packages for Regression using TFS- Providing regular communication of testing status throughout the testing phases and providing a central point of escalation for all QA & Testing activities and queries

Pune Area, India

- Driving the execution of the test strategy and plan, including the test preparation, execution, analysis and reporting activities - Interacting with End User’s across a number of Stakeholder groups, working directly with the Business to ensure their understanding and adoption of the new products/tools - As a Team Lead involved in sprint planning and ensure the stories are tested well in time. Active participation in Sprint Retrospectives, Stories Demo and other meetings with the Developers. - Tested WebServices /XML / SOAP and RESTFul services using SoapUI tool- Tested all modules – Stars Update, DMS, Import/Export and Claims Management. - Developed and Executed Test Cases in QC - Experience in SQL queries and Joins to validate the data. - Involved in planning test execution activities, defect reporting and analyzing test metrics.

Pune Area, India

SQS Group Ltd. operates as a software testing consultancy which provides testing solutions for the mission critical systems. The Company specializes in the provision and management of testing and test strategies.Key Responsibilities-• Skilled, motivated and result-driven Quality Assurance Professional over 8 years of experience in Manual and Automation testing. • ISTQB Advance Certified, have Onsite US experience as QA Lead for Knowledge Transfer and Onsite UK experience for System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for period of 1 year • Proven Track Record in Customer Stakeholder Management, Project / Programme Governance, established long standing relationships with customersProject 1: Copyright Clearance Center Nov 2014 - Aug 2017 : 2 yrs 10 mosAs a Module Lead developed test strategies, test plans, test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, functional specifications, use cases and user stories• Designed QA test execution reports and conducted defect triage meetings on a daily basis. • Acted as a liaison between Testing team and Development team, Product Managers to help prioritize and resolve software defect Experience in Manual & Automated Testing of GUI and functional aspects of Client - server and Web based Applications on multiple levels of SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).• Good Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming Concepts(OOPS) and Java Skills• Experience in automating test cases using TestNG and Cucumber• Experience in data- driven test using Jenkins and Excel• Experience in using FireBug , writing XPath to locate web elements• Worked on Cross browser testing, browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and IE using WebDriver

London, United Kingdom

- Interact directly with stakeholders to identify and evaluate requirements and improvement opportunities and explain issues - Managing of UAT Process elements include SLA, Testing process, Communication process, documentation process and controls /review processes - Understand and review operational processes, drive process changes to fully realize system capability/potential to achieve productivity gains, efficiency and improve service delivery - Interacting with End User’s across a number of Stakeholder groups, working directly with the Business to ensure their understanding and adoption of the new products/tools - Proven record of strong analytical & problem solving skills and ability to identify key risks and issues - Proactive to take lead in investigating issues and accountable for resolution - Responsible, organized, responsive and able to multitask under pressure

Pune Area, India

• Client interaction for the issues faced in testing, understanding of requirements and to ensure timely deliverables • Worked with client at US onsite and coordinated with the team. • Test cases review, execution and defects management in JIRA • Daily, Weekly status reporting and assisting Team Lead in tracking of the KPI sheet• Involved in Test case creation and Test Execution .Preparing detailed execution as well as summary report for the betting Site• Root Cause Analysis of Test incidents to ascertain the functional inconsistency during test case executions.