AMIT ARORA
Quality Assurance
Pune,MH
Summary
Multifaceted and result driven professional with 18.5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance; a proven track record of delivery, strong strategic vision
Overview
3
3
years of post-secondary education
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of QA
Musafir India Pvt. Ltd
Pune, Maharashtra
02.2017 - Current
- Started scrum testing practice at Musafir. Selected right tools and established standard operating procedures.
- Created a well knit testing team by fostering learning and development
- Successfully handled resource forecasting, effort estimation & resource on-boarding for testing.
- Set up Automation framework for GUI Automation, API Automation and Visual Automation
- Established test automation practice and brought test coverage from 0% to 80% in 3.5 years
- Reduced time to market by bringing down regression time from 10 days to 3 days through automation.
AVP & APM Positions
HSBC Software & Citicorp Services
Pune, Maharashtra
11.2015 - 12.2016
- Participated in onboarding of new automation tool (TOSCA) for S&D division
- Worked very closely with Tricentis, internal and vendor teams to solve any infrastructure and implementation issues faced in implementation of TOSCA and came out with roll out plan
- Established CI/CD for Automation cases using Jenkins
- Interacted with the vendors to provide Automation requirements and agreed on plan & budget
- Tracked and managed deliveries from various vendors
Project Manager
Cognizant India Pvt. Ltd
Pune, Maharashtra
10.2005 - 11.2015
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- Provided management for 30+ internal team members
- Provided Automation proposals and efforts for various automation engagements with different clients
- Developed executive presentations and reports to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement.
- Suggested and implemented Automation frameworks using various functional automation tools such as UFT, MobileLabs Trust Addin, Selenium, SeeTest and Silk Test at different points of time.
- Interacted with the client to provide discuss issues & provide solutions
- Designed & suggested different solution accelerators for automation for specific needs.
- Tracked and reported various Automation metrics.
Test Engineer
BMC Software, BindView, Ruksun Software & Newgen Technologies
Pune, Maharashtra
07.2002 - 05.2010
- Handled Testing of various Applications & Products
- Handled setup of different test environments using VMs.
- Carried out different types of testing like I18n,L10n,Security testing and automation testing
- Automated tests using Silk Test, VBA ans ADSI
- Participated in static reviews
- Proposed development and testing improvements to positively impact usability, function and performance.
Education
MCA - Computer Applications
Goa University
Goa 07.1999 - 07.2002
Skills
Test Strategy & Planning
Team Building & Leadership
Test Automation
Devops
Test Management
Quality Processes
Tool Selection
SOP Proficiency
Problem-Solving Abilities
Accomplishments
- Awarded 1st Prize and 2nd prize in innovation hackathon event held at Musafir India Pvt. Ltd in 2017 and 2019.
- Received Star initiative award in Musafir in 2019 for fostering Learning & Development
- Established successful and innovative automation from scratch for various projects which resulted effort and dollar savings
- Established progressive automation in Musafir which helped to reduce the customer issues & resulted in shorter delivery time
- Successfully delivered work in onsite/offshore model by working as onsite coordinator from Germany & USA
- Awarded as 'Employee of Month' by T-Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
Timeline
Head of QA
Musafir India Pvt. Ltd
02.2017 - Current
AVP & APM Positions
HSBC Software & Citicorp Services
11.2015 - 12.2016
Project Manager
Cognizant India Pvt. Ltd
10.2005 - 11.2015
Test Engineer
BMC Software, BindView, Ruksun Software & Newgen Technologies
07.2002 - 05.2010
MCA - Computer Applications
Goa University
07.1999 - 07.2002