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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

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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
AMIT ARORAQuality Assurance