Ashish Kolhe

Client - BT Financial group

• Participate in project initiation meeting
• Manage ST, SIT (Vendor) and Acceptance test teams
• Preparing budget, resource planning and timelines
• Collaborating with PO to baseline requirements
• Reviewing and obtaining sign off on test plan, Test completion report along with risks and their mitigations
• Participating in agile ceremonies like Daily standup, backlog refining, retrospective meeting
• Arranging session with Automation test team members to help them understand the changes in existing Test automation script and new functionalities
• Presenting Daily status report to stakeholders

Achievement - During test planning activities for all phases it was observed that, 30% of tests were tested by both SIT and Acceptance test team. I worked with test teams and managed to reduce the repeatable test cases to 5% which were absolutely necessary. This helped in reducing the testing timelines by 15% and saving 5% of allocated funds.

Client - BT Financial group

• Identifying new functionalities which are already available on Web and building and testing them on Mobile App
• Building Test Automation from ground up using open-source technologies like Typescript, Appium, WebDriver IO
• Authoring Test plan, Test Completion reports
• Reviewing Test scenarios and test cases for a release and arranging sign off with PO and BA
• Preparing and monitoring test schedules
• Participate in all agile ceremonies and providing inputs from testing perspective
• Engaging Web Team responsible for a particular feature on Web to understand the impact on Mobile App
• Testing the app on various iOS as well as on Android app on Physical devices as well as ‘on prem’ mobile device cloud HPMC to ensure compatibility and smooth functioning
• Monitoring features usage delivered in earlier releases using Appdynamics and Adobe Analytics
• Arranging app deployment to App store for iOS and Android for Major and minor releases
• Attending Go/No-go meetings and presenting test artifacts to stakeholders

Achievement - Build the Test Automation Framework from ground up using open source technologies like Appium, WebdriverIO 2.0 which helped in reducing regression timelines by 50%.

Client - BT Financial group

• Participate in project initiation meeting
• Requirement reviewing and finalising with product owners and BA
• Preparing test plan, Test completion report along with identifying risks and their mitigations
• Reviewing and correcting test scenarios, test cases from team members
• Presenting test scenarios and test cases to BA and PO’s and arranging sign off
• Participating in agile ceremonies like Daily standup, backlog refining, retrospective meeting
• Presenting Daily status report to stakeholders

Client - BT Financial group

• Providing inputs from Testing perspective to prepare RFP
• Participate in Project initiation meetings
• Managing resourcing, budgeting and planning for entire project
• Working with other vendors and negotiating test planning, scheduling, risks associated with project
• Negotiating clear boundaries with other vendors to avoid contentions
• Authoring daily status reports, Test plan, Test completion reports
• Reviewing project goals and objectives on monthly basis
• Presenting testing status in various stakeholders meeting
• Working with Risk managing team and providing, updating risk mitigation plans

Achievement - The project was kicked off during initial days of Covid 19 and lot of adjustments had to be done to accommodate emergency releases as a part of Covid 19. I quickly understood the impact and cross skilled all the test team members. This helped in making sure that a test team member is available during emergency release related to any functionality.

Client - BT Financial group

• Participate in project initiation meeting
• Requirement reviewing and finalising with PO and BA's
• Preparing test plan, Test completion report along with identifying risks and their mitigations
• Reviewing and correcting test scenarios, test cases from team members
• Presenting test scenarios and test cases to BA and PO’s and arranging sign off
• Participating in agile ceremonies like Daily standup, backlog refining, retrospective meeting
• Presenting Daily status report to stakeholders

Client - BT Financial group

• Participate in project initiation meeting
• Requirement reviewing and baselining from product owners and BA’s
• Preparing test plan, Test completion report along with identifying risks and their mitigations
• Reviewing and correcting test scenarios, test cases from team members
• Presenting test scenarios and test cases to BA and PO’s and arranging sign off
• Participating in agile ceremonies like Daily standup, backlog refining, retrospective meeting
• Presenting Daily status report to stakeholders

Client - BT Financial group

• Requirement reviewing and baselining from product owners and BA’s
• Preparing test plan, Test completion report along with identifying risks and their mitigations
• Reviewing and correcting test scenarios, test cases from team members
• Presenting test scenarios and test cases to BA and PO’s and arranging sign off
• Participating in agile ceremonies like Daily standup, backlog refining, retrospective meeting
• Presenting Daily status report to stakeholders

Client - The Nielsen Company

Overview: Nielsen is a global leader in audience measurement, data, and analytics, shaping the future of media

• Preparing test plan, test scenarios, test cases for the project
• Preparing test machines to test application on various versions of windows including vista, Win 7, Win 8.1 and Win 10 also Mac various flavours of MacOS as well
• Testing app on all above-mentioned OS versions and verify the functionality is working as expected on all the OS versions
• Testing Browser Extensions on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer
• Raising and retesting defects in HP ALM
• Participating in Agile ceremonies from offshore
• Helping Test automation team to understand functionality and write automation test cases using Nielsen Proprietary Test automation framework
• Performing disaster recovery testing on the application
• Validating business rules from DB

Client - The Nielsen Company
Overview: Nielsen is a global leader in audience measurement, data, and analytics, shaping the future of media

• Preparing test scenarios, test cases for the project
• Raising and retesting defects in HP ALM
• Participating in Agile ceremonies from offshore
• Performing disaster recovery testing on the application
• Validating business rules from DB