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Chetan Kandhare

Chetan Kandhare

Banaglore

Summary

Thorough quality assurance professional highly skilled in manual and automated application testing. Partners successfully with project management and development team members to put out high-quality software for customers. Decisive in identifying problems at any stage of production.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Associate

Cognizant Technoogies Solutions
Bangalore
02.2022 - Current
  • Performed manual and automated testing of software applications to ensure quality assurance standards were met.
  • Developed, implemented, and maintained test plans for complex projects.
  • Created detailed bug reports documenting the issue and how it was resolved.
  • Conducted end-to-end system testing to identify any potential issues with user experience or functionality.
  • Provided leadership in executing QA processes across multiple teams, ensuring a consistent approach to software development.
  • Identified areas for improvement and developed strategies to reduce defects in products.
  • Coordinated with developers on troubleshooting problems related to software application releases.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop test cases based on requirements documents and technical specifications.

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Synchronoss Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Bijapur , Karnataka
Jun.2014 - Jan.2022
  • Developed and implemented test plans, strategies, and processes for multiple software products.
  • Reviewed design documents to ensure that requirements are testable and provide feedback to the development team.
  • Performed manual testing to identify bugs and other issues in user interface, functionality, performance, compatibility, security.
  • Created regression tests to verify fixes of identified defects.
  • Assisted with troubleshooting issues found during testing cycles.
  • Collaborated with developers on root cause analysis of identified issues.
  • Provided guidance to junior testers on best practices for software testing techniques.
  • Led training sessions for new members of the QA and Testing team.
  • Monitored daily builds and nightly runs.
  • Developed automation frameworks using tools like Selenium Webdriver.

Education

EMBA - Project Management

Dayanand Sagar Business School
03.2022

BE - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Nitte Meenakshee Institute of Technology
06.2012

Skills

  • Expert on API Testing - SOAP UI, Ready API & POSTMAN
  • C#, Gauge Framework with Visual Studio
  • AutomationManual TestingSelenium-JAVA Mobile testing(Android, iOS)Web
  • ApplicationSystem TestingIntegrating testingTest planningTest matrix
  • Working knowledge with MavenTest NGJenkinsTeam citySwagger
  • Data bases- CassandraMySQL
  • Knowledge and experience in Continuous Development / Continuous Integration using Jenkins jobs
  • AgileWaterfallScrumProject managementQA managementClient facing
  • Ability to analyze specifications and design documentations, test strategies, test
  • Plans, and user acceptance criteria
  • Agile, Java Selenium with Cucumber, API, Postman
  • Timeline Estimates
  • Project Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Project Coordination

Accomplishments

Project #1: Client – Saudi Telecom Company- Current Project

Company : Cognizant Technologies Solutions

Role : Test Team Lead/Sr. System Analyst

  • Im responsible for the QA activates, leading the team. I overlook QA activities and billing, and performance of the team.
  • My role is to anchor teams activities as per the client requirement and planning,monitor and report progress to respective internal and external stake holders.
  • As a single point of contact from for both client and internal management act as bridge between different teams to carry out work flow relentlessly.

Technology: Agile, Java Selenium with Cucumber, API, Postman.

Project #6: Client – Pearson Education

Company : Cognizant Technologies Solutions

Role : Test Team Lead/Sr. QA Analyst

  • Currently working as Team/Test Lead to guide team and responsible for deliverable and QA efforts for the client.
  • This is Educations domain project, where we are working with client on, other third party team, where are I’m responsible for complete delivery from cognizant to Pearson client.

Technology: Agile, C# Selenium with Cucumber, Gauge Framework, Visual Studio, Teamcity, Git

Project #5: White Label Product

Company : Synchronoss Technologies Solutions

Role : Sr. Software Test Engineer

  • Working on a project in advanced messaging domain, development of chatbots, advanced RCS messaging, MAAP, campaign, and survey.
  • I work as Lead Test Engineer, mainly focusing on back end automation, we own complete backend automation and deployment processes.
  • I’m accountable to run backend automation suite, smoke suite, bamboo job configuration, TER reporting, documentation, backend API validation & guiding performance team with their efforts.

Technology: ReadyAPI, API Automation, Swagger, Jenkins, CI/CD, Jmeter

Timeline

Sr. Associate

Cognizant Technoogies Solutions
02.2022 - Current

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Synchronoss Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Jun.2014 - Jan.2022

EMBA - Project Management

Dayanand Sagar Business School

BE - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Nitte Meenakshee Institute of Technology
Chetan Kandhare