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