Mahesh Sarkate
Pune
Summary
Over 9+ years of expertise in Telecom applications and processes which includes data migration test procedures and Bill to Bill analysis practices since last 2 years.
Currently serve as a professional authority, representing and leading testing for Canadian telecom service providers like Bell Canada, Telus Canada. Throughout my career, gained expertise in both frontend and backend testing, utilizing automation to optimize daily execution activities and ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Test Specialist
Amdocs
Pune
05.2022 - Current
- Plans, designs and leads test solutions.
- Collaborates with multiple teams in business and technology to devise test strategy and plans, test designs and automation to build testability and quality into products.
- Develops and executes a solution strategy and business plan, defining the best test approach and value proposition for the customer.
- Participates in scoping sessions to define scope breakdown items list to be delivered to testing. Defines priorities and communicates to all related vendors.
- Builds and maintains a repository for deliverables and work products and provides expertise to identify and translate system requirements into test design documentation.
- Provides technical leadership for the testing organization. Initiates and designs certifications, training materials and plans, and promotes the Testing Center of Excellence.
- Serve as a professional authority, representing and leading testing groups in technical forums both internally and externally. Resolves complex technical issues and sticky points and supports RCA activities and Lessons Learned sessions.
- Throughout the past two years, have been engaged in assignments focused on Legacy Data transformation testing. These assignments entailed a range of responsibilities including resource and budget planning, design, execution, and testing closure activities for each phase. The testing scope encompassed functional testing for CSM, CRM, Billing, finance report validation, RTB (Real-time billing), Britebill system, as well as Bill to Bill comparison analysis (DB and invoice validations, reports) & Integrity check analysis.Throughout this period, consistently advocated for the incorporation of automation in all stages of the Migration test activities.
- So far 1.1 million customers out of total 3.6 million targeted population from different legacy systems are migrated to new platform in production in last 5 phases/rollouts with no major issues and all are billed in first month with minimal discrepancies.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Netcracker
Pune
02.2021 - 05.2022
- During the initial phase, worked independently and responsible for designing, executing, and reviewing test scripts and results. These activities primarily supported FIFA and Falcon releases.
- Responsible for maintaining the test design for the overall release, managing defects, and overseeing the automation pipeline.
- Utilizing 6 months of experience at Netcracker, started leading the monthly release plan, maintaining the environment, executing activities, and sharing daily status reports with stakeholders.
- Overseeing the execution of production deployment sanity tasks throughout the production deployment window and communicating the status updates.
- Organizing knowledge transfer sessions for new team members while also fostering the continuous development of the current team.
Functional Test Engineer
Amdocs
Pune
08.2014 - 02.2021
- As an Associate Test Engineer, Primary assignments to create and run (Manual and Automated) test scripts for the Enterprise product catalogue in waterfall releases.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to review test designs and assess test results throughout the test execution period in order to obtain signoff on the results.
- With implementation of Kanban processes , worked on creating Activity library maintaining automation suites, leading standup calls based on necessity and raise risks on time and defect creation and defect management
- Plan and support for monthly, biweekly, and expedited releases, including fast tracks and quickwin releases.
- Provided regular updates on progress of tasks assigned during sprints.
- Conducted regression testing to identify errors in system functionality.
- Gathered feedback from internal and external customers throughout planning and test phases.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Telecommunications
University of Pune
06.2014
Skills
- Java
- Test Estimation
- Requirements Analysis
- Test Planning
- Regression testing management
- Test Plans and Test Methodologies
- Defect Tracking and Reporting
- Test Procedure Documentation
- Selenium
- QTP
- Ginger
- Postman
- Unix
- SQL
- EPC
- SOAP UI
- Maven
- Jenkins
- CRM,CSM,OMS
- Amdocs Billing/AR
Hobbies and Interests
- Cooking
- Gardening
- Listening to Music
Accomplishments
- CNN Level up award Winner across all NAM and America’s region( May-2024)
- Netcracker Difference Maker Award (July 2021, January-2022)
- Winner of AQE level competitions like Treasure Hunt, Quiz's and Bay decoration etc.(Q4-2019)
- Automation Champion award on cluster Level for 2018-19 (Q1, Q2 & Q4),
- Employee of Quarter- 2019(Q3)
- Spot award for quality -2015(Q1), 2017-18(Q3)
- Star award for documentation of process and lesson learn part of work in Amdocs for 2014-2015(Q3)
Certification
- Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner
Languages
Marathi
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Affiliations
- Contribute to CSR efforts by actively engaging in various acWadkiies, such as teaching disadvantaged students at Annapurna School in Wadki.
- Taking part in cleanliness awareness initiatives as a part of CSR activities.
- Participating in the Amdocs Marathon to show my support for a meaningful cause .
- Managing team-level activities, outings, monthly fun events, and coordinating on-the-job training and orientation for new employees.
Timeline
Software Test Specialist
Amdocs
05.2022 - Current
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Netcracker
02.2021 - 05.2022
Functional Test Engineer
Amdocs
08.2014 - 02.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Telecommunications
University of Pune