Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Academic Record
Certification
Testing Tool Proficiency
Timeline
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Manpreet Awasthi

Pune

Summary

  • 19+ years of testing and quality assurance experience, in various business domains.
  • Expertise in successful delivery of QA programs.
  • Experience in developing and implementing comprehensive test methodologies across various projects. Methodologies used include Agile ,Waterfall, Iterative, etc.
  • Proven hands-on experience with quality assurance practices, including Test Strategy and Test plan development and implementation, Risk Management and SLA Management.
  • Participate and support bank-wide test maturity improvements. Review test processes, obtain stakeholder buy-in and rollout new processes.
  • Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) setup in QA Programs. Evaluate and implement applicable levers (Automation, process improvement, offshoring).
  • Prepare and present different Test Metrics (Requirements coverage, Defect distribution, Execution trends, Defect trends etc.) to the stakeholders.
  • Excelled Automation projects (Functional) leveraging automation tools(Selenium/Jmeter/TOSCA/UFT/RationalRobot/Win Runner /Macro).
  • CICD implementation in QA stream
  • BDD implementation using Cucumber.
  • Manage Budgeting and Resourcing for QA projects
  • Manage on-shore and off-shore teams, including hiring, mentoring and performance appraisals.
  • Work experience across various geographies (US,UK, Singapore and India)

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

QA Program Manager/Agile Coach

Infosys Limited
03.2018 - 03.2020

Client: DTCC

Program: HiPAM Implementation

  • Implemented HiPAM security across 20 Test automation projects functional and non-functional.Team size-35
  • Created Persona's to mimic Tester's role with required access.
  • Responsible to plan and manage program releases including environment management, effort estimation, capacity planning, risk management, SLA and KPI measurements and Status Reporting.
  • Provide DevOps practices consultancy with focus on Continuous Testing.
  • Prepare approach to implement DevOps CT- Identifying test type, tool selection, defining gating criteria, end to end test flow.
  • Conduct Scrum ceremonies –daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective.

QA Program Manager

Infosys Limited
03.2014 - 11.2018

Client: UBS AG

Portfolio: Risk Management (Credit Risk WM)

  • Handled QA releases for Credit Risk WM Portfolio. Team size- 40
  • Responsible for QA delivery of major and minor releases for all the CR WM applications.
  • Manage creation, implementation and signoff of test strategy and test plans.
  • Handle budgeting and resourcing.
  • Assure Bank wide Test standard guidelines implementation across projects and do necessary customization as per project needs. Participate in quality audits.
  • Conduct proactive data analysis on all test metrics, including weekly/monthly reports etc.
  • Manage test automation design ,implementation, execution and reporting. Align QA with DevOps practices.

Test Manager

Infosys Limited
08.2007 - 02.2014

Client: UBS AG

Portfolio: Risk Management (Market Risk)

  • Project: ARISK- Equities / Fixed Income
  • Managed QA releases of Market risk applications (Strategic: - ARisk, Legacy: - Merlin, Hermes, SSUT, MRDB etc).
  • Responsible for System and User acceptance test. Design and implement test strategy, test environment management , review and signoff.
  • Key contact for Client interface during User Acceptance Test, involving VaR analysis (General and Residual) and Greek analysis (Delta, Gamma, Tau (Vega), Rho)
  • Drive regular testing review meetings and conduct proactive data analysis on all metrics, including weekly/monthly reports, etc
  • Handle resourcing and budgeting.
  • Responsible for test automation(functional and non-functional) for applications.
  • Worked as Business Analyst for a year to support ARisk-Equities release.

Test Lead

Zensar
01.2007 - 08.2007

Project: Blue Print Foundary 3.0

  • Lead QA team for BPF testing and support implementation in various projects. Define Test Strategy/Plan and provide QA estimations and track progress.
  • Evaluate Open Source Tools for testing and implement them.

Test Lead

Xansa
07.2005 - 12.2005

Client: Boots, UK

Project: Advantage Card Operation System

  • Lead QA Team. Define Test Strategy/Plan and provide QA estimations and track progress.
  • Responsible for design, execution and automation of test scripts

Test Lead

HCL Technologies
04.2003 - 07.2005

Client: FileNet, US

Project: Records Manager

Responsibilities:

· Lead QA team and manage functional and automation testing. Define Test Strategy/Plan and provide QA estimations and track progress.

· Responsible for getting product certified by US government for DOD standards and UK government for PRO standards.

· Test Environment Setup. This includes installation of P8 (Content Engine, Process Engine, Workplace and Records Manager).

Test Analyst

Xavient Technologies
10.2002 - 04.2003

Client: Celetron Kandy

Project: Data Capturing and Tracking System

  • Responsible for requirement analysis, prepare/execute system test plan/cases, conduct peer reviews of test cases, defect reporting and tracking. Test automation using Winrunner.

Test Analyst

Nucleus Software Exports Ltd
07.2001 - 09.2002

Client: Citibank

Project: Cash@Will

  • Tested Cash Management Solution. Responsible for requirement analysis, prepare/execute system test plan/cases, conduct peer reviews of test cases, defect reporting and tracking.

Education

B. E - Computers

S.A.T.I
Vidisha
08.1997 - 06.2001

Skills

Test Management

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Academic Record

B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering (1997-2001) from Rajiv Gandhi University, Bhopal

Certification

SAFe 6.0 Agilist

Testing Tool Proficiency

  • Data Generation-Rational Auto Data Generation, MS Excel / MS Word.
  • Test Management-Microsoft Project Plan, Rational Test Manager, Test Director, MS Excel / MS Word, Test Link, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Buggit, Bugzilla, Test Director, Eventum
  • Automation –Selenium, TOSCA, QTP, Rational Robot, Win Runner, Excel Macros.

Timeline

QA Program Manager/Agile Coach

Infosys Limited
03.2018 - 03.2020

QA Program Manager

Infosys Limited
03.2014 - 11.2018

Test Manager

Infosys Limited
08.2007 - 02.2014

Test Lead

Zensar
01.2007 - 08.2007

Test Lead

Xansa
07.2005 - 12.2005

Test Lead

HCL Technologies
04.2003 - 07.2005

Test Analyst

Xavient Technologies
10.2002 - 04.2003

Test Analyst

Nucleus Software Exports Ltd
07.2001 - 09.2002

B. E - Computers

S.A.T.I
08.1997 - 06.2001
Manpreet Awasthi