Nhanu Chavan
Test Manager
Navi Mumbai,MAHARASHTRA
Summary
Over 17 years of QA experience in all phases of software life cycle, including QA Test Management, requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting. Skilled in test management, business analysis and ability to quickly relate business processes with systems functions. Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Web based applications and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle. Successfully managed mid to large scale software testing and systems integration projects adding value to the business. Implemented several processes to drive towards tighter alignment of IT projects to support business needs.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Test Manager
Bank of America
3 2019 - Current
- Managed QA teams and their activities in order to drive the delivery of QA services across business and technology teams
- Scheduled and chaired quality review meetings to review effectiveness of performance mitigating risk, improving throughput and achieving customer satisfaction
- Reported to senior QA Manager about project status and QA activities/forecasts
- Developed Test Plans for multiple releases based on minimal business requirements
- Developed project plans and conducted weekly status review meetings with all business groups
- Analyzed status reports on weekly basis with the project team
- Familiarized the team members with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the testing process, design standards, techniques and tools to support testing effort
- Assigned roles and responsibilities and deliverables to all team members
- Established the testing process, testing and defect reporting methodology, techniques and tools to support testing effort
- Coordinated the team to resolve defects of all components of the application
- Coordinated System Integration Testing and UAT efforts
- Developed Timeline for different cycles of testing
- Prepared and maintained documents like Test Strategy, Test Report and Trace Matrix.
QA Team Lead
Bank of America
10.2015 - 03.2019
- Worked on projects of high complexity within multiple development environments or enterprise-wide system
- Created test plans, test strategy, RTMs and LOE's for multiple engagements
- Led multiple system integration efforts
- Responsibilities included: creating and implementing an integration strategy to ensure upstream and downstream systems interacted with each other without error
- Ownership of projects and their management in HP Quality center for creating and documenting test plans, test scripts, test reports and dashboards
- Prepared and submitted QA estimates and QA project schedules
- Reviews information with project manager
- Worked with the Business and Systems Analysts to interpret QA needs as requirements are being developed
- Oversaw the creation of test cases, test scenarios and scripts in support of business functional requirements
- Led the completion of testing processes
- Ensured metrics comply with testing and requirements
- Analyzed and reviewed test results with key team members and stakeholders and made recommendations regarding software defects
- Used SOAPUI tool for executing web services testing activities including creating test projects, functional and load testing
- Performed E2E data validation by using complex SQL queries to ensure the data integrity
- Produced and communicated daily, weekly and monthly status reports to the project team to track progress
- Identified and managed project risk, and developed mitigation strategies.
Senior QA Analyst
Bank of America
10.2011 - 10.2015
- Test data management including data validation, manipulation and maintaining data integrity
- Determined Test Planning Session dates
- Determined Testing Risks and updated PlanView with risk information
- Provided project test status to QA Team Lead-Release Coordinator
- Analyzed Requirements and Design/tech-specs for testability
- Coordinated feedback from testability reviews to PM from the QA team
- Analyzed and Determined Test Data strategy
- Assisted in identification of test data criteria as needed and followed up with Business teams on delivery of Test Scenarios to Scenario Builder
- Determined test environments involved, locations, support contacts for each, access, links, upgrade impacts to hardware/software
- Acted as UAT Lead in planning and executing UAT testing sessions with the business team
- Assisted UAT Business Leads with set up in tools and tool training as needed
- Coordinated UAT testing preparation, execution and reporting activities
- Attended UAT Release level status calls and provided support for defect monitoring or issue resolution
- Monitored stress/performance testing/incidents and status
- Obtained final testing signoff from the Project team
- Obtained and reviewed all test scripts are completed and archived for audit
- Archived all Test Results for audit
- Reviewed Automation test suites after every release.
QA Engineer
Bank of America
12.2006 - 10.2011
- Analyzed and reviewed business requirements and functional design specifications with developers, project managers, and QA manager to ensure all requirements are met
- Developed, maintained test plans, tested strategies, tested cases while performing all testing activities including functional, integration, system, regression testing
- Documented timely reports related to release process, working and testing results of software
- Managed the defect analysis system and identified functions in the application to be tested based on importance and prioritized based on deadlines
- Created, maintained, performed, upgraded Automation test scripts, analyzed test cases, provided regular progress reports
- Logged defects in detailed, understandable, reproducible way, tracking all assigned defects through to closure and interacting with members of Development Team to resolve discovered defects.
Education
PGDBA-DLP - E Business
Welingkar Institute of Management
Diploma - Software Testing
Seed InfoTech Limited
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Mumbai University
Skills
Databases : SQL Server 2017, Hadoop
Programming Languages : C#, C, SQL, Java (Basic), Shell Scripting, Python
Test Management Tools : MicroFocus ALM, qTest, ALM Octane
Test Automation Tools : UFT, TOSCA, Selenium, Cucumber
Other Tools : Team Foundation Server, JIRA, Rally, Remedy, Bitbucket, GitHub, Confluence, Share point
Certification
ISTQB (Foundation and Advanced)
Timeline
QA Team Lead
Bank of America
10.2015 - 03.2019
Senior QA Analyst
Bank of America
10.2011 - 10.2015
QA Engineer
Bank of America
12.2006 - 10.2011
Test Manager
Bank of America
3 2019 - Current
PGDBA-DLP - E Business
Welingkar Institute of Management
Diploma - Software Testing
Seed InfoTech Limited
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Mumbai University