Omkar Raste
Pune, MH
Summary
Seasoned QA Lead with background in managing and coordinating testing activities. Brings adeptness in developing effective test strategies, ensuring product quality, and leading teams to meet project deadlines. Strengths include strong analytical skills, ability to troubleshoot complex software systems, and proficiency in automation tools. Previously contributed to enhancing product performance and reliability through rigorous quality control processes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Lead
Genzeon Limited
07.2024 - 07.2025
- Subject Matter Expertise for EDC Application.
- Scrum Lead handling a team of six people.
- Attending different Scrum meetings, like Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Daily Stand Up.
- Understanding client requirements and translating them into technical specifications.
- Review of test plans prepared by the team members.
- Functional and non-functional testing.
- Automation testing using Selenium WebDriver and reporting defects.
- Integration of Selenium WebDriver with TestNG.
- Preparing the DoD (Definition of Done) document for EPIC's.
- Providing KT sessions to team on EDC application
- Review the schedule and timelines of the releases
- Creating release cycles
- Preparing and sending weekly status reports
- Conducting technical interviews
- Involved with Project Manager, Assistance Vice President in setting up Scrum, Regression, Automation teams
Senior Test Engineer
Quality Assurance Limited
02.2021 - 06.2024
- Scrum lead handling a team of three people.
- Functional and non-functional testing.
- Creation of automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver with Java.
- Automation testing using Selenium WebDriver and reporting defects.
- Creating automation scripts for new features (EPICs) in Test Rigor.
- Automating and adding existing test cases into the Stage suite using Test Rigor.
- Performance testing during pre-release testing (stage testing) using Test Rigor to evaluate the response time of the application, covering critical scenarios.
- Running the smoke suite in Test Rigor during release testing (production testing) to cover the core functionalities of the application.
- Running test cases from the Stage suite in Test Rigor during pre-release testing (Stage testing), and reporting defects.
- Running validation scripts in Test Rigor during pre-release testing (stage testing) to validate critical functionalities of the application.
- API testing of the application using Postman.
- Mobile testing of applications on Android and iOS devices.
- Cross-browser testing using the BrowserStack application.
- Mentored junior engineering staff, offering instruction on testing parameters.
- Provided process training to junior engineering staff.
- Preparation and review of test plans.
Android & iOS Tester
TestIO
05.2018 - 01.2021
- Functional testing and reporting defects.
- Usability Testing.
Test Analyst
Infosys Limited
01.2013 - 04.2018
- Requirement Analysis
- Test Planning, Test Effort Estimation.
- Test plan review.
- Functional Testing and Defect Management.
- Excel macro preparation to reduce the manual task of comparing the files, which resulted in cost reduction for the client.
- Weekly status reporting to the client.
- Providing QA team sign-off for each release
Senior Software Engineer
Spheregen Private Limited
08.2011 - 01.2013
- Designed software solutions to meet client specifications and requirements.
- Conducted system testing to identify bugs and improve software performance.
- Coordinated with quality assurance teams to ensure software met all testing criteria.
Analyst Programmer
Syntel Private Limited
12.2007 - 07.2011
- Requirement Analysis
- Test Planning
- Test Execution, Defect Management.
- Load Testing Using Apache JMeter
- API testing using SOAP UI.
- Six months of on-site experience in San Francisco, USA.
Education
M.Sc. - Computer Science
D. Y. Patil ACS College
Pimpri, Pune05.2007
B.Sc. - Computer Science
D. Y. Patil ACS College
Pimpri, Pune05.2005
H.S.C. -
Mhalsakant Vidyalaya
Akurdi, Pune05.2002
S.S.C. -
Janana Prabodhini Navnagar Vidyalaya
Nigdi, Pune05.2000
Skills
- Functional testing
- Automation with Selenium WebDriver (Java)
- Automation with test rigor
- TestNG framework
- Postman for API testing
- Mobile testing
- Performance and load testing
- Usability assessment
- Quality assurance leadership
- Agile methodologies
- JIRA for defect management
- Zephyr for test management
- BrowserStack for cross-browser testing
- SQL database testing
Certification
- ISTQB Foundation, Sep 2009)
- Scrum Master, May 2018)
- Generative AI Foundation, July 2025
Accomplishments
- Individual 'Reward and Recognition' awards for seven times as QA of the month
- Quarterly team awards at Infosys and Syntel
Timeline
Technical Lead
Genzeon Limited
07.2024 - 07.2025
Senior Test Engineer
Quality Assurance Limited
02.2021 - 06.2024
Android & iOS Tester
TestIO
05.2018 - 01.2021
Test Analyst
Infosys Limited
01.2013 - 04.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Spheregen Private Limited
08.2011 - 01.2013
Analyst Programmer
Syntel Private Limited
12.2007 - 07.2011
M.Sc. - Computer Science
D. Y. Patil ACS College
B.Sc. - Computer Science
D. Y. Patil ACS College
H.S.C. -
Mhalsakant Vidyalaya
S.S.C. -
Janana Prabodhini Navnagar Vidyalaya
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