Pankaj Gugale

Responsibilities & Achievements

• Consistently delivered multiple NetBackup & FlexScale releases within challenging deadlines and fast-paced environment
• Every major NetBackup release consists of 100+ new features enhancing product capabilities, security fixes, and addressing critical customer issues
• Implemented quality-driven initiatives, streamlining release processes and led reduction in customer escalations by identifying appropriate epic scope, managing risks, and enhancing overall product quality
• Successfully led employee development initiatives, effectively managed vendor relationships, established
• KPIs, and built a robust QA team, stakeholder collaboration, setting high standards for delivering predictable and high-quality results, including seamless cross-product integration
• Played crucial role in supporting various organizational initiatives, proficiently managed budgets, recruited top talents, enhanced the team's technical expertise, and fostered a positive work environment.

Responsibilities & Achievements

• Established and nurtured key client relationships with Washington Mutual, JPMC, and Barclays building a dedicated team of 90+ members across multiple client locations (onshore & offshore)
• Timely delivered multiple applications and products with varying release cycles, overseeing work allocation, scheduling, estimation, deliverables, customer interactions, and project tracking
• Played a pivotal role in developing impactful business proposals, including compelling case studies, one- sliders, and informative flyers for growing new prospective business
• Proficiently managed project budgeting, revenue forecasting, monthly billing, resource allocation, and ensured project profitability along with monitoring project metrics for QA process adherence, risk management, quality audits, and consistently meet SLAs.

Responsibilities & Achievements

• Engaged since inception as first QA engineer to test "Redhat Command Center" product, gaining extensive experience in setting up QA processes from beginning
• Played a key role in feature discussions, suggesting enhancements and defining the product roadmap
• Visited
• Redhat headquarters in US for knowledge transition and collaborating with the stakeholders
• Actively participated in test case design, execution, and defect tracking using TestLink
• Mentored team members, work allocation, and address development needs.

Responsibilities & Achievements

• Led qualification for the critical and highly valuable Reporting module in the "VERITAS SANPoint Control" or "VERITAS CommandCentral Storage" product
• Verified data accuracy in diverse report categories by meticulously populating and validating test data, all customization operations of reports including archiving, emailing, and scheduling
• Automated test cases, ensured seamless product installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting, developed test plans, created test strategies, define best practices, and prepared matrices to track progress.

Responsibilities & Achievements

• Qualified Payments, Collections, File Services, and Administration module functionality within the
  integrated Wise Corporate e-Banking application.
• Comprehended requirement documents, designed test cases, obtained reviews, executed test
  cases, and updated test results.
• Conducted thorough regression testing for each new build deployed in the QA environment.

Responsibilities & Achievements

• Contributed to "eGain Mail" in various aspects of Software Quality Assurance, including test plan
  development, test case execution, scheduling, and generating status reports.
• Proficient in various types of testing, including compatibility, configuration & performance testing
  for web-based products.
• Involved in product installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, test scripting, and automation.