PINAL CHAUDHARI
Gandhinagar
Summary
Dynamic QA Lead with 7+ years of experience in software testing across web and mobile applications. Dynamic QA Lead with a proven track record at PIB Group, adept at driving quality assurance for web applications. Expert in API testing and defect management, while mentoring a 10-member team. Passionate about enhancing testing strategies and delivering high-quality software solutions in Agile environments.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
QA Lead
PIB Group
Gandhinagar
08.2021 - Current
- Leading a QA team of 10 members across multiple parallel projects, managing workload, priorities and daily delivery.
- Owning end-to-end QA activities for web and mobile applications in Agile/Scrum (planning, estimation, execution and closure).
- Preparing and reviewing test plans, scenarios, test cases and test summary reports based on business and technical requirements.
- Performing functional, regression, smoke/sanity, API and basic penetration testing for web and Android applications.
- Conducting API testing using Postman and Swagger, validating endpoints, payloads, error handling and integrations.
- Using JMeter and other tools for performance and load testing where required.
- Contributing to automation using Mabl and API automation, and starting to use Cypress for modern web automation.
- Tracking and managing defects in Jira; driving defect triage and coordinating fixes with development teams.
- Providing regular QA status updates, risks and mitigation plans to project managers and stakeholders.
- Coaching junior QA team members on testing techniques, tools and quality standards.
Manual QA
Everest Instruments Pvt. Ltd.
Ahmedabad
05.2018 - 09.2020
- Performed manual testing of web, desktop and mobile applications (functional, regression, smoke).
- Prepared test cases and executed them for ERP and POS solutions.
- Reported and tracked defects, supported releases and basic user training.
Manual QA
I Can Infotech
Ahmedabad
02.2018 - 05.2018
- Performed UI and functional testing for assigned modules.
- Prepared test cases and reported issues to the development team.
Education
B.E. - Information Technology
Gujarat Technological University
01.2017
Skills
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Smoke/Sanity Testing
- Re-testing
- Installation Testing
- API Testing
- Basic Penetration Testing
- Mabl
- API automation
- Cypress
- Postman
- Swagger
- Browserstack
- JMeter
- HP LoadRunner
- Test planning and strategy
- Test case and scenario design
- Regression suite maintenance
- Defect logging and tracking
- Test reporting
- Leading a 10-member QA team
- Task allocation and prioritisation
- Mentoring
- Working with cross-functional and distributed teams
- Web application testing
- Android application testing
- Windows
- Jira
- Confluence
- Mantis
- Excel
Certification
- The Complete 2022 Software Testing Bootcamp - Udemy
- Software Testing Foundations: Test Planning
Accomplishments
Certificate of Excellence - Top Ranker 2016 (3rd Year - Information Technology) - Shri Dewang Mehta Foundation
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 07/20/96
Timeline
QA Lead
PIB Group
08.2021 - Current
Manual QA
Everest Instruments Pvt. Ltd.
05.2018 - 09.2020
Manual QA
I Can Infotech
02.2018 - 05.2018
B.E. - Information Technology
Gujarat Technological University