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Pranshu Dogra

Pranshu Dogra

Lead Quality Assurance
Gurugram

Summary

Performance-driven Associate Vice President(Lead QA) with 15 years of experience aligning systems with business requirements, policies and regulatory requirements. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communication skills to manage and lead teams. Results-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Associate Vice President- Quality Assurance Lead

Natwest Group (RBS)
Gurgoan
2018.12 - Current
  • Identified and developed solution for quality governance by Integrating Prod Ticketing tool,Jira,Bitbucket
  • Hands on creating the dashboards for stakeholder to see the quality at the various stages
  • Test Planning/Coverage of all automated trading strategies
  • Technical trade support for a multi-platform product offering, including Bloomberg, Tradeweb, Internal or External ECN
  • Increased workflow by analyzing data and maximizing opportunities for improved productivity across several areas.
  • Identified issues with production, marketdata and data configs and implemented successful solutions.
  • Mentoring of new joiners,on-boarding and hiring responsibilities
  • Monitored industry trends, keeping current on latest changes and competition in industry.
  • Production Incidents RCA & mitigation plans

Associate - Senior Test Designer

Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)
Gurugram
2016.08 - 2018.12
  • Testing of Order Management System,Fix Protocol,Process Transaction,Publish Quotes & Trades
  • Involved in testing of application for supporting Voice trades on digital platforms as part of Mifid regulations
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting test logs using unix/Devops tools
  • Designing/ Maintainence of Server test /Automation scripts using CodedUI
  • Mentoring team with new ideas/concepts

Lead QA

Pearson Access Next, Ness Technologies
2014.07 - 2016.08

Description: In parallel with continued support of PeasonAccess 5.x in 2010, PAN is Re-engineered version—internally named PearsonAccessNext—as our strategy for responding quickly and adeptly to the market and technology drivers articulated earlier.PearsonAccessNext delivers a core set of services that are a) scalable to meet the needs of large deployments, b) configurable and extensible to meet program needs, and c) integrated with Pearson legacy products for hybrid solutions


Responsibilities:

  • Creation of task and stories in rally which help in defining the requirement and iteration timelines
  • Involved in all the phases of the projects like Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Test Data Preparations, Executions, etc
  • Test Design created for Interface Testing, Integration, Regression Testing, Migration testing, Mobile Application & Security testing
  • Automation requirements identification and maintenance of scripts
  • Responsible for managing automation test data throughout the release phase
  • Participate in daily Scrum calls and Status reporting
  • To provide onsite support for UAT and Product Implementation phases
  • Publishing of DSR (Daily Status Report) to all IT and business stake holders at confluence

Senior Quality Engineer

Ness Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai
2010.03 - 2014.07

Description: In parallel with continued support of PeasonAccess 5.x in 2010, PAN is Re-engineered version—internally named PearsonAccessNext—as our strategy for responding quickly and adeptly to the market and technology drivers articulated earlier.PearsonAccessNext delivers a core set of services that are a) scalable to meet the needs of large deployments, b) configurable and extensible to meet program needs, and c) integrated with Pearson legacy products for hybrid solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Creation of task and stories in rally which help in defining the requirement and iteration timelines.
  • Involved in all the phases of the projects like Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Test Data Preparations, Executions, etc.
  • Test Design created for Interface Testing, Integration, Regression Testing, Migration testing, Mobile Application & Security testing.
  • Integrated diagnostic automation to accelerate and sharpen post-production testing.
  • Automation requirements identification and maintenance of scripts.
  • Responsible for managing automation test data throughout the release phase.
  • Participate in daily Scrum calls and Status reporting.
  • To provide onsite support for UAT and Product Implementation phases.
  • Publishing of DSR (Daily Status Report) to all IT and business stake holders at confluence

Release Management -Test Lead

Number, Reliance Tech Services
Mumbai
2009.07 - 2010.02

Description: Mobile number portability (MNP) enables mobile telephone users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network operator to another. Mobile phone is the storefront and serves as a business identity.

As per the basic recommendations of TRAI, Mobile Number Portability will be allowed within a Service Area (License Circle) only i.e. only Intra Circle porting will be facilitated and it would be independent of technology i.e. Porting can be across and within technologies (CDMA / GSM).

Responsibilities:


  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • o prepare Requirement Analysis & Test requirement traceability matrix (TRTM) against business requirement.
  • To prepare & review Test Cases Index & Test case titles prepared by the team members..
  • Involved in all the phases of the projects like Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Test Data Preparations, Executions, etc.
  • Test Design created for Interface Testing, Integration, Regression Testing, Migration testing, etc.
  • To prepare and maintain clarification logs.
  • Validation of system interfaces (Tibco)with various downstream systems.
  • Creation of XML and API calls for stub & driver testing.
  • Work allocation and tracking the same like Sanity, Interface, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Defect Retesting, Regression Testing.
  • Coordination with third party vendor for Inter operator testing and get the desired test done from there end.
  • To prepare and publish daily status repots (DSR) to all team members and stake holders of project.
  • To prepare the test approach for end to end testing and for workarounds required for testing of third party interfaces.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Reliance Tech Services
Mumbai
2009.04 - 2010.02
  • Description: Mediation is the most core part of telecom facilitating revenue generation. Intec is one of the major vendor for mediation process. Currently on an average through Intec (Intermediate tool) we are processing 18 million wireless, 6 million wire line & 5 million data CDRs’ (Call data Record)/day. Through mediation currently we are handling 304 network switches globally. This huge volume leads to many technical challenges daily.

Responsibilities

  • Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.
  • Involved in all the phases of the projects like Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Test Data Preparations, Executions, etc.
  • Worked closely with functional and development team to gather integration and technical test requirements.
  • Test Design created for Interface Testing, Integration and Regression Testing, Migration testing, etc.
  • Created CSV, TAP, ASN.1(Abstract Syntax Notation ) files as input data.
  • Work allocation and tracking the same like Sanity, Interface, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Defect Retesting, Regression Testing.
  • Publishing of DSR (Daily Status Report) to all IT and business stake holders.

Senior Software Tester

Reliance Tech Services
Mumbai
2009.06 - 2009.11
  • Description: Reliance is excited to present the next landmark of TV entertainment in India. With Reliance BIG TV Digital Service, you can experience spectacular entertainment, blockbuster movies, up-to-the-minute news, and your favorite programs at the click of a button.Our principle responsibility is to manage all the testing needs of backend application i.e. CRM, Dunning, SDP (Provisioning), CAS (Conditional access system), Tibco (EAI Bus) etc. vitally required for all BIGTV operations. BIGTV architecture rely on SOA(Service Oriented Architecture).

Responsibilities:

  • Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
  • To prepare Delivery plan for the change requests of business and part of Scoping sessions of change requests.
  • To prepare Change request analysis (CRIAR) report and review Test requirement and Test cases prepared by the team.
  • Involved in all the phases of the projects like Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Test Data Preparations, Executions, etc.
  • Worked closely with functional and development team to gather integration and technical test requirements.
  • Test Design created for Interface Testing, Integration, Regression Testing, Migration testing, etc.

Software Tester

Reliance Tech Services
Mumbai
2008.02 - 2009.04

Description: The project, PACE (Program for Advanced Customer Empowerment) provides Customer SelService (CSS) portal coupled with AMSS 7.5 & Enterprise Product Catalogue (EPC) the ability to: Self register, online ordering, bill presentment and payment, browse the product catalogue, trouble ticketing and lead management to the consumer, broadband and channel partners of Reliance Communications.

  • Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
  • Involved in all the phases of the projects like Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Test Data Preparations, Executions, etc.
  • Worked closely with functional and development team to gather integration and technical test requirements.
  • Test Design created for Interface Testing, Integration and Regression Testing, Migration testing, etc.
  • Designed test approach for Service oriented architecture testing with legacy systems.
  • Represented Daily Defect Status meeting with Application (Development) team.
  • Provided onsite support for UAT and Product Implementation phases.
  • Carried out various testing cycles on the application like Sanity, Interface, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Defect Retesting, Regression Testing
  • Using fiddler tool analyzed speed of application on user machines based on which inputs given to business and development teams for improvements.

Test Engineer

Radix Info sol. Pvt. Ltd
New Delhi
2006.01 - 2008.01

Web Application Testing

Responsibilities

  • Reviewed, evaluated and identified requirements for testability.
  • Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance.
  • Preparation of test scenario & test cases.
  • Daily defect status report publishing.
  • Defect posting & Retesting.
  • Sanity Testing, Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing.
  • Defect TRIAGE meeting with development teams.

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Education

Microsoft Certified Professional -

ISTQB - Foundation - undefined

Cisco Certified Network -

cece

Master of Science - Information Technology

SGGS.College, Sec
2003.01 - 2005.01

Bachelor of Computer Applications - undefined

2000.01 - 2003.01

Skills

Test Management, Deliveries, Stakeholder Management

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Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 7 Inter-Operators in the development of Mobile Number Portability across India.
  • Interest in Framework Architecture of applications developed various governance application Dashboards
  • Integrated Jira - X-Equal a startup in 2008 & collaborated/tested various issues in early phases

Affiliations

Member of Computer Society of India Member of STeP-In Forum

Interests

Reading, Technology Whitepapers

Hobbies

Skywatching, UFO , Long Drives

Timeline

Associate Vice President- Quality Assurance Lead

Natwest Group (RBS)
2018.12 - Current

Associate - Senior Test Designer

Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)
2016.08 - 2018.12

Lead QA

Pearson Access Next, Ness Technologies
2014.07 - 2016.08

Senior Quality Engineer

Ness Technologies Pvt. Ltd
2010.03 - 2014.07

Release Management -Test Lead

Number, Reliance Tech Services
2009.07 - 2010.02

Senior Software Tester

Reliance Tech Services
2009.06 - 2009.11

Senior Software Test Engineer

Reliance Tech Services
2009.04 - 2010.02

Software Tester

Reliance Tech Services
2008.02 - 2009.04

Test Engineer

Radix Info sol. Pvt. Ltd
2006.01 - 2008.01

Master of Science - Information Technology

SGGS.College, Sec
2003.01 - 2005.01

Bachelor of Computer Applications - undefined

2000.01 - 2003.01

Microsoft Certified Professional -

ISTQB - Foundation - undefined

Cisco Certified Network -

cece
Pranshu DograLead Quality Assurance