Sajjad Pirzade
Pune
Summary
Over 15 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. QA experience in a variety of business environments including Financial, Retail and government sectors.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Test Manager
Hsbc
08.2019 - 01.2020
- Managed QA teams and their activities in order to drive 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 project team - Updating team members with customer needs, specifications, design targets, testing process, design standards, techniques and tools to support testing effort.
Assigned roles and responsibilities and deliverables to all team members - Established testing process, testing and defect reporting methodology, techniques and tools to support testing effort.
Coordinated team to resolve defects of all components of 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
- Tested pre-release modifications to reduce possibility of end users experiencing crashes or bugs
Test Manager
Leidos
07.2015 - 01.2020
- Work on projects of high complexity within multiple development environments or enterprise-wide system
- Create test plans, test strategy, RTMs and LOE's for multiple engagements
- Lead 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
- Prepare and submit QA estimates and QA project schedules. Reviews information with project manager
- Work with the Business and Systems Analysts to interpret QA needs as requirements are being developed
- Oversee the creation of test cases, test scenarios and scripts in support of business functional requirements
- Lead the completion of testing processes. Ensure metrics comply with testing and requirements
- Analyze and review test results with key team members and stakeholders and makes recommendations regarding software defects
- Using SOAPUI tool for executing web services testing activities including creating test projects, functional and load testing.
Perform E2E data validation by using complex SQL queries to ensure the data integrity - Produce and communicate daily, weekly and monthly status reports to the project team to track progress. Identify and manage project risk, and develop mitigation strategies
Senior QA Analyst
Cox Automotive
07.2013 - 07.2015
- Test data management including data validation, manipulation and maintaining data integrity
- Determine Test Planning Session dates
- Determine Testing Risks and update PlanView with risk information
- Provide project test status to QA Team Lead-Release Coordinator
- Analyze Requirements and Design/tech-specs for testability
- Coordinate feedback from testability reviews to PM from the QA team
- Analyze and Determine Test Data strategy
- Assist in identification of test data criteria as needed and follow up with Business teams on delivery of Test Scenarios to Scenario Builder
- Determine test environments involved, locations, support contacts for each, access, links, upgrade impacts to hardware/software
- Act as UAT Lead in planning and executing UAT testing sessions with the business team
- Assist UAT Business Leads with set up in tools and tool training as needed
- Coordinate UAT testing preparation, execution and reporting activities
- Attend UAT Release level status calls and provide support for defect monitoring or issue resolution
- Monitor stress/performance testing/incidents and status
- Obtain final testing signoff from the Project team
- Obtain and review all test scripts are completed and archived for audit
- Archive all Test Results for audit
Senior QA Engineer
3M Companies
01.2011 - 07.2013
- 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 defect analysis system and identified functions in application to be tested based on importance and prioritised based on deadlines
- Created, maintained, performed, upgraded test scripts for products, 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
MBA - Management Information Systems
Strayer University
Manassas, VA10.2016
BBA - Business Administration And Management
Strayer University
Manassas, VA06.2010
Skills
- Test implementation,Agile/SCRUM Methodology, JIRA, Visual Studio, HP ALM, Selenium, Cucumber , IDrive, Confluence , SharePoint, Latent Workstation, FootPrint,Nexus, PCAP Capture, Soap, Usability Testing, Defect monitoring, Web-Based Testing, Software Development, Automation knowledge, Data Analysis, Operating Systems Unix, Windows, Windows NT Test Automation, Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, Load Runner, Rational Team Concert, Para soft SOA, SOAP UI, Launch Pad, SAP(offer configuration testing), Launch PadDefect Tracking : Siebel Defect Management, HQ Quality Center, Defect Tracker, Bugzilla Databases : SQL, Sybase, Oracle 10g, Oracle(user level sql queries) Web logic, Web Sphere, JRUN, Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/NT, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, V-Model, Waterfall and Agile, TCP/IP, https, FIX (Financial Information exchange) for equities
- Test case design
- Regression Testing
- Test Data Management
- Test strategy development
- User Acceptance Testing
- Mobile Application Testing
- Usability Testing
- Requirements Analysis
- Team Mentoring
- Stakeholder Communication
- Training and mentoring
- Integration Testing
- Test Planning
Certification
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.0)
Association for Project Management (APM)
Timeline
Senior Test Manager
Hsbc
08.2019 - 01.2020
Test Manager
Leidos
07.2015 - 01.2020
Senior QA Analyst
Cox Automotive
07.2013 - 07.2015
Senior QA Engineer
3M Companies
01.2011 - 07.2013
MBA - Management Information Systems
Strayer University
BBA - Business Administration And Management
Strayer University
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.0)
Association for Project Management (APM)
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