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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
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Certification
Accomplishments
Hobbies and Interests
Technical Skill Sets
Application And Domain Exposure
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Sushant Shankar Shinde

Mumbai

Summary

Dynamic QA Lead with extensive experience at Mizuho Bank Ltd, excelling in test case development and bug tracking. Proven ability to enhance quality assurance processes, ensuring compliance and improving project outcomes. Recognized for strong leadership and exceptional communication skills, driving team success and delivering high-quality software solutions.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Vice President

Mizuho Bank Ltd
01.2020 - Current
  • Gain a clear understanding of the overall project goals, objectives, and expected outcomes.
  • Assess how new projects will impact the existing application’s functionality, architecture, performance, and user experience.
  • Create a clear, organized matrix that maps out different business scenarios to the corresponding functional requirements, ensuring full coverage for development and testing.
  • Develop detailed and structured test cases to verify that all functionalities described in the FRD are working correctly and fully covered during testing.
  • Validate that the system meets business and functional requirements (Acceptance Testing). Quickly check basic functionality after changes or deployments (Sanity Testing).
  • Ensure that new changes (bug fixes, enhancements, updates) have not negatively impacted the existing functionalities of the application.
  • Systematically document, track, and manage all identified bugs using a simple and organized Excel sheet.
  • Ensure timely and efficient resolution of bugs by maintaining smooth communication and collaboration with the development team.
  • Ensure that new features or functionalities are tested thoroughly and meet business requirements, quality standards, and user expectations.
  • Summarize, analyze, and present data in a structured way using Excel Pivot Tables, and send these insights to stakeholders and managers for decision-making.
  • Track daily activities, tasks, progress, and issues within the team.
  • To ensure that the planning and execution of tasks by team members meet the required quality standards, align with project goals, and follow best practices.
  • To provide a comprehensive summary of system issues, including incidents, troubleshooting activities, resolutions, and any recurring problems. This report helps track system stability, improve future operations, and keep stakeholders informed about system performance.

Test Lead

Oak Systems Ltd
07.2019 - 12.2019

QA Lead

Pelican.ai
06.2015 - 05.2019

Senior Test Engineer

Comtel Solutions Pte ltd
08.2014 - 03.2015

Test Lead

Harjai Computers Ltd
07.2013 - 08.2014

Consultant

Onward E-Service Ltd
08.2012 - 01.2013

Senior Software Tester

Omnitech Infosolutions
04.2011 - 03.2012

Assistant Manager

Nelito Systems Ltd
05.2005 - 04.2011

Education

bachelor of Commerce -

Mumbai university
Mumbai
01.2000

Skills

  • Leadership Skills
  • Test case development
  • Requirements gathering
  • Bug tracking
  • Acceptance testing
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Quality assurance
  • Process improvement
  • Self motivation
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Communication Skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Team Management
  • Attention to Detail
  • Organizational Skills

Certification

  • International Software Testing Qualifications Board - Foundation level, 07/17
  • Diploma in Software Testing

Accomplishments

  • Awarded ‘Best Employee of The Quarter’ at client-side RBS through Harjai Computers
  • ‘Spot’ and ‘Applause’ award for leading the QA team to successful delivery and contribution during the critical phase. (Client - PGGM Corporate and ADCB Bank)
  • Received Best Project Team award in NIBC BANK for identifying the performance accelerators & defining quality gates for successful delivery

Hobbies and Interests

  • Trekking
  • Exploring new cuisines
  • Solo Traveler

Technical Skill Sets

  • Understanding the requirements and involved in BRD preparation
  • Writing test scenarios and test cases on the basis of requirement
  • Execution of Test Cases
  • Involved in different types of testing like SIT/GUI/Functional/Regression Testing
  • Data Migration activity
  • Experience in JIRA, HP (ALM) and Azure for defect tracking
  • Good with SQL queries and have good exposure in database
  • Experience in SOAPUI (API testing)
  • Experience in UAT/Production Support activities
  • Hands-on experience in Web functional, Core Banking (Finacle), Desktop application & Mobile App testing covering Test Planning, Estimations, Quality Reviews, Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Functional Studies, Sanity Testing, Test Design & Execution, Defect management and Reporting

Application And Domain Exposure

  • Experience in Manual and Functional testing
  • Mobile App Testing
  • API Testing
  • Cash Management application
  • Working knowledge of HPE Quality Center (Test Management), JIRA Bug Tracking Tool, SOAP UI (Web Service Tests), Postman, TOAD (SQL)
  • Experience in Core Banking application Finacle
  • Exposure on Automation
  • Data creation required for script preparation
  • Batch creation for script execution
  • Instance creation and executing automated test cases, analyze the result and send the report to the client

Timeline

Assistant Vice President

Mizuho Bank Ltd
01.2020 - Current

Test Lead

Oak Systems Ltd
07.2019 - 12.2019

QA Lead

Pelican.ai
06.2015 - 05.2019

Senior Test Engineer

Comtel Solutions Pte ltd
08.2014 - 03.2015

Test Lead

Harjai Computers Ltd
07.2013 - 08.2014

Consultant

Onward E-Service Ltd
08.2012 - 01.2013

Senior Software Tester

Omnitech Infosolutions
04.2011 - 03.2012

Assistant Manager

Nelito Systems Ltd
05.2005 - 04.2011

bachelor of Commerce -

Mumbai university
Sushant Shankar Shinde