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Tarang Shukla

Tarang Shukla

Mumbai

Summary

Dynamic technology lead with over 14 years of experience in manual and automation testing, specializing in motivating high-performing teams to achieve substantial results. Expertise includes all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle across the banking, utilities, and retail sectors, with a strong emphasis on quality assurance and advanced testing methodologies such as Selenium web automation with Python, IoT testing, and API testing. Recognized for a human-centric management approach and deep technological acumen, consistently aligning technical resources with business objectives to ensure exceptional service delivery. Committed to fostering collaboration among junior staff and external stakeholders to drive operational excellence and enhance overall technology performance.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technology Lead

Broadridge Financial Solutions
10.2022 - Current
  • Played key role in migration from selenium to playwright automation for better performance.
  • Working on implementation of AI in our project(simplifying verbiage in Regulatory documents) which was demonstrated by me to clients as part of Hackathon.
  • Participated in verifying compliance with service level agreements by maintaining technical uptime levels.
  • Offered functional and technical leadership to junior personnel and other team leaders, providing expertise on Microsoft Azure.
  • Managed customers' expectations of support and technology functionality in order to provide positive user experience.
  • Improved systems with addition of new features and infrastructure.
  • Assessed business requirements to create focused solutions.
  • Developed and maintained strong client relationships to deliver exceptional customer service and problem resolution.
  • Managing a team of 10+ QAs ensuring ontime delivery for all FCS products.
  • Collaborated with business planning department to monitor and adjust company-wide technology utilization, modifying infrastructure to meet business goals.
  • Partnered with architecture team to develop wholistic technology roadmap, accounting for departmental priorities and overall business goals.
  • Fostered strong relationship between technology team and managers to align efforts.

Senior Test Lead

NEC Software Solutions
10.2020 - 10.2022

Broadridge (Funds Communications)

  • Implemented the serenity framework to automate the legacy manual test cases across all FCS products
  • Defined, created and controlled testing environments for successful software deliverables.
  • Coordinated work with various teams to solve problems and improve efficiency for software testing and automation.
  • Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues.

Software Test Lead

Accenture India
01.2019 - 08.2020

DCC Smart meter program:

  • Worked on implementation of Smart meters across UK for major distributors SPEN, UKPN, NPG.
  • Responsible for testing the security solution developed between DCC and smart meters.
  • Ensure smooth implementation across UK.
  • Worked as L1 support until go live of the smart meter program in UK

Software Test Lead

Accenture UK
07.2017 - 12.2018

Software Test Lead

Accenture India
05.2015 - 07.2017

Senior Software Tester

Shell Infotech (Client side: LnT Infotech)
08.2014 - 05.2015

Senior Software Tester

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2011 - 08.2014

Education

Bachelors of Science - Information Technology

N.K. College
06.2010

High School - Science

N.K. College
06.2007

Primary, secondary school - undefined

Bangur Nagar vidya bhavan
06.2005

Skills

  • Manual Testing
  • Automation using Typescript with Playwright
  • Selenium with Java(Serenity Framework)
  • API Testing
  • IoT Security Testing
  • SQL
  • Linux
  • Siemens eMeter
  • Performance Testing
  • Performance optimization
  • JIRA

Certification

  • ISTQB Certified
  • ITB
  • SQL Developer Certified
  • Siemens eMeter

Hobbies and Interests

Travel, Football, Photography

Accomplishments

  • Star Performer in TCS - Automation activities in software testing leading into productivity benefits.
  • Bravo award in Accenture - Leading and ensuring on time completion of Testing releases.
  • Planning - Analyzing Issues, Decision Making, Project Management, Strategic Planning.
  • Team Work - Collaboration, Delegation, Goal Setting, Group Leadership.

LANGUAGES

English
Hindi
Gujrati

Additional Information

  • Broadridge : FCS (Funds communications)
  • NEC : FCS (Funds communications)
  • Accenture : Smart meter security solutions implementation across UK for major clients UKPN, SPEN and NPG.
  • TCS: Citibank corporate banking product.

Timeline

Technology Lead

Broadridge Financial Solutions
10.2022 - Current

Senior Test Lead

NEC Software Solutions
10.2020 - 10.2022

Software Test Lead

Accenture India
01.2019 - 08.2020

Software Test Lead

Accenture UK
07.2017 - 12.2018

Software Test Lead

Accenture India
05.2015 - 07.2017

Senior Software Tester

Shell Infotech (Client side: LnT Infotech)
08.2014 - 05.2015

Senior Software Tester

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2011 - 08.2014

High School - Science

N.K. College

Primary, secondary school - undefined

Bangur Nagar vidya bhavan

Bachelors of Science - Information Technology

N.K. College
Tarang Shukla