Priyanka Dandekar
QA Manager
Pune
Summary
Quality Management professional with successful career with years of experience. Drives smooth operation of QA processes till production, coordinate efforts of employees and facilitate communication between offshore and onshore teams along with Technology, Business, UAT, Operations and Release management. Involve in Project estimation and Planning, Process improvement and transformation, Test metrics projection, Risk analysis and recommendation for productivity and quality enhancement. Implementation of corporate compliance, risk management and corrective action programs. Experience hiring and developing individual team members.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
QA Manager
Capgemini India
2022.07 - Current
- Managing testing team by setting up Test planning and approach for functional and Automation processes and also by conducting thorough regression testing on each release.
- Managed cross-functional teams to ensure seamless coordination between QA, development, and support departments.
- Performed root cause analysis to identify and resolve quality issues and defects.
- Developed training programs for junior QA analysts, improving their technical skills and proficiency in testing methodologies.
Lead Quality Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
2016.05 - 2022.06
- Worked in different domains projects right from Manufacturing, Retail, Travel & Hospitality and BFS for top clients, Involved in onshore-offshore team management and team building activities, Project estimations, Sprint build plan, test distribution among team members for testing activities and daily scrum calls by maintaining positive client interactions, Worked in an Agile methodology right from the analyzing the client requirements, Preparing Test plan and Test artifacts like Test strategy, test scenarios and detailed manual test cases with test data and maintained tasks and logged hours for user stories, estimation and defects in Defect management tool., Working on in-sprint Automation scripts development along with Regression Suite development for -1 sprints, Used Selenium automation with Java language using Page Object model framework as well as Selenium with Cucumber BDD framework executed in Eclipse and IntelliJ tool for different projects., For one of the projects, used CITS automation tool for Selenium Scripts development and execution which was linked with Eclipse platform to build external java methods and API methods, Used POSTMAN tool for webservices/API testing manually as well as for API automation testing using Selenium Java, Used Bitbucket to manage Git repositories for the ready scripts and codes with the help of GIT BASH and SourceTree tool, Worked on in-sprint functional feature testing as well in available bandwidth and critical timeline, Used SQL server to access database queries to get the test data for UI validations, Performed release SPOC activities, by representing the team in Release Gate meetings in every sprint delivery, Preparing Meeting notes, Defect status report, QA Sign Off document, Provided knowledge transfer sessions to new joiners and Mentoring team members
Sr Test Analyst (Acting lead)
CAI Info India Pvt Ltd
2014.12 - 2016.04
- Worked on Travel & Hospitality domain-based Web-based application and dependent AS400 system and SQL server to perform different tests by using Agile Methodology., Interacting with Business in Requirement Reviews, Test Case Reviews and Defect Reviews meetings, Performed Manual Testing including Black Box Test, Database Test, Functional Test, Regression test and System Test, Created Defect reports using Quality Centre and Team Foundation Server for Test and defect management, Prepared Meeting notes, Defect status report, QA Sign Off document, QA project Checklist, reference documents for the team to go through based on which Provided knowledge transfer sessions to team members.
Software Test Engineer
IBM India
2013.04 - 2014.11
- Worked on Telecommunication domain-based web-based application with OSS/BSS techniques, Performed Manual Testing (Black box), Regression and Pairwise Testing according to use cases and executing the same in scheduled time through Agile Methodology (Scrum) along with the UAT support, Performed GUI test by verifying backend data using SQL (Database) and UNIX commands in AS400 platform to run the logs for the execution and monitor the data flow with its details from one module (team) to another., Performed Load Testing for web services with huge records with SOAPUI
Software Test Engineer
Prophet PLC
2011.08 - 2012.07
- Worked on Retail domain-based web-application for the UK client, Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing, using Black box Testing Techniques including Test strategy, Test Scenarios / Test Cases, Defect management using HP ALM tool., Performed Regression Testing and Database Testing in every sprint, Visited client place for Implementation / Support for user acceptance
Software Test Engineer
Patni Computers
2010.06 - 2010.10
- Worked on Insurance domain-based web-application, Responsible for GUI, Functional Testing, regression testing using Black box Testing Techniques, Performed Database testing on DB2 and applied the inputs in MVS mainframe platform, Used HP ALM tool for test management and defect tracking
Software Engineer
First Global Stockbroking Pvt Ltd
2008.03 - 2010.06
- Worked on Stockbroking domain-based projects, Responsible for creating SRS, implementing the same on C# language with SQL-2005 backend on desktop applications., Responsible for manual testing as well by preparing Test Plan and Test cases and log defects in HP ALM, handled projects for maintaining and developing the company’s website
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Computers - Computer Engineering Technology
Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering
Pune, India 2001.04 -
Skills
Selenium Web driver, Java
undefinedCertification
ISTQB Foundation level
Timeline
QA Manager
Capgemini India
2022.07 - Current
Lead Quality Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
2016.05 - 2022.06
Sr Test Analyst (Acting lead)
CAI Info India Pvt Ltd
2014.12 - 2016.04
Software Test Engineer
IBM India
2013.04 - 2014.11
Software Test Engineer
Prophet PLC
2011.08 - 2012.07
Software Test Engineer
Patni Computers
2010.06 - 2010.10
Software Engineer
First Global Stockbroking Pvt Ltd
2008.03 - 2010.06
Bachelor of Engineering in Computers - Computer Engineering Technology
Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering
2001.04 -
ISTQB Foundation level
Cognizant Internal certifications on Software testing, Selenium, Cucumber, Junit, Core Java, Fitnesse
PMP - Project Management Professional
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