Sameer Deo
Pune
Summary
Dynamic leader of application testing teams offering 16+ Years of experience providing Technical Leadership across diverse technology platforms and business domains specially in Banking. Having good experience setting up a larger automation teams and coordination between offshore and onshore. Provide end-to-end testing support for time and business-critical projects by leading test strategy, plan, execution, documentation, defect management, and status reporting. Worked as lead for UAT testing and worked closely with the business team. Good experience in testing coordination between offshore and onshore, multiple vendors in larger projects, and worked as escalation point of contact. Implemented automation testing using tools like Katalon Studio, Selenium, QTP, Cucumber BDD, Rest assured, and Postman. Implements core project management tools, methods, and best practices to assemble testing plans that align with the project/release and expectations of sponsors and stakeholders and meet business needs. Good experience in handling multiple projects simultaneously and interacting with different stake holders.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
TEST LEAD / AUTOMATION ARCHITECT
Capgemini
Pune, MH
06.2023 - Current
- Handle testing transformation of bank by creating and implementing testing guidelines, enterprise wide automation framework, implemented Git strategy and code review processes.
- Conducting defect triage call to prioritize based on their severity, frequency, risk, etc.
- Attended JAD sessions/reviewed business requirements.
- Managing all phases of testing, including functional and automation
Wrote Excel Macro for capturing and consolidating status reports from team. - Providing technical architecture; defining strategic direction for testing automation practices.
- Manage deliverables, including Overcall Test Strategy, Test Plans, test cases definition and execution, weekly status report, and test summary for Manual and Automation testing.
- Performing automation testing for new features on API level using Rest-Assured
- Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing
- Collaborated with product owners to stay current on intended functionality
Test Manager
Capgemini
Pune, MH
05.2020 - 05.2023
- Requirement Management: Understanding business requirements. Analysis of requirements in coordination with BAs, assigning, monitoring, controlling and reporting of daily tasks. Planning of other requirements (like human resources, hardware or software requirements, trainings, etc.) as per visibility available.
- Prepare Reusable functions, which improve robustness, re-usability, and maintainability of their test scripts
- Responsible for work with management, developers, and quality assurance personnel, to meet these goals
- Scheduling Daily scrum calls within team, tracking and assigning tasks daily.
- Consolidating status reports from team and sharing them with Senior Management / Clients and different stakeholders.
- Capturing all critical performance Matrix (KPIs)
- Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing cost-effective methods of testing and troubleshooting systems
- Identifying, managing, and recording risks and issues across entire testing life cycle
- Defining and maintaining testing strategy and various test plans. This should cover both automation and manual testing
- Defining and owning testing component project plans, fully understanding all project and testing assumptions, dependencies, and associated risks
- Ensure smooth execution of QA activities and quality deliverables and build positive environment in team.
- Coordinate with business and development team and keep QA Activities in sync and on track.
Test Lead
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Pune, MH
12.2006 - 05.2020
- Responsible for planning, controlling, estimating, monitoring, and reporting all test activities during all project phases
- Undertake project test estimating, planning & tracking, monitoring, and reporting for the delivery of a test plan against the overall project plan
- Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing cost-effective methods of testing and troubleshooting systems
- Identifying, managing, and recording risks and issues across entire testing life cycle
- Writing, implementing, and reporting status for system test cases for testing
- Defining and maintaining testing strategy and various test plans. This should cover both automation and manual testing
- Ensure smooth execution of QA activities and quality deliverables and build positive environment in team.
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Computer And Information Sciences
RGPV Bhopal
Bhopal, India01.2006
Skills
- VBScript
- Defect Management - Quality Center , Jira
- Programming Language - Java, VBScript, Java Script
- Automation Tool - Katalon Studio, QTP, Selenium, Cucumber BDD, TestNG, Maven
- POSTMAN, Rest assured
Certification
- Awarded Innovator of the year at the State Agencies level.
- Awarded Enterprise Award for two projects for excellent Customer Experience.
- Awarded Team Award for excellent project execution.
Timeline
TEST LEAD / AUTOMATION ARCHITECT
Capgemini
06.2023 - Current
Test Manager
Capgemini
05.2020 - 05.2023
Test Lead
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
12.2006 - 05.2020
Master of Computer Applications - Computer And Information Sciences
RGPV Bhopal
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