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Bhavin Shah

Bhavin Shah

IT Professional
Milton,ON

Summary

A seasoned PMP, CSPO and CSM Certified, I.T Professional with in depth knowledge and high level of adaptability to the ever changing technological environment with around 20 years of experience in Information Technologies that includes various roles in Development, Quality Engineering and Project Management.


Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

QE Practice /Lead Portfolio Manager

TD Bank
Toronto, ON
09.2021 - Current

● Managing multiple programs/ projects for risk portfolio using SCRUM and Waterfall methods using JIRA

● Works with multiple SCRUM teams to ensure timely execution of QE activities for technology outcomes

● Collaborates with business and technology leaders on product roadmaps, statuses, escalations

● Facilitates communication within a program’s cross-functional teams. Formulates, organizes, and monitors inter-connected project activities

● Develops and controls deadlines and activities for change, risk, and resource management

● Managing diverse team of 25+ onshore / offshore Team Leads and Engineers

● Managing all resourcing requirements and vendor management

● Coordinating QE activities for multiple Product teams working on ETL project streams for its Planning, Estimation, Assignments, Monitoring & Tracking and Reporting

● Managed Basel 3 Reforms, IFRS9 and many regulatory programs / projects.

● Guided team for developing QE automation framework for back end ETL validations using Python and for front end applications and reporting portals using Selenium Web driver

Senior Manager QE/Scrum Master

RBC Bank
Toronto, ON
12.2015 - 09.2021
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
  • Managed diverse team of 40 onshore / offshore Quality Engineers and Analyst
  • Coordinate QA activities for multiple Big data and ETL project streams and working with individual teams for its management (Planning, Estimation, Assignments, Monitoring & Tracking and Reporting
  • Managed diverse team of 40 onshore / offshore Quality Engineers and Analyst Coordinate QA activities for multiple Big data and ETL project streams and working with individual teams for its management (Planning, Estimation, Assignments, Monitoring & Tracking and Reporting
  • Enhance QE process and methodology for implementation of DevOps pipeline.
  • Managed several regulatory initiatives life Volcker, FRTB, Brexit, IFRS9, Basel Reporting schedules FRY9C and FFIEC 009.
  • Guided team for developing automation framework for back end ETL validations using Python and for front end applications and reporting portals using Selenium Web driver

QA Manager

Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
08.2013 - 12.2015

• Major responsibilities include Coordinating, QA Leading & Management (Planning, Estimation, Assignments, Monitoring & Tracking and Reporting). Lead team of 6 testers.
• Managed QA teams, QA deliverables, Functional, integration, system, regression testing & Automation testing.
• Developed test scripts / routines and testing framework for large data warehouse ETL validations processed via Data Stage
• Authored Test Strategies, Test Plans and review of Test artifacts including Test Cases, test scripts, test plan and test results.
• Working closely with Project Manager for resource estimation and budgeting and project priority.
• Maintained QA Plan within the overall Project Plan for multiple Agile project
• Involved in SDLC process improvement discussions
• Reported status to management

QA Coordinator

CIBC Bank
Toronto, ON
2012.05 - 2013.07

• Supported QA activities of 10 applications and various business groups
• Maintain QA Timelines / activities for the various assigned projects
• Managed EDF(Enterprise Document Framework) documentations for all projects
• Maintained QA Plan within the overall Project Plan for multiple Agile project
• Authored Testing Strategies, Test Plan, Testing estimates reports, Traceability Matrix
• Mentored team members for various business and technical knowledge
• Developed automation framework design and guided automation specialist
• Developed test scripts / routines for large data warehouse ETL validations
• Involved in SDLC process improvement discussions
• Reported status to higher management

Technical Manager

Scotia Capital
Toronto, ON
03.2011 - 04.2012

• Lead all the QA activities for the project
• Managed day to day work distribution of work for onshore and offshore resources
• Maintained QA Plan within the overall Project Plan for multiple Agile project
• Authored Testing Strategies, Test Plan, Testing estimates reports, Traceability Matrix
• Worked as technical BA for working with SME for enhancement requirement gathering
• Lead automation framework design
• Developed ETL and report validation routines

QA Manager

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Toronto, ON
2009.09 - 2011.03

• Maintained QA Plan within the overall Project Plan for multiple Agile project
• Authored Testing Strategies, Test Plan, Testing estimates reports, Traceability Matrix
• Managed day to day work distribution of work to outsourced company consultants.
Worked closely with Director for resource estimation and budgeting and project priority.
• Create Traceability Matrix from Business Requirement for QA /SIT Testing
• Analyzed, designed, implemented and maintained data loads and extractions for various data repositories in Oracle Exadata database, Informatica 8.6
• Developed procedures for extraction of data from data marts, pulling data from various source systems.
• Leading project wide ETL testing automation initiative
• Worked with external vendor in executing the QA activities.
• Developed routines for validating extraction of data from source systems, transformations and various reports and outbound feeds.

QA Lead

CIBC Bank
Toronto, ON
2008.07 - 2009.08

• Authored Testing Strategies, Test Plan, Testing estimates reports, Traceability Matrix and Testing result reports.
• Create Traceability Matrix from Business Requirement for QA /SIT Testing
• Worked closely with Project Manager for resource estimation and budgeting.
• Maintained QA Plan within the overall Project Plan.
• Analyzed business requirements and technical master mapping documents for feed processing, reporting & outbound feeds
• Developed routines for validating extraction of data from source systems, transformations and various reports and outbound feeds.
• Validated and reconciled reports like BCAR , CAD, Calculator engine, NCR and Rapid statutory Cognos report to OSFI .
• Analyzed Data, ETL workflows and Mapping Rule / Business rule implementation between source to staging, Staging to ODS, ODS to Warehouse/Data Mart using SQL and PL/SQL routines.
• Developed SQL Scripts, PL/SQL Functions, Procedures and packages for analyzing the rules, data transformation and its population in ODS and Data Warehouse.
• Developed Source System Req. (SSR) and Data Mapping from various sources systems like ACBS, MIF, SIF, Wholesale credit data warehouse etc.
• Created Test Cases and Test Scripts and executed in several runs.
• Validated the Data flows and Mapping Rule / Business rule implementation in ODS and Warehouse/Data Mart based on the Business requirements and use cases.
• Verified Counts and all $figures and its calculations in monthly, Quarterly and Year End reports

QA Lead

TD Securities
Toronto, ON
09.2007 - 06.2008

• Authored Testing Strategies, Test Plan, Testing estimates reports, Traceability Matrix and Testing result reports.
• Create Traceability Matrix from Business Requirement for QA /SIT Testing
• Worked closely with Project Manager for resource estimation and budgeting.
• Maintained QA Plan within the overall Project Plan
• Create Traceability Matrix from Business Requirement for QA /SIT Testing
• Gathered and analyzed OSFI requirements for reporting and translate them into functional specifications.
• Analyzed, designed, implemented and maintained data loads and extractions for various data repositories in SQL server database using DTS

QA Lead

CIBC
Toronto, ON
11.2003 - 08.2007

• Authored Testing Strategies, Test Plan, Testing estimates reports, Traceability Matrix and Testing result reports.
• Create Traceability Matrix from Business Requirement for QA /SIT Testing
• Worked closely with Project Manager for resource estimation and budgeting.
• Maintained QA Plan within the overall Project Plan.
• Analyzed business requirements and technical master mapping documents for feed processing, reporting & outbound feeds
• Developed routines for validating extraction of data from source systems, transformations and various reports and outbound feeds.
• Validated and reconciled reports like BCAR , CAD, Calculator engine, NCR and Rapid statutory Cognos report to OSFI .
• Analyzed Data, ETL workflows and Mapping Rule / Business rule implementation between source to staging, Staging to ODS, ODS to Warehouse/Data Mart using SQL and PL/SQL routines.
• Developed SQL Scripts, PL/SQL Functions, Procedures and packages for analyzing the rules, data transformation and its population in ODS and Data Warehouse.
• Developed Source System Req. (SSR) and Data Mapping from various sources systems like ACBS, MIF, SIF, Wholesale credit data warehouse etc.
• Created Test Cases and Test Scripts and executed in several runs.
• Validated the Data flows and Mapping Rule / Business rule implementation in ODS and Warehouse/Data Mart based on the Business requirements and use cases.
• Verified Counts and all $figures and its calculations in monthly, Quarterly and Year End reports

ETL Developer

Nortel Networks
Brampton, ON
2000.08 - 2003.05

• ETL processing done from 11 different sites. Data extraction definitions prepared.
• Performed rudimentary cleaning, Transformation, change data formats and data load to staging database using ETL tool Actaworks.
• Performed standardizing and centralizing of data during stage to warehouse process.
• Developed and implemented Business logic in the ETL tools for data loading
• Used Actaworks for processing data and making it ready for Data Mart
• Implemented code to perform normalization of source files and create Tables in normalized form with common content.
• Using Oracle 8i, data conversion into various formats for supplying to 5 different global project
• Developed Database Designs, Normalization, Database Triggers, Stored Procedures.

Education

Master in Computer Applicaton - IT

IGNOU
India
05.1999 - 07.2002

Master of Science - Data Science

SimpiLearn
03.2017 - 05.2018

Skills

Business & IT Strategic Planning

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Certification

PMP

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