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Debasmita Sahoo

Debasmita Sahoo

IT Director
Mississauga,ON

Summary

Seasoned QE Portfolio Engagement Leader with a proven track record, specializing in driving large-scale digital transformations and enhancing automation across various domains. Expert in stakeholder collaboration and strategic planning, I've led over 60 professionals to significantly improve performance metrics. My approach integrates project management and innovative QA methodologies, achieving substantial quality and efficiency gains.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

QE Portfolio Engagement Leader

Tech Mahindra
11.2021 - Current
  • Company Overview: BMO Canada
  • Responsible for Large QE Automation Program Digital Transformation
  • Lead the team of Business analyst and QA team to deliver Business, test artifacts and implement best practices across the LOB's
  • End to End Engagement Management & business relationship
  • Reviewed SRS, BRD as well as Requirement Traceability, lead the Design discussion
  • Building & architecture solution design for BMO Capital Market Automation, Wealth SRE as well as Market Risk RPA
  • Provided leadership, direction, and management to over 30 business analysts and quality resources defining and tracking key quality metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness of quality engineering initiatives, and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Championed Change management, Drove Automation across Fix trade, Capital market applications
  • Provided long-range Strategy Planning to enhance Automation as well as Robotics Process Automation
  • Introducing the Shift Left Testing strategy by implementing Codeless Testing tools
  • Reviewed the Automation Suite to help Leads in implementing better coverage with Cobetura that adheres to Test Pyramid approach
  • Assured effectiveness & Integrality of all Testing tools
  • Implementation of CI & CD approach for E2E Automation implementing GIT, UI path orchastor and cloud testing
  • Leading testing status meetings and walk through of QA Testing-related deliverables
  • Managed all aspects of QA resources including Performance Review, career Development as well as Trainings as needed
  • Participated in Change Request meetings to document and implemented procedures to test changes
  • Collaborated with Various Stakeholders in order to understand the structure & policies to recommend technical/business solutions enabling them achieve sustainable automation approach
  • Provided enterprise level consolidated data & reporting metrics for monitoring automation sanity & Regression testing for Devops enabled enterprise reporting
  • Supported intake process, procedure, governance across RPA CIO enablement of Market Risk
  • Participated in steering committee meeting for stake holder's enablement of status dashboards and mitigation plans for challenging program schedules
  • End-to-End Testing Practice, recruitment, staffing planning.
  • Responsible and accountable for successful RFP closure
  • BMO Canada
  • Tools & Application: I loan, WSS FX, Message Automation, Fx Dealing, Broadway, Gloss, MAGIX, JMeter, App D, GIT, UFT, UI PATH, UI Path orc aster, Bamboo, Azure Dev ops; Copilot, Jira, Zhypher

QE Practice Leader & Advisor

Express Scripts North America
03.2020 - 11.2021
  • Company Overview: Cigna
  • Leading Overall Book of Business QA & QE Practice
  • Responsible for Company's QE journey, Implementation of Best Practice, Roadmap implementation
  • Work closely with Product manager, Release Coordinator, & Dev Manager for Release management for estimation & developing Release schedule
  • Leading multiple Automation Architect and successfully implemented different Automation Framework for UI, database, performance, API, Security as well as accessibility testing
  • Reviewed the Automation Roadmap to help Leads in implementing better coverage with Cobetura that adheres to Test Pyramid approach
  • Introduction of Shift left approach and best practices around organization test practise
  • Assured effectiveness & Integrality of all Testing tools
  • Implementation of CI & CD approach for E2E Automation implementing GIT, Jenkins
  • Leading testing status meetings and walk through of QA Testing-related deliverables
  • Managed all aspects of QA resources including Performance Review, career Development as well as Trainings as needed
  • Provide framework and lead Product release and change and deployment management
  • Oversees team members training needs including their career goals and provide guidance
  • Define stakeholders' management including identification, creating communication guidelines, providing a mechanism of reporting and feedback to the steering committee
  • Leads the execution of operational activities including program health, weekly and monthly status
  • Activities required to bring project work to on track in case of issues
  • Manages the review and sign-off process for relevant regulatory reporting
  • Manage team members performance and provide feedback and support including coaching
  • Involved with business at the strategic level to understand the benefits of the program/projects
  • Provide subject matter expertise on QA activities including defining the entire QA journey for program and project
  • Build cross functional team that can work on multiple aspects of the critical business functions
  • Cigna
  • Tools: BDD Selenium, Jmeter, App D, Check Marks, AXE, EDI Claim Processing, SOAP UI, Postman, Jaws, Cloud testing, sauce lab, GIT, Workday, Jira, PowerBI, Saucelab

Senior QA & Business Consultant

Virtusa Canada
01.2019 - 02.2020
  • Company Overview: Client Bank of Montreal
  • Analyze Business Requirements by referring BRD, SRS and Use cases and meetings with the PM / BA
  • Report and track all the defects and test results via ALM
  • Run test cases, verify, compile and analyse all test results
  • Involved in the creation of Test plan, Test scenarios and test cases
  • Review the defect reports and assign valid defects to relevant developers
  • Provide consolidated status reports for defects and test case execution progress
  • Track the new or updated requirements in the project and modify testing artifacts accordingly
  • Participate in the walkthrough process for early identification of defects
  • Assist in leading testing status meetings and walk through of QA/ Testing-related deliverables
  • Document the test plan and identified the types of tests that have to be performed for existing application with new functionality
  • Client Bank of Montreal

QA Automation Lead Consultant

Virtusa Canada
09.2018 - 12.2019
  • Company Overview: Client Bank of Montreal
  • Developed and configured test automation networks and execute stability
  • Apply design and develop automated strategies and build automated testing frameworks(ATS)
  • Estimate test accurately and coordinate with the team members for work activities for all UAT test case Automation
  • Analyze and verify the best automated approaches and execute the acceptance smoke, integration regression as well as sanity test suites
  • Involved in Agile methodology, Scrum Sprint planning, Attending Daily Stand-ups and Retrospective
  • Performed architect, design and develop test case and test scenarios for enterprise solution against business requirements that were scalable, maintainable, and extensible
  • Used Page Object Model, UI Mapping, and Xpath as a part of Framework
  • Drafted Test Plan which included testing objectives, testing phases, scenarios and test environment after a thorough analysis of the business rules
  • Lead & Mentored 25 QE professional for the project
  • Client Bank of Montreal

QA Automation Senior Manager

Pragra
05.2018 - 08.2018
  • Company Overview: Toronto (Client: Aleeph)
  • Developed and configured test automation networks and execute stability
  • Apply design and develop automated strategies and build automated testing frameworks
  • Estimate test accurately and coordinate with the team members for work activities
  • Analyze and verify the best automated approaches and execute the acceptance smoke, integration regression test suites
  • Involved in Agile methodology, Scrum Sprint planning, Attending Daily Stand-ups and Retrospective
  • Created and updated test scenarios, test plans, and test cases per user story and design
  • Performed architect, design and develop test case and test scenarios for enterprise solution
  • Performed bug reporting using JIRA
  • Toronto (Client: Aleeph)

Sr. QA Leader

CSDC SYSTEMS INC.
07.2015 - 05.2018
  • Company Overview: Mississauga, ON
  • Manage a wide range of product testing using a mix of manual(System & Integration), Automation testing as well as Mobile testing using a strong business background coupled with technical expertise
  • Automated the test cases using Selenium WebDriver (XPath), TestNG and Java (Eclipse IDE
  • Respond quickly to rapidly evolving functionality and complex business rules to assure the quality and usability of mission critical software while contributing to all aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) within an agile environment
  • Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of developers, designers and business professionals focused on the next generation of software in project planning, design, authoring of test cases, and by conducting extensive testing throughout the development lifecycle
  • Automation test framework designing using Selenium web driver with Java for functional testing
  • SOAP UI framework designing for REST API testing and validated the services
  • Responsible for setting up for SOA application systems following testing standards
  • Mississauga, ON

QA Manager & Senior BSA

Raw Material Sales
10.2012 - 07.2014
  • Company Overview: Sudbury, ON
  • Analyze Business Requirements by referring BRD, SRS
  • Participate in meetings with the PM and BA to review business requirements
  • Participated in Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes
  • Review Technical Design Document
  • Create high level scenarios in coordination with application product development team
  • Release Management & Planning
  • Defect management - Review test results in HPALM with valid severity
  • Generation of defect report, Status Report for each Release
  • Sudbury, ON

Support Analyst

EAST LINK
07.2012 - 09.2012
  • Analyze system design specifications
  • Helped Team lead in developing the test strategy document
  • Develop test scenarios and test cases based on the test strategy
  • Maintain requirements and test cases in ALM
  • Perform testing using test lab and log defects
  • Helped lead and manager to generate execution reports and test completion reports
  • Analyze test results to discover defects
  • Represented QA at all stages of the project lifecycle
  • Resolve customer issues and RCA for production analysis
  • Create scripts in QTP to perform the regression test, performed Pre-UAT testing

Senior QA Analyst

Sandy Spring Bank
01.2012 - 05.2012
  • Company Overview: Rockville, MD
  • Review business requirements and specifications with Business Analyst
  • Create test cases based on business requirements and System Design Specifications (SDS)
  • Create test data in TSYS for consumer and commercial platform
  • Involved in ATM & POS (Point of Sale) test
  • Execute test cases, report and link defects using ALM
  • Perform different tests like Functional and Regression testing
  • Perform data reconciliation and data mapping
  • Use QTP tool for mainframe application and web application for regression testing
  • Rockville, MD

Performance & QA Lead Consultant

YUGMA Inc.
04.2010 - 12.2011
  • Company Overview: MN Software
  • Participated in manual testing of the following features
  • Generated test scenarios and test data
  • Executed tests, verified test results, created problem reports and provided status reports
  • Worked with developers and content department to resolve issues
  • MN Software

Junior Java Developer

Progressive Insurance
03.2009 - 03.2010
  • Company Overview: Cleveland, OH
  • Developed highly interactive and customized UIs using JavaScript, HTML, JSP, and CSS to improve functionality of web applications
  • Performed unit testing of applications by developing and applying test cases in JUnit
  • Cleveland, OH

Education

Post Graduate Diploma - Lean Management

Umass in Colaboration With Simpli Learning

Bachelor's Degree -

Utkal University

Certificate -

PSM
Scrum.org

Women in Leadership
Techmahindra university

Security Clearance Level II
Govt Of Canada

Skills

  • Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Project management
  • Budget control
  • Resource allocation
  • Control budgets
  • Strategic planning
  • Performance improvement
  • RPA
  • QE & Dev Secops
  • Program Management
  • Business Relationship

Timeline

QE Portfolio Engagement Leader

Tech Mahindra
11.2021 - Current

QE Practice Leader & Advisor

Express Scripts North America
03.2020 - 11.2021

Senior QA & Business Consultant

Virtusa Canada
01.2019 - 02.2020

QA Automation Lead Consultant

Virtusa Canada
09.2018 - 12.2019

QA Automation Senior Manager

Pragra
05.2018 - 08.2018

Sr. QA Leader

CSDC SYSTEMS INC.
07.2015 - 05.2018

QA Manager & Senior BSA

Raw Material Sales
10.2012 - 07.2014

Support Analyst

EAST LINK
07.2012 - 09.2012

Senior QA Analyst

Sandy Spring Bank
01.2012 - 05.2012

Performance & QA Lead Consultant

YUGMA Inc.
04.2010 - 12.2011

Junior Java Developer

Progressive Insurance
03.2009 - 03.2010

Post Graduate Diploma - Lean Management

Umass in Colaboration With Simpli Learning

Bachelor's Degree -

Utkal University

Certificate -

PSM

Women in Leadership

Security Clearance Level II

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