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Prasanna Talekar

Toronto,Canada

Summary

QA Lead/Engineer with 9+ years of experience testing web and mobile products across various domains. Committed to delivering the highest level of quality to end users. Proficient at identifying and communicating issues in products components withing frontend, backend, user experience and SDLC workflows.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Lead

Virtusa Consulting & Services Inc.
12.2021 - Current
  • Defined & implemented QA processes for manual and automated test cycles
  • Strategize automation approach
  • Coordinate with business stakeholders for understanding requirements to plan and lead QA process
  • Managed and led team of QA resources for projects
  • Develop & Execute automation test cases using Selenium Webdriver(Java) and TestNG framework
  • Maintain regression suites for release testing
  • Peer review automation code for improvements
  • Prepare QA reports for release and sprint cycles

Automation Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2019 - 12.2021
  • Set up automation frameworks, tools and methodology to assist future users and streamline automation
  • Worked with off-site teams to complete timely tests and facilitate smooth product releases
  • Produced test scripts for new automated software testing rounds
  • Develop and maintain automated test scripts using Selenium Webdriver and TestNG for mortgage application
  • Implementing Page Object Model (POM) Design Pattern
  • Implement Data driven framework to drive test data from csv and xls files
  • Strong contribution in increasing automation test coverage
  • Enhancement of new ideas, framework development to make test framework more robust
  • Involved in optimizing manual test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches
  • Completed Integration tests under tight deadlines to meet client demands and project timelines
  • Provide test reports to all stakeholders
  • Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with resolution techniques in documentation

Senior QA Engineer

Aptus Health
03.2015 - 08.2019
  • Develop automated test cases using PHP based Behat automation framework and Cucumber
  • Involved in developing Behavior Driver Development (BDD) test scenarios
  • Peer review automation scripts and suggest improvements if required
  • Performed Cross Browser Automation using Sauce Labs Cloud
  • Maintaining code repository in Gitlab
  • Training quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes
  • Experience with test case management tool Testrail and Jira for bug tracking
  • Develop and review Manual Test cases as per requirements/user stories shared by Product Owner and UX Team

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Mumbai
India
01-2014

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Mumbai
India
01-2011

Skills

  • Test Strategy & Planning
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Automation Testing
  • JAVA Selenium Webdriver
  • SQL
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Test case design
  • Defect management

Languages

English
Full Professional

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

QA Lead

Virtusa Consulting & Services Inc.
12.2021 - Current

Automation Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2019 - 12.2021

Senior QA Engineer

Aptus Health
03.2015 - 08.2019

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Mumbai

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Mumbai

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