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Shashi shekhar

Shashi shekhar

Waterloo,ON

Summary

Experienced IT professional with over a decade of experience in Banking, Insurance, and E-commerce sectors. Skilled in leading quality assurance teams and performing end-to-end testing for various applications. Proficient in test planning, strategy development, automation, and execution within Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Demonstrated track record of driving process improvements, ensuring high-quality software delivery, and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to meet challenging deadlines. Expertise in utilizing tools like Selenium, JIRA, TestNG, Postman, Jenkins, and implementing frameworks such as BDD, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines. Strong leadership abilities, excellent communication skills, and a knack for problem-solving with a commitment to delivering flawless products.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Limited
06.2024 - Current
  • Led a team of QA specialists in a high-velocity Agile environment, achieving a 25% reduction in regression testing time.
  • Involved in implementation of test automation architecture and framework using Selenium with Java, BDD using cucumber, TestNG, HP ALM, Azure DevOps, and other metric applications.
  • Improved defect identification by 30% using systematic Jira-based documentation.
  • Initiated weekly sync-ups with developers, resolving critical bugs 20% faster.
  • Contributed to product design reviews, influencing features and timelines.
  • Responsible for administering Test Management and Issue Reporting systems across all workstreams.
  • Engage with Business Subject Master Experts to finalize and get signoff on the designed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
  • Involved in cross-browser testing in desktop, mobile & Tablet using Cross browsing Tool.
  • Provide UAT administration and support to Kraft Heinz end users.
  • Conduct content source and target data analysis on systems with complex transformations.


QA Analyst

Infosys Limited
01.2019 - 05.2024
  • Executed 200+ automated/manual test scenarios bi-weekly, reducing rollback incidents to under 2%.
  • Create QA report statistics such as execution metrics, defects, severity/priority relations, success and failure rates etc. using HP ALM.
  • Identify Automation test scenarios after business requirement analysis and technical reviews.
  • Handled Test Data preparation for integration testing among various Brands and CRM sites.
  • Played a key role in a consumer app update, increasing user satisfaction by 20%.

Test Engineering Analyst

Accenture
09.2018 - 01.2019
  • Designed test plans/scripts for 4 product lines, boosting test coverage by 15%.
  • Championed usability testing, reducing support tickets by 25%.
  • Responsible for automating manual test cases using TestNG SPARK framework.
  • Analyzing user stories from Jira and writing test cases for the same.
  • Automating Build and release process using DevOps tools and configuring CI/CD pipelines.

Quality Assurance Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies
05.2015 - 08.2018
  • Worked in Web based, Windows & mainframe applications.
  • Feasibility analysis of manual test cases and perform estimation of automation test script.
  • Responsible for backend testing using swagger API, Ready API, Database testing using Toad tool and automation for the same.
  • Worked in EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Testing.
  • Supporting and Customizing the Scripts per Environments/Accounts needs.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

BIT Mesra
04.2015

Skills

  • Agile methodologies
  • Eclipse IDE
  • Selenium
  • Postman
  • JAVA
  • Jira
  • Azure
  • Jenkins
  • ALM
  • SQL

Certification

  • Infosys certified DevOps professional - Internal
  • Infosys Certified Selenium Advance Automation Tester - Internal
  • FDN-CM101-DB - Securities- Overview – Internal
  • Infosys certified SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) – Internal
  • Infosys Global Agile Developer Agile Scrum Process - Internal
  • Java SE 8 Programming - Internal
  • Essentials of Cloud Computing - Internal

Accomplishments

  • Streamlined QA processes: Led to a 30% efficiency gain in test execution.
  • Reduced production bugs by 40%: Through rigorous testing and detailed documentation.
  • Implemented database testing standards: Improved SQL-based data verification.
  • Increased test coverage: Boosted coverage by 20% within one quarter.

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Limited
06.2024 - Current

QA Analyst

Infosys Limited
01.2019 - 05.2024

Test Engineering Analyst

Accenture
09.2018 - 01.2019

Quality Assurance Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies
05.2015 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Engineering -

BIT Mesra

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