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Industry
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Snehal Paunikar

Toronto,ON

Summary

Organized team leader builds positive rapport, inspires trust and guides teams toward achievement of organizational goals. Strong facilitator adept at working cross-departmentally with co-management and top-level leadership. Excellent trainer and mentor.

  • ISTQB certified QA with 15+ years of professional experience currently working as a full-time employee of MIIPE Quality Solutions Canada as Team lead (Leading E2E and UAT testing team)
  • Experience with full project/QA life cycle (SDLC) from requirement analysis to user acceptance testing (UAT).
  • Extensive knowledge of software development life cycle, methodologies (Agile and Waterfall) and test processes.
  • Responsible for managing and leading the team, and overseeing the quality of all projects.
  • Proven skills in developing and executing test plans, test scripts, analyzing test results, and managing projects till deployment.
  • Excellent problem solving, inter-personal and communication skills.
  • Proven ability to work in team, quick learning curve and adapting new technologies and team leading.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Team Leader

MIIPE Quality Solutions Canada
08.2021 - Current

Client: BELL Canada

Team Leader

Wipro Ltd, Canada
12.2019 - 07.2021

Client: Freedom Mobile & Shaw Communications

Team Leader

Atos, India
01.2012 - 05.2019

Client 1: National UK rail project , Darlington, UK

Client 2: Continental , London, UK

Senior Quality Analyst

Wipro Ltd, India
04.2009 - 12.2011

Client: British Telecom, London, United Kingdom


Education

Bachelor of Engineering Technology -

University of Nagpur
01.2006

Skills

  • Manual Testing
  • Team Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Test Planning
  • Test Documentation
  • Defect Tracking and reporting
  • Problem Solving
  • End to End and User Acceptance testing
  • Functional and Non-functional testing
  • System level integration testing
  • GUI testing
  • Regression testing
  • Usability testing
  • Mobile application testing
  • Maintenance testing
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Complex Problem-Solving

Additional Information


  • Defect Management and Test Management Tools: HPQC, IMS, JIRA, TFS, Confluence
  • Version control system: GitHub, SharePoint, VSS
  • Applications: Maximo, EC, SSC, SmartPath, BBP, Single View, CB, START, CREATE, Digital, Shop, Browse, MyAccount, Express payment, Centinel Portal, Chase, Siebel CRM, Putty, Amdocs Clarify (NEO), Flow
  • Database: SQL
  • Programming language : Python
  • Automation Tool : Selenium

Accomplishments

  • Best Employee of the Month (Twice) , MIIPE
  • Certificate of Excellence, ATOS
  • BT WIPRO Performance Excellence Award by BT Operations Head
  • BT Program Director [Client Location award (TechMahindra)]
  • Certificate of Quality winner of the Quarter, WIPRO
  • Certificate of Star of Month, WIPRO
  • Certificate of Excellence, WIPRO

Current Responsibilities

End to End Test lead:

  • Worked closely with Client and developers for requirement understanding, analysis, query resolution, business review meetings and sign off discussions.
  • Identify resources required for testing Phase and organizes testing efforts
  • Design, develop and implement Test strategy, Test plans, E2E test cases, Test data and identify regression suit
  • Execute E2E and regression test suit to verify accuracy of features and functions
  • Prepared and maintained test data to ensure accuracy of testing results
  • Worked with team to identify issues, troubleshoot and resolve defects.
  • Logged defects into defect management tool 'JIRA' with clear description following documented process
  • Prepare dashboard of the status of execution and defects through JIRA Xray, publish it to management
  • Analyzed test results and generated statistical reports to present to management
  • Collaborated with developers, business analysts, and product owners to ensure successful product releases
  • Represented testing team in Quality Audit/ defect triage meetings for discussions with Developers, Project Managers, Technical Architects & Business Analysts
  • Prepare and get approval from stakeholders on sign off report
  • Provided post-implementation support for all deliverables

UAT Test lead:

  • Prepare UAT test plan, schedule review with business and prepare sign off on UAT test plan
  • Identify UAT test suit, schedule review with business and finalize the test suit
  • Schedule UAT execution calls with business.
  • Help business team to provide data and update the result.
  • Raise UAT defects in JIRA
  • Publish daily status report to business
  • Prepare UAT sign off, Support for user acceptance testing (UAT) and participation in UAT activities

Client Projects

BELL Telecommunications

Digital Marketplace

Create a one stop shop online Cloud marketplace to learn, view, compare & acquire Cloud products & services for new & existing customers built on ecosystem of vendors(AWS, Azure, GCP etc)


Freedom Mobile & Shaw Communications

Digital/e-commerce

Retail frontend applications: CREATE Freedom, CREATE Shaw 

Frontend applications: Shop Freedom, Freedom MyAccount, Freedom Browse, Shop SHAW, SHAW MyAccount, SHAW Browse '

Backend applications : Single View DB, CB, Sonic, Express payment, CentinelPortal, Chase, Oracle AWS


National UK rail project 

The GPS solution to enable improved information to be provided in rural areas by implementing the GPS Industry Train Reporting Service which takes GPS positional information from trains and interfacing this data with the train management system TRUST


Continental

RTM (Remote TCO Manager) RTM is a solution developed for customer of Continental to enable the users an automatic remote download of the data from DTCO (Vehicle) device.

TIS-Admin is an administration system to manage customer accounts and to process data to bill customer for their use of all the services. This administration system manages this information for all European customers.

Tachograph Internet Service (TIS) is a web-based product that allows Fleet Companies all over Europe to manage their fleet and record their fleet data in a centralized system.


British Telecom

End-to-end testing for applications used for fulfilling and assuring the telephone connections(ISDN/PSTN) based in UK to provide new service to customer and maintain the existing one

Industry

  • Telecommunications
  • Government
  • E-commerce
  • Transport & Telematics

Certification

ISTQB Certification, 2019

Timeline

Team Leader

MIIPE Quality Solutions Canada
08.2021 - Current

Team Leader

Wipro Ltd, Canada
12.2019 - 07.2021

Team Leader

Atos, India
01.2012 - 05.2019

Senior Quality Analyst

Wipro Ltd, India
04.2009 - 12.2011

Bachelor of Engineering Technology -

University of Nagpur
Snehal Paunikar