ARCHANA SHINDE

Methodical QA professional with 10+ years of experience in optimal testing strategies. Open and clear communicator with good multitasking skills, organized nature and strong attention to detail. Certified in ISTQB Foundation

Areas of Interest:

Test Management Processes, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Scripting & Documentation, Development & Training, Automation.

ISTQB Foundation

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• Strong Structured testing knowledge and thorough understanding of quality assurance testing methodologies & concepts, demonstrating deep knowledge and hands on experience mainly with Functional & Automation testing across web & desktop applications.
• Led high-performing testing team of 8 members for large scale cross functional projects consisting of various web applications & web services.
• Impressive success in facilitating projects & guiding cross functional teams for execution of project using Agile Scrum Framework as well as V model methodology.
• Delivered high quality software by using Automation framework for the team using POM pattern & BDD serenity model using Selenium Web Driver with Java
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins & Git.
• Extensive experience and knowledge in Testing lifecycle and core Testing Techniques using different test approaches, Requirement/Functional Analysis, Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Test Reporting and Defect Management.
• Owned the on-time delivery, risk identification & mitigation planning for the entire cycle of the program.
• Resource forecasting and planning and experience of using Test Management Tools like JIRA, Zephyr, XRAY to manage testing activity and to provide Testing Metrics
• Hands on experience in API test using Postman, KAFKA, REST API to test external vendor interfaces of DBS such as Murex, Front Arena, Bloomberg
• Conducted trainings and knowledge transfer sessions to empower team with product knowledge and DBS SDLC & STLC processes.
• Organized & facilitated workshops for the banks operational users located at different branch locations.
• Demonstrate & showcase product features after every release to product owner & other stakeholders and support in their UAT to get the feature accepted & approved in order to make it live in production.
• Created and maintained documents such as User Guide Manual, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

• Awarded “TDC Best Achiever” for making Migration project delivery on time with good quality feedback from client
• Received “Project Star Award” at Capgemini in the Quarter 2 of year 2011.
• Received “Snap Award” for performing in project releases at D2K Technologies in year 2009.
• Invented & implemented Automation of Open Market tool under project-Rates Management System for Trading & Technology department of DBS bank which helped bank automating the major trading processes with 100% data accuracy which potentially helped to increase the business efficiency by reducing operational time (60 minutes) by old manual banks processing tasks.
• Successfully performed functional and data migration testing of external interfaces such as Murex and Front Arena that provided optimum quality for crucial vendors of DBS bank.
• Identified the root cause of various billing flaws, leading to a no-fault billing to customers which helped in generation of good revenue to M1.