Vishal Bhat
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Phone: 510-***-**** E-Mail: **********@*******.*** Summary
• IT professional with experience in handling several Software Development Life Cycle and Quality Assurance projects.
• Have successfully established QA teams and QA processes in multiple business groups and domains.
• Successfully executed go live of multiple customer facing web applications using Agile Methodology.
• Setup communication and governance model for multi vendor onsite offshore coordination and delivery hand offs between QA and DEV teams.
• Experienced with setting up Quality Practices for new projects, Onboarding new applications for testing.
• Lead Small (3-5 people) to large (25-30) cross-functional onsite offshore teams for critical business value project deliveries.
• Implemented functional and performance Test Automation to reduce test cycle times in web application projects.
• Delivered multiple zero defect UAT and production releases.
• Involved in talent interviews and recruitment.
Education & Certifications
Sunstone Business School, Post Graduate Program in Management 2014-2016 KDK College of Engineering- Nagpur University, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Technology 1998-2002 Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance
Project Details
Client – Apple Inc. 2011 – Till Date
As a QA Lead I worked on Quality Assurance projects for: -
• Inventory Management and tracking application
• Marketing Web application for partner marketing material review QA
• Online Store QA
• Data Centre asset management application QA
• Content management Application QA
I am Responsible for: -
• Defining test strategy, automation approach, new testing tools and process research and incubation.
• Implementation of initiatives focusing on productivity and quality enhancement.
• Defining and measuring relevant quality metrics for QA effectiveness
• Requirement Gathering, Estimation and tracking.
• Conduct Session based testing and exploratory testing activities
• Bug Triage and prioritization meetings
Vishal Bhat
870 E EL CAMINO REAL, Sunnyvale CA - 94087
Phone: 510-***-**** E-Mail: **********@*******.*** 2
• Participate in discussions with Business and user teams, support user teams for UAT activities.
• Daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Lead Deployment activities during Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) and Go-Live phases
• End to end workflow use case validation and walkthrough with broader stakeholders group
• Provide technical and application guidance and support throughout the release process.
• Drive test automation and Cross Browser validation on devices like iPhone, iPad. Finacle CRM 2010 – 2011
As a QA manager I worked with a team of developers to build offline CRM platform for leading banking product Finacle to enable various CRM activities like – service requests, lead generation and client details look up on mobile platform even when not connected to network
I was responsible for
• Preparation of the business plans and project schedule
• Working with product team to finalize the product requirement, architecture and design of the product.
• Setting up product test strategy and test execution.
• Mentor team members to understand domain and business requirements
• Conduct demos and use case walk through
• Developed RACI charts, resource allocation matrix for team members and stake holders
• Led RCA sessions for faster defect resolution
GIS solution 2009 – 2010
As a SME on GIS domain and technologies worked with designated Business Unit to develop POV and solution for Land record Digitization in India under National Land records Modernization program. I was responsible for
• Research on existing market solutions if any, similar systems used across world
• Provide Technical and domain help to teams.
• Setting up product test strategy and test execution.
• Conduct demos and use case walk through.
• Developed RACI charts, resource allocation matrix for team members and stake holders
• Led RCA sessions for faster defect resolution
Client: NAVTEQ Inc. (HERE NOKIA) 2004 - 2009
As a Software Engineer/Programmer Analyst worked on projects for
• Map Data validation rules
• Point of Interest (POI) System Development
• Development of rapid development framework for the construction of navigation-enabled applications I was responsible for
• Requirement analysis for new enhancements and bug fixes.
• Unit Test planning and execution
• System test planning and execution
• Configuration Management, Release Management and coordination with Build and Release team
• Coordination between Geo Teams in US, Canada and Europe
• UAT coordination with geo users.
Vishal Bhat
870 E EL CAMINO REAL, Sunnyvale CA - 94087
Phone: 510-***-**** E-Mail: **********@*******.*** 3
• Field testing using GPS enabled Cars and mapping applications Experience
Senior Manager QA, Infosys Ltd. (Feb 2004 – Till Date) Network Engineer, Comptel Network Systems. (Mar 2003 – Jan 2004) Sales and Support Engineer, Universal Tech Limited (Aug 2002 - Jan 2003) Tools and Software
• Java, SQL, Oracle, SQLDeveloper, TOAD, Junit, TestNG
• SVN, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Eclipse, Splunk
• JIRA, Confluence Wiki, Rally
• Selenium, Junit, TestNG, ReportNG, Xcode Zed Attack Proxy
• SoapUI, JMeter
• Omnigraffle, Omniplan
• Jenkins, DaisyDiff, LinkChecker
• PMD, SONAR, RADAR, TestLink
• MS- Project, MS-Visio
Achievements
• Achieved 6/6 QBR for multiple projects in with Apple Inc.
• Rookie of year Award – 2004
• Project Excellence Award – 2007, 2008
• Authored Internal Certification for GIS domain and Agile for Beginners Publications
• White Paper on Land Records - http://www.infosys.com/infosys-labs/publications/Documents/e-governance/building- land-record.pdf
• White Paper on offline CRM - http://www.infosys.com/FINsights/Documents/pdf/issue7/truly-mobile-CRM.pdf
• Program Manager- SETLabs Briefings Publication "WINNING WITH IT" – http://www.infosys.com/infosyslabs/publications/Documents/winning-it.pdf Visa Details
• H1B Visa – Valid till Aug 2017