TARUN BHOGAL
**** ****** **** **, ***- ****, Plano, TX - 75075
Email: ******.*****@*****.*** Phone: (M) +1-425-***-****
To secure a dynamic position in a professionally challenging environment where technical and analytical skills will be utilized to the utmost level and provides enough scope to explore knowledge to serve the organization to the best of my ability and skills.
SYNOPSIS
Futuristic Thinker Data Analyst/Test Analyst possessing over 10 years of experience and PSM 1 certified in IT industry with expertise in STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) Manual Testing/Automation Testing and Data Analysis. Recognized for team-oriented leadership, reliability, dedication, and excellent interpersonal communication skills. Good Analysis skills, Self-motivated, Quick learner, adept in learning new technologies, ability to work in both independent and collaborative work environment.
Professional Scrum Master (PSM) 1 Certified.
Experience and Motivated Agile Test Lead with 10+ years of professional IT experience in Software Testing.
Working in Agile Development and test model since last 8 Years and applied Agile Test Practices - Scrum and Kanban across multiple projects.
Strong understanding of QA Principals, QA Process, Use cases and Software Development Life Cycle – Agile and Waterfall.
Proficient in Sanity, Functional, Integration, Regression Testing, System, UAT testing, Backend Testing, GUI Testing.
Involved in designing and developing of Test Automation Framework Using Java, Selenium, Geb and Spock, TestNG and configuring to run it Using Maven, Git & Jenkins tools (CI/CD).
Working Experience on EDIs
Expertise in writing the Test Plans, Test Strategy documents, Test Cases, Maintaining Test Scripts according to the business specification and Defect management.
Working experience on PowerBI and Tableau
Experience in API Testing using Selenium and Postman.
Possessing good communication and collaboration skills to lead and work in concert with diverse groups effectively.
Experience in testing Java, .NET and Mainframe applications
Expertise in establishing Risk-based Testing, Test Metrics, Testing and Defect Management processes.
Good understanding on SQL Server
Good knowledge of Agile Methodology
Dedicated and highly ambitious to achieve personal as well as the organizational goals.
Ability to expand horizons towards the achievement of stated targets.
Lead all phases of the project and communicate with others in the organization about the status and risks of the effort in detail
Responsible for Defect triage and management
Trained the test teams with concepts of Agile testing, challenges and approaches for different environments during testing phase.
Experienced on working Onsite and offshore Model to manage multiple teams at different locations.
Experienced in publishing Weekly test reports (Dashboards) to higher management review on Testing progress and plans.
Friendly with an upbeat attitude. Excellent decision-making skills with a positive approach.
Ability to multi-task and prioritize, with strong organizational and follow-up skills.
Always keen to learn new technologies and look for advancement.
Excellent in client relationship management.
TECHNICAL SKILL-SET
Operating Systems
Windows XP/Vista/10, Linux
Languages
Unix, SQL, Unix Shell script, Core Java, VB Scripting, .Net, C++, C#
Defect Tracking Tool
JIRA, Test Director, StarTeam, Spira Team
Testing Tools
Geb & Spock, Selenium WebDriver, POSTMAN, TestNG
Database/RDBMS
DB2, SQL
Testing Methodology
Waterfall, Agile, Kanban
CI/CD Tools
Jenkins
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
Pursuing MBA from Ottawa University, Phoenix USA
MS in Business Analytics from Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, USA, March 2019
MCA from University of Jammu, India in 2008
BCA from University of Jammu, India in 2005
12th from R. S. Public School, Karnal, India CBSE in 2002
10th from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Karnal, India CBSE in 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Compunnel Software Group (January’19 – Feb’20)
Team Lead/ Data Analyst
Client: Russell Investments
Responsibilities :
Participated in Bi-Weekly User Story Grooming sessions and Iteration Planning meetings with Product Owners, and Development Team.
Led and Participated Iteration Retrospective meetings from test side to discuss the problems during the iteration, defining and prioritizing Actions Items
Generate Reports using PowerBI and Tableau.
Worked with Data Analysis team in Data Cleansing and Data Collecting.
Transform Data based on the requirements
Prepared Estimations, Resource Plans, Project Plan and Test Plans
Identify Risks/ Issues and update the project progress on time.
Suggest and strategize test approach to meet timelines and estimates
Played the role of the Scrum Master.
Participate in the PI Planning and Scrum meetings to gather, review and analysis of requirements.
Lead the build of automation for test scenarios and scripts using Selenium Webdriver.
Build Automation Framework using Continuous Integration and Development (CI/CD) services.
Excellent in client relationship management.
Performed API testing using POSTMAN
Worked on JSON and XML file format
Created and maintain automation scripts written in C#.
Improved quality by Creating Queries, stored procedure in SQL Server
Accomplished user’s confidence in product by performing GUI Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing
Providing status updates and metrics to client management.
Involved in planning and organizing the Test execution and Defect management.
Liaised with clients for daily updates on quality issues and development of tasks assigned.
Aristocrat Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, Noida, India (March’15 – March’17)
Senior Engineer II
Responsibilities :
Worked as a Team Lead and got maximum approved games in ANZ market
Delivered games for Final approval authority for Aristocrat slot games to Transfer to ATF with zero defect rejections.
Completed testing of the games with full ensures of compliance and regulations to over 200 plus jurisdictions, categorized broadly into 3 markets: USA, Australia New Zealand (ANZ) and Rest of the World (ROW).
Accomplished latest standards by executing checklists and constantly updating checkpoints.
Assured Test game types such as AVL, GDK, EGP, Vertex, and MSP controlled hyperlink built on the MK7, Gen8, ARC and Behemoth architecture.
Inspected localization testing for games submitted to Macau and Latin markets.
Worked on JSON and XML file format.
Impetus Infotech(India) Pvt Ltd, Noida, India (May’11 – March’15)
Senior Quality Engineer
Client: Connecture
Responsibilities :
Lead the team on HealthPlus project and achieved “No-Defect” found on client end.
Administered backlog creation. Facilitate in requirement analysis, backlog grooming, backlog ordering, reporting and sprint planning
Interact with customers to ensure their requirements (user stories) are complete and accurately depict their business needs
Enhance client satisfaction through effective resolution of critical technical issues in coordination with various support teams
Analyze user requirements
Worked as an active Business Analyst to gather the requirements from the client.
Communicate regularly with Client as a Business Analyst.
Worked on EDIs
Improved quality by Creating Queries, stored procedure in SQL Server
Liaised with clients for daily updates on quality issues and development of tasks assigned
Automate regression flow using Geb and Spock
Prepared test cases and test plans
Reported/ updated status on bugs using charts and graphs
Reviewed tasks assigned to the Quality Team
Part of Analysis team in finding the unused code to improve the system performance
Aon Hewitt, Noida, India (March’09 – March’11)
Setup Configuration Specialist
Responsibilities :
Doing Analysis by gathering the requirements and client provisions.
Cleaning of requirement at the initial phase of the requirement gathering
Creating Test Plans as per the Requirement Specification.
Holding Regular Analysis/Configuration/Test Planning Handoffs
Executing Test Cases.
Worked on EDIs
Fixing the bugs found during testing.
Creating Queries, stored procedure in SQL Server
Reporting and documentation.
Communication with Onsite as well as Offshore Team.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Received Winning Ways Award three times in Aristocrat.
Received “YOU ARE A STAR” Award five times in Impetus.
Received “STAR OF THE MONTH” Award seven times in Impetus.
Received Superlative award from leadership for low operational cost and generating revenue ensuring high quality in Impetus.
Received enthusiastic client certificate twice from client for delivering high quality on time in Aon Hewitt.
Appreciations from client, onsite manager and teammates.
Received Kudos twice from Employers and Clients for extra ordinary work done for the client.
(Tarun Bhogal)