CHETAN NADKARNI

*** ******* *** *****

Atlanta – GA – 30340

Phone: 914- 356 - 5914

Email: adwmfj@r.postjobfree.com

Re: Employment Opportunity

The position of Test Lead I am looking for will involve many of the same responsibilities that I have performed in the past and performing at present.

In addition to TCOE implementation, Test Strategy & Test Planning, Governance, I am also adept at testing tools like ALM, JIRA etc. and implementation of QA Processes. Please note that I have a bachelor’s degree as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Applications.

My resume is a summary of my abilities; please contact me at 914 - 356 - 5914 to discuss the opportunity for Test Lead in your Organization.

Thanking you,

Yours Sincerely,

Chetan Nadkarni

Chetan Nadkarni

Test Lead

Career Summary: A forward thinking, capable and committed Test Lead with a proven ability to meet agreed deadlines, co-ordinate work and work to defined testing methodologies within a structured or unstructured environment. Focused on any task at hand and able to utilize existing test knowledge and experiences to come up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes. Having first class executive leadership, negotiating, communication skills and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and third-party test teams.

Work Experience

WestRock – Dec2021 to 29th March 2023

The Hiring Group – Nov 2019 – July 2021

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Jan 2006 – Oct 2019

Defining test strategies & test plans for large and

complex projects

Involved in test planning and estimation

Involved in defining defect management process

Excellent knowledge of functional, automation and

performance testing

Issue & Risk management skills

Identify test approaches that optimize the

delivery schedule

Arranging team meetings, demo’s, and workshops

Implementation of KPI’S & SLA’S at the organizational

& project level.

Implementing TCOE’S & its framework

Implementing Automation Road Maps & ROI

Advising clients on best practice for testing

Academic Qualifications

Microsoft Certified Professional

Diploma in Information Technology

Bachelor of Science

References

On Request

Contact Details

914-***-****(M)

Email:adwmfj@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WestRock Dec’21 – March’ 2023

I have been working with WestRock since 2013. Initially was bought in to implement TCOE.

(Testing Center of Excellence).

My roles and responsibilities as TCOE Lead at WestRock were:

People:

Ensure qualified testing resources are estimated during budgeting & SOW.

Ensure qualified testing resources were onboarded for System Testing and UAT

Process:

Implement Test Strategy for upcoming projects

Implement Test Plan for upcoming projects

Schedule and compere work sessions for scripting test cases/test scenarios

Schedule and compere meetings with business to review and sign off on test cases

Implement RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix)

Implement Defect Management Process/Life Cycle

Schedule and compere work sessions for System Test scenarios/test case execution

Schedule and compere work sessions for UAT test case/test scenarios execution

Publish metric bases Test Summary reports for System Test & UAT

Provide testing artifacts for the CAB approval

Publish defect density, defect leakage etc. into Prod. during hyper care

Provide automation road map for WestRock application

Provide ROI (Return on Investment)

Tools:

Leverage ALM as Test Management Tool for most of the projects

Leverage UFT for automation of test cases

Performance Testing - Rent Load Runner and publish metrics-based report

From 2013, I have worked on multiple projects from Manhattan Implementation to Manhattan

Sunset, SAP Upgrade, JDE Upgrade, OTM Upgrade, implementation of OTM in nearly all the

mills by replacing Manhattan from a testing standpoint.

I was the only ALM Admin and involved in project set up in ALM, setting up project users,

proving access to project users and training project users how to leverage ALM.

Last but not the least, I have excellent understanding of Order to Cash and in-depth knowledge

of WestRock domain.

Following are the projects successfully delivered during my stint with WestRock.

Comp Admin (Beqom) implementation

Workforce Implementation

BPCS to OTM Project

Cowpens

Windows Automation

The Hiring Group Nov 2019 – July 2021

Client – WestRock

Cognizant Technology Solutions Jan 2006 – Oct 2019

The following are the clients I worked for during my 13 + years tenure with Cognizant.

I worked as a QA Manager or Test Manager for the following clients.

WestRock April’13 – Oct’2019

Toyota Motor Sales Jan’13 – March’2013

UPS Julyl’12 – Dec 2012

Dun & Brad Credibility Corp April’11 – May 2012

Kaiser Permanente Jan’11 – March’11

Blue Shield of California March’10 – Dec’10

Express Scripts May’09 – Feb’10

Thrivent Financials April’08 – April’09

Swiss Re June’07 – March’08

Hartford life Jan’06 – June’07

HEMI CONSULTANTS Feb’05 to Apr’05

As a test lead Developed and tested a website for Hemi consultants.

Gathering requirements from the client.

Coding was done in HTML and JavaScript.

White box and Black box testing.

Test planning for the website.

Preparing Test Cases.

Developing Test Scripts for testing the Website.

Running Test Scripts.

UAT for the website.

Regression testing

CIBC (Toronto) Sep’01 to Nov’04

Test Lead

At CIBC’S (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) development center located at Atrium of Bay - Direct to Consumer banking my responsibilities were:

Test planning for applications involving Credit Cards, Unsecured personal line of credit, CIBC’S overdraft protection services etc.

Developing Test Scripts for their applications in Java 3 – tier architecture.

Running Test Scripts.

Preparing Test Cases.

UAT for their applications.

Regression testing.

Using Test Manager 7.0 i for logging variances and communicating with the developers.

Help Soft Inc. (Toronto) June’01 to Aug’01

In-house Software Quality Assurance Specialist

Testing of all Software developed in VB 6.0 – SQL Database using Win Runner 6

Documentation of bugs using Test Manager.

Developed a project of creating an invoice in Visual Basic6.0 with Access as its database.

Santa Cruz Software Systems (INDIA) Jan’96 to Sept’00

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

As part of a team created and executed tests, performed test results analysis, documented bug reports within deadlines set by the Company in meeting client requirements. Some of the important projects completed: -

Involved in manual testing.

Website Testing.

E-Commerce applications.

Financial Applications developed in Visual Basic.

Database Testing

Key Skills

Agile/Waterfall Methodology

Defect Management Process

System/Functional Test/Regression

Automation & Performance Testing

UAT

Metrics

PROFESSIONAL ABILITIES

•Excellent understanding of multiple domains like Banking & Financials, Insurance, Healthcare, Manlog etc.

•Experience across multiple types of testing i.e. system, e2e, regression & UAT

•Experience of working on Business, Technical and Functional Requirements

•Knowledge of MS Office tools including MS project, PowerPoint and Visio.

•Excellent knowledge of ALM, JIRA etc.

•Able to take preventative action when any risks become unacceptable.

•Understanding of different test approaches and techniques.

•Actively maintain awareness and understanding of current developments and best practice in testing.

•Knowledge of scripting, execution and planning

•Ensuring that all testing plans comply with company guidelines and standard

Leadership Abilities

•Ability to manage test teams from 5 to 100

•Excellent resource allocation, resource utilization & resource management skills

•Ability to lead from front.

•Excellent knowledge about estimation

•Involved in publishing state of the art test summary report for project and senior leadership

•Excellent knowledge about people. process and tools

•Strong influencing and communication skills

•Having a flexible attitude and positive approach

•Ability to lead offshore testing teams.

•Experience of client facing roles.

•Constantly maintaining high levels of accuracy.

•Ability to quickly learn applications with minimal documentation

•An understanding & appreciation of the full development life cycle & how testing relates to it

•Can translate business processes into clear and comprehensive test scenarios.

•Training new test team members’ and regulations.

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