Kashyap Patel
Summary
As an experienced Information Technology professional for the last 18 years, I am confident to deliver any challenging tasks for an organization’s requirements. I have strong experience in working in Banking, Payments and finance Domain. Also, I have strong experience in working with many stakeholders, vendors,offshore teams, business teams to deliver systems that are complaint and support business initiatives.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Manager
Newcastle Greater Mutual Group
09.2021 - Current
- Leading and Monitoring the NGM Application and Systems as the senior testing leader in the organisation
- Manage IT risk for the Digital banking team and ensure timely resolution of the production incident
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the digital insights strategy by collaborating with stakeholders
- Establish and reinforce best practices, standards, and tools within the testing domain
- Incorporate the latest tools and practices in test automation, CI/CD pipelines and quality engineering
- Identify and manage risks and develop contingency plans to resolve issues that may impact project success
- Ensure project timelines are met whilst balancing the appropriate levels of test coverage
- Vendor management with BPAY, ASL, Browser stack for the Mobile and browser cloud offering for the automation
- Promote and drive delivery of test automation services into complex business, technology and software delivery projects with a particular focus on Agile
- Guide and consult both business and technology leadership teams across all dimensions of quality in the software delivery lifecycle - both current and future trends
- Responsible for monitoring the Patch and security vulnerability and ensuring it is timely addressed
- Responsible for presenting the change in the CAB meeting from Digital team.
Chapter Lead
ING
11.2012 - 08.2021
- Lead\Own the creation and implementation of the IT test strategy
- IT Custodian for Testing representative in Change Advisory board meeting(CAB)
- Work across squads in improving existing test automation frameworks and adopting new technologies
- Regularly coach and mentor other engineers to increase their capability and in turn the capability of the squads and organisation
- Train engineers to become multi-skilled in order to limit the number of roles and handovers
- Influence stakeholders and drive innovation with new and existing tools, processes and practices and industrialise new practices into ING delivery
- Lead the Planning and Prioritisation of Problem records, iRisk item within Tribe
- Actively Prioritising work on the production SWAT items
- Managing the security vulnerability for the Digital tribe and ensuring the timely adherence to SLA
- Closely worked with Agile coach to create a culture in which employees take responsibility, help each other to be successful and remain a step ahead
- Closely worked with Feature engineer and Architect for the development and technology strategy for the new initiative
- Closely working with Vendor Company like Perfecto and Applitools to enhance the automation capability within ING
- Champion effective adoption of continuous delivery methodology, practice and attitudes / mindsets.
Test Lead
Infosys Technologies Limited
01.2011 - 11.2012
- Testing Planning for SIT and UAT Phases
- Support Knowledge Transfer to Testing team
- Ensure testing is compliant with the Westpac Methodology and Framework
- Test Case Planning, preparation, oversight and execution
- Prioritisation and planning of test execution using a risk-based approach
- Test progress reporting
- Test co-ordination activity with all project stakeholders
- Achieving sign-offs for testing artefacts
- Test Effort Estimation Document
- Responsible for leading the project test teams and ensuring the Test Plan is aligned to the project objectives
- Project Level test Governance and oversight of all Testing deliverables across all streams.
Software Test Lead
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited
03.2009 - 12.2010
- Actively participated in Requirement analysis, Functional change request impact analysis, and Testability analysis
- Prepared Test Plan and Run Plan
- Reporting of Daily Test case Execution, Defect Status, Daily Execution Reports of all the Modules to the stakeholders
- Defect Management using Quality centre and Daily Co-ordination with Business Users and Vendors
- Helped in preparation of the SIT Test Scenarios and Test Cases along with the test data
- Co-ordinate the testing activities between the Business users and Development Team
- Provided continuous Support to the Production team
- Lead a project team in the configuration of software for system testing and User acceptance testing of one or more software Products and documented relevant details to the agreed standards
- Ensured that any risks associated with the Test Strategy and system test plan are clearly documented and described to the Clients\User and Stakeholders
- Oversees performance of programming staff, report on their effectiveness and take action to remedy deficiencies
- Provide advice, guidance and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required
- Prepares and maintains realistic project and quality plans and track all activities against plans, Providing regular and accurate reports to senior management and Client/user management as appropriate.
Software Test Engineer
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited
01.2007 - 02.2009
- Involved in Manual and automation testing
- Preparing Test Scenario and Test Cases
- Involved in System Integration Testing along with Documentation
- To understand the various Interface Document and tracing the testability part of it
- Execute/ schedule scenarios from Quality Center
- Interactive defect logging in Quality Center
- Manage requirements, test and defects using Quality center.
Software Test Engineer
Citigroup Global Services Limited
01.2005 - 12.2006
- Preparation of Test Cases and Test Conditions based on BRD/FRD/CRs
- Preparation of Test Scripts based on BRD/FRDs/CRs
- Preparation of Daily Execution status from Quality Center
- Interactive defect logging in Quality Center
- Sanity testing for new patches installed in UAT
- Reporting the status of project to the Global Team through Matrix, Team MIS and Reports
- Track Requirement Changes and accordingly change Test Cases (If required)
- Conducting process training to the team members
- Conducting Quality Assurance activities
- Reviewing of the Test Cases, Test Conditions and Test Scripts prepared.
Education
Skills
- SQL Server
- GitHub
- Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Gherkin
- Splunk
- AppDynamics
- Azure Monitor
- Firebase
- BDD using Cucumber
- TestNG
- Jmeter
- Selenium
- Agile SCRUM based development
- Cloud based testing tools like Browserstack, Applitools and Perfecto
- Strong experience in Banking, Payment and Open banking domain
- Experience in creating and maintaining Azure DevOps CI\CD End to End pipelines
- Experience layering event driven messaging framework such as MQ, Kafka
- Containerized architecture, deployment and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes
- Expert in UI Automation ,APIs framework creation and micro service testing
- Experience in Open banking –CDR Rules and project implementation
Certification
- Certified Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Certified ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) Foundation Level Tester.
- Certified Accredited Integration Specialist in HP Quality Center.
- Certified in Financial Beginner’s Module from National Stock Exchange India.
Timeline
Test Manager
Newcastle Greater Mutual Group
09.2021 - Current
Chapter Lead
ING
11.2012 - 08.2021
Test Lead
Infosys Technologies Limited
01.2011 - 11.2012
Software Test Lead
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited
03.2009 - 12.2010
Software Test Engineer
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited
01.2007 - 02.2009
Software Test Engineer
Citigroup Global Services Limited
01.2005 - 12.2006
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