Prafull Zade, PMP®

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  May 2007 - Feb 2013

  IT Analyst

  • Test Planning, execution, tracking, and defect management processes and guidelines consistently across the enterprise• Regression and Automation test execution in each test phase with set targets and governance guidelines• Formal entrance and exit gates and ensured stakeholder sign-off occurs before the start of each testing phase. Adherence to defined SLAs by the support teams• Performing SOD, EOD at branch and finding any deviation at branch level• Validating Interest Accrual and Capitalization on accounts after EOD batch process• Gating criteria specific to testing involvement for each phase in the SDLC and ensured appropriate testing criteria are met for test strategy, test data plans, etc.• Formal requirements traceability process across all application groups and all phases of testing• Guidelines and policies around testing with vendors and assigned specific IT resources to manage and coordinate testing activities• Verify and validate Faster Payment, CHAP payments• Developed and maintained a career development program for testing resources including implementing a detailed in-house training program that leverages materials from past programs• Developed and maintained training curriculum and materials for all facets of testing in alignment with the enterprise release and project strategies including training to enable support from business users• Create rotational training programs to cross-train testing resources across different business functions and technologies Managed channel promotion in coordination with sales marketing and distribution department Show less

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  Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd.

  Feb 2013 - Nov 2017

  Test Lead

  • Managed 18 members QA software team consisting of Manual and Automation test engineers in the US and India • Coordinated the development and implementation of quality-assurance and quality control methodologies to ensure compliance with QA Standards and Customer Specifications• Actively participated in Estimating User Stories using Poker Card techniques for Manual as well as Automation test activities • Attending daily Scrum meeting and provide the Status of Test Execution. Attending Retrospective meeting to find out what went well, what can be improved and action required• Proactively participated in Iteration planning, to work on prioritizing the Product Backlog and finalizing Sprint Backlog • Taking peer review with team for the improving the quality of testing deliverable • Creation of Regression Test Script and Grouping and prioritizing then using TestNG• Closely working with Business Analyst to analyse and finalize the requirement and testing scope• Taking care of Definition of Done(DOD) for testing activities till User Stories acceptance • Experienced in Preparing Feature file and Step Definition for BDD testing using Cucumber • Performing Mobile testing using Appium for Travelers mobile app on IOS, Android using Emulators and Actual device • Understanding requirements from the client and providing guidance to the team members for better understanding of requirement which in turn helps in delivering quality test cases and product • Helping and guiding manual and automation team to finalize the scope for Regression suit and execution. Motivating team for Agile practices and make them familiar with Agile Manifesto • Experienced in creation of Hybrid Keyword Driver Framework using JAVA • Helping Product Owner to refine the Acceptance criteria which in turn helps in creating the quality BDD test scripts using Cucumber • Creating and modifying the Feature File and Step definition as pet the need of the test script Show less

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  UBS

  Dec 2017 - Mar 2020

  Test Automation Lead

  • Managing Team of 15 Distributed Members across US, Poland, Pune with Scrum and Kanban• Preparation of Effort Estimation for Automation and Functional Testing• Preparing System Test Strategy, Test Plan and Effort Estimation• Manage external Vendor relationships and provide direction for problem resolution during the testing lifecycle and lead root cause analysis efforts• Identifying and assessing project and product risk and accordingly provide & communicate the mitigation plan to manage the risk• Responsible for Day to Day Delivery of the team and Team Productivity Improvement• Preparing Test Strategy on the basis of the product architect e.g. need of Stored Procedure Automation, API testing, Database testing and non-Functional requirement • Preparing Selenium Test Scripts to Increase the Test Coverage and find defects in less Time• Performing CICD using TestNG, Mavan, Jenkins and GitHub• Adding Source Code in GitHub, Creating and Merging the Branch as per the user stories and Performing Code review • Managing Test Automation for the entire end To end Cash Management/Payment application flow • Determine milestone deliverables, Communicate changes to schedule, Determines impact of schedule changes on quality objectives, Coordinates schedule with dependent groups• Managing and monitoring Scrum team efficiency and productivity and adherence to the Agile manifesto• Creation of Regression Automation suit using selenium and Java for SIT and UAT • Tweaking and executing the test scripts for Cross browser testing e.g. IE, Chrome• Running Batch processing, EOD and SOD using Unix scripts • Reconciliation , Accounting testing of all the Branch as well as Other Payments Channel Transactions• Recognize any changes necessary to existing processes and take a lead role locally in ensuring that the changes are made and adequately communicated to other users Show less

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  HSBC

  Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

  Automation Test Manager

  • Managing Team of 10 Distributed Members across Pune and Mumbai• Preparation of SIT Automation and Functional Test plan as per the Regulatory requirement• Supporting SIT team for requirements clarification and System design • Effort Estimation for SIT and monitoring the same throughout the testing life Cycle• Preparing System Test Strategy, Test Plan and Effort Estimation• Manage external Vendor relationships and provide direction for problem resolution during the testing lifecycle and lead root cause analysis efforts• Identifying and assessing project and product risk and accordingly provide & communicate the mitigation plan to manage the risk• Interacting with the Development team to finalise the UI and backend design and look and feel• Closely monitoring the SIT open defects • Communicating the SIT progress to all the Stakeholders regularly • Implementing Automation solution across the different project• Creating a Jenkins Pipelines using different DevOps Tools• Creating the Scenario Feature file for BDD using Cucumber• Interacting with SIT team to finalise the scope of Regression automation suite• Preparing the Test Automation plan for all the applications and Integrating automation in DevOps CICD Pipeline• Actively involved in SIT and UAT Deployment pipeline and testing • Involved in Production Rehearsal and Rollout activity Show less

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  JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  Jun 2021 - now

  Vice President