Ajay Soni

Experience

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  Sopra Steria

  Jul 2010 - Jun 2022

  · Leading and coordinating the daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives and backlog refinements resulting in on-time delivery.· Identified and removed impediments that interfered with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal resulting in meeting sprint goals.· Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition, and feature selection· Helped the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements resulting in the automation the testing.· Organized and improved agile practices and values, increasing productivity and overall team satisfaction. · Managing daily defect triage meeting with onshore project team and stakeholders.· Managing defect life-cycle to standardize the process and create defect template to be followed in the project. · Implementing customized Jira dashboards, shared with stakeholders for management overlook on Sprint progress. · Managing daily defect triage meeting with onshore project team and stakeholders.· Managing defect life-cycle to standardize the process and create defect template to be followed in the project. · Implementing customized Jira dashboards, shared with stakeholders for management overlook on Sprint progress. · Resource Planning, Recruitment, Replacement, Skills Profiling, Knowledge sharing· Test Management: Test Plan creation, Test Estimation, Test Scripting, Defect Reporting, Execution of test plans and Test Cases· Effort estimations for the projects, cost management, resource allocation and project tracking.· Focus on quality delivery within defined timelines, with value add to the client’s business. Show less • Leading & managing the testing team members and delegating the testing tasks among them & collecting status reports• Imparting functional knowledge of the application, inducting & mentoring the new testing resources in the project• Intensive co-ordination and communication with the Client, Business Analyst, Testing team, Development team for the successful delivery of the project• Collect and document user's requirements, developing and maintaining the test scripts for the application based on the business requirements• Overall validation, testing & troubleshooting of the computer-based systems to access the quality of the software application• Testing the performance and reliability of software application• Developing and maintaining the Test artefacts like Test Strategy, Test Plan, Estimation, Test reports & Test closure documents for the project • Identifying & reporting defects in the system and defect management• Analysis of the production issues in the system reported by the clients Show less •Worked closely with the Project Team to ensure clear understanding of project and scope is defined•Test case preparation & Execution, Peer review of the test cases•Ensuring Test Environments are in place to commence testing•Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress to the Project Team•Creation of Daily and Weekly progress reports to ensure the Project Team are aware of progress, risks and issues•Verification of the design & functionality•Defect Reporting, Tracking, Retesting & Regression testing•Preparation of “How To” document on different sections of the site for the client training•Set-up of complete website on the QA instance of staging server & updating it after every release•Set up of the complete website on Live with Dev team support•Preparation of project closure document•Was involved in Release management•Raised numerous critical defects which resulted in CR’s•Interviewed Testers as a part of recruitment process•Represented QA team in various project & company meetings•Done Performance review & appraisal for the QA team members•Handled multiple projects & product testing simultaneously•Taken various initiatives to establish a standard QA process for the company Show less

  • Project Lead / Scrum Master

    Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

  • Lead Test Engineer

    Jul 2016 - Dec 2020

  • Senior Software Test Engineer

    Jan 2013 - Jun 2016

  • Software Test Engineer

    Jul 2010 - Dec 2012
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  Wolters Kluwer

  Jul 2022 - now

  Manager Test Automation Engineering