Bijal Dave

Experience

• 

  3i Infotech Ltd.

  Jun 2006 - Jan 2010

  Software Engineer

  • Managed support calls from customer and assisted them in resolving any problems on immediate basis• Interfaced with product management group for functional related issues• Followed up & escalated technical problems to the technical team and ensured that the call is completed with quality• Executed queries in test databases for all Royalties and Ledger using SQL queries• Involved in creating UAT Test Plan and subset of functional test cases for UAT test• Worked with technical staff to validate test requirements, resolved design issues and software defects• Participated in many process improvement procedures i.e. Entry Exit Criteria, Test Script Layout • Scrutinized the business, functional requirements and streamlined the testing activities• Performed tests for Functionality, Security, GUI, End-to-End, System, Configuration and Back end• Coordinated with Development Team in resolving bugs and verified and closed bug reports once they are resolved Show less

• 

  TIAA

  Jan 2013 - Apr 2014

  Team Lead

  • Understanding Software Requirement Specification and identifying the required Test Scenarios• Understanding the Requirements and functional Specifications of the project• Preparing and executing Test Cases as per System Requirements/User Stories• Performing various Testing (i.e. Browser Compatibility Testing, Device Testing)• Conducting Manual Testing/SFDC process to ensure the quality of the software/product• Developing automation scripts as part of regression in Selenium and getting it reviewed by team lead.• Effectively utilizing the SCRUM (Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Review and Retrospective) meetings to voice the risks and ambiguities.• Conduct meetings with Production support to analyze and identify the root cause of an issue and communicate to the appropriate teams for solutioning.• Performed ETL Testing using TOAD. Show less

• 

  Cognizant

  Dec 2015 - Dec 2022

  • Define business requirements and work with the project team for timely accomplishment. • Coach team to build BDD and TDD scenarios and document in confluence.• Build Smaller scopes to allow teams to better build and manage microservices.• Transforming business requirements to features and break features to stories. • Define the minimum viable products (MVP) to be deployed for safer production releases.• Transition software development efforts to a Business-Driven Development (BDD) process, test-driven development (TDD) process, which brought QA testing to the front, before the development cycle to gain code quality.• Monitor and define the products solution are built with loose coupling and high cohesion to allow the teams to build multiple products that solve bigger business problems and adapt to microservice structure.• Conduct review meetings with the business owners periodically, to certify the product behavior and assure it meets business standards and needs.• Effectively utilizing the SCRUM (Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Review and Retrospective) meetings to voice the risks and ambiguities.• Define stories for Data Source concept to connect Database and retrieve the information and receive it through RESTful APIs for web services.• Define and allocate time in the Innovation and Planning Sprint to work on stories, that can increase system performance during run time.• Identify dependencies between cross functional teams and effectively mitigate the RISKs associated with it.• Define, Build and modify User stories, features, Spike and Enablers in JIRA.• Understand data serialization language like YAML, JSON files to analyze and debug issues.• Conduct meetings with Production support to analyze and identify the root cause of an issue and communicate to the appropriate teams for solutioning.• Periodically connect with the Product manager and discuss about new epics and features to plan for upcoming program increment. Show less • Reviewing project test & implementation schedules; monitoring, documenting, & reporting the current status of defects for each testing cycle and overall project to the management• Preparing, designing and leading the test strategy and test plan for all projects; reviewing activities such as requirements review, design review, test strategy review and test case review• Managing test plan execution and reporting the results of execution on new hardware, software, and solution products; coordinating test execution across multiple test organizations• Establishing & implementing test strategies to ensure quality service pack releases; ensuring proper functionality and performance of a wide variety of applications and platforms• Assisting for smooth execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities for various projects with expertise in working on Waterfall and Agile Models• Guided team during execution of automation scripts for regression.• Conducting review /walkthrough sessions with client for obtaining sign-off; providing analytical support for system migrations and consolidations; identifying processes and information technology required to introduce the recommendations• Developing to-be business process flows, identifying the impact of the implementation to these business process flows and coordinating the review of the detail design for the business.• Working as a Manual/SFDC Quality Analyst• Experience in testing Integration Testing and API Validations• Working on data loader, SOAP UI, Postman• Involving in Salesforce CRM Lighting Testing • Working on SFDC CRM E2E Testing• Understanding Software Requirement Specification and identifying the required Test Scenarios• Understanding the Requirements and functional Specifications of the project• Preparing System Requirements/User Stories• Conducting Manual Testing/SFDC process to ensure the quality of the software/product Show less

  • Senior Associate

    Jan 2010 - Dec 2022

  • Team Lead

    Dec 2015 - Dec 2021
• 

  Voya Financial

  Dec 2015 - Mar 2020

  Team Lead

  • Working as member of agile team for the span of 5 years• Working as a Manual/SFDC Quality Analyst• Experience in testing Integration Testing and API Validations• Working on data loader, SOAP UI, Postman• Involving in Salesforce CRM Lighting Testing (COB-Project)• Working on SFDC CRM E2E Testing/ServiceMax testing• Understanding Software Requirement Specification and identifying the required Test Scenarios• Understanding the Requirements and functional Specifications of the project• Preparing and executing Test Cases as per System Requirements/User Stories• Build User stories with proper description, Benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria.• Create Acceptance criteria in Gherkins or cucumber format containing Given, When, Then.• Understand the business contexts and ensure user stories are developed to meet all data and system execution scenarios.• Create Test Driven development and Behavior driven development scenarios for better understanding of the features.• Identify and Maximize the use of TDD scenarios and minimize the BDD scenarios for better system performance.• Break features into User stories and write smaller scopes to allow teams to better build and manage microservices• Create user stories for Data Source concept to connect Database and retrieve the information and receive it through RESTful APIs for web services. Show less