Chinar Kurulkar

Experience

• 

  IBM

  Sept 2012 - Jul 2018

  Subject Matter Expert• Test effort estimation including time and resource estimation, based on requirement analysis.• Preparation of test plan, based on the requirement analysis and effort estimation.• Preparation of test strategy including automation strategy for the testing effort, identifying various dependencies and mitigation plan.• Offshore test data coordinator responsible for analysing requirement and come up with accurate test data requests.• Creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to map test cases accurately to corresponding requirements.• Reviewing test scenarios and test cases for quality and correspondence with requirements.• Facilitating walkthrough calls with all the business stakeholders and resolving queries related to test deliverables.• Knowledge transfer to the automation team members to make them thorough with the functional knowledge of the application.• Guiding the team through test execution and ensuring accurate reporting of defects, timely retest and closure.• Identifying the regression test case suite and ensuring timely and accurate execution. • Reporting daily status of the project in the form of test metrics to the higher management and conveying the issues in various platforms on behalf of the team.• Providing QA sign off after 100 % completion of test execution and closure of all defects in both functional (manual and automation) and regression testing, and handover to UAT team.• Providing defect attainment for UAT defects and action plan to mitigate the same.• Ensuring that the SLAs on testing efficiency metrics such as Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE) and Defect Acceptance Ratio(DAR) are strictly adhered to. • Analysing the Change Requests and provides effort estimation to client and implementing them if approved. Show less Offshore Test Coordinator:• Lead a team of 5 resources in the project of ‘ICP Release Testing Team’• Reviewed the deliverables prepared by team members to maintain SLA of quality and taking sign off from the business stakeholders• Reviewed each and every defect for its adherence with account level guidelines, before raising them in TRAC tool.• Acted as a single contact point for release testing team and represented it in various forums pertaining to test automation, test data requests and various development centres.• Created a dashboard representing the status of daily activities of the offshore team.• Conveyed the status in the form of testing metrics to the onsite counterparts accurately on a daily basis.• Rewarded for displaying excellent communication and coordination skills needed to interact with onsite counterparts as well as members of various other development centres. Show less • Analysis of the documents present in the lotus database and understanding the scope and timelines of the various software testing projects in the release testing team• Reviewing requirements for consistency with the scope.• Test scenario writing and mapping them with the requirements.• Test Case writing and mapping them with test scenarios.• Peer review, of the test deliverables to meet the quality standards and goals.• Test case execution in test link tool and raising defects in the track tool as required.• Defect retesting and closure on time to adhere to SLA.• Facilitation of defect triage meeting.• Status reporting to the onsite counterparts to meet the project goals on time. Show less

  • Senior Test Specialist

    Nov 2015 - Jul 2018

  • System Engineer

    Sept 2013 - Oct 2015

  • Associate System Engineer

    Sept 2012 - Aug 2013
• 

  DSM

  Oct 2018 - Nov 2018

  MBA Student Consultant

  Proposed an innovative solution to DSM to personalize lifestyle advice according to the individual rhythm of the body clock. The business case was presented to the Chief Executive Officer of Royal DSM, Mr. Feike Sijbesma and was well appreciated by him.

• 

  FrieslandCampina

  Feb 2019 - Apr 2019

  MBA student consultant

  Proposed a new digital marketing strategy for FrieslandCampina to reach new clients in B2B space, in order to expand their business.

• 

  Google

  Feb 2019 - Mar 2019

  MBA student consultant

  Collaborated with Google to leverage Google cloud platform for the client Deloitte in the Netherlands by suggesting innovative solutions using artificial intelligence and machine learning, to improve upon existing marketing analytic skills of Deloitte.

• 

  Saenz Fety

  Mar 2019 - May 2019

  MBA Student Consultant

  Proposed a strategy to the Saenz Fety organizations to expand the outreach of the organization to more number of farmers in Columbia. This is especially was difficult because of the challenging geography of Colombia and less exposure of farmers to digitization.

• 

  Nixu Corporation

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Cyber Security Research Intern

  As part of the final company project, I did research and wrote a thesis for Nixu B.V. which focussed on the following elements in the fields of cybersecurity:• Why C-Suite fails to perceive the value of cybersecurity solutions, as evident by low proportion of i investments in cybersecurity as part of total IT budget. • The impact of cybersecurity breaches on trust which consumers have on organizations• The impact of cybersecurity awareness training for the employees, in preventing cybersecurity breaches.• Lack of ROI calculation in the field of cybersecurity due to complex nature of estimations of costs of breaches and hence lack of preparation of business cases in terms of financial benefits which cybersecurity solution can bring to the organization.• Lack of KPIs in the domain of cybersecurity to find the financial effectiveness of cybersecurity solutions.• Based on the above findings, prepared recommendations for Nixu B.V. to overcome the issue of convincing the C-suite of the business world, about the value proposition of cybersecurity in today's highly digitalized world. The thesis was sent for the participation in the prestigious Joop Bautz Information Security Award. Show less

• 

  TheMaverics Technologies Pvt Ltd

  Feb 2021 - May 2021

  Customer Success Manager

  Responsibilities:•Touch based with clients to understand current status of their IT infrastructure.•Proposed Microsoft 365 Business Premium product to client as a one stop solution for improved collaboration and security.•Briefed client about the features of Microsoft SharePoint and how it can help client to build its digital footprint in order to improve efficiency of doing business.•Once the client requirements are comprehended, prepared the Functional Requirements Document (FRD) for the use of technical team.•Acted as a liaison between the Client and the Technical Team.•Handled dynamic customer requirements with effective change management.•Identified the risks and dependencies and raised flags to make sure project remains on track in terms of schedule.•Acted as a single point of contact for resolving every client query/issue. Show less

• 

  Accenture

  Jun 2021 - now

  Quality Engineering Specialist

  Roles and Responsibilities:•Leading functional as well as integration test activities on client applications which are hosted on Salesforce technologies.•Responsible for monitoring and controlling testing efforts and keep them on track for timely delivery.•Acting as People Lead for testing members responsible for getting best out of them and guide them in their career path.•Preparation of test plan defining the timelines, scope of testing, resources, roles and responsibilities and SLA’s.•Requirement analysis through the user stories created in Jira and writing test scripts.•Estimation of Test efforts using story points each sprint.•Reviewing scripts of team members and getting them updated as required.•Guiding the team through execution of test scripts and raising defects in JIRA.•Following up on Defects as per the predefined SLA’s and representing testing team in defect triage meetings.•Daily and weekly effective execution status reporting to client.•Acting as a liaison between development team, functional team, testing team and the leadership.•Providing support to UAT testing and responsible for Production checkout testing after deployment.Rewards and Recognitions:•Star Performer of THR account for the Month Sep-22.•Recognized for ‘Client Value Creation, Bravo Award’. Show less