Ashutosh .

Background

About

As a child, I was always curious to get an insight into my toys. I clearly remember how many of them got sacrificed in my experiments. At school, I wanted to be a pilot so that I could fly high. That ambition didn’t get fulfilled but the desire to excel in everything I did became my second nature.

Growing up, I found my passion in music. I could listen to music endlessly. For me, the lines of Shakespeare’s comedy, Twelfth Night can be used lit·er·al·ly. " If music be the food of love, play on". Here again, I became more interested in the song's composition, how the layers were added to form its structure, how it ‘sounds, and the fidelity of the music system itself. It made me a critical listener and a patient individual. The qualities of which I later came to know as a must to be a successful QA individual.

Later, I opted for a Bachelors’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s in Computer applications before I started my journey in the professional world.
Working bit by bit over it, today I hold more than 11 years of experience in being a Quality Analyst.

With changing times, getting acquainted with new technologies, be it automation, scripting or data analytics entices me to move ahead and always be a learner.

Life has thrown challenges time and again, but I think it is my ability to bounce back is that has kept me floating.

Areas of expertise:
Software Development Lifecycle
Software Testing Lifecycle
Software Quality Assurance

Business Requirements and use cases
Design Test Plan Document and Write Test Cases
Defect Tracking, Test Coverage
Test Strategy and Methodologies

Functional Testing
Sanity and Smoke Testing
Regression Testing
System Testing
Integration Testing
API Testing,

Test Data Management

Automation Testing
Using IBM’s Rational Functional Tester
Rational Performance Tester
Selenium WebDriver

Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA
Bugzilla, DevTrack, JIRA, Git
Azure DevOps Server
Microsoft Office
Postman, Jenkins, Newman

Work Experience

Test Specialist, IBM
Jun, 2021 - Present
Senior Software Test Analyst and Scrum Master, FIS
Apr, 2019 - Jan, 20211 year 9 months
Responsibilities as QA
- Increased understanding of FIS’ Banking products and Project Management tools like TFS, Dev Track, by engaging in all available training and seminars.
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with resolution techniques in documentation to disseminate to Project Owner
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every 3 weeks and well-organized sprints
- Delivered more than 20 builds of a product for Clients from getting code from TFS to creating packages, signing the builds
As Scrum Master
- Underwent Training and completed Certifications for SSM and SP under SAFe.
- Planned Agile best practices, encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Worked in close collaboration with Team and Product Owner for PI Planning and other Scrum ceremonies.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
Senior Software Test Engineer, FIS
Mar, 2018 - Mar, 20191 year
Worked independently as the QA resource responsible for defect recreation, verification, Regression testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Package Creation for two banking products
Freelance Software Tester, Self-Employed
Nov, 2015 - Dec, 20161 year 1 month
Online Testing Projects on Upwork and Freelancer
Software Quality Assurance Team Lead, MS Technology Pvt Ltd
Jun, 2014 - Oct, 20151 year 4 months
Responsibilities
• Involved in the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks.
• At the outset of the project devise the test objectives, test strategies and test plans in collaboration with the other stakeholders.
• Estimate the testing to be done and negotiate with management to acquire the necessary resources.
• Recognise when test automation is appropriate and, if it is, plan the effort, select the tools, and ensure training for the team even from programmers if necessary to help them with their testing.
• Lead, guide and monitor the implementation and execution of the test cases.
• Schedule the tests for execution, monitor, measure, control and report on the test progress, the product quality status and the test results, adapting the test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions.
• During test execution and as the project winds down, write summary reports on test status.
Sr. Software Engineer( Software Testing & Quality Assurance), MS Technology Pvt Ltd
Jun, 2010 - May, 20143 years 11 months
Responsibilities
- Experience in Functional Testing, Stress Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing.
- Proficient in Manual Testing, Black Box Testing and test case documentation.
- Experience in Automation Testing, Rational Robot, Rational Functional Tester and Rational Test Manager.
- Experience in writing Test Cases according to Business Requirements, used Rational Robot to automate entire Test cases.
- Experience in defining Test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing the results of scripts.
- Experience on Bug Tracking tool like Bugzilla.

Skills

Black Box Testing
Regression Testing
System Testing
Functional Testing
IBM
MS Technology
Manual Testing
Rational Functional Tester
Java
Bugzilla
Core Java
STLC
Software Quality Assurance
Rational Robot
Software Development
J2EE Web Services
Software Testing Life Cycle
Mobile Testing
Test Planning
Emotional Intelligence
Selenium
Bug Tracking
Requirements Analysis
HTML
JavaScript
Problem Solving
Selenium WebDriver
API Testing
SDLC
Quality Assurance
Rational Quality Manager
Agile Methodologies
Testing
Postman API
Test Automation
Integration Testing
SQL
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Performance Testing
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Automated Software Testing
Test Cases
Cloud Computing
Software Engineering
Stress Testing
mySQL

Education

Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Panjab University
Dec, 1996 - Dec, 1999
Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University
Dec, 2001 - Dec, 2004

Certificates

MCSE, Microsoft
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Scrum Fundamentals Certified, SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile
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Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner, Scaled Agile, Inc.
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Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master, Scaled agile
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Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers: 1 Cloud Concepts, LinkedIn
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Advanced Course in Core Java, SQL, J2EE, Spic Centre Of Excellence
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Learning Java, LinkedIn
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Selenium Essential Training, LinkedIn
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Test Automation Foundations, LinkedIn
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Postman Essential Training, LinkedIn
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References

Kulvinder Singh
I worked with Ashutosh for almost 3 years and found him to be a hard-working, diligent team member. He has always been strongly committed to the tasks that were assigned to him and does not hesitate to go above and beyond what’s required. He is passionate about improving himself and is also an extremely empathetic individual which makes him very valuable as a Quality Analyst.