Jigisha Pandya
Frisco,TX
Summary
Lead with 16+ years of experience in testing software applications in Automation and Manual Testing.
Experience in leading/managing team up to 15 resources on the multiple projects simultaneously. Experienced in leading testing effort with the Product team, Development team, onshore and offshore QA team. Managing design, development, and execution of the entire test process, track and report the progress of test execution; document and coordinate the detailed execution plan for all cycles to support testing.
Expertise in Understanding and Analyzing Test Requirements, Tracking changes and maintenance of Test Requirements.
Effective and motivated team leader with a proven track record of monitoring progress to ensure goal attainment. Adept in developing and implementing strategic and measurable steps to achieve desired operational outcomes.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Virtusa Corporation
05.2023 - Current
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
- Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
Senior Consultant Specialist
HSBC Software Development India
05.2022 - 03.2023
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
- Creating automation framework and guide QA team to create test automation from scratch
- Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
SR. SQA ENGINEER
BMC Software
05.2016 - 05.2022
- Responsible for UI, REST, Java API automation framework optimization
- Handling automation team of 5‑7 members
- Responsible for identification of scenarios, creating test plan, step definition files, executionCode review, managing code on GitHub
- Weekly status reporting to stakeholders effort Estimation,
- Trainings, creation of PoC
MODULE LEAD, Persistent System
12.2014 - 05.2016
- Design framework using Selenium Java TestNG
- Liaise with team members to understand product functionality
- Design automated tests for release smoke & Regression
- Testing
- Analyze execution result and report a defect Verifying Rest
- API with postman and automation
- Defect Verification and automation
ASSOCIATE TEST ENGINEER
Ebiztrait
01.2010 - 08.2014
- Deriving Test Scenarios, test design techniques Executing
- Test Cases
- Reporting Defects
- Writing Selenium WebDriver scripts, Execution of Automated script on different platforms
- Weekly report of testing to management
Software Developer
Samarth Infotech
12.2007 - 05.2009
- Designed reusable and reliable code for use within distributed cloud environments.
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs, and improving functionality.
Software Engineer
GCI Systems
04.2006 - 12.2007
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
Education
Master Of Computer Applications -
C.U.Shah College of MCA
2003
B.Sc -
DKV College
05.2000
Skills
- Selenium
- Java
- Python
- TestNG
- REST API
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- Maven
- Jira
- REST API automation/ UI
- Automation
- Functional Testing
- ISTQB
- Kubernets basic
- SOFTWARE ENGINEER
- Test planning
- Quality assurance
- User Acceptance Testing
Timeline
Project Manager
Virtusa Corporation
05.2023 - Current
Senior Consultant Specialist
HSBC Software Development India
05.2022 - 03.2023
SR. SQA ENGINEER
BMC Software
05.2016 - 05.2022
MODULE LEAD, Persistent System
12.2014 - 05.2016
ASSOCIATE TEST ENGINEER
Ebiztrait
01.2010 - 08.2014
Software Developer
Samarth Infotech
12.2007 - 05.2009
Software Engineer
GCI Systems
04.2006 - 12.2007
Master Of Computer Applications -
C.U.Shah College of MCA
B.Sc -
DKV College