Rohit Tandale

Roles and Responsibilities

• Working as Appian QA Lead for Carlyle Tax QA Team (ITR & ELM) with 1 Onshore & 5 Offshore QA resources
• Delivered Internal Demo's for all Stories Certified and Created Test Data for end user demo's
• Key Contributor during Backlog Grooming, Refinement/Story Pointing by voting accurate story points and also asking correct questions and providing detailed justification for story points voted
• Developed Innovative testing strategies to test business workflows and release of business applications
• Developed Test Plan and Test Strategy documents
• Achieved 80% reduction of Dev Team's manual work of Effort by developing JIRA bulk upload template
• Reduced closure time of Defects in Backlog by regular Triaging
• Developed dynamic JIRA Reports for key metrics of Tax Sprints
• Analyze production defects and understood nature/root cause of these enquiries and Categorize them as issues, data fix and training
• Created and Contributed in Training Plan and Groomed and Trained New Team Members on Taxation Domain, Appian Applications and QA Processes
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
• Created plans and communicated deadlines to complete Testing Activities and Sprints on time
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems on timely and accurate manner
• Delivered highest customer satisfaction by not only delivering quality MVP's and reporting early defects but also recommending improvement/suggestions
• Suggested and helped Team to move from Physical Board for Story Pointing and Retro to Online Pointing Poker and Online Retro

Client#1 : The Capital Group is an American financial services company which ranks among the world’s oldest and largest investment management organizations, with $1.5 trillion in AUM

Client#2 : Experian is leader in providing data and predictive insights and is UK’s most trusted credit report provider

Client#3 : UBS is a investment bank and financial services company

Roles and Responsibilities

• Led 3 projects and 5 testing team members 2 onsite and 3 Offshore)
• Worked with Client project manager to define project scope and schedule by creating Test Plan/Strategy
• Validated Business User Groups privileges, Roles, Tasks, Objects, Expression rules within Appian
• Developed and managed files at Windows/UNIX servers and executed JIL’s/Powercenter/UNIX/Windows jobs
• Converted Epics into Stories with detailed Acceptance Criteria
• Facilitated Scrum Events and groomed Scrum Artifacts
• Worked as Administrator of Salesforce and Appian for performing activities such as Account Maintenance, Reports and Dashboards development
• Created Awareness, Implemented and provided trainings for Zephyr and Confluence at Organization Level
• Developed complex SQL scripts to validate databases rules/mapping - Improved QA productivity by automation scripts & Atlassian plugins
• Reported Derivative/Calculated Metrics by applying specific formulas to absolute metrics such as Test Effort, Test Effectiveness, Test Coverage
• Created High Performing Team by understanding Team Dynamics, Collaborating, Trained/Mentored new Team Members, made their decision inclusive, identified problems at early stage, resolved conflicts between team members
• Helped clients 50% manual effort of Report check using excel macros
• Automated process of reporting of Production Tickets and notifications by integrating automate.io and outlook jira
• Identified/Executed critical End-End scenarios for Automation using Cucumber BDD Framework
• Fixed Salesforce AI Bot Errors where HNI were not able to search Funds and its price by looking into logs, updating permission sets and contact rule validation
• Proposed framework from Linear Scripting Framework to BDD and leveraged and contributed in Cucumber Gherkin by writing User Stories and Test Scenarios in Cucumber
• Suggested Excel to Charts, Graphs and then doing predictive analysis which helped FA's to identity future prospects which can be converted to clients

Principal Financial Group is a Global Financial Investment Management and Insurance Company - Validated applications which are used for Pre Sale, Post Sale, Testing Administration and Amendment & Renewals and Processing claims and renewals of proposals

Roles and Responsibility

• Promoted as Application Expert for Compass Billing Admin Tool) as efficiently managed areas from enrollment, policy maintenance and workflow, billing, collections to claims
• Managed entire QA Functional Support Operations) process for Quality Assuring production defects - Increased productivity by 20% while improving BU Parameters, engagement, teamwork
• Validated tricky excel data where one needs to validate Input Amount getting flown in Compass Billing System
• Proposed Delphix which enabled Oracle Server to clone databases in minutes for almost no storage which helped QA to spin up many copies in minutes in parallel instead of spending large amount of time building QA databases and then running destructive tests
• Developed and Reported Sprint Charts and Reports such as Sprint Burn Down, Epic Burndown, Project Burndown and Velocity Chart

Client : Bend Research Inc; Oregon USA is a privately held company that specializes in the research and development of pharmaceutical technologies

Roles and Responsibilities

• Performed Manual, Web and Load Testing using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008
• Contributed to Release notes by mapping sprint goals as per Feature | Portfolio EPICS | Themes | Values | Visions
• Contributed to end user training materials, and delivered end user trainings once solution went live in production
• Suggested cloning of Tasks/workflow and auto filling dates which made application initiative and avoided swivel chair
• Helped dev team to update sharepoint sites and creating dynamic reports in JIRA for both QA and Dev

Client : New Homes Market Center, is a real estate brokerage firm headquartered in Austin, Texas that incorporates new construction homes into the standard real estate model

Roles and Responsibilities

• Performed Quality Assurance of eCommerce and Logistic domain applications - Designed and Executed Test Cases developed in Flash Animations and Pay Per Click Marketing - Executed scripts developed using QTP 9.2
• Track and Report Bugs via Mantis/Bugzilla - Periodically Contributed and Reported Absolute Metrics data such as total number of test cases written/executed; number of test cases passed/failed/blocked/pending; defects found/accepted/rejected/deferred; critical/high/medium/low defects; planned & actual test hours; defects found during retesting/regression.