Subodh Patalay

CLIENT: AT&T | Telecom

• Responsible for managing test initiatives for ATT Consumer and SMB(Small and Medium Business) application. An online application that provides mobility and internet customers insight into their accounts.
• Created templates for Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Defect Report, Periodic and End of Project Reports including Test all the templates needed for Automation
• Hired, trained, and supervised team of 25 quality assurance professionals
• Created templates for Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Defect Report, Periodic and End of Project Reports including Test all the templates needed for Automation
• Effectively trained team members to develop and execute test cases and provided ongoing support with training sessions and weekly status meetings.
• Participated in product planning with members of the business team to represent quality in all phases of the product development.
• Established quality metrics, managed the bug tracking process, and implemented and enforced the release process and methodology.
• Facilitated in converting 70% of regression test cases to automation across all the scrum teams.
• Achieved 90% Test Efficiency rate by reducing the number of defects leaked into production.
• Performed root cause analysis for defects and misses and provided strategy to reduce their count in future releases.
• Implemented use of Test Automation tool - Katalon Studio across all the scrum teams for regression and progression test cases.
• Integrated Automation with Jenkins builds thus providing seamless way of implementation.
• Lead Automation Teams and provided hands on expertise and mentoring to team members.
• Acted as a Back-Up always for client manager whenever the need arises.
• Performed root cause analysis to identify and resolve quality issues and defects.
• Facilitated communication with corporate headquarters performance team and acted as key contact for any collaboration with this team.

CLIENT: PNC Bank Financial Services

• Led testing efforts of Bank of America Direct Corporate Payments Platform.
• Extensive knowledge of FX wires, domestic wires, drafts, ACH and bulk payment processing.
• Effectively planned Systems Testing environments across multiple platforms to facilitate End-to-End, Unit, Integration, System, Regression and User Acceptance testing.
• Developed test scripts and test plans to effectively test the system functionality in adherence with the requirements.
• Conducted weekly team meetings, tracked and reported progress, and assigned balanced workloads to meet and exceed company demands.
• Directed team members and instructed them in new technologies and test strategies.
• Reviewed & analyzed business requirements, technical design, and Functional Specification documents and discussed them with the project team.
• Created spreadsheets to verify foreign exchange rate calculations and spreads for different tier plans.
• Verified correctness of the data stored in Oracle database and content of the S.W.I.F.T.messages stored on the UNIX server.
• Participated as a Test Team Lead in CMM level 2 certification.

Client: AT&T | Telecom

• Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Optimized resource allocation by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in project workflows, leading to reduced time-to-market for product releases.
• Streamlined release processes through close coordination between development teams and operations staff.
• Reduced technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions.
• Facilitated seamless integration of new team members into existing projects without compromising productivity levels.
• Implemented continuous improvement initiatives through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
• Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.

CLIENT : STATE FARM Insurance Company

Performed agile testing, review the stories and participated in Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning and Release Planning meeting and used JIRA Tool
• Participated in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle(STLC)
• Involved in the design and development of test plan from business and Functional requirements which includes test objectives, test strategies, test environments etc.
• Performed System, Integration, Smoke, Sanity, Functional, End to End, Positive and Negative and monitored the Behaviour of the applications during different phases of testing using testing methodologies.
• Regression testing was performed after each build release of the application and updated the Scripts by executing the Regression suites built using Selenium and approve for regression suit.
• Created Selenium Test cases for automation using Selenium Web Driver and Java using various test frameworks.
• Build a detailed, reusable, Script Data – Driven framework for over 45% Test cases using Selenium WebDriver +TestNG.
• Parallel, Cross – Browser Testing using Selenium Grid and TestNG.
• Performed back end testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables and manually verify the correctness of the data with front-end values.
• Developed SOAP UI tests for REST and SOAP web services regression testing.
• Interacted with users by conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure that the total functionality of the application was met by complying with all the business requirements.
• Participated in weekly QA status and project status meetings to report any defects and issues encountered in application.
• Discussed with team lead and PM regarding testing deadlines and post deployment validation.
• Actively communicated with the end users and business users to create realistic test cases.
• Provide test summary documentation and analyse test results, identifying trends and/or root causes of problems..