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Vishak Kalikot

Wilmington,DE

Summary

Results-driven QA Lead excels in fast-paced environments, focusing on high productivity and efficient task completion. Skilled in test automation, manual testing, and defect tracking to ensure software quality and reliability. Leverages strong problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and adaptability to enhance team performance and meet project deadlines.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead QA

Apexon- JPMC
, Delaware
06.2022 - 12.2024
  • Handle a team of QA developers for all the monthly releases, and report to management about the bugs identified daily
  • Coordinated with QA team throughout the SDLC ensuring quality assurance standards are met at every stage of development life cycle.
  • Oversee the automation activity and guide the team in building a solid automation regression suite
  • Participated in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems
  • Monitored application performance after deployment to ensure quality assurance objectives were met
  • Worked with different teams that span across multiple locations to complete timely tests and facilitate smooth product releases
  • Collaborated with customers to develop quality control criteria for products based on customer needs and intended product applications
  • Technology Stack: Manual and Automation Testing, Java, Selenium scripting, JIRA
  • Responsibilities: Leading QA activities across different teams, being part of requirement-gathering calls, reporting to management on the project health, supporting release activities, and guiding the team in developing a proper automation suite
  • Documented all phases of the User Acceptance Testing process including test planning, execution, reporting and closure activities.

Lead QA Engineer

First Republic Bank
09.2019 - 06.2022
  • Company Overview: Mpahsis
  • Trained and supervised volunteers and junior staff, providing guidance and support to ensure high-quality program delivery
  • Collaborated with colleagues across multiple departments to provide comprehensive support for high-net-worth customers
  • Identified areas for improvement in existing systems and developed strategies to address them
  • Automated functional and regression testing approaches to streamline software production
  • Participated in requirement-gathering sessions with senior management teams
  • Understand the data needs for execution prepare the same
  • Monitored test execution, tracked, and reported on quality metrics, such as defect densities and open defect counts
  • Promoted high customer satisfaction by resolving problems with knowledgeable and friendly service
  • Managed schedules and implementation of product updates and new releases
  • Monitored application performance after deployment to ensure quality assurance objectives were met
  • Mpahsis
  • Technology Stack: Manual Functional Testing, and Automation

Functional Tester

Mphasis
03.2013 - 08.2022
  • Participated in requirement gathering sessions with stakeholders as needed
  • Data conditioning for the project based on requirements
  • Create Test Plan and Test Cases
  • Execute Test Scripts via JIRA
  • Open any identified defects and track them until they are closed.
  • Provide sign off for execution
  • Prepare Test Execution report and Traceability Matrix,
  • Produced test scripts for new automated software testing rounds
  • Participated in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems
  • Maintained database of known defects and monitored their resolution process
  • Conducted sanity checks at various stages of the release cycle for software products
  • Implemented user acceptance tests by simulating real-world usage scenarios
  • Technology Stack: Manual Testing, Selenium, JQuery

Education

Master of Science - Compter Applications

Scms School of Engineering And Technology
Kerala India
11-2011

Skills

  • Defect management
  • Test environment setup
  • Requirements analysis
  • Cross-browser testing
  • Test case design
  • Regression testing
  • Software development lifecycle
  • Quality processes
  • Jira and confluence
  • Jira issue tracking
  • Mobile app testing
  • Test automation expertise
  • Quality metrics analysis
  • QA testing
  • Automation testing
  • Testing script development
  • Process improvement
  • Functional testing
  • Agile methodology
  • Defect tracking
  • Test case creation

Timeline

Lead QA

Apexon- JPMC
06.2022 - 12.2024

Lead QA Engineer

First Republic Bank
09.2019 - 06.2022

Functional Tester

Mphasis
03.2013 - 08.2022

Master of Science - Compter Applications

Scms School of Engineering And Technology

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