Amit Dash

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ABOUT AMIT DASH

Sophisticated and seasoned IT professional with 18 years’ experience in Software Testing. More than 15 years Canadian Banking experience as QA Manager/Test Co-ordinator/ QA Lead. Leading Multiple Agile and Traditional Banking Testing initiatives involving 50 + Team members. Strong experience is working in Onshore Offshore model as an Overall/Project Level Test Manager. Proficient in Test Estimation/Budgeting, Test Planning, Task Allocations, Requirement Analysis /Gathering and Optimizing Test efforts. Strong experience in creating Test Strategy and Test Plan documents. Running Orchestration meetings for Integration and E2E Test Co-ordination, E2E Test Data Co-ordination and Daily Testing Status to all stakeholders including Managing Directors, SVP and Release Management. Strong experience in Functional, Regression, Sanity, SIT, UAT and E2E Testing using manual and automation techniques. Attending and providing Key inputs in Sprint Planning/Re-planning, Story pointing, Backlog Grooming, Daily Stand-ups and Retrospective meeting. Engaged with key stakeholders, including project sponsors, clients, and senior management (SLT), to ensure that their expectations are understood and that the testing process aligns with the program\'s goals and objectives Ensured testing processes comply with industry standards, COE/ regulatory requirements, and organizational policies Collected and analyzed Testing metrics and Key Performance Indicators KPIs Maintaining Jira Data Quality for Epics, Stories and Bugs for Sprint, Release and Project perspective. Daily and Weekly Project status Reporting to all Stakeholders by using Jira Project Dashboard and ALM Dashboards. Conduct Daily Defect Triage meetings to analyze defects, determining the severity/priority and finalizing actions on them till Closure / Deferrals. Publishing Test Closure and Project Sign off Reports to all project Stakeholders, Managing Directors, SVP and Release Management. Project experience on Testing Tools like JIRA, Confluence, QTest, XRAY, HPQC(ALM), HP QTP(UFT), Rational Tools and Silk Test. Project experience in Web Services (SOAP and REST) using SOAP UI and POSTMAN. Production Validation – Planning, Execution, Co-ordination and Reporting to Senior Leadership teams. Commercial and Small Business banking for Bank of America (CashPro) and Scotia Bank (Scotia Connect) and Core banking TLS mortgage solution application for Scotiabank. Performed under high pressures, Learned new technologies in short span, ability to use previous experiences for effective results.