Anand Thakar

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ANAND THAKAR

Over 20 years of experience in Software Quality Analysis and Lead for Web Applications and Client/Server Applications. • Experienced QA Lead. • Scrum Master Certified by SCRUMstudy and completed Business Analysis Certificate course as a Continuing Education from Mount Royal University Calgary AB• Planning to appear for ECBA by end of this year.• Well versed with SDLC and STLC and Testing methodologies & Strategies. • Experienced with multiple Domains like Energy, Airlines, Payments and Remittance, Banking, legal, e-Governance.• Experienced in Facilitating stakeholders to gather requirements and create the Use cases, perform gap analysis and identify opportunities for improvement.• Assessing and modeling current and future state business processes, Process Modeling, Workflow diagrams.• BA Skills that makes me smoothly and successfully deal with people of varied experience, skill levels, technical and business savvy, and personality type and ability to build consensus and develop relationships in all directions. • Working experience in Gap analysis and Risk Management.• Experienced in Test Management, Creating and executing the Test Plan and Test Strategy Documents and leading a team of QA members and mentoring the teammates.• Coordinating the UAT testing with the Internal as well as External customers.• Communicated effectively and providing support during the pilot and Implementation.• Extensively worked on various testing types like System Integration,Regression Testing, Usability, API/Web services Testing,Cross browser and Exploratory testing.• Served as a point of contact between the clients and the development teams and Worked in Offshore-Onsite model. • Experienced in Defect management like reporting and tracking defects by using bug-tracking tools such as HP-QC, TFS, JIRA, Project-Tracker, Wiki-Trac and Redmine.• Experience working in the Agile Environment for over 8 years, have knowledge of agile process.