Shashank Chalke

About Shashank Chalke

Innovative, motivated consultant with more than 18 years of multicultural experience. Possess a unique blend of leadership, quality processes, testing skills & Insurance domain expertise. Ability to build/mentor effective, high-energy teams to deliver effective solutions for clients both in terms of cost and quality. An out-of-box, forward thinking, coach and mentor, with a focus on specific delivery results. Expertise in variety of software test activities, including creation and documentation of test strategies, Requirements and test cases, test automation framework, regression test bed setup and system software testing. Possess a high level of technical aptitude and analytical skill. Excellent design and problem solving skills. Experience in managing multi-million dollar projects with highest level of customer satisfaction.

Experience

1. Sr Consulting Manager

   Capgemini

   Jun 2010 — Present · Bloomington/Normal, IL, US

   Crafted Solution Acceptance Test for efforts implementing with Scaled Agile Framework -SAFe®.• Crafted Release Test Strategy, System plan, Work breakdown structure, Release Test schedule, Tracked Dependencies, Risks, Issues, resource estimation and leveling, Test tracking, and closure through Exit criteria.• Successful coordination of multi-Million dollar testing efforts highlighted below-o Implementation and integration of Guidewire Policy Center with Majesco Billing solution and in-house legacy payment solution.o Conversion Testing for Existing Billing system to Majesco Billing Solution. Coexistence and Old side /New Side Testing. o Coordinated Pilot Hadoop implementation using Scaled Agile Framework -SAFe®.Implementation of American Express, Discover Credit Card payment and Apple pay option across 15 agent and customer applications with 99% test effectiveness.o Implementation of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS). Integration with Cybersource (eCommerce Payment Gateway Solutions)o Conversion of 180 million Claims data from Legacy Claims system to modernized Claim system.o Activation of eMedical Claim System application in 15 states in a short time span of 6 months with 98% test effectiveness• Created and deployed robust test design framework, which employed concepts of Risk Based Testing.• Interviewed, Mentored and Appraised candidates for Test Analysts, Test Managers positions.• Facilitated the diagnosis of the overall health of the project by designing Quality Metrics Dashboard.• Implemented robust test design framework based of concepts of Risk Based Testing.• Defect containment increased from 2% of 10% in requirement phase which helped in overall cost of quality.• Pre-Sales experience in writing Test Center of Excellence proposals for more than 11 client’s opportunities.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's Degree, Electronics Engineering

  1997 — 2001

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), MBA

  2015 — 2017

Skills

• Testing
• Soa
• Business Process Improvement
• Hp Quality Center
• Business Intelligence
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Hibernate
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Test Planning
• Test Driven Development
• Business Analysis
• Scrum
• Pre-Sales
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Requirements Gathering
• Quality Assurance
• Test Cases
• Spring
• Pmp
• Quality