Vikas Rajurkar
Cost of Software Maintenance is directly proportional to Cost of Quality
- Role
- Associate Director, Quality Engineering at Wolters Kluwer
- Location
- Pune Division, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vikas Rajurkar
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.\" — Aristotle My journey has evolved from…
Experience
Associate Director, Quality Engineering
Jul 2022 — Present · Pune, IN
Delivered a complex digital transformation strategic program with SAFe for a product in regulatory compliance in banking from an end-to-end quality perspectiveo Achieved “Shift Left” with CI / CD and TDD – Cost of Quality reduced by 35% over span of 3 yearso Analysis of requirements, review of Epics, user stories and Acceptance criteriao Designed & implemented scalable E2E test automation - Reduced test cycle time by 80%o Measured and monitored performance baseline and improvement per releaseo Maintained average defect detention > 93% over 10 consecutive Product Incrementso Certified product as per Definition of Done after variety of quality gateso Delivered containerized deployment on SaaS and On-premise setupso Promoted Gen-AI and Agentic AI in quality engineering activitieso Handled large portfolio of with people management o Established effective governance, reporting to Senior leadership for alignment to QA initiativesStrategic leadership in qualityo Establish long term vision, goals, processes in quality for strategic programo Defined Strategy for E2E testing in alignment with business roadmapo Decision on staggered hiring and training of resources, capacity distributiono Test environment selection and setup in collaboration with DevOps, support teamso Quality support in new product incubation, execution, pre-launch and hyper-careo Identification and tracking of quality metrics for continuous improvemento Directed to maintain comprehensive product documented from end user perspectiveo Encouraged Lean and Agile, Innovation, R&D, Best practices and continuous learningSkillfully negotiated, communicated, collaborated and coordinated with Product Management, delivery management, cross functional and multi geographical teams, leadership stakeholders from scope, resources, risks, budget perspective
Education
University of Pune
BE, Computer Engineering
2000 — 2003
ICFAI Distance Education
Diploma in Business Management - Distance learning, Information Technology
2005 — 2006
Skills
- Scrum Master
- Test Strategy
- Software Project Management
- Test Cases
- Functional Testing
- Requirements Analysis
- Customer Relations
- System Integration Testing
- Requirements Gathering
- Leadership
- Software Quality
- Risk Based Testing
- Integration Testing
- Silktest
- Regression Testing
- Software Testing Life Cycle
- User Acceptance Testing
- Exploratory Testing
- Sdlc
- Project Delivery
- Cmmi
- Retirement
- Business Analysis
- Global Delivery
- Istqb Certified
- Agile Project Management
- Test Planning
- Agile Methodologies
- V-Model
- Defect Life Cycle
- Personal Branding
- Tfs
- Black Box Testing
- Tax
- Test Estimation
- Testing
- End-to-End Testing
- Telecommunication Service Provider Domain
- People Management
- Smoke Testing
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