Aman Panchal

Professional Summary
Having 17+ years of experience in software testing. Primarily worked with top tier Investment Banks in India and overseas. Led strategic transformation programs for Risk Technology (Market Risk & Credit Risk Technology), Delivered critical Regulatory Programs (Collateral & Margin program, ICB, CCAR and FRTB) and Cash Equities technology globally (covering EMEA, APAC, US) for major Investment Banks.

Technology Experience:

• Extensive experience in building Testing COE and E2E Dev-ops pipeline. Automation SME – having extensive experience in building automation testing capabilities and development of automated test frameworks using Commercial and Freeware tools (using Microsoft VSTS, Cucumber, Selenium, FitNesse and more)
    – SME Data Reconciliation – developed Data Reconciliation tools and integration BI layer.
    – Hands on experience with Big Data Hadoop
• Micro Services Testing: Developed an automation framework to validate Micro Services for consuming event notification from Kafka and publish the query frame to Spark.
• Data Reconciliation between Oracle and HDFS (Parquet file).
• Extensive experience in delivering corporate trainings in India and overseas – ISTQB (CTFL & CTAL), Test Automation (various commercial and open source tools).
• In-depth understanding and experience of delivering The Agile way. Safe Certified RTE and PO.
• Certified in ISTQB Foundation level (CTFL) and ISTQB Advanced level (CTAL).

Leadership Experience:

• 10+ years of leadership experience as VP (top tier Investment Banks).
    – Leading strategic Transformation program for Testing
    – Leading Program Execution & while resolving cross cutting technology concerns.
    – Providing domain & system architecture guidance & governance.
    – Collaboration with Product management, Product Owners to help ensure alignment to business & technology strategy.
• Experience as Head of Testing for a Product Company in ERP domain.
    – Vendor/ partner management – Single / Multiple Vendor, Vendor migration
• Leading strategic Vendor optimization.
• Budgeting and planning: Proven track record of reducing overall time to market and optimum use of resources.
• Experience in working with various commercials models like Fixed price model and Time and material model.
    – Experience in defining and establishing Testing Governance Process.
    – Development of Automation framework using Microsoft VSTS.
    – Experience in building a team from the scratch – resource planning, hiring, activity scoping, scheduling and tracking.
    – Experience in defining, setting up and leading strategy for Automation Testing.
• Experience in managing global business deliveries using geographically distributed teams across EMEA/ APAC/ US.

Education: B.E (Electronics and Communication)

Technical Expertise
Data Analytics Big Data Analytics – Hadoop, Apache – Kafka, Spark and HDFS
Development tools & Programming/ Scripting Languages: Visual Studio 2013, C#, Microsoft VSTS, VB Script, Eclipse, Java Script, Core JAVA.
Data Reconciliation& BI Tools: EC (Easy Compare) & Smart Recon Systems – Data Recon, Qlik View – BI Databases SQL, Oracle, Sybase.
Functional & Regression Testing Tools: Commercial Tools – HP QTP, HP-UFT, Mercury WinRunner, Smart Bear -Test Complete, and Microsoft – VSTS Coded UI, Ranorex. Open Source Tools – FitNesse, Selenium.
Test Management tool: Commercial Tools – HP – ALM, Quality Center, Test Director, Rational Test Manager, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), TFS. Open Source Tools – Test Link, FitNesse.
Performance Testing tool Commercial Tools- HP Load Runner, HP Performance Centre. Open Source Tools – Open STA.
Mobile Test automation tools: Appium, Selendroid, EZ TestApp for iOS and Android.
Unit Testing Tools: Unit Testing – Rational Purify +, dotMemory API Testing – Smart Bear – Ready API