Parag Doshi

QA Manager

Iselin, New Jersey, United States19 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of experience in Quality Assurance.
  • Expert in building robust QA practices.
  • Proficient in test automation and project coordination.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance expert in E-commerce and Software Development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceTest AutomationProject ManagementTestingJava

Other Skills

Test PlanningAgile MethodologiesProject CoordinationSQLBusiness AnalysisE-commerceRequirements AnalysisUser Acceptance TestingSoftware DocumentationData AnalysisDebuggingBusiness Process ImprovementQuality ControlQuality ManagementSoftware Quality Assurance

About

An ISTQB (CTFL level) certified QA Manager || 15+ years of proven experience || Victorious || Impulsive || Vigorous || Empowered || Result Oriented || Inquisitive

Experience

19 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

The children's place

Quality Assurance Manager

Mar 2021Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · New Jersey, United States

  • The Children's Place, Inc. provides apparel, footwear, accessories, and other items for children. It also designs, contracts to manufacture and sell fashionable and value-priced merchandise under the brand names of The Children's Place, Baby Place, and Gymboree. The firm operates through Children's Place U.S. and Children's Place International segments.
  • Responsible for building and managing a robust software quality assurance practice to ensure a seamless omnichannel shopping experience for customers across all channels
  • Work collaboratively with internal and external teams while focusing on testing mission-critical and complex multi-tier software for web and mobile applications
  • Create and improve QA testing methods, identify and implement test automation solutions, and establish best practices for all Omni-channel initiatives
  • Direct product requirement testing for various programs/projects by generating testing strategies and test plans
  • Develop new methods/improvements for product testing and automated test frameworks to gain efficiencies and support continuous integration
  • Design and develop testing models customized to project needs and setup test governance process
  • Review quality issues and risks and lead software development to resolve issues and manage escalations as needed
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to design software and application design specifications prior to the actual creation to ensure accurate testing can be performed and the programs meet company standards
  • Manage test schedule and ensure execution is completed on time
  • Ability to create a high-performing, motivated workgroup by applying interpersonal and collaboration skills to achieve project goals and realize the value
  • Resolve any major issues with programs that could possibly affect data security, customer functionality, or system performance
  • Prepare reports and presentations for senior management and key stakeholders regarding product quality and performance
TestingQuality AssuranceTest PlanningTest AutomationAgile MethodologiesProject Coordination

Deluxe

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Mar 2020Mar 2021 · 1 yr · United States

  • Deluxe Corp. offers multiple e-commerce applications to their B2C/C2C customers. These ATG based applications facilitate to choose, configure, print, and order different business/personal products like business cards, brochures, postcards, calendars, business diaries, etc. These ecom applications are based on web to print concept. The applications are supported by four different geographic separated teams.

Bed bath & beyond

Senior QA Lead Engineer

May 2012Feb 2020 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • 1) Involve in the Planning, Monitoring, and Control of the testing activities and tasks of Web eCommerce Projects & Production Support throughout the testing life cycle. Estimate, Assign, Monitor and Review the tasks, assigned to the team members.
  • 2) Estimate the Web eCommerce Projects & Production Support testing to be executed and negotiate with management to acquire the necessary resources.
  • 3) Lead, Guide and Monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites.
  • 4) Creating Test Plan and test cases which corresponds to business rules and other operating conditions according to the customer needs for functional testing.
  • 5) Schedule the tests for execution and monitor, measure, control and report on the test progress, the product quality status and the test results, adapting the test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions.
  • 6) Collaborate with QA manager, Project managers, Architects, Backend engineers, Developers and Usability engineers for smooth delivery of the Web eCommerce Projects & Production Support releases.
  • 7) Mentor junior QA team members with process improvements, tools and engage them in reverse knowledge transfer to mitigate the resource risk/dependency. Plan and organize training for the Test Engineers.
  • 8) Working with Business team to collect their specific requirement so as to customize the application as per needs.
  • 9) Determine, Procure, Control, Maintain and Optimize the Web eCommerce Projects’ test environments (BF, UAT and Staging) including hardware, software and network.
  • 10) Comparison of report outputs in every instance with the database tables to reconfirm the reports and its accuracy.
  • 11) Co-ordinate & collaborate with third party vendors for test execution of integrated pieces. Ex. Omniture, Certona, Live clicker, QAS, Value Link, Border Free, Bazaar Voice etc.
TestingQuality AssuranceTest PlanningProject Management

Walmart

Senior Lead Quality Engineer

Aug 2011Apr 2012 · 8 mos · Bentonville, AR

  • Managed and led a team of 4 Testers in offshore (India) and 3 Testers on site.
  • Involved in meeting with Business Analyst, SME (subject matter experts) and Marketing Team for Requirements gathering in definition stage.
  • Reviewed and validated business requirements with Business Analysts, System Architect, Technical Lead and SMEs.
  • Worked directly with developers to ensure clear communication on requirements and analysis.
  • Prepared test plans and test cases based on business requirements and functional specification.
  • Monitored progress against business functionality, requested objectives to ensure that projects meets the specific release criteria.
  • Performed Smoke and Sanity testing on Annual Enrollment Java Application and DB2 Database.
  • Performed Manual testing on the Technical module of the AE Java application.
  • Performed Negative and Positive testing on UI of AE Java application.
  • Extensively involved in functional, integration, system, smoke, sanity, regression, stress and performance testing.
  • Interacted with developers, business analysts and discussed technical problems and reported bugs.
  • Conducted System testing and Regression testing on the application after bug/defects fix.
  • Used QMF for windows to connect to DB2 database. Involved in back end testing by executing SQL statements.
  • Ensured data consistency on front-end by executing SQL statements on the Relational Database Management System (RDBS).
  • Wrote complex SQL Queries to perform the Back End Testing of the DB2 database using SQL and UNIX shell commands.
  • Maintained SQL Scripts and UNIX Shell scripts to perform back-end testing on the DB2 database.
  • Monitored health of all components of YEYB on application level and system level.
  • Verified reports run on schedule with the release schedule table and ensured pages are updated.
  • Ad-hoc review reports to look for problems like spikes or data problems on page itself.
  • Release new builds received from development team into production
TestingQuality AssuranceTest PlanningSQL

Deluxe corporation

Senior Software Developer/QA Lead - JAVA/QA

Nov 2010Jul 2011 · 8 mos · Shoreview, MN

  • This ecommerce application is targeted for retail and institutional customers. The ecommerce application facilitates to choose, configure, print and order different business/personal products like business cards, brochures, postcards, calendars, business diaries etc. This ecommerce application is based on web to print concept. The application environment is well balanced on on-shore/off shore development model. Entire application was divided into two modules. (1) Hybris- commerce team (2) Configurator team.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Gather and Analyze business requirements. Conduct business process analysis, needs assessment.
  • To gather user requirements and perform analysis and design. To work on Microsoft Visio for creating use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, and preliminary class diagrams for the system using UML.
  • Prepare business requirements documents and system requirements study for functional changes desired in systems.
  • Analyze user requirements, conduct business process analysis and gap analysis between systems and cover any deficiencies as per the functional changes desired.
  • Manage a close coordination with BA, Project Lead, Technical Lead and Client team to efficiently provide development work.
  • Attend Business analyst JAD session in SDLC life cycle of project for new development phase of product.
  • Involved in source and version control using SVN.
  • Environment: Microsoft Visio, Java/J2EE 1.5, UML, SOA, JRuby, Spring MVC, Hybris 4.2.1, GWT 2.1, JSP, JUnit, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML/DHTML, AJAX, XSLT, CSS, Ant, Web sphere 7.0, Eclipse 3.6, JavaScript, log4j, Web Services, SVN, Hudson, Sonar.
JavaTestingQuality AssuranceProject Management

Chubb insurance

Senior Software Developer - JAVA

Aug 2009Sep 2009 · 1 mo · Whitehouse, NJ

  • Sales Proposal has enhanced the existing proposal to allow CPI’s agents more customization with an end result that is a better sales tool for agents. Sales proposal is launched from a real time application and provides the functionality with which the user can customize the proposal as per requirements. The implementation of this project will track usage of all marketing items that display on a completed proposal.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Participated in complete cycle of User Interface design and implementation of the Sales proposal customization by using JSF, JSP, CSS, HTML and DHTML.
  • Gather and Analyze business requirements. Conduct business process analysis, needs assessment.
  • To gather user requirements and perform analysis and design. To work on Microsoft Visio for creating use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, and preliminary class diagrams for the system using UML.
  • Prepare business requirements documents and system requirements study for functional changes desired in systems.
  • Analyze user requirements, conduct business process analysis and gap analysis between systems and cover any deficiencies as per the functional changes desired.
  • Manage a close coordination with BA, Project Lead, Technical Lead and Client team to efficiently provide development work.
  • Attend Business analyst JAD session in SDLC life cycle of project for new development phase of product.
  • Run SQL queries on quality center and Oracle SQL Developer executing and designing test scripts on Quality center and generating reports.
  • Create system test plan and System Test strategy documents, work with PM and/or independently to develop QA plans.
  • Develop the System Test report and include all QA processes and activities followed during the testing phase of the project.
  • Environment: RAD 7.5, JDK 1.5, J2EE 1.4, Servlet 2.4, JSP 2.0, JDBC, HTML 4.0, JSF 1.2, JSF 2.0, JavaScript, XML Bean 2.3.0, Web sphere 6.0, iText 2.0
JavaTestingQuality Assurance

Ripl

RIPL

Jan 2003Jan 2008 · 5 yrs

Education

Dowling College

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

Inforserve Technologies Institute, NY

Data Modeling/Ware housing and Data Base — Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration

Jan 2011Jan 2012

Gujarat University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Jan 2002Jan 2006

GLS IIT (Recognized by Gujarat University)- An ISO 9001 Institute

Diploma in eCommerce with specialization in Advacend JAVA — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2000Jan 2001

Sir BPTI, Bhavnagar

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 1996Jan 1998

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