Pankaj Wani

15+ years of experience in Functional Testing and in Banking and Financial Services performing various responsibilities in roles such as Test Analyst (Functional Tester), Test Lead

Scrum master (4 years) with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on-time and within budget.

Support an Agile Software Development process working in conjunction with stakeholders and technical delivery teams

Overall accountability for testing deliverables. Managing all test phases, ST, SIT, Regression, OAT and UAT.

Defining Test Strategy, Driving Automation, Reviewing of test deliverables, Guidance to peers, Environment,

Release and Defect management, RAID’s, Resourcing.

Key expertise in corporate banking - Sanctions & Fraud Payment Profiling, Payments (MT/MX)

Experience on testing through various devices i.e. Mobile Applications, Web Application, TV Applications,

STB- Comcast, Ziggo & Sky
Knowledge on SUITEST Automation tool (OTT Platform based tool).

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the delivery of an end-to-end QA solution for FPP project for Manual and Automation testing.

Driving Test planning phase, preparing schedule, preparing estimations, schedule baseline for project,

preparing Execution Plan, resource identification & allocation, Schedule & Milestone tracking, status reporting.

Driving the development of the Automation framework. Maintaining and executing automation test scripts

using Selenium WebDriver for regression tests.

Automated regression execution, code review.

Ownership of all different phases of testing, Functional, ST, SIT, regression, OAT, UAT and postproduction

support.

Defect Management / coordination with service transition team and stakeholder management

Management of Key risk / dependency and timely escalations to keep testing on plan

Representing QA in Go/No Calls

Facilitates and coaches the Scrum team in using Agile practices and principles to deliver value to the clients.

Facilitating and participating various scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint

review and sprint stand up

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on

product backlog project timeline.

Helps find techniques for effective Product Backlog management with Product owner

Acted as a facilitator for the Product Owner and the team both.

Facilitated discussions within/across teams on the best way to deliver maximum value to our product

§ MCA (Master of Computer Applications) from Pune University in 2006. 

§ BCS (Bachelor of Computer  Science) from Pune University in 2003.