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Ekta Vashishth Shah

CSM, Technical Programme Manager

Ekta Vashishth Shah
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
I am Ekta. Enthusiastic, jolly, extrovert, observant, logical, inquisitive, adaptable, photogenic, these are some words that I can use to describe myself best. I am passionate about building apps. I have a varied range of experience building Payments, eCommerce and OTT apps. I am looking for great work exposure which will provide new experiences and an opportunity to enhance my skillsets. I love photography, getting photographed(no candids!), reading, watching Netflix, shopping and dancing.
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Technical Programme Manager eCommerce

Astro
Since October 2018
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
  • Working on building APIs for eCommerce portal.
  • Ensuring the team lives agile values & principles and follows the processes they set.
  • Bridging the gap between business & development team by clearing any uncertainty around the user stories and resolving any bottlenecks.
  • Leading the team in agile ceremonies namely Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Demo.
  • In charge of deliverables from programme management perspective. This includes ensuring the integration and final user testing and ensuring the development team resolves the issues throughout.
  • Co-ordinating projects across many functional areas in order to deliver features and releases.
  • Driving effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.

Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Online Testing

Astro
May 2016 to September 2018
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
  • Lead the QA for Payments module which consisted of Payment Gateways and eWallet App. In charge of creating QA roadmaps for the module.
  • Testing of Payment Gateways, SSO modules integrated on Web sites. Also covering API testing for the same.
  • Overlooking QA process for e-commerce portal. Managing QA activities for Incremental QA deliveries till project go-live (UAT, SIT, FUT).
  • Automation testing of OTT applications using automation tool like Opkey. Also created a base framework on Validating Content Playback automation to ease up the verification process for OTT app via Opkey.
  • Performance testing OTT application.
  • Involved in product requirement understanding and ambiguity identification.
  • Interacting and working along with vendors for multiple projects.
  • Working in agile teams, incorporating Devops for on-going projects.
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Software QA Engineer

Mindstix Software Labs
August 2015 to March 2016
Pune
India
  • Testing CRM Projects.
  • Testing Web and Mobile applications.
  • Creating Test plans, test suites, filling defects, generating test reports.
  • Speaking with client and understanding the scope of the project. Ensuring the project quality remains as per client's expectations.
  • Automation testing of Android Applications using Appium.

Lead Software QA Engineer

Lodestone Software Services Pvt.Ltd
February 2014 to April 2015
Ahmedabad
India
  • Worked as a Team Lead. Testing of Mobile and Web Application.
  • Performing Smoke Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, CrossBrowser Testing, Black-box Testing, Recoverability Testing, Backward Compatibility Testing, Up-gradationTesting,Localization and Internationalization testing.
  • Involved in Requirement understanding and ambiguity identification.
  • Worked on the most popular Social Networking website & its App.
  • Creating test scenarios, test cases and test plan.
  • Bug Cycle: Reporting, Verifying & Closing once fixed.
  • Interacting with Product Specialist and understanding the product cycle.
  • Involved in conducting training sessions for the products.
  • Arranged weekly meetings with the team to learn new functionality/module specific to client's product. This helped in expanding team's knowledge-base around the inner workings of the organisation.

Software Developer

Credencys Solutions Inc.
April 2013 to September 2013
Ahmedabad
India
  • Worked briefly on phoneGap.
  • Managed company website in Wordpress.
  • Was also in charge of Content Management of the website. Wrote blogs for the company on augmented reality trends.
  • Performing GUI Testing of website for responsiveness, Cross Browser Testing.

Junior Software Engineer

Educational Initiatives
June 2012 to October 2012
Ahmedabad
India
  • Developing educational games and modules for children using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and JavaScript.
  • Testing the existing games and modules by creating test cases.
  • Performed manual testing on various platforms (tablets, mobile phones and desktops).
  • Ensuring that the games and modules were responsive.
  • Certified Scrum Master - Completed Scrum certification under Mr. Vernon Stinebaker.
    Expert
  • Agile Process and Ceremonies - Thorough understanding of Agile processes and ceremonies.
    Good
  • Experienced with Product management - Partaking in requirement gathering and ambiguity identification of a Product. Providing user experience feedbacks while URS sessions. Giving inputs on key behaviour for a Product based on the experience.
    Good
  • Knowledge of SDLC – Agile and Scrum methodologies. Involved in Project and Product development stages and have understanding of how it progresses. Worked with teams in Agile projects.
    Good
  • Understanding Client/Customer needs
    Good
  • Experienced in working with Vendors
    Advanced
  • QA Lead - Managing QA team with manual and automation skill sets. Handling and distributing QA projects between team members. Achieving On-time delivery of projects.
    Good
  • Manual Testing on Domains - OTT Applications, SSO, Payment Gateways, Wallet, eCommerce Portal, Social Media apps, Salesforce CRM, Jobs Portals
    Advanced
  • Well Versed with Manual testing concepts - Positive and Negative Tests, Boundary Value Analysis, Smoke Tests, Sanity Tests, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Adhoc (Exploratory), Cross– Browser, User Interface and User Acceptance tests
    Advanced
  • Understanding of the STLC process – Test case documentation, review and execution
    Good
  • UI/UX testing
    Advanced
  • API testing Tool familiarity : jMeter, Postman, Soap UI
    Good
  • Experienced with Performance testing. Tool familiarity : jMeter, Redline 13, Blazemeter
    Good

MSc-CA

Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research

2010 to 2012
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BCA

GLS Institute of Computer Applications

2007 to 2010
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  • Food, Nature, Architecture, People, Plants, Animals, anything basically!
  • Instagram blogging based on travels.
  • Exploring new places and their culture.
  • Reading - Fiction mostly
  • Writing