Ekta Vashishth Shah
CSM, Technical Programme Manager
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.
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.
Company Description
Astro is a Malaysian direct broadcast satellite (DBS) Pay TV service.
Company website
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.
