Suhas Barhate

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About Suhas Barhate

A seasoned Program Test Manager, Test Delivery Lead, QA/ Test Manager, and Defect Manager with 20 years of extensive experience in diverse and notable organizations across various verticals, including Insurance, Banking, Finance, Telecom, Public/Government sectors, Airlines, Railways, and Utilities. My projects have ranged from application-based and web-based to product-based, e-commerce, migration of On-Prem Infrastructure Migration to Azure/ AWS Cloud projects that also involved migration of Applications, Infrastructure, Security services migration to cloud. I specialize in preparing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Estimation, and Resourcing. I introduce Test Standards/Frameworks, create Quality Management Plans, manage multi-functional teams, and handle customer relations. Have expertise in collaborating with third-party suppliers, Onshore/Offshore teams, and stakeholders for relevant activities. I am proficient in both Manual and Automation Testing. I have managed end-to-end test phases, including Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, UAT, OAT, ORT, SRT, Exploratory Testing, Regression Testing, Penetration Testing, Pilot Testing, Usability Testing, and Performance Testing. In QA & Governance, I have experience to enforce and ensure adherence to standards, compliance, processes, and procedures. I collaborate with various stakeholders, anticipate challenges, and provide solutions. I conduct quality reviews/audits for projects, processes, and peers, and work on governance and process optimization. I have expertise in Reporting, Defect Management, and Change & Risk Management activities. My job role also involves tracking deliveries, releases, scope, environments, tests, and KPIs, identifying actual and potential risks and providing solutions. I have extensive experience in SIT, UAT, and multiple project management, assign tasks to team members, monitor progress, train/mentor them, maintain RAID logs, implement best practices, and produce Causal Analysis reports. My extensive experience in project test delivery encompasses V-Model, AGILE (SCRUM), SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Azure DevOps, CI/CD approach, and Waterfall Model. I am skilled in implementing Risk-Based Testing (RBT) and TDD techniques.