Vikram Gupta

Background

About Vikram Gupta

Test Architect/QA Lead with over 13 years of experience in leading comprehensive software testing initiatives across diverse projects and industries. Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions by implementing strategic test planning, meticulous execution, and effective team leadership. • Adapt at managing resources, mitigating risks, and fostering collaboration between development, QA, and stakeholders to achieve project objectives. • Strong analytical skills combined with a passion for continuous improvement, ensuring optimal performance and adherence to quality standards. • Proficient with Agile (SAFe) as well as Scrum Agile. • Requirements Grooming: Coordinate with product team to refine business requirements and get them align as per business needs and for the team to understand. • Project Management and collaboration: Experience of leading project delivery and enabling teams to run delivery life cycle. • Creation of project plans along with each task and delivery dates. • Sound experience in client handling, customer collaboration based on the prior experience of working at client locations. • Played the role of onsite coordinator too which incorporates collaborating with various teams resolving team dependencies. • Present status updates in weekly delivery assurance meetings & monthly cadence meeting for sprint status updates to clients. • Reporting: Maintain/Track Dashboard - Burn down charts, Capacity Utilization, Velocity and preparing status reports for senior leadership and stakeholders. • Managing Risks and Dependencies using RAID log. • Track project requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). • Release Management: Tracking and maintaining status of each task/story in scrum and kanban boards in JIRA & Agility (Version One). • Create artifacts such as CSRE, Test Strategy, unit test case documents etc. before any production elevation. • Experience of attending and contributing to quarterly Release Planning events. • Software Testing: Hands-on technology professional accustomed to working in complex, project-based environments. Multifaceted experience in QA software testing (largely Functional, Regression, System Integration Testing and User Acceptance testing). • Implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions, Significant cost savings and fault-free audits. • Good understanding of the various testing methodologies, QA Processes and Software Development and Testing Life Cycle.