About

Vinay Kumar Pandey is a Sr. Quality Analyst at Bytexus Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. with over 4.8 years of experience in the IT industry. He is ISTQB certified and has a PSM1 certification. He has extensive experience in manual and performance testing for web-based, mobile app testing, IOS testing, and API testing. He has a profound understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting. Vinay has expertise in various testing methodologies like functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, system testing, white-box testing, black-box testing, grey-box testing, accessibility testing, database testing, migration testing, performance testing, client-server applications, and web-design applications. He has experience reviewing metrics in multiple Quality Assurance methodologies such as Waterfall, V-Model, Agile, and Scrum. Vinay has successfully managed project backlogs, release scheduling, project duration estimation, and forecasting. He has directed and led development teams from project initiation through delivery of the final product. He has extensively used Rally for maintaining user story hierarchy, backlog grooming, updating tasks, connecting Version One with Jira, planning iterations, and releases. Vinay has also been involved in end-to-end non-functional requirement gathering, performance test plan preparation, walk-through of test plan and test design documents with clients. He has monitored runs using different graphs like transaction response time, server performance status, CPU utilizations, memory usages, hits per second, throughput, etc. and finding bottlenecks using various monitoring tools like Blaze meter. He has analyzed the results using various charts and tables in Blaze meter tool and compiled all the test status into one dashboard. Vinay has hands-on experience in API testing using tools like Postman (Get, Post, Put, and Delete). He validates the response, response time, error code "http status code like 200, 201, 400, 403, 404, 500, etc." He has hands-on experience with native Android and/or iOS SDK and experience in hybrid apps and mobile apps on iOS, iPad, and Android devices. He validates using simulators and emulators and also with real-time devices. Vinay has a Master of Computer Applications degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Lucknow. He has