About

Vishal Ghawate is an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer currently working as a QAEIII at Amazon. With over 10 years of IT/Testing experience, he has domain expertise in Wealth Management, Investment Banking, Insurance, Android, and Mobile. Vishal has worked on various testing life cycle activities such as analyzing requirements, preparing effort estimation, project planning & tracking, test plan preparation, test environment setup, functional manual testing, test scenario/test case creation, review of test cases, risk-based prioritization, test case execution, tracking of test case execution and defect management, test progress reporting, defect reporting, and management. He is also proficient in test automation using Selenium Web Driver. Vishal has experience in testing phases such as Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, and Automation Testing. He is skilled in using testing tools such as Selenium web driver, IDE, HP ALM, and JIRA, as well as defect management tools like HP ALM and JIRA. He has technical expertise in testing tools, operating systems, programming languages, and databases such as Java, VBA, MS SQL, and Oracle. Apart from his technical skills, Vishal also has experience in team management, mentoring team members, knowledge management activities, supporting teams, planning tasks and scheduling, and taking up bottom line responsibilities. Vishal has worked with companies like Nuance Communications and Cognizant in the past. At Nuance Communications, he worked as a Senior QA Engineer and was responsible for detailed analysis of requirements, designing the automation test framework, preparing test automation scripts, reviewing test automation scripts, following up with issues faced, and ensuring QA completion on a timely basis. At Cognizant, he worked as a Test Lead and was responsible for detailed analysis of requirements, designing the automation test framework, preparing test automation scripts, reviewing test automation scripts, following up with issues faced, and ensuring QA completion on a timely basis. He also conducted knowledge sharing sessions for new joiners as well as existing team members in the project and delegated and reviewed the work done by a team of four people. Vishal holds a Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) degree in Computer Science from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune. His tech stack includes test, Selenium, web, SDET, QA, SQL, integration, mobile, Java, and Android. Overall, Vishal has 13.36 years of relevant