Vivek Kale

Experienced software test professional with progressive experience in Front Office- FX domain, Cash Management, Wealth Management, Investment, Retail & Private banking. - More than 16 years of experience in QA & testing playing multiple roles like Test Manager & lead across projects and environments with onsite-offshore coordination - Extensive experience in Testing (SIT, UAT, Integration & Regression Testing) and Non-Functional testing (Performance Testing, Automation Testing, Failover Recovery Testing) - Experience in working closely with Change The Bank & Run The Bank teams - Experience in running the business Testing across Customer Onboaring, Order Capture, Operations, Risks & Finance functions in Run the bank model - More than 10 years of client facing, onshore experience in Investment Bank & Retail Bank - Experience in handling IT & Business Testing - Having excellent leadership, negotiating and communicating skills and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and vendor test teams - Expertise in test planning, test strategy, effort estimation, scheduling, defect management, process standardization, management reporting, risk based testing and vendor management - Experience in creating all testing artifacts (Test Strategy, Test plans, End of Test Reports, Test reports (DSR, EOTRs) - Experience on Transition projects and Managed Service Delivery Models - Experience in using test tools like HP-Quality Centre ,JIRA and Test Director for developing test cases/ steps and maintaining the test cases repository, Defect Management - Well versed with Agile Testing, Incremental and Waterfall methodologies - Strong knowledge of QA process and effective implementation of QA process in aggressive client environment. - Ability to quickly learn applications with minimal documentation - Experience and ability to lead effectively manage testing teams across locations - Knowledge of SQL, Unix - Knowledge of Reconciliation domain and SmartStream- TLM 2.7 & Sungurd- IMatch - Knowledge of Blockchain Technology and Trading Tools as- Murex 2.11, Bloomberg