Sagar Bhosale
Clarksburg
Summary
Over 18 years of experience in IT with focus on Automation and quality assurance in Banking/Wealth Management/ Secondary Mortgage/ Pharma/ Healthcare/ERP domain. A balanced profile with experience in management/leadership and hands-on work. Known for ability to effectively utilize technical skills to produce high-quality deliverables that meet timeline and budgetary targets. Adapting Microsoft Co-pilot in IDE to accelerate the testing and improve accuracy. Experience in test automation development and implementation using Hybrid BDD framework for Web applications using Selenium, Cucumber, Core Java, Test NG, Rest Assured, GitHub, Maven/Gradle, Postman, SOATest, Mainframe, Swagger and Jenkins tools in Agile manner. Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments using Jenkins, GitHub, Bit Bucket Docker. Worked in a Scaled AGILE environment and participated in scrum, PI planning, Backlog planning using JIRA, Azure ADO boards, sprint planning meetings and other scrum ceremonies like refinement sessions, sprint review and conducting retrospective. Ability to manage time, meet deadlines, organize, and prioritize work effectively. Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise QA teams and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work. Experience in working on JIRA/ADO Dashboard/Power BI reports generation to formulate and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to assess QA team success, optimize testing strategies, and enhance product quality. Also experience of working on SOW/RFPs/Transformation plan/Invoicing.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
05.2024 - Current
- Managed Wealth Management and AML project across banking domain, streamlining client data workflows, and improving testing processes for better efficiency and accuracy.
- Developed and executed high-level testing strategies for Wealth Management in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Managed cross-functional teams, including onshore and offshore resources, ensuring successful project delivery using SOATest automation for API validation.
- Successful implementation of BDD framework for Web based applications using RAFT framework (Selenium, Java, and Cucumber) technology stacks and CI-CD implementation in cloud-based environment.
- Integrated Microsoft Copilot into the QA lifecycle to accelerate test case design, API Payload, Defect Summary etc.
- Client: Bank of America
Manager – QA
Cigniti Technologies Ltd
08.2022 - 04.2024
- Led the QA team in planning, implementing, and automating testing for cloud, distributed, and mainframe environments.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and refine requirements and user stories, ensuring alignment with business features and capabilities.
- Drafted detailed test cases and scripts, executed test plans, and documented test results to improve system functionalities.
- Participated in implementation of BDD test approach by integrating Selenium, Cucumber, Rest API, and Test NG using JAVA programming language decreased manual testing efforts by 60%.
- Streamlined CI-CD standards for GitHub action plans for smoke and regression pipelines using yaml configuration in PCF cloud.
- Maintained attention to detail and analytical mindset to ensure accuracy and completeness in testing processes.
- Provide status updates in daily scrum and report any blocking issues or blockers.
- Maintain ongoing communication with the development team to coordinate defect tracking and resolution through defect triage call.
- Spearhead initiatives for continuous improvement of testing practices, including regular training sessions on emerging technologies and methodologies.
- Client: Northern Trust Bank
Manager – Projects
Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA
08.2014 - 08.2022
- Participated in PI Planning/requirement meetings and collaborated with team to size the user stories in Version One/ JIRA. Developed Agile Test Strategy based on the scope and review with stakeholders.
- Participated in BDD hybrid framework development Selenium, Java, Cucumber, Maven, Rest Assured tools and validated into the AWS cloud environments.
- Coordinate with product team to configure Jenkins Pipeline with Bit Bucket testing repos to run automation regression and integration suite through CI/CD pipeline.
- Utilized HP ALM for test management and integrated automated tests for comprehensive reporting and traceability. Conduct defect triage meeting by analyzing the pipeline reports with the team.
- Involved in performance testing efforts to validate non-functional requirements for defined SLAs.
- Coordinated testing effort with various application teams for System, Integration, Performance, End2End and UAT testing.
- Provided weekly status update, risks/issues showing the progress of the testing effort. Prepared the quality metrics report and presented it to internal and company stakeholders. Participate in estimates, budgeting, invoicing, RFP preparation.
- Client: Freddie Mac
Validation Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA
02.2010 - 07.2014
- Led eight members team (dev and testers) at AstraZeneca, facilitated the Risk assessment process with the Business users to determine the High-Risk requirements.
- Defined testing strategy provided test estimates. Created and reviewed Test plan, Test strategy document, Test Cases, Execution logs, RTM and Test Summary documents. Test execution and defect reporting in ALM.
- Worked on Commercial applications (Veeva) as well as Pharma Validated Systems (ARISg, Trackwise, LIMS), Good understanding of GDP predicates like 21 CFR 11.
- Validated Pharma applications using UFT tool and provided test reports to business stakeholders.
- Client: AstraZeneca
Test Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA
03.2006 - 01.2010
- Participated in Salesforce (Siebel) and other CRM applications as a Test Lead Capacity using Onshore/Offshore models. Involved in ETL testing to validate source and target systems using ETL mappings, Complex SQLs.
- Lead the creation of key testing artifacts (such as test plans, test cases, reports, and UAT plans). Participate in defect triage call to receive the resolution of found defects.
- Proactively uncover project risks, apply appropriate mitigation, and escalate to management as and when needed.
- Lead the QA team across different geographical locations and time zones.
- Client: Merck Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Pune University
Pune India06-2003
Bachelor of Science - Computer Sceince
Pune University
Pune India06-2001
Skills
- Automation Testing using hybrid BDD framework (TestNG), Rest API Automation, Mobile Automation, Project Management, Scrum Master ability, AWS Cloud, System Integration Validation, Performance Testing
- Integrated Microsoft Co-Pilot in testing process for test design and execution activity
- Tools and Utilities – Selenium Web driver, Cucumber, Test NG, SOA Test, CICS Mainframe, Maven, GIT Lab, Bit Bucket, UFT, WinSCP, Putty, Rapid SQL, Postman, Swagger, JMeter, Kibana
- Continuous Integration and Deployment tools: Jenkins, Git lab, AWS Cloud, Docker, OpenShift Kibana
- Configuration Management Tools: ADO boards, Power BI, JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, Version One
- Programming Languages: - Core Java, VB Script, Gherkin and Shell Scripts
- Database – Oracle, DB2, SQL Server Mongo DB
Accomplishments
- Increased test efficiency by 30% through AI-driven test case suggestions using Copilot.
- Reduced regression cycle time by 40% using RAFT automation and CI/CD.
- Improved defect leakage by 25% through targeted risk-based testing and KPI-driven monitoring.
- Optimized team performance across 10+ global resources with streamlined communication and process automation.
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect Associate
- Certified SAFe 4 DevOps Practitioner.
- Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
Timeline
Project Manager
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
05.2024 - Current
Manager – QA
Cigniti Technologies Ltd
08.2022 - 04.2024
Manager – Projects
Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA
08.2014 - 08.2022
Validation Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA
02.2010 - 07.2014
Test Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA
03.2006 - 01.2010
Master of Science - Computer Science
Pune University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Sceince
Pune University