QA Manager and Certified ScrumMaster at IBM ISL Cognos
India
- Current
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- Manager Globalization QA at IBM Cognos
- Past
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- Sr. Manager Quality Engineering at SABA Software
- Manager - Quality Assurance at BMC Software
- Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
- Education
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- Northern Illinois University
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Utpal Mehta’s Summary
Sr. Quality Management professional with 16 years experience in the industry. I have extensive experience in Agile development (I am a Certified Scrum Master); I have expertise in Project management in onsite-offshore model. This includes Managing teams across geographies with team sizes of up to 25 people. I am also experienced in the various aspects of performance engineering.
My goal is to work for an organization that would make the best use of my primary competencies in Project Management, Testing/QA and Performance Engineering and provide me with the opportunity of growing with the organization. I am looking for a position that is a combination of a managerial / decision making and technical position that involves defining and implementing strategies/roadmaps that would facilitate the growth of the organization
Utpal Mehta’s Specialties:
• Project Management
• Scrum methodology and Scrum Management (CSM)
• QA and Testing in a Product based environment and IT Consultancy and Services environment
• Performance Engineering
Benchmarking
Performance Tuning
Query Tuning
Load Testing
• Application maintenance and development
• IT Service Management (ITIL Foundation Certified)
• Retail
• Securities
• Office Automation
Utpal Mehta’s Experience
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Manager Globalization QA
IBM Cognos
(Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
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Sr. Manager Quality Engineering
SABA Software
(Public Company; SABA; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Sr. Manager Quality Engineering in Pune. I was overseeing the quality of all deliverables coming out of the Pune office and was directly responsible for the Integrated Automation (Silk Test and API level) testing framework program and the Platform components of the Saba product
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Manager - Quality Assurance
BMC Software
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — June 2007 (2 years 11 months)
As Manager – QA in the Service Management Business Unit (SMBU) of BMCI, I managed a team of 24 whose primarily role was the testing and delivery of our Small-to-Medium Business service management and helpdesk product called BMC Service Desk Express (previously known as Magic Service Desk). The salient developments since I joined BMC include
• Adoption of the Scrum Methodology of AGILE development and testing (I am a Certified Scrum Master)
• Joint responsibility for defining the test strategy for every phase and release of the product
• Execution of 80% of the testing of the product in our Pune center
• Collaborative test management with the US team
• Bandwidth consumption testing and form load time testing
• Internationalization testing of the product
• Localization testing (German, French, Simplified Chinese)
• Implementation of Automation for a significant percentage of all the test cases -
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1994 — August 2004 (10 years 3 months)
I worked with TCS from 1994 to 2004 and from December 1999 onwards I was part of TCS’ Enterprise Systems Performance service practice. The practice provides services in Performance engineering including
• System Sizing and Capacity Planning
• Proof of Performance, Benchmarking, Load testing
• System Performance Review
• Demand Management by iterative
Performance Monitoring
System Tuning and Optimization
From this practice I have been the manager/consultant for multiple performance and testing projects
Utpal Mehta’s Education
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Northern Illinois University
B.S. , Computer Science , 1989 — 1991
