Rachana Ghatge is a Project Manager and Test Manager with over 10 years of experience in testing and project management in the technology domain. She has a Bachelor's degree in IT and a Master's degree in Engineering Management. She is PMP, Scrum, and Six Sigma certified. Her experience includes managing teams of up to 30 people and leading projects in retail, utilities, banking, and insurance. She has expertise in test planning, automation, performance testing, and leading agile projects through all phases from requirements to release.

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Name: Rachana Ghatge- PMP, SFC, SSGB, SSBB
Email: rachanannikam@gmail.com
DOB: 9th July 1984
Visa Status- H1-B valid through 3/18
Contact: 602-326-6072
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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Possess around 10 years of Technology (IT) experience in Testing, & Project Management & hands -on
with business management experience with Key Emphasis on Microsoft, Utilities, & BFSI Domain
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION:
Bachelor of Engineering in IT with Distinction from KIT’s College of Engineering, Shivaji University,
Maharashtra, India
Masters in Engineering Management, San Jose, California, USA
CERTIFICATIONS:
• Project Management Professional (PMP) - Certified through Project Management Institute
(PMI), 2014.
• Certified SFC by PMI –Scrum Fundamental Certified
• Six Sigma Yellow Belt certified- SSGB
• Six Sigma Green Belt certified- SSBB
• Pursuing Black Belt.

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MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS:
Project 1: MFA (Multi Factor Authentication)
Domain: Retail – Coca-Cola (Atlanta)
Role: Project Manager/Test Coordinator Feb 2016- Till Date
Responsibilities:
• Develop & maintain Functional/System Test plan, Test Strategy, Test Estimations, Test Summary
Reports leading team of 28 people
• Develop & maintain Functional Automation Test plan, Test Strategy, Test Estimations, Test
Summary Reports at Onsite/Offshore (QTP) leading team of 11 people
• Develop & maintain Performance Test plan, PT Strategy, POC, Test Estimations, Test Summary
Reports at Onsite/ Offshore- (Load runner, WhatsUpGold tool for Disk utilization, CPU usage,
memory usage) & SPLUNK leading team of 8 people
• Review & guide Automation/Performance POC
• Test the Single Sign on Functionality on SAP GUI and Web based Site Minder applications
with cross functional platform in Latin/North America/Europe/Asia domain on Win7, Win8, Win10
& MAC operating systems.
• Testing VIP Symantec app on Mobiles.
• Localization and Globalization Testing
• Create Governance Report/ participate in project audits ( internal & external)
• Migration of windows from Win XP ( ENG/SPANISH/JAPANESE/CHINESE) to Win Vista (
ENG/SPANISH/JAPANESE/CHINESE) and Win 7( ENG/SPANISH/JAPANESE/CHINESE)
• Manage Change Requests .Plan & Modify Milestones based on Project schedule. Get the approvals
• Create & Update Testing Project Plan on weekly basis ( Microsoft Projects). Risk Management,
Resource Management & Quality Management.
• Create Weekly Status Reports, & Monthly Status Reports
• Handle the tasks of identifying UAT testers and managing resource plan by coordinating with
business stakeholders. UAT Management with UAT plans, UAT test scripts
• Handle the tasks of ensuring that the Pre-UAT activity is performed accurately and efficiently
• Responsible for developing UAT test process and monitoring SIT execution phases
• Handle the tasks of identifying defects and perform root cause analysis by analysing data quality
issues
• Attending Business Workshops & support BA in analysing & documenting requirements.
• HP QC ALM (11.0) to track release, cycles, resources, tasks, Execution, Metrics
• Database Testing- Utilize SQL queries, Joins using SQL Server 2016
• Track and audit testing related activities/projects in the organization

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• STLC & SDLC
• Analyse requirements & perform gap analysis
• Track testing activities conducted by Team via MS projects
Project 2: TSPI (Transmission Substation & Project Integration)
Domain: Utilities – Transmission & Substation (San Diego)
Role: Project Manager/QA Test Manager Oct 2014- Jan 2016
Responsibilities:
• Develop & maintain Functional/System Test plan, Test Strategy, Test Estimations, Test Summary
Reports leading team of 28 people
• Develop & maintain Functional Automation Test plan, Test Strategy, POC, Test Estimations, Test
Summary Reports at Onsite/Offshore (QTP)
• Develop & maintain Performance Test plan, PT Strategy, POC, Test Estimations, Test Summary
Reports at Onsite/ Offshore Handle team of 30 testers mentoring manual/automation/performance
activities. Review POC, test scripts and limitations.
• Plan & Modify Milestones based on Project schedule. Get the approvals
• Create & Update Testing Project Plan on weekly basis ( Microsoft Projects)
• Create Weekly Status Reports, & Monthly Status Reports
• Handle the tasks of identifying UAT testers and managing resource plan by coordinating with
business stakeholders
• Database Testing- Utilize SQL queries, Joins using SQL Server 2014
• Handle the tasks of ensuring that the Pre-UAT activity is performed accurately and efficiently
• Responsible for developing UAT test process and monitoring SIT execution phases
• Handle the tasks of identifying defects and perform root cause analysis by analysing data quality
issues
• Attending Business Workshops & support BA in analysing & documenting requirements.
• HP QC ALM (11.0) to track release, cycles, resources, tasks, Execution, Metrics
• Review Automation Scripts, Create & Update Automation Test Plan & Automation Test Reports with
Feedback
• Review Performance Scripts, Create & Update Performance Test Plan & Performance Test Reports
with Feedback
• Provide End to End testing Statistics to client
• STLC & SDLC
• Analyse requirements & perform gap analysis
• Track testing activities conducted by Team via MS projects

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Project 3: Morgan Stanley
Domain: Investment Banking & Mortgage
Role: QA Test Manager March 2011- Feb 2014
Responsibilities:
• Thorough knowledge of Front end, back end & middle office operation for banking project
• Develop & maintain management plans & Test Strategy & Test Plans
• Analyse product objectives, requirements, & target audiences, understand functional & technical
content
• Building a team of Automated and Manual QA Test Engineers
• Converting BRS into SRS/FRS
• Direct all QA activities including standardizing process for estimates, implementing standardized
format for test cases and defects.
• Manage and lead multiple high profile complex projects simultaneously while also continuing to lead
the testing efforts on weekly/monthly maintenance releases. .
• Automate regression suites. Leading QA Automation Efforts and Test Design/ Architecture.
• Identify test cases to be automated with Automation coverage
• Preparing Manual, Performance & Automation Metircs based on inputs from BA/Dev/ & Testers
• Functional, Integration, User Acceptance and Regression Testing Experience.
• Responsible for SIT/ UAT project planning like creating testing scenario, test plans, and test scripts
• Develop Scope, Time, & Resource management using MS-Projects
• Participate in processes, reported testing progress/test results, conducted triage meetings with
business/BA’s, development, project management and test teams to prioritize & close defects in a
timely manner using HP- Quality Centre- ALM 10.0
• Develop & maintain Quality Assurance Plan & implemented the documented quality & testing
policies, plans, & processes to support the plan
• Review manuals, plans, procedure and other quality related documents to implement quality
• Coaching & mentoring testing team in testing methodologies, documentation, & compliance
Project 4: Asurion- Mobile Forecasting
Domain : Insurance
Role: Test Lead/ Business Analyst/ UAT Feb 2010 - Feb 2011

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Responsibilities:
• Publishing Incident Tickets & change request reporting/metrics
• Working on Database Queries, Joins, Functions with High Level & Low Level design perspective
• Test planning, preparing test strategy, estimations, scenarios, test cases, execution, defect
tracking, bug regression using JIRA tool for defect tracking
• Preparing Process Flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Converting BRS into SRS/URS/FRS with agile models
• Identifying gaps & stream lining process of user access to Application/DB/ Server Access
• Risk Mitigation/Meet SLA & keep customer focused
• Application/Database/interface/System/Inytegration/Regression/Functional testing
• Provide Sign-Off & Releases with Final Inspection on Production.
• Expertise in preparing integration plan for use by developers & testers
• Importing & exporting data from client database server to application server
• Planning, executing, Monitoring & Closing project with project management skills thus enabling
stakeholder satisfaction
• Responsible for Data import (Store, retrieve, update entries from DB), User Management & Security
Management Feature.
• Involved in Conf calls, Bridge calls, Brain Storming meetings
• Maintaining accurate data on both shipments & actual sales demand measuring the forecast
variance.
• Identifying Test Scenarios, Creation & execution of Test Cases
• Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing & Adhoc testing around
the new changes
Project 5: Windows Live Messenger (WLM) (Microsoft)
Domain: Microsoft
Role: Sr. STE Testing & Automation July 2006- Feb 2010
Responsibilities:
The project deals with the UI and API testing of Windows Live Messenger product. Features of WLM
include- Chat, File/Photo Sharing, Spaces, Profiles creation, Activities/Games playing, Audio/Video
calling, Family Safety usage for kids, MPOP(Multi point Sign In), Sounds and Alerts, Setup, Super toast
testing, scheduling-enabling/disabling selective features, Personal Expression testing -downloading
contents from site(Winks, Emoticons, background, DDPs), Yahoo interop testing, Security (Flash bang),
Syndication & Antivirus Testing, Rating & Reviewing product, Adding to cart & Checkout etc.
Technical Skills:
Microsoft Tools: Product Studio (Bug Tracking Tool), Windows Test Technology ( Test Case Tool)

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Automation using C# for Web Application using MS visual Studio 2008, & VSS
Sr. SDET:
• Automating New test cases as per new functionality using C# with RPF framework
• Doing daily build call through automation.
• Analysing failures in Microsoft Lab runs using latches.
• Scheduling automated test cases in BVT (Pri0) and Comp (Pri1) suites
• Create BB Packs and check in the code to source depot
• Peer Reviews & Code Reviews as per coding standards
• Beta Dogfooding & Buddy Build Testing
• Installation of the product on different O.S using PQDI & Image-X
• Combiner setup testing.
• Functional/ System/ Integration/ User Acceptance/ Regression/ Adhoc/Exploratory testing
• CVR testing on dial up connection/Network Emulator/Corpnet
• New Text-Ad Rotation feature testing & MSRC (WM DTP testing for security patch on SP3)
• Localization & Globalization Testing
• Identifying, Creating, & Executing test cases to achieve various Mile-Stones
• Reporting defects & Uploading of test cases in WTT& Conversion of defects in
I affirm that the above information is true to the best of my knowledge. Rachana Nikam.