Utkarsh Rana

Highly driven and capable award-winning software quality specialist, test automation expert, and MSc graduate with over 4 years of professional experience in leading organisations. My career so far has been characterised by significant achievements within international companies, delivering substantial efficiencies, quality assurance, cost-saving, automation and software testing frameworks. An insightful and technically capable professional who demonstrates the utmost commitment and dedication, utilising the latest technological innovation to ensure the ongoing success, viability, and efficiency of internationally operating firms.

I am keen to leverage my skills, experience, and knowledge in a new challenge.

SOFTWARE QUALITY SPECIALIST Sep 2020 – Aug 2022

SAP India | Bangalore, India

• Spearheaded quality assurance for the software function of the world’s leading enterprise resource planning software vendor, providing solutions to manage business operations and customer relations
• Collaborated closely with the Project Management team to successfully deliver the Service Execution Engine (SEE)
• Led continuous quality assurance and control, including all stages of the test and defect lifecycle for the SAP Focus Run GPF project, aimed at maintaining service standards and managing customer incidents

Key Achievements: 

• Drove viability of the SAP E-Mobility project for SAP Germany by designing and integrating a fully automated testing framework
• Improved various quality metrics and implemented efficient, agile testing strategies, accelerating sprint-wise deliveries by ~15%
• Built an automated application uptime monitoring system, reducing the team's response to crashes and downtime by ~40%
• Introduced a major time-saving automation solution to streamline the process of test documentation by over 90% at £0 cost to the company
• Established a BDD test automation framework for UI and API using Selenium, JavaScript, Cucumber, Axios and Jenkins
• Conducted comprehensive stress, performance, functional, sanity, smoke, regression, and scalability testing to optimise software usability
• Validated final phases of applications to determine eligibility for release and devised test plans to oversee the progress of software delivery lifecycles
• Analysed requirements to design, develop and maintain a list of risks, requirements, and deliverables
• Championed the shift-left testing approach with innovative proofs-of-concept

Awards: 

• ‘Praise Award’ for designing an automation testing framework based on a shift-left approach and innovation in TestOps
• ‘Thank You Award’ for revamping the existing testing framework and optimising test scripts

SOFTWARE TEST ANALYST Jul 2018 – Sep 2020

Standard Chartered GBS | Bangalore, India

• Delivered vital software quality assurance requirements for a British multinational bank's global business services function with consumer, corporate and institutional banking operations

Key Achievements:

• Crafted a hybrid test automation framework, reducing feature delivery time by 20%
• Streamlined test procedures, boosting efficiency by 25% and utilised Jira and Kanban for effective project management
• Spearheaded the QA and automation for the CreditMate migration, employing Selenium, Java, and Cucumber
• Conducted comprehensive testing and analysis for the Brexit GB project, ensuring accurate business logic validation
• Collaborated closely with the software development team, resolving defects and defining testing scopes for product features
• Championed user acceptance testing, validating critical product releases and enhancing test effectiveness for maximised ROI

Awards: 

• ‘GEM (Going the Extra Mile) Award’ for contribution to the Global Banking division in the field of test automation
• ‘Team Excellence Award’ for collaborating on successfully migrating SCB’s legacy application from Internet Explorer 8 browser to Google Chrome

MSc Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation Sep 2022 – Sep 2023

Warwick Business School – University of Warwick, UK

Grade: Merit

BTech Computer Science & Engineering Jul 2014 – May 2018

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

Grade: 7.74 GPA