Hi, I’m
Piyush Saxena
Main Delivery Owner / Test Manager
Eindhoven
Summary
- 12+ years software test experience (ISTQB + PM Foundation certified).
- Hands-on experience in Testing Methodologies, Stakeholders management.
- Strong communicator (also in Dutch) with local presence and I am a Dutch citizen.
- Lead, build and facilitate the team to become high performing.
- Guide the team to ensure timely delivery and how to get the most out of self-organization.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum and test design techniques. Fields of expertise - Define release Software test plan and guard the software quality.
- Advice the product team during release Go/No-Go meetings.
- Leading/coaching team members and helping them with impediments in daily work.
- Identify product risks at all phases of development and define mitigation actions.
- Define/Promote a practical, pragmatic test roadmap and lead it to execution.
- Performing 8D's when needed for deep down investigations.
- Test case design, test planning, requirement traceability, execution, and defect reporting.
- Reviewing use cases, functional/non-functional requirements and creating test cases.
- System integration and regression
Overview
12
years of professional experience
6
Certifications
2
Languages
Work History
ASML
Main Delivery Owner
01.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Deliver plan to meet the agreed deliverables in time and propose alternative plan scenario's when there is a delay.
- Ensure an effective team that reflects the work content, ensuring the team has the right information; and interdependencies within projects are identified and managed
- Organize technical alignments with engineers and architects
- Manage/plan technical and non-technical risks for new deliveries
- Dive into issues, secure fundamental understanding solves problems/escalations while understanding the proper escalation paths and act upon them
- Drive issue and upgrades planning with stakeholders (e.g., SW upgrades, manage defects)
- Lead team wrt planning, execution, and forecasting
- Manage stakeholders by setting the necessary communication manners (meetings, guidelines, rules, reports etc.) to minimize escalations
ASML
System Test Lead
02.2017 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Performing Scrum Master/Test Lead Role for daily test activities, organizing retrospective meetings
- Define release test plan, guard the software quality and advice the development team during release Go/No-Go meetings
- Work with software module (sub-system) owners to improve their test coverage and robustness
- Define, document and roll out guidelines for system level testing
- Create Test Report for Higher management with overall Test Progress, performing 8D's when needed
- Coach/Train team members and improve the overall test process.
UPS
Software Test Engineer
01.2016 - 12.2016
Job overview
- Creating test cases and test data for a change in - or new requirements
- Performing complete system tests to validate new functionalities
- Complete regression tests to prevent new issues in the software due to a change in code
- Providing inputs for creation of test plans and estimates in the preparation phase and also for new change requests
- Driving pre-release and post-release calls with development and design team to ensure all the deliverables are well in time
- Reporting results and reports for the test performed in every release.
KPN
System Test Engineer
06.2012 - 12.2015
Job overview
- Requirement analysis for the new functional areas for the application
- Executing test scripts in backend with UNIX for system testing
- Preparing test end reports for every phase of test plan
- Executing and integration of functional tests: system, sanity, regression and retesting
- Analyzing the impact of the Defect and Logging it by using Quality Centre and HP ALM.
Education
VTU
Bachelor of Science from Information Science And Engineering
05.2007 - 2011.06
Skills
Development cycle: STLC, SDLC, SAFe, Agile/SCRUM, DevOpsundefined
Certification
Project Management Foundation 2023
Fields Of Expertise
- Define release Software test plan and guard the software quality
- Advice the product team during release Go/No-Go meetings.
- Leading/coaching team members and helping them with impediments in daily work.
- Identify product risks at all phases of development and define mitigation actions.
- Define/Promote a practical, pragmatic test roadmap and lead it to execution.
- Performing 8D's when needed for deep down investigations.
- Test case design, test planning, requirement traceability, execution, and defect reporting.
- Reviewing use cases, functional/non-functional requirements and creating test cases.
- System integration and regression testing, embedded system testing.
- Quality coach for developers.
Timeline
Main Delivery Owner
ASML
01.2023 - Current
System Test Lead
ASML
02.2017 - 12.2022
Software Test Engineer
UPS
01.2016 - 12.2016
System Test Engineer
KPN
06.2012 - 12.2015
VTU
Bachelor of Science from Information Science And Engineering
05.2007 - 2011.06