Aakash Vakil

Member for

23 years 8 months

A strategic, customer-focused leader with 12 years of technical experience in consulting and client service delivery for large testing / QA engagements. An effective communicator and strong decision maker who can handle ambiguity and changing project dynamics in large cross-cultural teams.

Specialties:
- Leadership of technical / functional teams
- Client engagement at all stages of life-cycle
- Helping clients make decisions / talk them out of bad decisions
- Leading scoping sessions and workshops for client teams
- Mediating between client and vendor teams for scope, risk, and defect resolutions
- Onsite-offshore delivery management
- Determining staffing mix, leverage, roles and responsibilities
- Testing PMO, Test Strategy, Test Planning
- Setting up / configuration of testing tools like HP Quality Center, Microsoft TFS, SAP TAO, and HP QTP
- Test Process selection / recommendation based on CMMi Level 5 standards
- Executive Level Communication
- Pre-sales support (RFPs and RFIs)
- Developing engaging sales presentation and marketing material for partners and directors

Job Function

Consulting

Industry

Computer Services (Web Hosting, VAR, Integrator)

Interests

Cloud

Mobile

Performance Testing

Process Improvement

Test Automation

Testing

Country

India

Aakash Vakil

Aakash Vakil is a CSTE with over six years experience in functional and automated testing. He has worked as test lead, test specialist and test engineer servicing large banking and financial service industry clients. Aakash like to research on latest developments in technology areas with a focus on testing, search engine optimization and web analytics. When he is not testing, he likes to blog about his views and observations about everyday life focusing around testing. His blogs can be read at www.sqablogs.com/aakashvakil and he can be contacted at [email protected].

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	AJAX From a Tester's Point of View This paper presents an overview of AJAX, what a black box tester should know before he leaps into AJAX testing, and the security risks that AJAX applications open up. Also discussed are the market trends are for AJAX adoption and its prospective growth potential. Finally the author looks at some of the black box test ideas and recommendations that test two main security concerns in AJAX implementation: data validation and session management.
	White Paper: Functional Testing of Requirements and Code Base This white paper highlights the advantages of testing requirements and the issues that ignoring faulty or ambiguous requirements can create during the coding and testing phases. This paper will help organizations become more aware of these types of situations and will help teams take charge of the problem during the requirements and unit testing phases.