Pushkar Joshi
About Pushkar Joshi
Pushkar Joshi is a Software QA Manager at Roxar, Emerson Process Management in Pune, India, with extensive experience in software quality assurance and team leadership.
Title
Pushkar Joshi currently holds the position of Software QA Manager at Roxar, Emerson Process Management. He is based in the Pune Area, India.
Professional Experience
Pushkar Joshi has a diverse background in software quality assurance, accumulated over several roles. He has served as Tech Lead at Roxar, Emerson Process Management from 2012 to 2016. Prior to that, he was an SQA Engineer at Symantec from 2011 to 2012. He also worked as a Senior Engineer - QA at eGain Communications from 2008 to 2010 and at Bentley Systems from 2007 to 2008. His career began as a Test Engineer at Ascent Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd., Pune from 2005 to 2006 and as a Trainee at Siemens AG from 2003 to 2004.
Education and Expertise
Pushkar Joshi holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electronics from North Maharashtra University, which he completed between 1999 and 2002. His expertise spans testing automation, team building, and process optimization in QA.
Leadership and Team Building
Pushkar Joshi has successfully incubated a testing team of approximately 25 members in India, establishing it as a Center of Excellence for testing. He has provided leadership and guidance to over 20 software testers and more than 5 domain testers to create robust and reusable manual and automated test cases, covering aspects such as functional, UI, correctness, and performance tests.
Process Optimization and Automation
Pushkar Joshi has driven the testing of the Next Generation product line for NextGen Reservoir from scratch to Beta. He has significantly reduced manual efforts and costs for three desktop products and one cloud-hosted program by rolling out automated test suites such as Python, Squish, and Cypress. Additionally, he established a Root Cause Analysis mechanism for defects and created dashboards using JIRA, Azure DevOps, and Grafana to provide valuable feedback to stakeholders.