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Welcome to the website of Amit Sarkar

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Bromley, Greater London, UK

About me

Professional experience

  • Software test manager with 17+ years of experience in a variety of industries.
  • Proven track record of leading and managing teams across both offshore and onshore.
  • Proven ability to lead and motivate teams.
  • Proven track record of delivering high-quality software on time and within budget.
  • Developed and implemented test plans and strategies for complex software projects.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences within the org.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and resolve issues.
  • Passionate about testing and always looking for new ways to improve the quality of software or identify new techniques to improve testing.
  • Expertise in managing teams with a variety of testing skillsets, including security testing, performance testing, and test automation.
  • Experienced in conducting 1:1s and appraisals to track team performance and identify areas for improvement.
  • Understand the costs and benefits of quality assurance, and able to communicate the value of quality assurance to other stakeholders.

Personal experience

  • Co-host a 🎙️podcast on technology, write a 📰newsletter, regularly learn about new developments in the field of software testing, talk at meetups and attend software testing conferences.
  • Fully licensed UK ham 📻radio operator
  • Active practitioner of 🧘yoga and regularly 🏃run
  • Studied Introduction to Astronomy and Introduction to Astrophysics short-term courses from Royal Observatory Greenwich.
  • Back-packed South America over land and by air, with my partner.
  • Rode a 🏍️motorbike in the Leh region of India, with friends.
  • Tried skydiving, scuba diving, para gliding, paddle boarding, bouldering, running a vertical kilometer (VK), public speaking, acting, skateboarding
  • 🚴Cycled London to Paris in 24 hours
  • 1x Tough Guy finisher, 3x Tough Mudder finisher
  • Built this website from scratch using open source 🛠️tools
  • Learnt browser automation from scratch, using Taiko and Gauge, and delivered multiple meetups on it.

Podcast co-host

I currently co-host a weekly podcast with Rinat Malik called Tech Talk with Amit & Rinat

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Skills

Test Management

Expert

Jira / Confluence

Expert

Agile (Scrum / Kanban)

Expert

Taiko

Intermediate/Expert

Postman

Intermediate/Expert

Salesforce

Intermediate

Git

Intermediate

Burp Suite

Intermediate

UiPath

Beginner

Docker

Beginner

Terraform

Beginner

Languages

English

Fluent

Hindi

Fluent

Bengali

Basic