Gaurav Pandey

Gaurav is the Chief Research Officer of Verity Software.

Gaurav has over 19+ years of experience in the Software Industry including System Design, Prototyping, Coding, Testing, Software Quality Assurance, Implementation and Maintenance of
commercial and system projects in Client/Server, Web-based, Mobile applications using structured methodologies. He has worked for various companies like ATL, River Run, Hewitt Associates and
PureTesting.

• Gaurav was among the first few to clear the ISTQB-MAT, ISTQB Automotive Software Tester, ISTQB Security Tester, ISTQB Performance Testing, ISTQB Test Automation Engineer, ISTQB
  Game Testing, ISTQB Acceptance Testing, Selenium United-Certified Selenium Engineer, PtU-Certified Performance Tester with JMeter, Cloud United-Certified Cloud Testing
  Practitioner and DevOps United-Certified Tester in DevOps certifications in the world.
• He is one of the few renowned trainers on Mobile App Testing, ISTQB Courses & Performance Testing with JMeter.
• He is deeply passionate about testing and he loves teaching testing. Has trained more than 15000 participants on Software Testing platform.
• One of the most demanded trainer for the ISTQB trainings, Boot Camp, Agile, Mobile courses.
• He always has a feedback of more than 4.5 out of 5.
• In the past, Gaurav was working as Senior Manager with PureTesting. In this role, he led testing teams to prepare Test strategies, plans and estimation for mission critical projects for
  various client.
• He has coached, training teams and executives on successfully leading DevOps and Agile in a practical and in-depth Agile framework implementation and Scaled it with Continuous
  Integration, Continuous Delivery and Scaled Agile Framework.
• While at Hewitt Associates, he managed the testing project of the most difficult and critical projects in the History of Hewitt
• Gaurav was a contributor to the review team of the CTFL 2018, DevOps United, Selenium United & Cloud United Syllabus. He also handles development and review of various IP
  content at Verity.
• One of his passions is setting up Dev and Test Environments. He has got very in-depth understanding of setting up infrastructure including Windows OS, Linux, Android , iOS,
  Virtualization technologies, Middle ware and Backend systems, Containerization, Jenkins etc.
• With extensive experience in training and consulting on Software Testing he has delivered number of trainings to the Individuals and Corporates in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia,
  Philippines, Indonesia.
• Gaurav has very detailed Knowledge of
   –  Test Process, Test Plan Creation, Test Design Specifications, Test Case Management, Bug Reporting, Project Management and Scheduling
   – Test Driven DevOps Approach, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Inspection, Technical Debt Reduction, Containerization/Micro Services Using Kubernetes & Docker, Cloud Migration using AWS, Production Monitoring & Post-mortem
• Has been delivering trainings on Manual Testing, Automation Testing, ISTQB Foundation, ISTQB Advanced (TM, TA, TTA), ISTQB Agile Tester, ISTQB Automotive Software Tester, ISTQB Security
  Tester, ISTQB Mobile Application Testing, IREB, Test Design Techniques, Certified Selenium Engineer, Certified Cloud Testing Practitioner, various DevOps Toolkit (Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarQube)

Gaurav holds a Master’s In Technology degree in Computer Science from Bundelkhand University and Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Shridhar University. He is a

• ISTQB Foundation Level-Certified
• ISTQB Advance Level Test Manager Certified
• ISTQB Advance Level Test Analyst Certified
• ISTQB Advance Level Technical Test Analyst Certified
• ISTQB Agile Tester Certified
• ISTQB Advance Level Test Automation Engineer Certified
• ISTQB Automotive Software Tester Certified
• ISTQB Advance Level-Security Tester Certified
• ISTQB-Mobile Application Tester Certified
• ISTQB-Performance Testing Certified
• ISTQB Game Testing Certified
• ISTQB Acceptance Testing Certified
• Selenium United – Certified Selenium Engineer
• Performance Testing United – Certified Performance Tester with JMeter
• DevOps United – Certified Tester in DevOps
• Cloud United – Certified Cloud Testing Practitioner
• Microsoft Certified Professional in Visual C, Visual Basic, SQL server and Windows Architecture
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer Professional