Neeraj Kapoor

Operations Associate

India19 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 19 years of experience in digital transformations.
  • Led large teams for global enterprise testing services.
  • Established Automation Center of Excellence from scratch.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Digital Transformation Leader in Fintech and Insurance sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality EngineeringProgram ManagementProject Management Office (pmo)LeadershipQuality ManagementDigital TransformationProject ManagementAutomation

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsBankingBugzillaBusiness Process ImprovementClient RequirementsCloud ComputingCoding ExperienceCross-Functional Team ManagementDefect TrackingHP QTPHP Quality CenterHP QuickTest Professional (QTP)Integration TestingLoad Testing

About

Specialties: Digital Transformation leader: Software Engineering Manager & Testing; Agile Project Management, Testing CoE, Intelligent Process Automation CoE, DevSecOps • Engineering Expert with over 19 years of experience in digital transformations across various domain verticals such as Healthcare Insurance, BFSI, Life Annuity, P&C, SAP - Treasury & Customer Success Factor, Gas Energy Sector & GIS. • He has served as Head of Quality function to deliver enterprise level testing services globally with large a team size of 150+ people across India, Asia Pacific, US, & Canada. • Delivered multiple QA projects using agile methodology and has great exposure to BDD and TDD techniques. He has successfully implemented the automation as part of Continuous Integration (CI) and is well versed of the Dev-Ops implementations. • Software delivery management role for more than 5 years and has successfully led big testing programs with proficiency in strategising, planning and setting up projects for million dollar programs from requirement elicitation, design & development, all forms of testing (functional/non-functional), UAT, production deployment, and hypercare • Extensive 5 years of experience in leading Intelligent Automation CoE with Robotics Process Automation (RPA) plus OCR/AI from scratch using UIPath and Automation Anywhere for complex healthcare, banking and Life Insurance apps for E2E process automation. • Delivery Management experience of more than 8 years. - Product development and Test Management; Requirement Analysis, Strategy definition, planning, Estimation, Budgeting and forecasting, scheduling, monitoring and control, Risk/Issue management, Client management, resource management of big pool of cross functional team, Resource Planning and delivery management. • TCoE experience of more than 7 years in UHG & Maxlife Insurance for e2e testing practice and services using progressive/regression, performance, security, and test automation & test optimisation stream using RBT, OATS, and Common Test Planning. Also, Lead Automation Center of Excellence in EXL. • 2.5 years in Investment Banking (Data warehousing) – Front Office Markets - Sales Mart BI product using SQL Server & SSIS. Testing • Exposure to Agile Methodology (Scrum, SAFe) & DevOps (Jenkins). • 8+ years in Automation Architect - Selenium, HP UFT, Cucumber, APIs, Jenkins, Protractor, TestComplete, RestAssured. • Published White Papers “Selecting right automation candidate” & “Digital Continuous Testing Strategy” at organisation level.

Experience

19 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Sbs

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid

  • Define the global Quality Engineering strategy for SaaS core banking product for EU banks for deposits and payments domains, open banking, etc with e2e testing.
  • Enabling all facets of testing with components, integrations, e2e testing, planning, and Quality gates, program governance.
Program ManagementQuality EngineeringBanking

Fidelity international

Program Strategy, Quality and Delivery Leadership

Feb 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Programs Quality Strategies - People, Process, Technologies
  • Engineering Quality Practices - Automation, Shift left
  • Digital Transformation
  • Talent Development
  • Release Management
Non-Functional RequirementsPresentation SkillsProject Management Office (PMO)Analytical SkillsClient RequirementsLeadership+2

Max life insurance company limited

2 roles

Digital Transformation Leader, Vice President (Head Quality Engineering CoE & Intelligent Automation

Oct 2021Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Digital Transformation
  • Testing-As-Service, Testing CoE
  • Program Management
  • Intelligent Automation RPA COE
Non-Functional RequirementsQuality ManagementPresentation SkillsMobile TestingCoding ExperienceProject Management Office (PMO)+10

AVP, Head Quality Engineering Leadership & Program Management

Oct 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs

  • Testing Practice and Delivery Head for Digital (B2B & B2C), B2E, SAP Treasury / Customer Success Factor, Data Lake, AWS Cloud Migrations, and legacy systems (Policy Issuance and Admin System) for high Quality releases, Speed-To-Market, Agility and Efficiency of core insurance to achieve defect leakage reduction with maximise test coverage & skillset, and speed-to-market with automation/shift-left/optimisation, and competency building.
  • Intelligent Automation CoE to discover, assess, enable, and deploy of re-engineering of business processes with help of automation enabler with UIPATH RPA, automation utilities, Cognitive automation, etc for TAT / Cost reduction, efficiency, and accuracy for Policy issuance, QC, Underwriting, Servicing, admin service, Finance, etc.
Non-Functional RequirementsQuality ManagementPresentation SkillsMobile TestingCoding ExperienceProject Management Office (PMO)+8

Exl

Digital Transformation Leader (Software Engineering, Delivery Management and, Head Automation CoE)

Mar 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida Area, India

  • E2E Software Product delivery Management of complex applications, release management, team management and stakeholders management.
  • Automation Delivery and Practice Head for life Annuity, Healthcare, Property Insurance, and Data Analytics.
  • Set-up Automation Center of Excellence from scratch to work as core unit to serve various lines of businesses for plug and play solutions and establishing practices / processes.
  • Rulebased based underwriter insurance automation of complex system automation solution
Non-Functional RequirementsQuality ManagementPresentation SkillsCoding ExperienceProject Management Office (PMO)Client Requirements+5

Optum

Software Engineering Delivery and Chief Automation Architect - ACoE

Aug 2015Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Product delivery management - initiation, business and solution requirement analysis, planning and estimation, design inputs, architecture review, coding, deliver and support. process improvement, stakeholder, resource, and risk management. Technologies .Net and Java.
  • Leading & Managing Automation Center of Excellence & Test Optimization for various platform & LOBs
  • Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Manager / solution Architect expertise using UIPATH and workfusion (RPA Express) for designing E2E automation strategy for web / desktop based - .Net and Mainframe applications.
  • Technical Management role to bring transformation of Agile, DevOps, QA to QE
  • Solution Architect role to build capabilities around E2E enterprise wide automation solution (ATDD, POM, Keyword) using Selenium, LeanFT/UFT, Jmeter, VBA, Service Virtualization, Test Harness, Cloud computing, etc to gain million dollars saving using solutions.
Non-Functional RequirementsQuality ManagementPresentation SkillsMobile TestingCoding ExperienceLoad Testing+2

Rbs markets and international banking

2 roles

Technical Project Manager and QA Architect

Nov 2014Aug 2015 · 9 mos

  • Effort planning, Estimation, Design & Development, Testing & Support;
  • Training and resource planning
  • AngularJS, HTML5, SQL Server, Oracle, SpotFire, etc
  • Best Practices and standards.
  • Stakeholder and Resource management.
Coding ExperienceTeam Management

Testing Manager, AVP - DW Business Intelligence - Manual and Automation Testing (QTP & Selenium)

Jul 2013Nov 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Managing end-to-end testing activities for Trades processing & reporting to business users.
  • Planning & Estimation, Execution & Control, Signoff, Automation Testing using QTP/Selenium.
  • JIRA, SQL Server 2008, QTP, Selenium, etc
  • Resource Management, Stakeholder Management, Quality Management
Coding Experience

Unitedhealth group

2 roles

Software Test Lead - Automation CoE

Apr 2010Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Senior Test Engineer

Dec 2007Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Handling Automation team with QTP, Selenium & VBA projects.
  • Delivery Automation Solutions (Framework / Tools) at organisation to various QA Project teams

Sapient

Associate QA L2

Jul 2006Dec 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Worked as Associate QA L2

Education

MRV

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