Amit R. — CEO

✪ A highly versatile and seasoned Quality Engineering,Low code Platform Development Leader and Program Management Stalwart with 19+ years of proven track record of spearheading cross-functional teams to manage large-scale IT projects/ programs like Workday ,Service Now,IAM Implementation & Appian as well Sigma Product Onboarding, and render 24x7 support across multi-million-dollar organizations. ✪ Resourceful in leading and monitoring projects with respect to time, cost, resource deployment and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution. ✪ Ample of experience in Capital Markets Domain including Trading Lifecycle, Equities, Derivatives with strong exposure of Banking and Finance Product Testing. ✪ Highly skilled in driving agile transformations, testing of Web-based and Client-Server Applications, and creating robust automation frameworks using various tools to steer flawless execution. ✪ Champion innovator with an ability to synergize people, process, and technology. ✪ Driven and decisive with passion for building and retaining highly effective teams. ✪ Adept at fostering stellar relationships with diverse teams and key clients to engage, inspire and provide compelling to the stakeholders. ✌ 𝓢𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓼: ✅ IT Strategic Planning & Implementation ✅ Program Management ✅ Project Management ✅ Agile Transformation ✅ Workday Implementation ✅ Roadmap Planning ✅ Software Development ✅Software Testing (STLC) ✅ Investment Banking & Private Equity ✅ Building Scalable & Robust Automation Solutions ✅ AWS Cloud ✅ Quality Assurance ✅ Quality Engineering ✅ Requirement Gathering/ Analysis ✅ Creativity & Innovation ✅ Process Design ✅ Process Optimization ✅ Resource Allocation ✅ Cost Optimization ✅ Team Building ✅ Cross-functional Team Leadership ✅ Training & Mentoring ✅ Stakeholder Management ✅ Client Relationship Management 🔑 𝓣𝓮𝓬𝓱𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵 𝓢𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓼: 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Regpro and Financial Studio 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: Front/Middle Office System - Fidessa | Equities/Derivatives (Private Equity) 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭/𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬: Quality Center, JIRA | Visualization Tool: JIRA Dashboard & Tableau 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬: VB Scripting, Java, Selenium and Java Script 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬: MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering and Program Management expert in the Fintech and SAAS industries.

Location: Delhi, India

Experience: 19 yrs

Skills

Agile Transformation
Quality Engineering
Workday Implementation
Quality Assurance
Automation
Defect Management
Requirement Gathering
Team Management
Knowledge Sharing
Business Analysis

Career Highlights

19+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and Program Management.
Expert in agile transformations and automation frameworks.
Strong background in Capital Markets and Banking product testing.

Work Experience

Wipro Limited

Head of Low Code Development Platforms,Quality Engineering,Application Support-Wipro Blackstone COE (5 yrs 7 mos)

ThoughtFocus

Director of Quality Assurance - Blackstone COE (1 yr 2 mos)

Quality Assurance Manager - Blackstone COE (2 yrs 11 mos)

Royal Bank of Scotland Business

Assistant Vice President-Lead Business Analyst (1 yr 1 mo)

Senior Test Designer (2 yrs 11 mos)

Test Designer (2 yrs 10 mos)

Wipro Technologies

Software Test Engineer (2 yrs 6 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology

Amit R.

CEO

Delhi, India19 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

19+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and Program Management.
Expert in agile transformations and automation frameworks.
Strong background in Capital Markets and Banking product testing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering and Program Management expert in the Fintech and SAAS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile TransformationQuality EngineeringWorkday ImplementationQuality AssuranceAutomationDefect ManagementRequirement GatheringTeam ManagementKnowledge SharingBusiness Analysis

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAtlassian JIRAClient Relationship ManagementCloud TechnologiesCollaborationCreativity SkillsDefect TrackingElectronic TradingExchange ConnectivityFIXFidessaFront to Back OfficeIdentity & Access Management (IAM)Integration Testing

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Experience

Wipro limited

Head of Low Code Development Platforms,Quality Engineering,Application Support-Wipro Blackstone COE

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

🔹 Formulated & implemented strategies for agile transformation initiatives as a key member of the team
🔹 Introduced automation and facilitated faster feedback through CI/CD enablement
🔹 Actively participated in budgeting and costing functions for cloud software and upcoming projects
🔹 Spearheading scrum teams including resources across quality engineering and application support for Blackstone account while reporting to the different Client CTOs/ Senior MDs
🔹 Rendering trainings to Product Owners and QA Leads on Agile and Quality Engineering Best Practices to enhance skill-set
🔹 Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to include internal teams, vendors and clients etc.
🔹 Defining and tracking KPIs like Time To market, automation effectiveness, Cost of Quality for Support, Time for First response, Average time to resolve P1/P2 and Incidents Request/ Reopen Rate etc.
🔹 Administering 50+ scrum teams which splits across Inhouse Fund Calculations and SAAS Based Platforms including Workday, Service Now, Salesforce, and Oracles; All applications are Cloud Native
🔹 Guiding Agile teams on all QA aspects like sprint planning, daily scrum while rendering UAT & post-production support
🔹 Managing end-to-end workday implementation programs and provided excellent production support
🔹 Deploying Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies with good exposure of Cloud AWS
🔹 Leveraging Tableau to monitor team performance on different key metrics
🔹 Generating Sprint sign off report after validation of changes by quality engineers
🔹 Supporting teams and clients in resolving critical technical issues
𝓐𝓬𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓼
🔹 Honored with Leader Choice - excellence Award for setting new milestone for building high velocity team and inspiring other leaders to follow the example | 2021
🔹 Enabled successful transformation from centralized to agile way teams
🔹 Created cloud native automation frameworks for quick time to market on Selenium, API, and Mobile

Agile TransformationAutomationCloud TechnologiesQuality EngineeringStakeholder Management

Thoughtfocus

2 roles

Director of Quality Assurance - Blackstone COE

Promoted

Jun 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

🔹 Introduced automation and opened new ways of working with optimal teams
🔹 Administered end-to-end software testing projects from defining test strategy, conducting various types of testing to performance monitoring till successful execution & go-live
🔹 Managed day-to-day QA engineering operations, built teams, delegated tasks and supervised performance of team members

AutomationQuality AssuranceTest StrategyPerformance Monitoring

Quality Assurance Manager - Blackstone COE

Jun 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

🔹 Set-up defect management tool and developed JIRA dashboard for the task management
🔹 Collaborated with quality teams, management and clients for smooth and efficient delivery as per SLA

Defect ManagementJIRA DashboardCollaborationQuality Assurance

Royal bank of scotland business

3 roles

Assistant Vice President-Lead Business Analyst

Apr 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

🔹 Efficiently managed end-to-end quality assurance projects from requirement gathering, test strategy planning, conducting regression and functional testing, to performance monitoring, reporting and execution
🔹 Rendered excellent post-implementation support to users/ clients

Quality AssuranceRequirement GatheringRegression Testing

Senior Test Designer

Promoted

Apr 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

🔹 Acted as a single point of contact for the project/ delivery manager and for other teams in the project
🔹 Set-up team performance objectives, supervised performance and provided regular feedback & suggestions to team

Team ManagementPerformance SupervisionQuality Assurance

Test Designer

May 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos

🔹 Rendering knowledge sharing sessions to team on Derivative Product & Quality Engineering
🔹 Resolved critical issues of clients and helped team in resolving technical issues

Knowledge SharingTechnical Issue ResolutionQuality Engineering

Wipro technologies

Software Test Engineer

Oct 2006 – Apr 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Pune Area, India

🔹 Resourceful for QA delivery of Lehman Brothers Futures and Cash Equities Trading Platform.
🔹 Single Handedly drove Integration Test Programme from India and co-ordinated Front to Back Teams to perform Business Analysis, ST, SIT and UAT support with Business Users in US.
🔹 Served as a critical link between the Wipro India and Lehman Team (Client) in US to Understand Business Requirement and ensure the end to end QA delivery done from India is of high quality.

Quality AssuranceIntegration TestingBusiness Analysis