Aug 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Directed Offshore Delivery Team entailing 15 members at Microsoft to design, develop & deliver Cloud Modernization Project; attained Azure Consumption Revenue of $10M beating the estimate
• Augmented & spearheaded 6 member IoT & Data Science Team to deliver IoT Data Science Project for an improved monitoring & management of medical devices
• Planned, tracked & managed Project Financials from Planned Hours, Actuals, ETC, EAC, Overall Cost, Budget & Financial Variance
• Led ship room meetings for everyday identification & resolution of blockers and risk management with stakeholders; improved speed of Issue resolution and coordination among teams to meet the timelines
• Scaled up agile project/program management practices with the virtual team from ATZ region to a global team (ATZ, EMEA & APJ) to render support for large scale cloud modernisation projects
• Initiated & established Program Delivery Health Dashboards to assess the delivery health of 15 Large Cloud Modernization Programs across the globe; successfully improved status to report the project progress, blockers & RAID management between Microsoft & customer teams

Sep 2016 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Owned & delivered the defined roadmap by well-defined project planning & KPIs monitoring; worked closely with Product Marketing, Software Customer Service, and other cross-functional teams as per committed timelines
• Transformed the release commitments from low to highly predictable for various System Software Releases by an effective project planning, risk, and stakeholder management
• Hired, developed & directed a team of 25 members across cross-functional roles entailing Software Development, System Test, Verification & Validation, to effectively meet functional, non-functional & clinical requirements for enterprise healthcare informatics products
• Improved test automation coverage from 10% to 60% which improved the regression test coverage and Productivity
• Developed & managed 2 Vendor Teams for strategic release planning

Jun 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Played as a Site Leader for IOCC (Interoperability Competence Center)
• Established an Agile SW development process for development and Verification teams
• Established DICOM (Medical Imaging Standard) Competence center in Bangalore
• Delivered DICOM & IHE Validation stack to Validate Philips Medical Devices
• Developed integrated project and resource plans and managed project scope for upto 5 parallel projects, resulting in 80% improvements in project delivery
• Established Interoperability Solution Event to test interoperability of Philips products in One Roof, event running successfully since 8 years with NPI Score of 4.6/5 resulting in to 20% reduction in Interoperability issues from customers
• Provided outstanding service to internal stakeholders through effective communication and Technical guidelines to promote future business opportunities resulting in NPI Score of 9.5/10 which resulted in 40% improvement in score within an year

Mar 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Setting up of automation framework from scratch to improve Quality and efficiency for Imaging application
• Delivered Automaton framework to create first smoke suite for clinical imaging applications for 3 subsystems
• Delivered Non Functional suite to achieve Reliability testing for IntelliSpace Portal
• Established Install Base verification WoW and IB releases for IntelliSpace Portal

Mar 2008 – Jun 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Played global Test leader, leading a team of 40 people to deliver IntelliSpace Portal 4.0, 5.0 products across India Israel and USA
• Delivered Quality MultiModality (CT, MR, US, NP etc.,) Multi Client first of its kind Portal by integrating various applications in to single product
• Transformed teams from feature thinking to system thinking mindset
• Played key role in transforming the Quality of deliverable to site that delivers High Quality

Oct 2007 – Dec 2007 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• Worked in startup mode to establish team of verification and validation engineers to perform, functional and non-functional verification (usability, Performance and Reliability)
• Developed Product Test strategy, Test Plan, and Test Execution plan
• Assessed product maturity and collaborated with Product Management teams for the Market Launch
• Showcased product features to customers and discussed technical details to overcome objections and lock in sales.
• Used consultative sales approach to understand and meet customer need

Jun 2004 – Sep 2007 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Written effective test cases and test scripts for manual and automated test scripts
• Major contribution in Testing of Philips Software Application Platform which delivered upto 16 different products
• Performed testing of Portable media platform to delivery zero functional escapes
• Worked very closely with development team in helping them understand the bugs and perform the bug verification to provide quick feedback
• Working Trained OEM teams on product and testing skills
• Philips Lead Tester for Microsoft PlaysForSure, NapsterToGo and Rhapsody Certification programs for Digital Rights Management Software

Nov 2003 – Jun 2004 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Written Test script to perform functional tests
• Performed White box testing of the aeronautical modules
• Identified of SW bugs and submitted them to track for closure