Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr · Hybrid

• In my new role, i am responsible to work inwards and outwards to spread the message on what makes Xebia great company to work.
• Responsible to work with all global GEO heads to define strategy for top 10% of Xebia customers
• Responsible to work with all service line heads across Transformation | Data | Software Technology | Low Code| Microsoft | Cloud to bring the best solution and capabilities to our customers
• Represent Xebia in global conferences as a speaker, panelist and attendee
• Identify new technologies for Xebia to venture in and develop solutions with service line heads
• Collaborate with global HR teams across all Xebia locations to share our story, culture and values.
• Work with regional sales team to identify account bases strategy

Jan 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Hybrid

• Responsible and accountable for establishing a horizontal practice from the ground up, including:
• Established Xebia as a name to reckon with for Engineering Transformation and Value driven approach
• Generated a book of business that contributed $12m in EN/NN bookings and $10m in revenue
• Solution led approach for differentiation and delivering ROI for every engagement
• Designed, architect, build, sell and deliver a test automation solution for functional and performance testing based on open source tools
• Create a focused team of 300+ engineers globally

Aug 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only organization for senior-level technology executives.

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs · United States

• Healthcare Professionals - Facility Connect
• Contributing in building healthcare ecosystem for the future. Covid 19 Pandemic has proved no matter how advanced or how much powerful or how rich an economy is, healthcare systems are broken everywhere. Our startup will help prevent this in future offering an ability to scale at a rapid pace but keep cost minimal offering value to everyone in the ecosystem.
• Agritech Startup
• Agriculture has been of great interest to me and how we can improve the per acre farming output. Farmers need all the help we can provide leveraging technology to increase their yield, living standards, how they market their product.
• Putting our farmland to use and collaborating with other farmers in the area led by a group of young IIT graduates , this startup is focusing on realizing the vision of our PM to double the income of farmers.
• It's a not for profit tech startup where everyone is contributing back to the ecosystem. Starting from villages near Delhi-NCR, we will scale to entire North India as more volunteers and villages join us.
• My role is to help a group of committed individuals as an advisor and angel investor bringing my years of product engineering experience to use.

May 2018 – Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) including Self-Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU) is Government of India’s endeavor to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Its objective is to serve as a platform for promotion of world-class Innovation Hubs, Grand Challenges, Start-up businesses and other self-employment activities, particularly in technology driven areas.
• A small way to contribute back to our society. I already work and help startup's in Delhi-NCR region but this government of India initiative provides opportunity to help much younger kids.

Jul 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Was given the charter to establish test engineering as a horizontal and a service line globally.
• Global Head of Test Engineering
• Responsible for a $35 ML+ Sales Pipeline and $28 ML Revenue with a 20% YOY growth for past 3 years
• Managing a Delivery organization consisting of ~800 FTE/Contractors across 8 different delivery centers globally
• Pre-sales and post-Sales Support – RFP Response Planning, Solution Design, Effort estimation, Planning, Scheduling and Reporting for all new QA project proposals.
• Pro-active proposals based on account mining and stakeholder’s discussions
• Resource Management - Hiring, Project Allocation, Bench Management, Skill Enhancement and Role Progression planning
• Chief Solution Architect
• Playing the role of Chief Solution Architect defining Infogain investment and solution vision for Product Engineering focused on fully automated handsfree solutions for DevOps, Test Design and Test Automation.
• Developed Infogain Unified Automation Platform from a concept to a successfully running solution across 10 large global customer base managing applications ranging from Mainframe, Legacy Desktop, Modern Web, Mobile, Web Services and Data Transformation projects.
• Working on next solution to enable usage of Machine Learning, AI and Predictive Analytics for pro-active test planning, design and execution
• Responsible for execution of largest global CRM Migration testing projects for Performance Testing and functional test automation for Microsoft Dynamics and largest global ERP migration to SAP S/4 Hana for a Fortune 10 company

Apr 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Lead the transformation program for testing across all locations globally for Credit Union, Payment business units of Fiserv. Was given a charter by top leadership to move testing practices from waterfall to completely shift left.
• Key objectives achieved:
• Led largest testing project for a client implementation of Fiserv credit union solution in US
• o Defined test strategy for Fiserv products and integration with 30 existing solution used by customer
• o Stakeholder management across Fiserv, Customer and other partners
• o Managed production roll-outs and UAT across 30 US locations with customer business teams.
• Repurpose, reskilling of global team of 150+ associates from functional to full-stack functional automation QA
• Transition from 80% manual to 90%+ test automation regression execution
• o First Pass % for automation maintained at 95%+
• o Pipeline driven execution for automation at 100%
• Established test pyramid with API contributing 60% of overall test automation suite
• Reduced testing timeline and cost by 75%
• Enabled in-sprint automation and synergy with development teams for maintenance, optimization of automation

Jun 2006 – Mar 2012 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Interacting with client's Development and QA teams.
• Estimating effort for requirements planned for every sprint.
• Creating Test Plan and Strategy.
• Scheduling and allocating tasks to team.
• Participating in Smoke testing with each team member for the requirements allocated to them.
• Designing Automation framework.
• Preparing Automation guideline document.
• Identifying Automation scope and optimizing test cases for automation.
• Guiding and mentoring team members for automation.
• Assessing risks for the project.
• Participating in SQA review for the project.
• Organizing Scrum meetings with Business Analyst.
• Conducting Functional, Regression, and System testing.
• Developing and maintaining automation scripts using QTP.
• Reviewing of test cases and defect logged by team.
• Preparing Client status reports.
• Preparing Defect Metrics.
• Member of requirement analysis and dependency analysis team for the entire project.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · India

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

Jan 1997 – Jan 2003 · 6 yrs

• Established a pan India distribution network for Revlon a leading cosmetic brand in India. Managing a P&L of $10 Million with a network of 50 state wide distributors and hundreds of retail outlets.
• Introduced first digital network for online invoicing , inventory management and real time dashboard at every point of sale.