Dec 2020 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Hired and ramped up a global team of 150+ members.
• Globally lead Next Generation Consumer Banking - E2E Testing and Environment team.
• Supported integration of 80+ complex platforms for digital credit cards & loan programs migration to AWS. Established E2E test & environment strategy from scratch.
• Successfully delivered a $100 million credit card program migration from mainframes to AWS.

Nov 2011 – Nov 2019 · 8 yrs · Singapore, Pune

• Responsibilities
• QA head of global shared technology testing for Data Fabric and Risk function.
• Managed and lead, a team size of 65+ testers globally.
• Complete ownership of the QA function, with adopting Ways of Working to deliver better products faster.
• Evaluating, building, and adopting of automation tools and frameworks to enhance efficiency and increase communication between critical technology areas.
• Responsible for owning end to end QA deliveries, which include the functional organization of the team into sprints and conducting SIT and UAT phases. Owning release cycles and ensuring deliveries in production and supporting the pre-release, release, and post-release processes.
• Tracking program goals and managing the test function for the shared technology division: Aligning the best resources, building capability, and talent.
• Achievements
• Streamlined, the release process of critical programs and established the ideal DevTestOps delivery model.
• Built framework inventory and standardized test tooling; increased open source adoption to 80%.
• Reduced manual test effort by 60%, enhanced test coverage, enforced quality gates, and improved product quality by transforming teams to continuous test strategies.
• Increased workforce on core automation skills from 30% to 70% in a single year by running targeted skills and competencies based training programs.
• Lead a centralizing test tooling, frameworks, and utility group to deliver automation test practices and run transformations.
• Designed enterprise test frameworks and centralized tools and practiced lean-to eliminate extra tools and frameworks.

Nov 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Singapore

• Responsibilities
• Define test engineering roadmap for tooling standardization and continuous test pipeline.
• Drive the development and adoption of test automation frameworks for functional and NFT testing.
• Establish standardization and engineering practices to raise automation maturity.
• Review end to end test (commercial and open-source) tooling and responsible for evaluating, procuring, implementing, and maintaining testing tools for web, mobile, desktop, and API testing platforms.
• Ensuring knowledge management is effectively institutionalized including maintaining and moderating the content of knowledge management tools.

May 2007 – Oct 2011 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon, Singapore and London

• Gurgaon, London, Singapore: May 2007 to Oct 2011
• Responsibilities
• Functional Test Lead (Team Size 12) for global RBS, Credit Derivative E2E trading system.
• Maintain, Plan and execute QA book of work with London PM and project stakeholders.
• Define and maintain test strategies, test plans and establishing processes.
• Plan release test cycles and scope of testing.
• SME of CDS domain and business functions, third party system integration, mentor team.
• Set up, troubleshoot and control test environments.
• Arrange and coordinate UAT with global business.
• Plan and define Test Automation framework.
• Interact with vendors and third party systems: to plan releases, system integration, SIT and UAT sign offs.
• Global stake holder management: metric & reporting, communication & coordination.
• Achievements
• Pioneered the Credit Derivatives test function in India. Acquired complex domain understanding of CDS, and mentored and setup a test team in India.
• Built strong relationship with global senior IT and business stakeholders to transition and run a global test function completely based out of India.
• Planned & Successfully conducted and coordinated large scale UAT program for product go live with FO, MO & Ops users, Third Party vendor’s applications at business location. Followed up with subsequent product releases at off shore locations.
• Established and streamlined a traceable E2E test process: optimized the regression test process with automation of UI with QTP, in house development for automated reconciliations, functional and API testing to enhance the automated coverage.
• Successful track record of high quality production releases and timelines.

Jan 2005 – Mar 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Gurgaon, Merrimack (US): Jan 2005 to March 2007.
• Responsibilities:
• Functional and regression testing, Automate testing using QTP, Quality Center-ALM, Performance Center Administration for Testing COE (400+ users).
• Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding consistently during the role.
• Interfaced Vendor (Mercury Inc.) – Customer Interactions for QC-ALM, Performance Center, product issues and enhancement recommendations. Supported & Conducting training’s for QC-ALM & QC-PC: product Information, best practices, usage, across a very large TCOE function and different projects and departments.
• Awards: You have earned it Award December 2005, Value Upholder Award June, 2006.

May 2004 – Dec 2004 · 7 mos

• Responsibilities: Automation using Winruuner & QTP.

Nov 2003 – May 2004 · 6 mos

• Responsibilities: Automation using Silktest.