Mar 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Teaching - Taught core and elective Business courses (Business Analytics, Corporate Finance, Business Statistics, Strategic management, Market Economics) in PGDBM, in MBA and
• BBA programmes, MFA / Mcom programmes
• Research - Currently undertaking doctorial research in Behavioral Finance
• Training and Development - Undertaken training & development for MSME

Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Providing leadership for education and building a movement of student leaders who will eliminate educational inequity in India.

Jul 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Help clients develop and maintain effective investments that will meet their goals . One of our initial tasks is to assess the needs of the client and clarify their goals and then research potential investment opportunities and thus help them achieve double digit growth.

Jul 2016 – Jul 2019 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Managing 10+ people team of software developers and testers
• Experienced in handling Agile SCRUM teams. Played roles of Scrum master and Product Owner
• for different projects
• Driving Agile projects with team size of 25+ engineers end to end including both development and testing.
• Release Planning – Planning features for release, assigning resource teams, estimation and coming up with schedule
• Guiding team in user story writing, understanding acceptance criteria, writing ATDD GWTs, Sprint planning, Story point estimation, Feature design, Product development, Test design, Test execution and Test Automation
• Skilled in managing projects right from planning to execution and final closure and ensuring
• delivery of the project within timelines
• Ensure on time delivery of committed releases on time
• Prepare the Customer defect fixing plan quarterly based on service priority and assign the defects to specific sprints for fixing
• Share the customer defect fixing plan with customer support teams and handle escalations with at most priority
• Manage stake holders like Project manager, Product Manager, Product Prime, Director, Customer Support and Field Consultants

Nov 2013 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Work with business and development teams to understand our product and how they are executed
• Assist in establishing, developing, and implementing the vision for the Software Quality Assurance team and QA Software Testing teams
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using tools like selenium and Java
• Coach, develop and provide guidance to team members on QA processes and best practices
• Understand how all elements software and process ecosystem work together and develop QA approaches that fit the overall strategy
• Manage work of QA consultants and 3rd party Vendor Certifications
• Select, develop and evaluate personnel to ensure high performance of the team

Feb 2005 – Nov 2013 · 8 yrs 9 mos

• Leading the testing team of 7 people and driving the Project with test team of 20+ QA Engineers
• Preparing Master Test Plan for release and ensuring the review from all stake holders
• Communicating the status in CCB/Scrum of Scrum of Scrum/Test Sync-up/ Team meetings
• Discussing the risks and dependencies in SOS meetings. Following up with Project Manager and other stake holders in getting dependencies resolved
• Checking test status in different phases and raise the right flags at right time to right stakeholders
• Attending sprint planning, understand the User story acceptance criteria, writing acceptance tests
• Understanding the feature design and provide feedback
• Executing the acceptance tests and providing early feedback
• Performing root cause analysis for defects and carry quarterly defect escape analysis
• Played SCRUM MASTER role for a sprint team of 3 test members and 7 developers

Aug 2003 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Design & Develop Interfaces using Java swings.
• Design & Develop Test Suite for Rules using JUnit
• Involve in Test Case Inventory preparation, Test Case Design, Initial Verification Plan preparation
• Involve in Integration Testing and Defect validation