Feb 2021 – May 2021 · 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Feb 2019 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs · Toronto, Canada Area

• Key Responsibilities :
• Enterprise level Automation Solution along with CI/CD implementation.
• Take ownership of technical Dev/QA solutions from the design and architecture perspective
• Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production
• Have discussion with client to understand the requirements and pain areas and educate/ convince on optimal solution.
• Ensuring Project delivery oversight; Carry out review of project plans, schedules and deliverable with offshore Delivery manager/Project Leader
• Provide testing strategy and best practices to project execution
• Provide quality assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more domain (Automation and NFT)
• Performance Management and Goal Setting for managers and other testing team members
• Build and mentor Dev/QA team (~50)
• Conduct timely delivery reviews, identify issues and resolve them
• Manage the risks along with corrective actions
• RCA and Defects Leakage Management
• Track actions, issues, risks, and dependencies, ensuring appropriate mitigation and plan progress.
• Other Activity:-
• Account Mining
• IP Creation
• Managing Automation Practice
• Client Management
• Responsible for creating winning RFI/RFP responses, Customer visits and conducts workshops.
• Responsible for Testing Pre-sales activities such as technical consulting
• Conduct and hand-on of doing various automation PoC's for client business and accounts.

Nov 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Noida Area, India

• Responsible for Leading and directing the leadership team & Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance.
• Be accountable for the automation projects, mentor, and provide leadership to the developers and managers.
• Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation of all Dev/QA leads.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of Dev/Testing.
• Ensuring that the development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the Dev/QA strategy as defined.
• Focus on continuous Dev/QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation.
• Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards.
• Monitoring of all the Dev/QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes.
• Gather and present testing metrics and testing activities for the projects to key stakeholders.
• Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the Dev/QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance, automation, etc.
• Manage training and continuous learning of Dev/QA staff by means of short courses, conferences, meetups, certifications. Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point of contact for the Dev/QA teams.
• Direct the development of the strategy, methodology, discipline and framework.
• Other Activity:-
• Account Mining
• IP Creation
• Managing Automation Practice
• Client Management
• Responsible for creating winning RFI/RFP responses, Customer visits and conducts workshops.
• Responsible for Testing Pre-sales activities such as technical consulting
• Conduct various automation PoC's

Oct 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr · Noida Area, India

• Understand requirements from project stakeholders / from current landscape
• Planning and executing.
• Develop, and execute as needed, Dev/testing programs which define required elements such as key risks, controls/processes, and specific test steps for each applicable area of review
• Ensure timely publishing of draft test reports to the different stakeholders/management
• Track status of corrective action plans.
• Maintain detailed and organized documentation of work products
• Respond to test quality assurance queries from testing teams
• Identify areas requiring attention or findings and assessment of relative risk
• Follow-up on review findings until resolution
• Engage in global Dev/testing initiatives
• Collate/update/escalate Management Information for Compliance management
• Take ownership of technical solutions from the design and architecture perspective.
• Take ownership to review the Architectural/ Technological solutions for ongoing project and ensure right choice for solution.
• Suggest innovative solutions based on new technologies and latest trend to sales Team for taking to market for selling
• Have discussion with client to understand the requirements and pain areas and educate/ convince on optimal solution.
• Create the High-level design and architecture of the solution.
• Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production.
• Ensure the company's internal technological processes and customer-facing services comply with community expectations and applicable laws and regulations for privacy, security, and social responsibility.
• Design and implemented various versatile automation framework across the financial segment.
• Responsible for design and development of Automation framework / harness and any in-house tools required.

Sep 2014 – Jun 2015 · 9 mos · Chennai , India

• Helping Presales with Business case/Solution to cater new business.
• Lead development Automation proposal Planning and Execution.
• Develop component based automation framework as per business need and successfully Implementation using various ALM & UFT tools.
• Define scope, drive the delivery and continuously improve a highly scalable system. My Work will involve helping defining the product road map by collaborating with tech and product management teams.
• Resource Management.
• Mentoring and provide training on various automation commercial tool.
• Ability to communicate effectively with tech teams and consumer teams.
• Reporting metrics around performance, completed tasks, pending tasks, risks. Identify key success metrics to rigorously measure and improve them.

Feb 2014 – Sep 2014 · 7 mos · Noida Area, India

• During this tenure Client dealt with - NCR (USA) , Mitchell (USA). I worked here as Automation Architect - My responsibilities are:
• Framework Analysis and Design using Agile methodologies.
• Framework Development and Implementation using (QTP/Selenium Webdriver) Agile.
• Presales Activity for various accounts.
• POC for various accounts - Using QTP,Selenium Web driver
• Mentor and providing training on QTP/Selenium/C.
• Multiple role player in Delivery - Leading a project as Scrum Master along with Agile Automation.
• Estimation of project across the releases.
• Scrum Master
• Coordination with the development teams & client during application development for addressing queries & providing clarifications

Mar 2008 – Jan 2014 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Noida Area, India

• During this tenure - I worked across various Financial/Banking/Health care Projects in segment like-Payments/Capital Market/Hedge Fund/Investment bank/retail Banking & Healthcare(Provider).
• Clients dealt - Bank of Ireland, Genworth Financial, VocaLink , Bridgewater Associates, ICAP,DBS, Owens & Minors, Alliance & Leicester and Washington Mutual Bank.
• Lead in formulating architectural design, analysis & implementation across the projects.
• Ownership of Project management and Estimates.
• Helping Presales with Business case/Solution to cater new business.
• Ownership of working on proposal & PoC across the different accounts.
• Lead development on Manual & Automation Test Planning and Execution.
• Develop component based automation framework as per business need and successfully Implementation using QTP.
• Maintain the AGILE process across the releases in some of the projects.
• QTP and QC integration and successful execution for iterative releases.
• Analysis the Functional Specification & Business Requirement.
• HP ALM/QC used for Project Tracking and Release Readiness Report.
• Estimation of project across the releases.
• Test Script creation and Batch execution across the release.
• Lead and assist with functional, in accordance with Client standards and processes across diverse platforms.
• Coordination with the development teams & client during application development for addressing queries & providing clarifications.
• Defect Tracking and maintenance through Quality Centre (HP/ALM-QC ).
• HP –ALM Setup for project requirement.
• Automated Test Release Readiness Report preparation using QC.
• Creating and managing traceability using QC.
• Keep improving the Reengineering process for Implemented technology to enhance and meet the rapid change in application with new thread.
• Review deliverables and ensure the Quality.
• Creative and innovative to improve efficiency and quality of work
• Most of the time I performed a Release manager role.

Jul 2005 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Chennai, Tamilnadu,India

• 1. Ananlysis of funtional requirement.
• 2. Estimates & Test Planning.
• 3. Test case preparation & Test case execution.
• 4. Reporting defect using Defect Tracking tools Like QC/TD.
• 5. Preparing Release Readiness report for different Releases.
• 6. Client interaction time to time for buisness endeavor purposes.
• 7. Automating the Regression suits using QTP tool.

Jan 2003 – Jul 2005 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Banglore

• 1. Analysing Business Cases.
• 2. Preparation of Test cases.
• 3. Execution of Test cases.
• 4. Logging Defect using test management tool.
• 5. Various Release Readiness resport to Lead.