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Australia

Melbourne, Australia

• Consolidated the NEC Software Development, Application Support and Testing Teams and built NECDevOps practice.
• Established NEC DevOps governance process, methodology and tools for the nationally distributedteam delivering to a single framework.
• Successfully managed delivery team across 5 states including permanent, contract and multiple vendor teams.
• Successfully delivered a P&L of over $10M yearly revenue with 6% Operating profit
• Accountable for delivery process from Presales to support for multiple service lines
• Workings collaboratively with Sales, PMO, Architecture and Business teams in cohesive delivery model

Southbank, Melbourne

• Establishing a testing practice from inception
• Created an organisational test strategy and methodology
• Established the testing team across BAU and projects
• Established CPA quality governance and release process with collaboration with PMO, Delivery, BA and Support teams
• Created end to end Quality management process using Microsoft tool set
• Managing testing delivery across multiple business lines

Melbourne Area, Australia

• Responsible for software quality process improvements in Pearson Australia higher education products
• Implement Software testing strategy and plan for Pearson Australia products
• Implement Release strategy and test governance process for Pearson Australia products
• Creating Automation Test Strategy for Service based product and SaaS Product
• Setting up technical testing team in Pearson Sri Lanka to support performance testing activities and driving the performance testing plan
• Playing the role of scum master for the project teams facilitating release planning, sprint planning, daily stand up sessions and measuring continues improvements.

Sri Lanka / USA

• Successfully lead testing activities for four product lines using Agile Testing methodologies
• Implemented and successfully executed Testing plan for Pearson Core Applications covering Functional, Automation, Performance testing and UAT
• Created the Overall Test plan and executed the end to end testing activities including UAT testing.
• Improved Production stability by Reducing Defects to Production by 50% year to year, while delivering 220 releases per year
• Successfully Mentored and groomed Tier 1 leadership team including Technical Test Leads
• Conducted end to end defect and issue management activities including defect reviews, triages and follow throughs.

• Managed a portfolio of 5 product lines
• Created overall Test Strategy for the portfolio and reviewed and managed the execution of test plans
• Lead efforts for Functional, Integration and Automation testing activities
• Managed pipeline work, forecasting resource needs, and Planning budget and hiring activities for 20% resource growth of quarter on quarter
• Implemented industry best practices in and improved 40% of the testing team productivity
• Implemented Automation Strategy for Event based application set

• Created and implemented adaptation of Virtusa test estimation tool, Quality management framework, Test maturity assessment tool across all locations
• Responsible for development of innovative and cutting edge Testing solutions to improve team efficiency
• Providing consultative solutions for specific customer requirements by engaging directly with the customer teams
• Manage end to end delivery of Testing presales and facilitate delivery team during inception
• Ownership of delivery planning, Test process initiation, Test strategy creation and testing artifacts definition during the inception time
• Understand new market trends and enhance Test team competencies

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for improving Testing activity of all deliveries
• Responsible for creating and executing Test strategies for the project teams
• Responsible for Test team productivity improvements and Innovation
• Conducting Functional, Regression, Integration, Automation and Performance testing activities
• Lead Functionality, Automation and Performance Testing Methodology & Process improvements for the Account
• Lead a team of 30 engineers based across two geographies

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for all customer deliverables across Functional testing, Automation testing and Performance testing projects.
• Responsible for scope, resource, risks and budget management
• Provide daily and weekly status and matrices on project progress and quality
• Manage project scope and budgets adhering to the estimates
• Develop Testing best practices and implemented process improvements for JPMC team
• Forecasting and managing onsite and offshore resource availability and expectations

Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for all customer deliverables for Functionality testing, Integration testing and automation testing projects.
• Responsible for scope, resource, risks and budget management
• Provide daily and weekly status and matrices on project progress and quality
• Managed project scope and budgets adhering to the estimates
• Developed Testing best practices and implemented process improvements areas for the guardian technology advisory services team

Greater San Diego Area

• Managed the account from pre-sales activities to project closure
• Responsible for all customer deliverables for both development and Test teams
• Managed deliverables of Functionality testing, Automation testing and performance testing teams
• Managed entire software development life cycle (SDLC) for virtusa projects for Financial Profiles
• Responsible for scope, resource and revenue management
• Developed Testing best practices and implemented process improvements for Financial Profiles team

Austin, Texas Area

Greater Boston Area