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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• Created a team specialised in delivering Automation, Integration, MS 365, Biometrics, Infrastructure,Data Analytics, IoT, Security, Web services, CRM implementation services• Managing delivery through multi vendor, interstate and offshore delivery model• Created engagement process for offshore and partner/Vendor teams• Managing relationships across multiple vendor ecosystem including enterprise vendors• Executive level stakeholder management

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• Direct engagement with stakeholder team in providing CX guidelines• Responsible for Testing and release management process and delivering over 40 releases to production with over 90% success rate• Managing testing activities across manual, automation, performance and security testing• Establishing quality plan for PCID compliance • Managing multiple vendors with 60% contract staff• Key stakeholder management including GMs and CxO team

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.• Designing, creating and executing test cases• Verify and evaluate the current quality methodologies and implement propose improvements to align with Pearson higher education quality guidelines• Work collaboratively with Product, development and testing teams in implementing the testing best practices and agile adaptation

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. • Conducted functional and regression test plan reviews and test cases review sessions• Successfully conducted production performance tests for capacity planning including, test strategy planning, execution and trend analysis over 100k concurrent users in cloud using HP Load runner and Jmeter.• Achieved over 70% release level automation using Open source tool set for Service level and UI level automation• Implemented Agile best practices in .NET and Java based technology stack and Cloud based testing Environment• Successfully created and managed the environment strategies in setting up the pre-production (testing, Integration, staging and performance testing environments in cloud (AWS, VMware and Private cloud) and production deployments• Improved Quality Process and Release Process by introducing industry best practices including entry & exit criteria definition, code freeze, release readiness reviews, go/no go decision making process.• Conducted UX and Accessibility reviews in achieving AA Standard for all releases.

• 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 • Responsible for delivery of 11 projects teams across 5 product lines conducting Functional, Integration and Automation Testing ActivitiesPrimary point of contact for all delivery and resource related escalations

• 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• Responsible for on time delivery with 98% Test Pass rate with 100% Unit test code coverage.• Responsible for Agile testing adaptation for the account Test team

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