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Bengaluru, KA, IN

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As Vice President of Delivery, I lead the fulfilment of client commitments and drive the development of IP-led solutions to maximise customer value. My responsibilities include strategic leadership, operational oversight, technology roadmap development, budget management, and providing pre-sales and sales support. Through close collaboration with senior.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As Director I led the Global Service Delivery Business and Quality Assurance team along with building and managing matured, scalable, and strategic CoE across People, Processes, Tools, and Technologies in the Identity Management Domain. Building shared services delivery model with effective global just-in-time BA/QA team, Instrumental in building strategic.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As AVP - Managing ~3.5M portfolio in the organization. Leading Global BA/QA function in IAM domain, responsible for defining business requirements, developing Verification and Validation service offerings, and establishing and upgrading Scalable & Strategic CoE (Centre of Excellence).Responsible for supporting testing services delivery & developing service.

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Heading the Global Quality Assurance team along with building and managing matured, scalable & strategic TCoE (Testing center of excellence) across People, Process, Tools and Technologies in Identity Management Domain.

Bangalore

Building shared services delivery model with effective global QA team in identity and access management space, Instrumental in building strategic services road map, services offerings, right competency, capability & capacity to support testing activities globally.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Managing QA activity for multimillion dollar releases from requirement to production with different phase of SDLC
• Defined and Managed UAT process for one of the biggest program across the organization. Doubled the team output in 3 months. Build Integrated testing engineering team and process across different verticals..
• Work on various matrix such as Defect Containment Rate, Defect removal efficiency to bring quality for products
• Defined a new process for monthly releases with well-defined process for handing minor and patches releases in parallel.
• Established and managed the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) team for production defects.
• Developed environment strategy to better support release planning and automation testing.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Setting QA practice line at organization for consolidating QA credentials and expertise to accelerate QA delivery
• Conducting QA assessments to identify gaps in delivery, process and test artifacts followed by proposing short-term, mid-term and long-term milestones to fix the same
• Creating QA roadmaps for projects for successfully delivering value driven QA output
• Setting up metric driven QA delivery model for appropriate quality health check before releasing to production
• Collaborating with product, development and release teams to define the QA dependencies and identifying risks and charting mitigation plan
• Conducting quality reviews at organization level, documenting gaps and proposing solution

Bengaluru Area, India

• Customer facing and front-ending QA teams to own end-to-end QA delivery
• Setting up metric driven QA delivery model for appropriate quality health check before releasing to production

Bengaluru Area, India

• Involved in Project Operational activities such as Requirement Gathering, Resource Management, SQA audit adherence
• Interacting with client for requirement gathering, risk assessment and finalization of test specifications.
• Communicated project status, issues, and risks to executives through daily/weekly status reports.
• planning & scheduling, Test Environment setup, regression and functional testing, Maintenance and Post Production Support testing, Quality Management
• Single point of contact for all the test management activity of the project, following agile methodology (SCRUM).
• Automation Planning and Implementation for different phase of Sprint cycle, done Automation for regression cycle.

Bengaluru Area, India

 Managing a team of test engineers. SPOC for all the projects following Agile methodology (SCRUM). Test planning, Test execution, Defect Management, status reporting for all the projects.

Bangalore

 Handled a team of 4 test engineers. Travelled onsite multiple times for project transition for Europe to India  Prepare a proposal and provided recommendation of improve testing practices

- Involved preparation of functional specification and Design Documents of System admin Module. Took Control of Complete Business Logic and Front-end Representation from Designing to Coding, Implementation and successful integration of the module with the other modules.- Involve unit and Integration testing of the Application.

o Involve in Capturing of Client Requirements, Test Plan preparation o Involve manual testing of the Application.

o Responsible for taking all user input from front end and send it back to Server side for doing computation, with reference to customer provided excel-sheet and again send back result to Front-end Side using Applet Servlets Communication. o Involve unit and Integration testing of the Application.

Organizational Leadership

Activities and Societies: Participated in the Leadership Acceleration Programme (LEAP)

B.E., Computer Science

Engineering

Intermediate, Mathematics