Heading TCoE & Dev Ops

 Handling the Product tracking and delivery along with Test Capability ownership with Hiring and pool allocation for 100+ resource capability.  Product deliveries for various clients and releases and support. Stakeholder collaboration and management with relevant communications. Product planning, risk planning and mitigation along with Scrum team handling. Product progress and act as per agreed KPI’s to keep track. Keeping a tab on Regulatory Req., market standards & usability (user friendliness).  Facilitated all Risk, communicate, mitigate and contingency planning for major ones. Hiring and selection process for all new Open demands for New / Experience Hires. Campus Interview Drive and Weekend drive handler for interview.

 Handled planning and executing for team of 100+ resources. Reported test status to management and other stakeholders in a timely manner. Served with Project Manager for go-live planning and roll-out. Handled the Risk & defect Management and relevant defect calls, ensured triage of defects which was completed and assigned defect to relevant resolver teams. Facilitated adhoc issue resolution calls & resolution of major blockers. Controlled the contents of Quality Centre and ensured adherence with test scope as agreed with Central UAT scope control team Preparation of Functional testing ST, CIT and SIT & UAT plan. Defining and implementing the role testing plays within the organizational structure, defining the scope of testing within the context of each release / delivery. Ensuring the appropriate planning and management of the test resources.  Maintaining the onshore and offshore test environments and Client and Management reporting. Interaction with Client & business regarding the progress UAT of project.  Preparation of Weekly Reports. Review of the high level and low-level scenarios (test cases) developed by the team. Sign off discussions with Client.  Estimation for new engagements starting from ROM till Freezing the Test Strategy and implementation with Offshore Team. Preparation of Weekly Reports. Review of the high level and low-level scenarios (test cases) developed by the team. Testing of new changes in UAT & production environment with business.  Provided Estimations of various new enhancements. Maintaining the onshore and offshore test environments and Client and Management reporting.  Stake Holder Management & Solutioning and supported the client in Managed Testing Services part for RFI, RFP, RFQ and tool selection for their various applications in their Finland Office.  Setting up & Managed COE for various organizations / Clients.  UAT, Pre-Prod and Prod Support and Successful Go live completer.

Worked as Test Lead and was taking care of QA project delivery with following responsibilities:Work as liaison between business and technology groups for large IT team.Customer stake holder management and delivering high quality enterprise software products/projects.Create opportunities to build relationships with customers to improve the overall delivery experience.Managing Requirement evaluation, onsite/ offshore diversified team and resource management, project scheduling, forecast and budgeting.Responsible for leading Software Test Efforts estimations(starting from ROM's to Fixed Price), Testing Application Software and Software test automation.Analyzing the business requirements and done the Gap analysis in Project Management.Setting up the managed Testing Services and supported the client to establish the TCOE setup Business Users Trainings for UAT.

Project / Client : Mitchell (USA) Responsibility : Prepare Test Plan, Prepared Test suit in Quality Centers, Test Case execution Distribution and allocation for module. Quality Center updates. Perform Functional, Integration and regression testing on Application for critical functionality. Client interaction and Test summary report creation. Also prepares the test matrices.

Client : Sierra Gold SAI Inc. (Onsite)Responsibility : Prepare Test Plan, Setup Test Environment, Test Estimation, Test execution, Perform testing, Prepare Usability report, Generation of reports through, Bug Reporting / Tracking.

Product / Client : Deploy (USA) Clients : Xerox, South West Airlines, British Petroleum, Sprint, Reebok, and Bank of AmericaResponsibility : Perform testing and bug reporting for their HR Solution Web based product Deploy. I was responsible for test cases for the Installation testing, testing and bug reporting as well as bug tracking.