QA Manager- Prioritize releases based on Business needs- Gather requirements from Development and Business Analysis staff, knowledge transfer to the QA team at onshore and offshore- Provide initial QA estimates at project kickoff meetings- Allocate team resource based on the project and release content- Review of Test Plan, Test case, Test execution, and QA process for all releases- Track testing progress from initiation through to sign-off. Look for appropriate workarounds/escalate if any delay in execution or additional requirements are added - Write test plans, test cases and execution of test cases. Simultaneously manage the team- Conduct quarterly process gap analysis/process improvement meeting- Ensure projects are not delayed by allocating backup resources for each release- Environment maintenance including database (Sybase) and applications (Windows, Linux, MacOSX and Solaris)- Managing Automation team of other divisions- Managing vendor offshore teamAutomation Lead- Designed, developed and implemented automation framework for Interest Rates Derivatives applications. The framework features front to back support of trade life cycle, and is leveraged by different teams globally to improve testing efficiency.- Developed Functional, Integration and Scenario based frameworks :Solution to End to End Testing- Developed Test Strategy to define Automation scope, environment ,tool selection, Framework selection and Deliverables- Managed multiple Automation projects and manual projects concurrently- Designed Specific QA reports to development team- Reduced QA cycle