Pardeep Kumar Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Successfully led BTFG Portfolio test delivery / relationship (~AUD $15M annual) by building and nurturing a high-performance Product/Project team of ~196+ member spread across onshore and offshore.program level budgeting, effort estimation, cost burn down tracking, change requests, resourcing, and program/portfolio level reporting to senior leadership resulting in highly satisfied and profitable client base and created recurring business account Managed outcome-based Quality Engineering services in Wealth domain by setting up Quality Engineering Centre of Excellence for Wealth portfolio while establishing global delivery model to implement offshore driven delivery.Adapting Quality engineering practices including auto generation of Monthly Performance report from ALM / Jira highlighting key metrics including Shift left focus with automation %, First time Failure rate, defects analytics in different testing phases.

Sydney, Australia

BT Panorama an operating system for wealth is transformational Program launched by BTFG in 2014 to cater to need of building the future adviser and investor customer experience through external channels, to integrate with the core and channel bank systems, to simplify operations, and to support future sales and service channels. This multiyear’s/multiphase’s transformation program running in AGILE methodology . The current Testing team size is 90+ resources. Responsibilities: Develop effective test strategies including focus on test data management, evaluation / proof of concept and adaptation of automation tools resulting in best outcome for program.• Accountability for delivering efficient and effective, on time and Quality testing across program releases for all testing phases including DevQA, IAT, SVP, OAT with a blend of automation and innovations.• Review and authorize deliverables, entry and exit criteria for all releases within Program with an essence of following strong test governance practices across tribes / squads.• Lead testing practices to ensure delivery confidence by fostering a strong and collaborative relationship by understanding the needs of the customer, product, and other key stakeholders.• Ensure continuous productivity improvement as per targets agreed with client.• Infosys Finance and Resource Controller for the program.• Managing key Head of / C-Level Executives across the program.• Understand the need and goals of program and aligning testing tasks and be a strong voice for them.

Project Manager (Program Test manager) at Infosys LimitedManage Releases – define and manage processes governing the quality of releases. Coordinate with different stakeholders: Third Parties Managers, Development Managers, UX, Environment Manager, and Release Manager. Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills, able to come up with new ideas and improvements, able to make strategic recommendations. Capable of translating business requirements to functional specifications and helped the team in sharing the domain knowledgeExperience with Web Applications, Web services, CRM, Desktop Applications, DBMS (SQL), mainframe application, wireless application.Proven record of delivering complex projectsResponsible for Planning, organizing, prioritizing work, meet deadlines and thereby keep customer's satisfaction at the highest level.Customer oriented, highly versatile, innovative, Creative and results driven with diversified experience.Performed People Manager’s role (performance management, rewards, KT/Training, Utilizations, absence management, Learning & development) Involved in building & managing geographically distributed Test delivery teams (up to size of 50+ associates) across different domains like Retail, Banking, and CRM Product. Managed multi-million Dollars Testing engagement running Responsibility to manage Engagement P&L, Budget Responsible for in-account mining for continuous business development Delivered full spectrum of testing services like System Testing, SIT, Regression testing (manual as well as automated using HP QTP), Static Testing, Performance Testing, UAT & OAT Support, Tool Administration. Track the Risks & Issues of the account and take proactive mitigation actions Financial Health of the project / Program, in terms of Margins, Billability, Overhead costs, bench etc. Resource planning for project /programParticipation in lateral / campus recruitments drive

Experience in managing test deliveries of large programs in different domains and with team spread across multiple locations Managing, Planning, Budgeting, Tracking and Delivering Testing programs/projects across various platforms/technologies with ownership of different phases like Function testing (System Testing, Integration Testing, UAT etc.) and Non Functional Testing (Automation & Performance testing) Managing different stake holders & business sponsors, coordinating & managing different multiple vendors and driving them towards common objectives Risk Management throughout the assignment life cycle and workings on the mitigation in a proactive manner Resource planning for account and arrange lateral hiring wherever requiredPerformed People Manager’s role (performance management, rewards, KT/Training, Utilizations, absence management, Learning & development)

Worked on Clarify CRM productLed the QA Team – Clarify CRM 8.8 Release Requirement analysis, writing / reviewing test cases, execution of test plan, reporting defects. Managed QA Setups which involves, setting up LINUX/UNIX/SOLARIS/SQL/ORACLE based test environments for testing, creating databases from .dump files.

Performed extensive testing in Lower Bluetooth stack developed by OKI Electicals, Japan

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