Gaurav Sikka Email & Phone Number

Zurich, Switzerland

London, England, United Kingdom

A highly professional & exceptionally well-rounded Test Manager, having experience with supporting & providing consultation for Testing and nurturing Testing units. Having a proven record of success in challenging, diverse & evolving client environments. Main Skill set is on IT transformation & QA integration, through the strategic & tactical alignment of the Business & IT agenda.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Doing a GAP Analysis for the multi-year, financial transformation Project.• Preparing a test strategy keeping in mind Devops and Agile working for staggered roll out starting from 2021 till 2025.• Setting up CI/CD Pipeline for unit testing and then for end to end testing.• Setting up and leading scrum of scrum for Program of large scale with multiple scrum teams.• Drafting and implementing test strategy for SAP S4 Hana, Financial Sub Ledger product.• Reporting to Project steering board, for the Quality Assurance Topics.• Member of the technical architecture board, for the programme.

London, United Kingdom

• Handling and Managing day to day work across different client and customers, in Europe continent.• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for testing organization.• Solutioning the complex programs and projects for a testing strategy perspective, setting up frameworks, processes, governance.• Setting up CI/CD Pipeline for unit testing and then for end to end testing.• Working on prototyping solutions for ZTDD (Zero touch development and Deployment) for backend IT projects like Datawarehouse's.• Successfully implemented ZTD (Zero touch Deployment) for different applications and projects.• Setting up and leading scrum of scrum for Programs of large scale with multiple scrum teams.

London, United Kingdom

• Assessed different systems, conducted GAP analysis, feasibility & risk analysis and proposed various profitable options & new testing methodologies like devops, agile, Kanban and scrum-based testing processes.• Setting up Testing teams and managing them in near shore locations and offshore locations like Bratislava, India.• Responsible for organizing and chairing end user training workshops• Execute line management responsibilities, including performance appraisals, for team members• Coordinated in business analysis sessions to understand client process and conducted trend analysis to understand user needs and translated them into technical solutions for defining the testing strategy.• Working on the Internal Risk Models for the SII and SST reporting. Designing the IT systems in line with requirements of Risk Models• Designing the Testing strategy, devops process and User acceptance strategy for the complex IT environments on solutions based on (DWH, MATLAB, MSBI Reporting, JBPM, SharePoint).• Defining and prioritising the micro service-based architecture, Testing and providing the business knowledge to the users in utilising these services.• Estimating the complex solution for testing budget, preparing weekly and monthly reports for the senior management.• Preparing and implementing the automated testing dashboards for the testing solutions

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Translate client requirements into IT specific design documents• Identify potential solutions by assessing client requirements from a technical and business applicability• Reviewed the business processes / stakeholder needs, made recommendations for solutions / improvements and translated business requirements into software using new technology or alternative uses of existing technology• Analyzing how the reality is (or can be) represented into data, procuring the corresponding data or designing human / automated processes to generate them• Establishing feedback loops, using data for better steering, impact-making insight and potential transformation of the business• Developed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy and matrix across different analytic groups (architects, DBA's, developers, functional analysts) to resolve testing in analytic data sets, reports, dashboards and metrics• Created business requirements, source to target mappings, data models, and designs to assist in the development of highly efficient and highly scalable business intelligence solution

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Coordinated with the IT Department in providing Quality assurance across 10 Applications in the domain from the end to end testing to the individual system testing• Testing for end to end Insurance chain, from underwriting, technical accounting, pricing/costing, claims management, financial planning, risk management.• Steered Effort estimation, Resource planning, Test Plan; led a team for 20 - 30 people• Performed various operations including evangelization and estimation; supervised the demand management pipeline, implemented disciplines to ensure that backlogs remain current, transparent and prioritized• Testing for the Power Center, Data Warehouse, Data Conversions• Setting up the automation testing• Setting up the nightly build test runs• Continuous Integration testing for the inbound and outbound interfaces

Banaglore India

• Steered data validation in the databases and led testing of reinsurance application of SICS (A Complete Reinsurance Solution from CSC)• Checked the workflow of the various modules available in the application like accounting, business, and claims and retro• Developed data in various client facing applications, and validated the same in the back-end system SICS, which was sent as XML response at different stages of the workflow• Simulated, designed, developed & deployed computationally complex and practical data; built and delivered comprehensive data strategy roadmaps; ensured final deliverables are of the highest quality.