Chief Technology Officer

• Jan 2018 - Present

- Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company. - Ensuring that the technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs. - Outline the goals for research and development. - Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services. - Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements. - Acting as a mentor to team members. - Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivering of IT projects to market. - Managing technology budgets and time frames. - Staying on top of technology trends and developments. - Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.

Senior Project Manager

• Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

- 6+ years experience as a Technical Project Manager in IT Industry. Solid understanding of Business Process Flows, Case Tools, and Business Analysis and Development techniques. - Project Management Professional (PMI certified PMP) experienced in quickly understanding complex project objectives, generating project scope documentation, building stakeholder consensus to delivery approach - Able to mitigate and resolve issues, re-establish project momentum throughout all stakeholder tiers including end users, technicians, engineers and subject matter experts - Efficient in leading offshore and inshore teams - Applies Common Sense Project Management Principles to engender cooperative and collaborative efforts, deliver business strategic objectives and fill the end customer needs. - An excellent communicator – as key point of contact and customer liaison, able to clearly communicate objectives, manage conflict resolution, and articulate requirements to management, development, and design teams - Technical credibility with exceptional documentation and presentation capabilities - Positive leadership with methodical work habits and detailed organizational ability, maintaining team focus on scope and manage stakeholders expectations - Empathetic to the needs of customers, stakeholders, and team members

Head of Quality Assurance Department

• Sep 2013 - Jan 2018

- 10+ years experience as a QA Professional, Worked on different QA roles from Anaylst to QA Manager. Have experience in Financial, Banking and investment Industry. Solid understanding of Business Process Flows, Case Tools, and Business Analysis. - Managed big multicultural teams where project teams are available on different parts of world and working on same project. - Have been involved in most of the stages of project development including requirement analysis, design, enhancements, implementation and documentation with complete knowledge of SDLC. - Build a new QA department from the ground up, including the hiring of staff, development of processes and procedures, and implementing testing methodologies in QA and Development. - Review existing SOPs and update/Improved them to stream line the process to improve product quality. Introduced new SOPs for SDLC, Code deployment, Bug Management, Time Line Estimation, Change Control Management etc. - Implemented CI (Continuous Integration) framework with load and functional testing scripts using Jenkins. - Experienced in created custom test automation frame works Using Selenium web driver with Java. - Extensive experience in gathering Business and Functional Requirements, developing Use Cases, conducting Gap Analysis and preparing Training manuals - Excellent Business writing skills in creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS). - Well experienced in developing Test Plans, Test Execution, Defect Tracking, and Report Generation. - Ability to communicate business requirements, goals, and directives to the technical team and serving as client interface for managing user expectations and achieving client satisfaction. - Experienced in test schedule planning, test case design, documentation and execution, discovering software bugs, reporting bugs and verifying bug fixes.

Software Quality Assurance Lead

• Oct 2010 - Jun 2013

Reviewed Software Requirement Specifications, created Estimations, negotiated and signed off on the Test Plans for the releases. Analyzed functional and technical requirement documents to find inconsistencies and identified the contradictions. Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release/delivery Managed Offshore/Onshore team of 8 senior/intermediate QA analysts. Developed and implemented test plans. Ensured content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts are properly followed, documented and maintained. Prepared traceability matrices, daily reports to improve quality processes and develop successful estimation model. Ensured release sign–off and prepared reports like test execution summary, defect summary, deployment success. Setup QA work flow in TestLink and devise test methodology Implemented training and development plans for team of 5 QA testers. Mentor associates. Managed entire Defect life cycle using Jira. Organised and managed Defect triage meetings. Reviewed manual/automated test cases and suggested enhancement according to the requirement change. Validated Radio and App API services to make sure infotainment is connected to portal/database and working as required. Facilitated UAT with clients. Managed the final testing phase during production deployment. Environment: MS Office 2007 , Visio 2007, QTP, Jira, TestLink, Blueprint, XML editors etc

Software Quality Assurance Lead

• Sep 2009 - Sep 2010

Reviewed Software Requirement Specifications, negotiated and signed off on the Test Plans for the releases. Created Test strategy and Master Test Plan. Also developed traceability matrix for test requirements and test cases to highlight requirement coverage. Created visual models, charts, flow diagrams and other specification components that facilitate simplification and abstraction. Created use cases through Process flow, Scenario, and Class diagrams using UML. Created Test Plans, Manual Test Cases and Test Reports during different releases of this application. Used Quick Test Professional to run the Regression Cycle of the application. Developed scripts in Standard and Low level recording format and used Shared Object Repository to store all test objects. Implemented synchronization points, standard check points, Text check points and XML checkpoints to carryout Regression testing. Prepared traceability matrices, daily reports to improve quality processes and develop successful estimation model. Ensured release sign–off and prepared reports like test execution summary, defect summary, deployment success. Managed entire Defect life cycle using Mercury Quality Center. Reported directly to Manager, Quality Assurance. Assisted Manager to collect status reports and schedule formal and informal weekly meetings with team members. Implemented training and development plans for team of five QA testers. Mentor junior associates. Developed Manual Test cases for functional, backend and security testing. Prepared traceability matrices, daily reports to improve quality processes and develop successful estimation model. Ensured release sign–off and prepared reports like test execution summary, defect summary, deployment success. Managed entire Defect life cycle using Mercury Quality Center. Reported directly to Manager, Quality Assurance. Assisted Manager to collect status reports and schedule formal and informal weekly meetings with team members.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

• 2008 - 2009

Manufacturing Engineer

• Sep 2007 - Jun 2008

Manufacturing Engineer

• Feb 2004 - Sep 2007