Experience

London Creative Agency

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director Program Management, Testing Practice at Harman Connected Services

  • Jun 2010 - Present

  Information Technology & Services, Retail, Analytics, ETL, Data warehousing, Program Management, Development and Testing Information Technology & Services, Retail, Analytics, ETL, Data warehousing, Program Management, Development and Testing



Harman Connected Services

• Bangalore

• Director, Program Management, Testing Practice

  • Jun 2010 - Present

  Driving Testing Practice improvement's across Visualization, Analytics, ILD Product Streams Review and fine tune End to End Test Strategy across applications comprising ETL, Analytical Model, Calculations, Functional, Solutions, Automation and PSR functions Assess Test Management Tools, vendor (HP) evaluation, negotiations and implementation rollout strategy across geographies – QC, UFT, Service Test and Performance Center across geographies Real Time Metrics – Dashboard and Quality Indicators for continuous improvement and for Executive management Automation and Performance roadmap - Coverage levers > 70% on automation & Performance Engineering focus on Client layer Shift from UI Automation to Service based approach, leverage platform API’s to gain execution speed, Leverage Cloud for parallel execution of Automation for regression Usage Dashboard plugged in to Production environment (SAS) – 80:20 usage patterns for Test design and Performance Scenarios End to End Regression Automation integrated with Jenkins resulting in accelerated Test Cycle and Savings in 8 FTE’s over the period



Ness Digital Engineering

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Manager

  • Jun 2004 - May 2010

  Program Management and delivery responsibility for a platform product in CRM domain Expertise in Scrum development methodology, Testing practice and Program Management Pega (Chordiant) Systems, CRM, 24-May-2004 to 31-May-2010: Sr Program Manager, Ness Technologies Program and Test Management for a flagship Platform Product Managed complete Agile Release planning in coordination with the Onshore Product Owner for 2 major releases Played a key role in establishing the process of planning, monitoring, metrics and reporting using Scrum development Worked in close coordination with IBM Alliance and Program Management teams for WPS & z/OS porting with labs in Germany and Performance Lab in New York. Successfully steered the planning, resourcing, enablement and execution of I18N initiative for platform product. Accelerated the Platform release by 80 man days via Automation and Risk based testing approach Served as a member of the virtual IT task force; inducted Virtualization lab Successfully inducted Sustaining Patch Process from scratch including development of operating procedures & metrics



i2 Technologies

• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Solution Architect

  • 2003 - 2004

  Solution Architect managed SRM solutions in i2 GCSM from offshore and onsite.Spend Management, Contract Management and Product Sourcing solutions.Deep expertise in Spend, Contract Management and Product Sourcing Solutions in Consulting, Solution's capacity on SRMSystem Study, Data Audit, ER and Data Modeling, Data Migration and Implementation rollout for large Clients as for Emerson Electric, GSNA, Cooper Industries, Shell Oill, Avondale, Ascom Energy Systems, OxyChem, Honeywell, Posco. Implemented migration strategy for Clients with DWH best practices, built automated frameworks for faster turnaround and data quality. Interfaced with Clients onsite for model maintenance for Spend and Supplier Score Card solutions at Posco, Seoul, S Korea and GSNA on long term implementation

• Senior Consultant

  • 2001 - 2004

  Managed Customer solutions post transition from Consulting for APAC and US accounts