Nagpur University

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Project Manager, AI Strategy, Product Mgmt & PMO

TEAM LEADERSHIP |  PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT| BUSINESS ANALYSIS | RELEASE GOVERNANCE | CONSULTING & ADVISORY SERVICES | BUDGET MANAGEMENT | CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION | PORTFOLIO EXECUTION | 
• Oversee top-performing team of 25 professionals, ensuring quality and integrity of 25+ releases annually across a portfolio of six applications, thus meeting project milestones and deliverables.
• Steer delivery of critical initiatives and end-to-end product lifecycle from concept-to-completion, thus implementing and executing the BDD framework to achieve efficient and robust development cycle.
• Champion all aspects of providing quality system development and leadership, improving the QMS systems, building a high-performance quality team, and facilitating continued improvements while supporting strategic decision-making.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, development leads, and business analyst leads to align development efforts with business goals while ensuring compliance with regulations via delivery of adequate controls.
• Manage multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously, utilizing prioritization, time management, and stakeholder
management abilities to complete all work requirements on time, with excellence, and in alignment with specifications.
• Ensure delivery of tested & fully operational products in alignment with specific organizational requirements while providing data-driven and insightful recommendations to support organization-wide decision-making.
•Verifiable success in researching markets to identify risks, architecting master test plans, implementing secured data handling and analysis techniques, and establishing controls to eliminate risks. 
• Launch Agile methodologies as well as the QA function for Market Risks & Controls group, validating controls applications to protect the firm from unauthorized trading.

Barclays

Vice President and Delivery Lead for Markets Risk and Controls, Barclays

RISK MANAGEMENT | SOFTWARE TESTING | WORKFLOW INTEGRATION | DATA MANAGEMENT 
DATA COLLECTION | BUSINESS SYSTEMS & ARCHITECTURE MANAGEMENT | REGRESSION TESTING 
• Administered technical oversight for integrating new technologies into data standards and structures while cultivating impactful data management plans for complex business systems and architectures.

• Served as an architect of master test plans ―Integrated into software testing workflow, while utilizing innovative testing techniques to perform validation and exploratory development test coverage.

• Executed risk management best practices across multiple projects and initiatives while leading strategy and execution of QA data project along with modifying data management infrastructure to expedite data analysis.

• Designed quality data collection techniques to ensure accuracy and legitimacy while creating and enforcing policies for effective data management along with coordinating and testing new builds.

• Operated as a liaison between departments regarding quality control to facilitate testing and scheduling while conducting regression and iOS app testing along with using TRAC to facilitate the troubleshooting process.

• Devised and implemented efficient and secure data handling and analysis techniques while establishing rules and procedures for data sharing, and accurately updating the database.

• Delivered technical leadership for the design and implementation of data-driven software test automation while maximizing levels of automated test coverage with flexible, manageable, and durable tests.

mYusic Inc.

Project, Test and Data Manager

TRANSFORMATIONAL INITIATIVES | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT | PROJECT MANAGEMENT
TESTING PROCESS | PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT | QUALITY ASSURANCE | TEAM BUILDING
• Defined project scope and deliverables to support business objectives in liaison with senior management and stakeholders while analyzing quality assurance reports for submission to senior program managers.

• Managed end-to-end testing process while administering participative management of test resources along with building a high-performing testing team to complete complex projects in alignment with requirements.

• Supervised 30-person international team of QA personnel while executing test plans, test scripts, and QA strategies; as well as tested web applications and mainframes while managing plan sponsor application, desktop and SSP application, and unique HIPAA project.

• Steered and directed transformational initiatives, while turning around underperforming operations, thus receiving multiple awards for performance.

• Crafted full-scale testing strategies and plans while accurately communicating project objectives to team members and stakeholders in a timely manner.

Aetna, a CVS Health Company (Virtusa Corp.)

Test Manager

QA PROCESSES MANAGEMENT | METRICS | NEW TOOLS & PROCESSES | TEST CASE DEVELOPMENT
• Evolved formal QA processes while overseeing and establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and cultivating new tools and processes to ensure achievement of quality assurance goals.

• Designed all test scripts and ensured compliance to test plans for the operational system while maintaining efficient quality assurance tests according to required policies and procedures.

• Cultivated test plans for complex distributed systems in accordance with overall testing strategy while conceptualizing and executing automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.

• Maintained efficient quality assurance tests according to policies and procedures while testing and designing user cases along with drafting test plans and managing test cases based on business processes.

• Developed and executed impactful test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures.

Hema Sastry, M.A.