Srikant Varma Sagi
Chino,USA
Summary
Results-oriented IT professional with over 19 years of experience, including 12+ years as a Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering. Managing diverse projects, delivering business transformation, and ensuring cost-effective, timely, and high-quality results. Proven expertise in customer relationship management, global delivery models, and leading teams in Insurance, Finance, and Telecom industries
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Quality Engineering Manager
TATA Consultancy Services
04.2012 - Current
- Having experience in QA to QE transformation in current assignments.
- Having experience in define the Automation roadmap, strategies, and frameworks.
- Having exp in supporting CI/CD pipeline implementation support.
- Having exp in On -Prem and cloud-based applications.
- Having exp in identification of GEN AI use cases and PoCs
- Exp in Delivering test automation solutions in accordance with enterprise standards and within development and operational guidelines
- Design, development and implement automated tests in Keyword and BDD frameworks
- Perform Peer review for automated tests that are been developed by team members etc.
- Having experience in large transformation and migration projects.
- Having experience in customer proposals, presentations, Estimations, budgets, and billings
- Alling with IT senior leadership to meet the revenue goals and targets.
- Continuously improve test processes (Root Cause Analysis, Correction and Preventions
- Responsible for management and coordination of all testing activities on assigned projects including definition of testing approach, test effort estimation, progress and status reporting
- Providing continuous review and recommendations for improvement of processes related to status reporting/dashboarding
- Develop and implement best practices for project management ensuring alignment with industry standards.
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to recruit, mentor, coach, develop and manage a team of engineers.
- Oversee cross functional projects - resource allocation across the portfolio, manage risks and interdependencies, implement risk mitigation strategies, monitor and report on project performance, and provide insights into project progress, budgets, timelines and key performance indicators, ensuring timely and effective decision-making.
- Having experience Leading and Managing large Data, ETL and Data warehousing projects
- Providing the E2E functional solutions in the OS designer, provided solutions for business requirements apart from engaging with various stakeholders across multi vendors including business reps, platform architects, test community, etc and ensured architectural conformance of the system changes stack (Fulfilment, Assurance, and basic billing).
- Flexible adaptable to new technologies with quick learning abilities
- Having experience in Leading IVR, Mobile and ChatBot Testing Projects
- Has worked on all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle including Testing Life Cycle
- Involved in Functional, GUI, Ad-hoc, System and Regression Testing.
- Having experience in leading large automation projects, API automation and provide the solutions.
- Having exp in Managing and Leasing IT infra projects.
- Defining SLAs and KPIs
- Managing the introduction of change in process by collaborating with stakeholders.
- Well versed with the Testing Concepts and Methodologies.
- Experience of using bug-tracking tool like Jira, Quality Centre 9.2(QC), Test Director
- Good interpersonal skills, committed, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies.
Education
Bachelor's - Engineering in Computer Science
Skills
- Quality engineering and assurance management
- Strategic leadership
- Program management proficiency
- Customer engagement strategies
- Corporate governance
- Budget oversight
- Strategic innovation development
- Business growth initiatives
- Effective team collaboration
- Effective time management
- Clear communication
- Problem-solving skills
- Guidewire PC implementation
- Greenfield implementation of ServiceNow solutions
- CI/CD pipeline management
- JIRA administration expertise
- Software development lifecycle expertise
- Automated testing with Selenium WebDriver
- Performance testing with LoadRunner
- Performance testing with JMeter
- Confluence expertise
- Database querying
- SOX compliance management
Certification
- ISTQB Certified
- SOA Certified
- AWS Developers Certified
- Trained in Agile methodology.
SOFT SKILLS
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor teams.
- Adaptable to new technologies and methodologies
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Quality Assurance & Engineering: QA/QE management, test strategy definition, automation frameworks, quality control.
- Leadership: Leading large QA teams, executive reporting, client account management, mentoring engineers.
- Project, Program & Delivery Management: Agile Scrum, DevOps (CI/CD), financial management, risk mitigation.
- Technical Proficiency: ServiceNow and Guidewire implementations, backend/frontend testing, cloud/on-premises solutions, infra projects
- Tools & Technologies: Selenium, QTP, Load Runner, JMeter, Jira (admin/configuration), Confluence, Salesforce, CRM applications.
- Governance: SLA/KPI definition, SOX controls, portfolio governance.
- Innovation: Identifying and executing Gen AI use cases, PoCs, and process improvements.
- Business Development: New proposals, providing the QA/QE solutions, Financial Management.
Timeline
Sr Quality Engineering Manager
TATA Consultancy Services
04.2012 - Current
Bachelor's - Engineering in Computer Science
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