Owned product quality of DELMIA Machining Solution suite of products, worked with domain leaders to improve on turn-around time and quality of product.

Handled preview release to Renault, walking them through requirements and collect feedback from customers. Collaborated with partners and Boeing for preview releases and conducted workshop in France.

Distinction of establishing 6 offshore QA teams for various business units (products) from grass root level.

Establishing the offshore QA teams from the ground-up; hiring, forming the team, facilitating product and process training and enabling the team to achieve deliverables within short duration. Expanded the team from 6 to 30 members.

Managed resources for business unit’s requirements starting from recruitment, training, guiding, mentoring, defining career path, setting objectives and conducting appraisals.

Liaising with QA stakeholders in Business Unit’s head quarters (on-site) for achieving of QA deliverables and for process compliance by offshore teams. Prepare budget for year for hardware, resources, training etc.

Work with the team to define test strategy, test plan, building test case library for optimum depth and coverage.

Established and been Maintaining Quality Center of Excellence, implementing best practices, new initiatives for improving processes, team competence, productivity and institutionalizing best practises in testing processes

Defining business metrics to quantify build quality, resource utilization, & process effectiveness. Improved Defect removal efficiency from 71% to 88%.

Identified and implemented process improvements to improve the efficiency and testing effectiveness. Stabilized & streamlined maintenance release process of the product.

Brought in best practises of Agile & Project Management to improve on release process, closer collaboration with Dev, better automation coverage, predictability of test exit. Incorporated RCA process for slipped bug.

Manage parallel release patch cycles with optimum resource allocation with in release dates, supporting critical & security related fixes. Reduced the release cycle time by 40%.

Support customer queries on product feature, support of the scenarios, confirm behaviour, suggest workarounds.

Manage release efficiently and effectively balancing the scope, resource and schedule of multiple parallel releases.

Setup test automation robust and effective test coverage, covered defect scenarios to ensure no regressions. Automated end-to-end states; from installation tests through functional tests – Urbancode-Jenkins-Selenium.

Worked with Dev-ops to build automate functional GUI sanity tests on CI environment, qualifying the build.

Defined good practises for CAD modelling, and shared expertise with team. Lead the team with the 3D modelling project.