Strategic and cross-functional Inhouse Consultant / Project Leader with over 14 years of IT experience and 5 years in driving international digital transformation and business process improvement initiatives. Skilled in project management methodologies and tools, coaching stakeholders, and delivering measurable results across global teams.
• Cultivated a high-performance development team focused on automation, agile practices, and cross-departmental collaboration.
• Developed scalable testing frameworks and streamlined validation of complex systems, including edge devices.
• Designed and executed a strategic hiring roadmap, successfully onboarding 15+ skilled engineers to meet project and organizational growth demands.
• Led risk analysis discussions with leadership teams to guide technical decisions in fast-paced projects.
• Integrated metrics dashboards into operations to ensure real-time visibility of sprint progress and release quality.
• Championed a growth-oriented team culture, encouraging experimentation, peer mentoring, and cross-training to improve team versatility and morale.
• Led weekly knowledge-sharing sessions across agile teams to strengthen cross-functional understanding of automation, DevOps integration, and business logic.
• Served as key liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to define and deliver automation and modernization efforts.
• Directed QA strategy for system-critical modules with high user impact, applying lean and agile principles.
• Collaborated with infrastructure and automation teams to support continuous deployment pipelines.
• Embraced social coding practices, integrating peer reviews, and internal workshops for knowledge transfer.
• Initiated and governed a Center of Excellence (CoE) to standardize automation tools, reusable frameworks, and testing protocols across business units.
• Managed delivery across multiple agile squads, ensuring KPI adherence, velocity stability, and high stakeholder satisfaction.
• Designed root-cause analysis methods that improved system uptime by 99.8%.
• Served as a technical escalation point and decision-maker for sprint blockers and
cross-team dependencies.
• Facilitated the transition to a test-first development culture, resulting in a 30%
reduction in early-stage defects.
• Established mentorship channels that scaled onboarding efforts for 20+ engineers.
• Awarded “Leadership Excellence” by senior management for driving agile culture adoption, scaling QA automation,
and enabling stakeholder confidence.
• Improved team delivery velocity by 40% by restructuring sprint planning, enhancing backlog grooming, and minimizing
blockers across QA and BA streams.
• Established a cross-functional QA & BA governance model, increasing inter-team collaboration and halving turnaround
times for issue resolution.
• Introduced shift-left testing and risk-based analysis, reducing production incidents by 50% in high-impact claims
processing modules.
• Spearheaded standardization of test practices across teams, leading to 30% improvement in quality assurance
maturity score in internal audits.
• Boosted sprint predictability by 45%, using data-driven burndown analysis and historical velocity metrics to plan
realistic commitments.