Vallabh Bhandare

• Define Testing policy and standards for Testing function and improvising the overall IT Policy and governance mechanism.
• Create strategic framework in transforming the engineering practices. and building the roadmap to achieve the vision.
• Helped implement Oracle Simphony for F&B verticals of Alshaya across the different markets such as UAE, Kuwait, KSA, Jordan.
• Responsible for yearly budgeting for the team and new initiatives using the Oracle EPBCS tool.
• Driven the vendor Selection process through RFI/RFP, cost negotiation and its management in Fixed cost/value stream deliverable or T&M basis.
• Work with the PMO and identify and manage the risk and issues with the appropriate mitigation and contingency plan.
• Helped deliver projects from Digital testing programme with more than 85% test automation coverage creating efforts save by more than 50% for Year 2022-23.
• Defined and implemented E2E Test Automation process covering Digital products and back office applications from Customer journey perspective having more than 10 different application tech stack.
• Implemented and governed Database virtualisation for enhancing the test data management using the commercial tool.
• Work collaboratively with the Infrastructure/DevOps team and influence them to adopt the better implementation practices aligned with the CI/CD process.
• Work with supporting functions to define and setup organization structure.
• Define job descriptions and fill up critical testing positions within 3 months time.
• Goals defined and appropriate KRAs/KPIs defined for Testing organization.
• Work closely with Senior leadership team to help onboard new testing practices across different teams.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
• Actively listened to internal and external customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to senior leadership team.

• Defined, Implemented, Measured, and Continuously Improve QA Process Framework for Phase-2 of TAMM-Abu Dhabi (https://www.tamm.abudhabi) programme which ensured quality across different products on continuous improvement basis.
• Worked closely with critical teams such as Client, Programme leadership, Development, Product Governance, Operations, and Release Management team.
• Weekly Reporting on Quality KPIs to Director of General Office - TAMM, Executive Leadership Team, and Operations team.
• Helped increase CSAT value by 30% as compared to Phase-1 by delivering compatible quality product across Web and mobile app channels with help of my "Star" QA team.
• Course corrected legacy Testing methodologies applied which helped deliver critical core product systems into production which were termed as failure since Phase-1

• Planned and executed Strategy while playing role of Head of Quality Engineering.
• Transformed team from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering thus maximizing automation across different components such as API, Web, and Native in CI/CD platform.
• Worked closely with Business Users, Agile Coaches, Technology Owners, and Product Owners in Roadmap planning and delivering releases on continuous improvement basis.
• Provide Monthly updates to internal stakeholders such as VP of Engineering, CTO, COO, and Global Delivery Head on Quality KPIs.
• Reduced defect leakage from 40% to 12% across deliveries.
• Implemented BDD based Test automation framework thereby producing total effort save of 30%.

• Helped QAs of this product-based organization to learn, adapt, and practice new age Quality Engineering practices.
• Had set vision through QA roadmap and provide leadership to support team in achieving defined roadmap.
• Hired certain critical positions to bring in right talent to team to help scale up quality of deliverables.
• With implementation of strong governance, was successful in increasing Testing effectiveness from 50% to 93% in year 2017-18. Worked closely with Implementation Team and Product Leadership team for Pre-Sales pitch.

• Managed multiple Testing projects related to Retail Trading and Wholesale Currency Services.
• Helped build up QA team from team size of 7 QAs to team of 60 in year's time.
• Won CEO award for consistently delivering good customer experience through testing deliveries.
• Helped save 700+ man-days effort by implementing OATS Testing strategy for test case design.
• Was assigned role of Programme Lead from Offshore center to deliver set of new world systems by decommissioning legacy system. This involved managing cross-functional team members as well.
• Updated ongoing testing procedures for software to account for changes resulting from post-release patches
• Tested pre-release functional modifications to reduce possibility of end users experiencing crashes or bugs

• Worked on Mainframe based Core Credit Card system whereby learned VB Scripting to Automate high priority regression test cases and test data creation activities.

Worked as a Sr. Functional Testing Engineer on the Web based Insurance projects for MetLife. Had an overseas experience of closely working with the Business stakeholders for 2 years between 2008-10.

Worked as a functional tester on the eLearning domain application. Tested the application manually and through automation by using Rational Robot tool.