● Led and built a comprehensive quality assurance (QA) program for a multinational financial products portfolio with multi-million dollar annual revenue. ● Managed and mentored multiple teams of QA engineers across international locations, along with scrum master and delivery manager roles. ● Championed quality throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by collaborating with product management, engineering, and customer support. ● Established and documented robust testing processes, standards, and procedures aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements. ● Partnered with product management to ensure clear, testable, and achievable product requirements, fostering quality from the initial stages. ● Established and led QA Guilds to discuss and propagate QA best practices and skill development. Key Initiatives and Achievements: ● Data and Cloud Transformation - Led the cloud migration of critical fixed income pricing systems, ensuring quality and timely data centre transition through a cross-functional, geographically dispersed team of QA specialists. ● Established a comprehensive quality assurance program for strategic program-level initiatives, driving collaboration across product management, engineering, and customer support teams to integrate quality throughout the software development lifecycle. ● Test Strategy: Standardized testing ensured efficiency and quality across systems, resulting in zero critical and high production issues. ● Test Management: Established End-to-End SQA Life Cycle & Risk Management where continuous testing and proactive risk mitigation minimized defects by 60%. ● QA Automation: Agile Development (CI/CD with Python Automation) slashed Time-To-Market by 70% with faster, automated QA. ● Data Migration: Managed and validated end-to-end data migration from legacy to AWS infrastructure using database testing and SQL leading to complete data migration. ● ETL Transformation (In Progress): Established test strategy, end-to-end testing for ETL implementation on AWS. ● Application Architecture: Microservices based architecture analysis contributed to a scalable, future-proof design, resulting in quarterly to monthly release cycles. ● Subject Matter Expert: Championed actively engaging stakeholders (product owners, delivery manager, technical teams) during UAT & OAT planning and facilitated successful processes with high user satisfaction at 90% through defining user-centric test scenarios and clear acceptance criteria. ● Application Security: Integrated security best practices, collaborated with external security, and provided comprehensive test support to ensure enhanced robust application security. ● Resilient Infrastructure: AWS assessment ensured fault tolerance with disaster recovery implementation and testing, enabling 24/7 application availability. ● Project Management: Managed project lifecycle and scrum ceremonies encompassing planning, execution, monitoring, reporting, risk analysis, and stakeholder engagement, achieving on-time, on-budget delivery. ● High Performing Team: Fostered a continuous feedback environment through agile practices and collaborative leadership, resulting in low defect density and high team morale. ● New Product Initiatives - Managed and mentored a team of 4 offshore QA engineers during the strategic development of a new, global fixed income pricing product on AWS with a microservices architecture product. ● Pioneered a robust testing strategy that accelerated our Agile development process. This enabled us to deliver new features monthly, fostering faster market adaptation and culminating in a successful product launch. ● Led software quality assurance (SQA) efforts for a globally leading fixed income product generating millions in annual revenue. Managed a team of QA professionals as a test manager, ensuring comprehensive test coverage through meticulous planning and execution. Collaborated with wider team management to develop and implement effective test strategies, working closely with stakeholders to define and achieve quality goals leading to the successful release of a high quality financial product. Established the team and then asked to relocate to London. ● Test Infrastructure Creation - Implemented a comprehensive testing framework, including workflows, tools, and a dedicated QA team of 3 engineers, to support the development of globally leading fixed income pricing and carbon credit auction (ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance) products. ● Appreciation for Leadership & Execution from the division president. ● Equity Incentive for Exceeding Performance Goals.