Kumar Akash

Project Management ~ Test Management ~ Performance Management ~ Client Management ~ Best Practices with Continuous improvement

Experience Summary:

Seasoned professional with around 18 years of eventful IT experience in Project and Testing Management programs, project scoping and estimation, successful trackrecord of multiple client interfacing roles

 Managing, building and growing teams and defining organizational strategies to deliver multimillion-dollar releases into production

 Onsite assignments at customer locations to handle client for multiple role played such as

requirement gathering, bringing projects to off-shore, estimations, resource allocation, budgeting for project, Communicating project status through status reports, Engaging withstakeholder/client and achieved a high client satisfaction

 Building a Integration testig team from scratch for a one of leading product for Client product and was also involved in setting up testing process, automation framework and continuousintegration testing for better quality product.

 Hands on QA assignments and also to technically guide junior members for retention of customer satisfaction and building strong relationship with clients

 Customer facing and front-ending teams to own end-to-end delivery

 Strong and hands on experience in Mortgage Services, BFSI and Ecommerce domains, Web Applications and Web Services

 Successful track record of driving projects in various domain space such as Mortgage, BFSI, Ecommerce, Telecom and Healthcare

 Experienced in Agile (SCRUM/KANBAN) and Waterfall delivery models

 Setting practice line at organization for consolidating credentials and expertise to accelerate delivery with continuous improvement

 Conducting assessments to identify gaps in delivery, process and artifacts followed by proposing short-term, mid-term and long-term milestones to fix the same

 Successful record of accomplishment of executing projects by collaborating with the automation team by providing technical guidance.

 Creating road-maps for projects for successfully delivering value driven output with Reduce Cost by Improving Productivity & Test Optimization

 Setting up metric driven delivery model for appropriate quality health check before releasing to production

 Performing UAT by collaborating with BA and client product teams

 Handling delivery for multiple scrum teams to ensure there are no quality gaps

 Collaborating with product, development and release teams