Narendra Sakhare
Test Manager @Tata Consultancy Services
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WORK HISTORY
Test Manager @Tata Consultancy Services
Croydon, GB
Test Manager | 12/2015 – PresentLeading high-value transformation projects for financial services clients across the UK, including Tier-1 banks and wealth institutions. Specialise in end-to-end quality delivery, stakeholder engagement, and coaching junior engineers while creating test strategy for complex multi-system environments.• Delivered three full-scale transition and transformation programmes from resource identification to onboarding, environment setup, and execution—ensuring seamless delivery within SLAs and timelines.• Chair daily, weekly, and monthly steering committee and stakeholder meetings to track delivery against milestones and resolve blockers across departments.• Spearheaded team performance improvement plans through ITIL-aligned process enhancements, upskilling, and automation strategy adoption.• Coach and mentor to junior developers and test engineers, creating cohesive, productive teams aligned to business goals.• Acted as a quality champion by shaping robust test strategies, establishing project artefacts, and implementing effective metrics and toll gate reviews.• Successfully resolved cross-vendor conflicts by designing and executing corrective action plans while maintaining stakeholder confidence and progress visibility.
EDUCATION
Model English High School Parbhani
10, Mathematics, Biology, Physics & Chemistry
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Chemical Engineering
Shri Shivaji College Parbhani
10+2, Mathematics, Biology, Physics & Chemistry
SKILLS
ABOUT NARENDRA SAKHARE
Experienced and meticulous Quality Engineering Leader with over 15 years of international experience in Banking, Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Insurance, and Payments. Known for successfully leading complex transition and transformation projects, and managing large-scale quality engineering programs in the UK, Europe, US and India. Skilled in department operations management, offering end-to-end testing strategies, and driving high-performing teams through modern tools and processes as per Industrial standard in Agile environment.A results-driven professional with a track record of success for building teams and stakeholders to provide hands-on, value-focused solutions with problem solving attitude and solution provider. Familiar with blending strategic planning with hands-on leadership to drive continuous improvement. Experienced in managing end-to-end project lifecycles from team onboarding to environment setup, meeting rigorous timelines and service expectations. Highly interested in quality, collaboration, and enabling team development through mentoring and coaching.Areas of ExpertiseTest Programme Management, Defect Governance & Regulatory Compliance, Test Automation Strategy (UI | API | Performance), End-to-End Test Delivery | UAT | Risk-Based Testing, Investment Banking | Wealth Management QA, Agile | Scrum | CI/CD, Cross-Functional Stakeholder Engagement, Process & Quality ImprovementsTechnical Proficiencies • Domains: Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Mutual Funds, Banking, Insurance, Payments, Credit Risk, E-Commerce, Airline, • Methodologies: Waterfall, V Model, Agile, Agile Scrum • Tools & Platform: Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, Zephyr, SharePoint, TCS DevPlus, Power BI, Microsoft Project, TOSCA, TFS, MTM• Automation & Performance: Cucumber, Jenkins, JMeter, Postman, SOAPUI, IntelliJ, TestNG.• Frameworks & Technologies: Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured, Protractor, Git, • Programme Languages & Frameworks: Java, Python, C#, Groovy, XUnit, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Test Driven Development (TDD).• Databases: IBM DB2, IBM PCOM, SQL• Reporting: SteerCo, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Requirement Traceability Metrix (RTM), Governance Dashboards, Status Reports• Test Documentation & Governance: Test Strategy, Test Plan, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)• Testing: Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), System Testing (ST), API Testing, Shift Left Testing, Shift Right Testing.
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