Sourav Bose

About Sourav Bose

Engineering Leader (18 yrs. of Experience) with broad experience in all aspects of product development. • 5+ years of experience in leading and managing Dev/QA/SRE teams with strong people management skills(ability to hire & grow)• Leading the adoption of Generative AI to enhance the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), optimizing efficiency and product quality. Spearheading site-level GenAI initiatives within the organization, with my team being among the early adopters of GenAI tools, continuously advancing towards the next generation of AI-driven solutions.• Experience working on large complex systems with scalability, availability, testing and performance requirements• Strong Automation and Problem solving skills and ability to follow through to completion.• Experience in operational excellence and driving production incidents including incident management andproblem management• Excellent cross-functional leadership skills• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines - Git, Maven, Jenkins, BIT bucket, Docker, Kubernetes,SonarQube, etc.• Experience in delivering full stack application with React and Spring Boot• Experience in using logging and Monitoring tools like Splunk, Kibana, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc• Expertise in JMeter, Chaos tools, Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Cucumber, Rest Assured, Postman• Experience in programming language - Java, Python• Excellent understanding of ML models and NLP• Excellent understanding of Big Data technologies - Hbase, Hive, Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka etc• Experience in using IDE tools - IntelliJ, Eclipse• Expertise in Automation framework development for API and UI testing.• Experience with test/defect management tools – Jira• Excellent understanding of MicroService architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile Methodologies• Experience working in cloud environments (private cloud) and recently on GCP• Domain Knowledge in Security, Banking, Financial technology, PKI (Public key Infrastructure), Telecom Expense Management

Experience

1. Director

   Visa

   Mar 2023 — Present

   Managed a cross-geography certification team tasked with certifying the production release of payment technology products, including Click2Pay.Champion of GenAI Adoption: Led initiatives to showcase the productivity benefits of Generative AI (GenAI). Successfully highlighted a GenAI proof of concept that received recognition at the Site Level for the CTO during the adoption phase.Presentation and Advocacy: Delivered multiple presentations across various sites and the APAC region to drive GenAI adoption, effectively leading site-level initiatives.Process Optimization: Implemented automation and GenAI solutions, resulting in over a 40% reduction in certification times. Continuously focused on minimizing lead times for changes.AI Development Focus: Currently developing AI agents aimed at transforming the software development lifecycle and enhancing testing methodologies.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering Development, Product Management, Client Services, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Pre-Release Engineering (PRE) teams to ensure comprehensive end-to-end certification testing.Client-Centric Testing: Analyze end-to-end client scenarios to integrate them effectively into certification testing processes.Team Leadership and Development: Provide hands-on guidance and mentorship to team members while managing agile software delivery teams and collaborating with stakeholders to drive technology initiatives.

Education

• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  PG, Data Science, PG Level Advanced Certification Programme in Computational Data Science

• West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

  B.tech, EIE

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Test Cases
• Selenium
• Test Automation Framework
• Process Improvement
• Test Planning
• Testng
• Test Effort Estimation
• Sdlc
• Javascript
• Regression Testing
• Biztalk
• Agile Methodologies
• Oracle
• Java
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Sql
• Webdriver
• People Management
• Test Automation
• Team Leadership
• Resource Management
• Testing