Subhash Mandal

About Subhash Mandal

Product & Platforms leader with 20+ years in BFSI, steering enterprise - scale digital…

Experience

1. Assistant Project Manager

   HSBC

   Dec 2014 — Present · Pune, IN

   Testing Head – ADM Cards (UK Ring Fenced bank + APAC & Middle East)My role profile encompasses the following:• Analysing business requirements, driving functional walkthroughs & requirement gathering workshops, providing effort and reviewing estimation; providing test engagement to business/senior stakeholders• Delivering yearly, quarterly & monthly presentations on delivery performance and presenting weekly status reporting for all cards projects• Resource & Knowledge Management, Vendor Engagement, Staffing Process, Work Orders and Demand Management• Detailed Review of test strategy, test plans & other test artefacts. • Closely tracking test metrics, cost savings, reduction in cycle time, so on • Managing escalations and building & maintaining strong relationships with Key Management Team• Making efforts for upliftment of capability of the team – Automation, Agile & DevOps • Building proposal’s for automation and facilitating cost reduction initiatives• Laising closely with other Testing Heads and COE SMEsAccomplishments:• Facilitated alignment of Cards Test Team to HSBC goals and measures, by setting up metrics & tracking tools. • Improved test process quality & efficiency and drove cost reduction measures such as set-up of Simulator Testing Pool, automation of authorisations, creation of regional product test assets and their increased re-usability to reduce planning effort, usage of automated tools for testdata mining & set-up• Led the development of an independent testing team for APAC • Drove stabilization of delivery within a short period of just 1 year

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  B.E

  1998 — 2002

• Nowrosjee Wadia College

  H.S.C

  1996 — 1998

Skills

• Test Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Project Management
• Manual Testing
• Requirements Analysis
• Sdlc
• Test Strategy
• Testing
• Resource Management
• Test Planning
• Defect Tracking
• Designing
• Stakeholder Management
• Hp Quality Center
• Regression Testing
• Agile Testing
• Hp Qtp
• System Integration Testing
• Test Automation
• Software Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Qtp
• Software Quality Assurance
• Team Management
• System Testing
• Credit Cards
• Test Cases
• User Acceptance Testing
• Functional Testing
• Quality Center
• Project Delivery