Waaris Verma

About Waaris Verma

Have got 24+ years of experience across global Dev/QA functions, driving digital…

Experience

1. Assistant Vice President - Quality Engineering

   Programming.com

   Apr 2013 — Present · IN

   Developing and implementing a comprehensive quality assurance and control management strategy aligned with organizational risk management frameworks and business objectives.• Providing leadership and overall direction to Quality Engineering and PMO team• Ensuring Quality KPIs are met, optimized, and transparently tracked/reported on a continuous basis, contribute to test strategy, planning and execution.• Heading the engineering program management team responsible for process compliance, metrics analysis, release management, management reporting etc.• Driving organizational wide initiatives by providing strategic inputs to the team to improve quality processes (lower defects, rapid deployment, higher automation etc).• Leading and mentoring a global team of 250 QA resources and analysts (Pan India), ensuring alignment with company goals and quality standards as a part of Running TCoE (Testing centre of excellence)• Provide technical vision, implement, and follow reproducible, auditable, collaborative practices for efficiency and continuous improvement.• Maintain strong relationships with peer teams and stakeholders- communicate risks/issues transparently and negotiate/prioritize any change of plan aligned to business requirements.• Responsible for collating the budgetary plans for the organization• Making decisions to identify critical risks/issues and implement mitigation plans that impact the overall timeline and economic delivery of the global customer delivery agenda as well as suggest ways to improve process efficiencies.• Develop and implement company-wide QA strategies, driving the adoption of best practices and continuous improvement across all product lines.• Collaborate closely with C-level executives to align QA initiatives with business objectives and product roadmaps.6• Oversee the establishment and maintenance of industry-standard compliance (e.g, ISO, CMMI) and regulatory adherence.

Education

• Punjabi University

  Bachelor of Computer applications, C++, VB, oops, networks

  1999 — 2002

• Amity University

  MBA (executive), Information Technology

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Pl/Sql
• Test Planning
• Software Project Management
• Sdlc
• Test Cases
• User Acceptance Testing
• Software Quality Assurance
• System Testing
• Testing
• Soa
• Requirements Gathering
• Performance Testing
• Scrum
• Cmmi
• Waterfall
• Business Analysis
• Qtp
• Test Automation
• Web Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Management
• Unix
• Test Strategy
• Quality Assurance
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Defect Tracking