SAURIN SHUKLA

saurinnshukla@gmail.com
(C): 732 725 2356

SUMMARY:

Seasoned IT Professional with over 15 years of progressive experience in SDLC and STLC
management, Test Program Management, Release Management, Change Management,
Service Design and Delivery, Product Management and Business Systems Analysis.

Professional Skills Overview:

 Over 15 years of total experience in IT industry with specialization in financial, insurance
and pharmaceutical verticals as a Sr. Process and Business consultant.
 Experienced line manager with proven track record of building high performing global
teams of senior IT professionals. Strong experience managing global team of IT vendor
resources, contractors and full time employees including performance management of
employees.
 Experience leading projects based on onshore-offshore model, responsible for
managing and mentoring offshore and onshore resources.
 Proven track record of Managing Sr. QA, Release Management and IT Infrastructure
Resources
 Proven track record as QA Manager planning and managing resources for projects
varying in budget range from 50K to 500K USD.
 Managed application portfolio with average yearly testing budget of 3-5 million dollars
USD
 Experience planning project resources, monitoring and tracking project schedule,
delivering projects on time and within budget.
 Experience managing project portfolio for complex programs involving 30+ integrated
applications and reporting project status to higher management on regular basis.
 Technology driven QA Manager with vast exposure with QA, Deployment and Build tools
as well as various Software Development and Test Methodologies
 Exposure to open source as well as third party licensed tools and leading
implementations in IT organizations of various sizes from start-ups to Fortune 500
companies.
 Expertise using industry standard Defect tracking and project management tools like HP
ALM 12, JIRA, Rational Clear Quest, Clarity PPM, Microsoft Project
 Very good communication, presentation, interpersonal, analytical, people and leadership
skills.
 Experience interviewing users and design UML use cases and business requirement
documents.
 Excellent skills translating business requirements to detailed functional specifications.
 Experience acting as a liaison between Infrastructure, Production Support, QA, Business
and the Dev teams
 Excellent skills in estimating project scope, purpose and cost/benefit factor.
  Experience training end users on the products/applications before production release in
the beta environments and UAT phases.

Professional Experience:

09/2008 – Present: Credit Suisse

07/2014 – Present: Vice President – Global QA Manager/ Testing Service Delivery Manager
01/2009 – 07/2014: Contractor - Global Test Manager – Production and Testing Services Group
09/2008 – 09/2009: Business System Analyst / Quality Analyst – Product Control IT

As QA Manager/Testing Service Delivery Manager, I played critical role deliver Quality Analysis
and Testing services for over 20+ major functional releases and 30+ out of cycle releases for
the Product Control Product Line within GTS - Risk and Finance IT. I contributed in planning
and setting up a test team, process and governance to enable the testing team delivers high
quality test service inline with GTS strategy. I have worked on and help test strategic programs
and applications like Online Profitability and Exception Reporting Application (OPERA), Detailed
Accounting Ledger (DAL), Reference Data Hub (RDH). Planned, Managed and Coordinated
front to back UAT and Functional tests across Product Control, pan-CFO and Group Finance
areas. Coordinated integrated and regression test activities with cross functional leads for
applications like NTPA, GMI, Loan-IQ, Gateway, Reference Data Hub, OPERA, DAL, PC Data
warehouse and Reporting Datamart, PeopleSoft, Intellimach, STAR-COMET, BASEL-II and
BASEL-III. After working for a year as a Sr. Test Analyst/SME I was involved to function as front
to back Test Manager/QA Manager for a critical strategic Financial Systems Integration
Program for the Integrated and UAT test phases.

07/2007 – 9/2008: Bear Stearns and Services, Inc and JPMorgan Chase ,
Vice President/QA Manager

Leading the testing activities for the Wire Transfer, CSR Dashboard, Global Proxy, Option
Exercise, Trade Manager and Reporting Services Applications. Besides being lead on the five
projects handled on in designing automation framework and manually executing some of the
complex test cases for these applications, log tracking and mainframe data validations.

05/2005 – 07/2007: Bank of America Securities, LLC

Sr. System Analyst / QA Analyst/Automation Lead

At Abacus Management Services, LLC provided Quality and System Analysis services to one of
Abacus’s premier clients Bank of America Securities, LLC. Involved in leading part of the testing
effort at the bank divided in to manual testing and most part of it was automated using advance
coding techniques in QTP.
CSI Core is a Java based trade matching, processing, allocation and settlement engine. It
integrates with several trading applications and sales workstations to provide support for
matching customer trades, allocating broker and customer trades and processing the trades for
settlement. It used FIX protocol and MQ series based messaging infrastructure as base for
communication with front end trade entry applications. The application supported a broad range
of financial instruments ranging from U.S. Treasury and Agency securities, MBS, equity futures,
options, swaps and derivatives. The goal of the project was disintermediation of Bloomberg
trading system and design in-house configurable and royalty free trading infrastructure for
straight through processing of trades. As a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst I was responsible
to test the core java matching engine initially followed by testing trading applications for treasury
desk, mortgage desk and sales desks. I played significant role in developing automation test
harness robust enough to accommodate all the systems and future enhancements using Quick
Test Professional.

04/2004 – 05/2005: System Level Solutions, Inc

SDET

System Level Solutions was a start-up technology company based out of Silicon Valley,
California. I was one of the first employees to join SLS as ASIC design engineer. As part of my
assignment at SLS Corp, I designed test harnesses for FPGA arrays used in educational kits
developed by SLS Corp. I also managed client relationships for the CEO. Represented SLS
Corp at industry conferences and trade shows.

Educational Qualifications:

Master of Science: Electrical Engineering – University of Texas at Arlington

Bachelors in Instrumentation and Controls – Gujarat University, India