Arun K Vinayan

Experience

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  NTT DATA Americas

  Feb 2005 - Sept 2016

  QAT Solution Management / Strategic Innovation (NTT DATA Quality Assurance and Testing Practice)• Create Strategic Solutions and Proposals for multiple clients across verticals• Perform strategic assessments and define future roadmap with solutions tailored to client needs• Establishing optimized and cost efficient test center of excellence (TCoE)• Support business development proposals by providing thought leadership and developing new solutions• Foster Innovation and create new QAT solutions and accelerators• QAT Advisory and Consulting for clients to improve process maturity and enhance savings• Focus on Delivery Excellence and improvements in existing accounts through implementation of new solutions/QAT accelerators• Account Transformation and establish a continuous improvement model across several programs consisting of test management, process adherence, metrics & measurements and quality assurance governance leading to reduction in total test time per project and containment of critical and high defects.• Partner with IT management, business management, vendor partners and customers to understand business goals and strategies. Contribute to the development, modification and attainment of strategic and tactical plans. Develop, drive and achieve functional goals of the team. Show less • Supervised a group of project managers and Quality Assurance leads. • Led the entire global testing function, consisting of both onsite and offshore employees and consultants who test, evaluate, and validate IT initiatives and identify issues in software or services. • Led the design and implementation of the Quality Assurance Methodology for meeting business needs and resulting in quality projects and products. • Managed overall project plan for onsite and offshore testing activities including determining resource availability and allocation of resources to projects, and communicated constraints and delivery impacts to applicable company management. • Managed offshore resources by communicating with offshore counterpart(s) on acceptance test timeframes and high level testing requirements; Collaborated with offshore counterpart(s) on training needs, resource quality and/or performance issues. • Hiring, developing, mentoring, coaching, and resolving team and individual conflicts. • Partner with IT management, business management, vendor partners and customers to understand business goals and strategies. Contribute to the development, modification and attainment of strategic and tactical plans. • Proactive and thorough status reporting to all management levels covering engagement status, risks and mitigation plans Show less • Supervised a group of project managers and Quality Assurance leads. • Led the entire global testing function, consisting of both onsite and offshore employees and consultants who test, evaluate, and validate IT initiatives and identify issues in software or services. • Led the design and implementation of the Quality Assurance Methodology for meeting business needs and resulting in quality projects and products. • Managed overall project plan for onsite and offshore testing activities including determining resource availability and allocation of resources to projects, and communicated constraints and delivery impacts to applicable company management. • Managed offshore resources by communicating with offshore counterpart(s) on acceptance test timeframes and high level testing requirements; Collaborated with offshore counterpart(s) on training needs, resource quality and/or performance issues. • Hiring, developing, mentoring, coaching, and resolving team and individual conflicts. • Partner with IT management, business management, vendor partners and customers to understand business goals and strategies. Contribute to the development, modification and attainment of strategic and tactical plans. • Proactive and thorough status reporting to all management levels covering engagement status, risks and mitigation plans Show less • Supervised a group of Quality Assurance analysts. • Maintain the strategy and approach for life cycle testing, including internal and client facing processes, quality management, and tracking/reporting metrics. • Oversee and approve test plans and resources• Effort estimation for monthly release regression testing cycles.• Provide technical support to the testing team. Review weekly tester’s status reports and take necessary actions.• Proactive and thorough status reporting to management covering project status, risks and mitigation plans.• Delivered a POC on automating full product using Salome and Rational Test Manager. Show less • Test cycle planning/scheduling.• Validate test results and test scripts work as intended.• Monitor Quality assurance process.• Management of test sets, scripts and creating graphs and reports using Quality Center.• Review and validate test automation scripts/test cases/test results.• Conduct Configuration Audits.• Ensure that the test artifacts (inputs, test automation scripts, test automation suites) are version controlled and baseline when required.• Send daily status reports to concerned managers during execution cycle.• Submit weekly status report to NTT DATA management Show less

  • Associate Director

    Jul 2013 - Sept 2016

  • Senior Project Manager

    Oct 2011 - Jul 2013

  • Project Manager

    May 2009 - Oct 2011

  • Project Lead

    Jul 2007 - May 2009

  • Technical Lead

    May 2006 - Jul 2007

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Feb 2005 - May 2006
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  MoneyGram International

  Oct 2009 - Aug 2014

  Technical Delivery Manager

  • Designed and implemented the global delivery model for Quality Assurance and Environment Management• Key player in creation of release management processes and methodologies• Built the team from start to a maximum size of 100+ across onsite and offshore• Led the design and implementation of the Quality Assurance Methodology for meeting business needs and resulting in quality projects and products Supervised a group of project managers and Quality Assurance leads in a global delivery model. • Led the entire global testing function, consisting of both onsite and offshore employees and consultants who test, evaluate, and validate IT initiatives and identify issues in software or services. • Managed overall project plan for onsite and offshore testing activities including determining resource availability and allocation of resources to projects, and communicated constraints and delivery impacts to applicable company management. • Managed offshore resources by communicating with offshore counterpart(s) on acceptance test timeframes and high level testing requirements; Collaborated with offshore counterpart(s) on training needs, resource quality and/or performance issues. • Hiring, developing, mentoring, coaching, and resolving team and individual conflicts. • Partner with IT management, business management, vendor partners and customers to understand business goals and strategies. Contribute to the development, modification and attainment of strategic and tactical plans. • Proactive and thorough status reporting to all management levels covering engagement status, risks and mitigation plans Show less

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  ExxonMobil

  Aug 2015 - Jun 2016

  TCoE Implementation Lead / QAT Architect

  • Completed a thorough review/analysis of the Current State of testing processes and maturity in the ExxonMobil QA Area.• Defined process improvements within ExxonMobil QA Area that gave repeatable solutions for: Improving and shortening test cycles via test automation; Improving test coverage and driving up software quality; Strengthening and improving the testing processes/resources for efficiency; Improving the capacity planning for test environments• Conceptualized a vision and framework for the future state and actionable roadmap• Implemented an optimized and cost efficient test center of excellence (TCoE)• Executed an organizational change management plan that ensured readiness for and sustainability of the agreed-to future state• Implemented delivery excellence and improvements in existing projects through implementation of new solutions/QAT accelerators• QAT Advisory and Consulting to improve process maturity and enhance savings Show less

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  MoneyGram International

  Oct 2016 - now

  • Managed a 35-person team within application development across multiple locations (US, Poland and India)• Established a centralized Quality Engineering team focused on automation and performance testing• Defined processes and procedures for Quality Engineering teams• Conducted training and brown bag sessions to ensure adoption of new policies and procedures across the organization.• Improved time to market by reducing release testing timelines from 2 weeks to 1 week and subsequently to 2 days• Implemented multiple automation frameworks and achieved 85% automation coverage across multiple native & legacy applications• Expanded performance testing and established Endurance testing and Geo testing practices for all releases• Achieved a reduction in defect seepage from 11.2% in 2021 to 3.4% in 2024.• Maintained test environments for different testing types and releases• Collaborated with DevOps teams to set up CI/CD pipelines with automated test execution and reporting for test environments• Championed the cause of QE teams in roadmap discussions, project planning and change management forums• Transitioned traditional waterfall teams to Kanban, ensuring adherence to the agile framework to optimize team performance and deliver maximum value to the business Show less • Responsible for serving multiple dedicated, self-organizing teams within Application Development. • Facilitated scrum ceremonies, and interactions between the Product Owner and Development Team, as well as ensure the overall scrum framework is upheld.• Active participant in the creation of agile frameworks for the enterprise• Defined the unified release calendar for all code and infrastructure releases• Led the implementation of release management module in ServiceNow. Defined requirements, managed ServiceNow developers and performed user acceptance testing• Created and provided user training for ServiceNow to more than 250 users across IT, Service Management, Operations and Business • Led the adoption of agile projects into release processes. Defined process for minor releases using agile methodologies for a continuous deployment process• Created release implementation plans, conducted review meetings to refine and optimize the plan to fit the release schedule• Tracked and reported status of projects/releases to senior management on a timely basis to enable effective decision making• Conducted lessons learned meetings for each release to identify things that went well and things that could be improved. Incorporated the learnings into the future releases to enhance the entire process Show less

  • Quality Engineering Manager

    Jul 2021 - now

  • Technical Program Manager - Release Management

    Oct 2016 - Jun 2021