Amit Sharma

• Established a team of 55 Manual and Automation quality engineers. Defined and implemented operational standards, policies and procedures including measurable adherence.
• Nurtured long-term relationships with clients and stakeholders ensuring repeat business.
• Provided strong leadership, vision and adherence to enhance team productivity and morale.
• Conducted regular meetings to create business plans and workshops to manage risk and timely delivery.
• Managed SIT, UAT, Test strategy, Test plans, Test data management, Risk reports, Matrices and timely deployment strategy for enterprise grade solutions for tax technology projects.
• Facilitate internal and external approvals for compliance to regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Managed sprint planning and review meetings, client demos while ensuring team alignment to goal and milestones.
• Managed the product backlog, prioritizing features and enhancements based on user feedback, business value, and technical feasibility.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies, PI planning, Demos, Daily standup, Product backlog refinement, meet all scrum masters to ensure overall team alignment, scrum of scrums, remove impediments, protect the team from external influences.
• Working with Product owner on: Product backlog, prioritization, refinement, manage overall performance, monitoring dashboards and performance.
• Applications Delivered: EY DigiGST [Azure cloud]: GSTR1, GSTR2, 2B, GSTR 3, 3B, GSTR 6, GSTR 8, E-Invoicing, EWB, Automatic ITC Matching, Automatic IT Matching GSTR 2A/2B vs Purchase Register, Global E-Invoicing: Malaysia, Poland, Romania, (Edicom Italy), KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Datawarehouse, Power BI and Visualization dashboards, Guidewire Policy center, Claim center, Billing center. US P&C and Auto Insurance.

Client Ernst and Young, USA

• Lead a team of 25 test engineers and business analysts for Guidewire 10.0 Policy, Claim and Billing center testing effort from Onshore.
• Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures for SIT, Integration and supported UAT to the client.
• Created Test strategy, test plans, infrastructure and test data management, templates, dashboards and reports for streamlining the end to end testing process.
• Lead Manual, Automation and Performance testing teams.
• Risk identification and management, client and stakeholder management, matrix reporting.
• Team performance reviews and leadership building

• Lead the Guidewire 10.0 Policy, Claim and Billing center testing effort from Onshore.
• Lead offshore claim center team by providing hands-on functional support for claim center and policy center expertise – System, integration, UAT.
• Increased product reliability by conducting rigorous performance, security, and usability testing.
• Create Test approach, test strategy, test plans, infrastructure test request, test templates and streamlining the testing process.
• Lead and Managed – Testing, Automation and Performance testing teams.

• Facilitate agile ceremonies which includes PI planning, Iteration planning, Daily Standup, Product Backlog refinement, Team Demo, System Demo, interact with other scrum masters to ensure alignment with other teams, scrum of scrums, remove impediments faced by team, protect the team from external influences.
• Working with Product owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog to prioritize the requirements.
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional.
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to stakeholders.

• Reduced defect leakage rate by conducting thorough root cause analyses and proactively addressing areas of concern in future release cycles.
• Enhanced product performance with thorough troubleshooting and identification of critical defects.
• Conducted regression testing of existing products.