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Nirupam Tewary

Nirupam Tewary

Pune

Summary

Strategic and transformative software quality engineering and delivery leader able to transform and enhance every aspect of software development and delivery processes to achieve high levels of quality and customer satisfaction. Proficient in using independent decision-making and excellent communication skills, use of metrics and data, and building teams through training, coaching and continuous support through empathetic leadership.



Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
5
5

Certifications

Work History

Senior Director and Associate Partner

ZS Associates
01.2014 - Current
  • Set the vision and revamped the entire testing and automation strategy for the complete portfolio of 20 products exceeding 15 million lines of code; Introduced and enhanced key functional KPIs; Drove the quality and release plans to ultimately achieve defect leakage to under 1%; Drove Performance testing team with a clear technical and executive strategy enabling 300% growth in size, and becoming a Center of Excellence (PSR CoE); Established and matured the Application security practice as a AppSec Center of Excellence (AppSec CoE); Designed and consolidated DevSecOps including SAST, DAST, SCA, Red-teaming, slashing risk by 70%; Established a strategic data masking practice directly driving compliance with GDPR, HIPAA; this capability helped reduce upgrade challenges by 80%; Key member of security and compliance certifications and attestations including SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001, China MLPS; Orchestrated the complete engineering response and remediation efforts for Zero-days like Log4J and Spring shell; Devised the ZS application security strategy in collaboration with the CISO and CTO; Regularly interface with customer IT stakeholders, auditors for process maturity assessments; Researched, identified, selected and established key vendor partnerships for tools and services;

Quality Engineering Manager

VMware, Inc. (now part of Dell)
11.2012 - 01.2014
  • Lead a team of 15 on cloud management products (VCAC, VSM) responsible for end to end test strategy, execution, automation and release management;

Quality Engineering Manager

Adobe Systems
04.2002 - 01.2012
  • Functional, security and non-functional testing on Adobe LiveCycle Platform (now AEM) and E-Learning portfolio, technically lead white box testing teams for exhaustive automation and comprehensive test coverage;

Software Development Engineer

Mahindra-British Telecom
08.1998 - 03.2002
  • Business and test analyst on CRM platform for a local telephony migration project at AT&T; the initial success led to the account growing 5 fold;

Education

Skills

  • Application Security testing and management - strategy, test methodologies, team skilling, engineering and delivery integrations, risk assessments, audits, compliance
  • Experienced in the design and implementation of security features including IAM, SSO, Federation, web app security, infrastructure security, SCA;
  • Strong familiarity with GDPR, SOC2, ISO27000, HIPAA in relation to app security;
  • Expertise and high motivation as a Quality strategist, evangelist, tutor and mentor; receive high team approval;
  • Software Quality Engineering , Test planning, estimation, tracking and execution;

Certification

  • CISSP (09/2023)
  • CSSLP (10/2019)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2024)
  • ISTQB (2012)
  • ITIL (2016)

Timeline

Senior Director and Associate Partner

ZS Associates
01.2014 - Current

Quality Engineering Manager

VMware, Inc. (now part of Dell)
11.2012 - 01.2014

Quality Engineering Manager

Adobe Systems
04.2002 - 01.2012

Software Development Engineer

Mahindra-British Telecom
08.1998 - 03.2002

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