Pavan Bada

Laid foundation of BankingSuite (Banking-as-a-Service) product in India, and stood up product, core banking, engineering, and QA teams from scratch

Led end-to-end product delivery as Head of Delivery for ConvergeProsperity BankingSuite product

Led pre-sales (Request for Proposal (RFP) and client Orals) for BankingSuite clients as Head of Market Enablement for BankingSuite; key part of proposal team, major wins ($52M in revenue for FY'22-23): Western Union (WU+ Digital Bank), Beta Bank (Google-backed, first digitally native bank designed to help small businesses), BECU (Boeing Employees' Credit Union), Woodforest National Bank

Led 25-strong product team across engineering (backend dev, frontend dev, automation & performance QA, platform) and product (Senior Product Managers & Technical Product Owners) streams

Led efforts to build and execute the 1.0 (MVP) release (in FY'21-22) for SMB (Small and Medium businesses) and Retail Banking customers; enabled standing up the out-of-the-box foundational digital banking platform in less than 8 months

Collaborated with Head of Product to build the FY'23 BankingSuite 2.0 Product Roadmap and Release Schedule to build and distribute a customer-centric, full-featured digital bank instantly, enabling small banks and non-banks to compete on product and price

Led & managed 25+ account team to modernize online platforms for one of the largest theme park companies in the US

Set up Automation Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) for enabling test automation engineering capabilities across client's web, hybrid and mobile apps and increased operational efficiency by 15%

Led and managed efforts for building a universal test automation framework to increase test automation framework reliability, reduce maintenance efforts, enhance test automation coverage, minimize technical failures and improve exception handling

Increased test automation coverage by 50% and reduced fault rate by 85%, helping reduce overall test execution cycle time by ~50% - resulting in cost savings of $100K+ over a course of 15 months

Subject Matter Expert and Testing Lead for Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware) and Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) for one of the retail giants in the US - helped client achieve their major goal of 15% Year-Over-Year (YoY) increase in sales per square retail foot from 2014 to 2017.

Led end-to-end testing efforts (test planning, test design and execution, defect management and reporting) and ensured successful go-live of 12 major releases in the 3-year period - resuled in seamless integration of customer and loyalty features, 100% PCI Compliance, and completely eliminated card data liability.

Worked with some of the largest health-care providers in the US to design interfaces for integrating their clinical information and revenue cycle systems - helped in centralization of revenue cycle and clinical cycle processes, interoperability among different ancillary systems, 100% adherence to regulatory demands, and implementation of provisions from HITECH Act

Obtained deep functional and technical knowledge of health plans, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9 and ICD-10), HL7 standards and designed 30+ interfaces with zero major issues