Prabir Chakraborty
Senior Manager (AVP)
Mumbai,Maharashtra
Summary
Seasoned project management professional and problem-solver with experience in leading digital transformation programs dedicated to streamlining operations, reducing costs and promoting organizational efficiency. Experienced in leading large distributed teams with focus on collaboration, automation and quality with expertise in handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Senior Manager
Puma Energy
Mumbai
04.2017 - 09.2022
- Successfully led design, development, testing and rollout teams of large multi-year Digital Transformation program across 18+ countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia
- Created comprehensive program plan defining objectives, scope, schedules and deliverables and guided team navigate through challenges during delivery
- Lead project teams through effective allocation of tasks, anticipating risks, and setting realistic timelines for managing the expectations of key stakeholders to achieve project objectives on time, within scope, on budget and with expected quality
- Facilitated overlapping releases with user story grooming, backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily and weekly reporting, demo to stakeholders, scrum of scrums, delivering multiple new enhancements, technical debts and critical bug fixes reducing product backlog by 75% within 12 months
- Implemented a culture of data-driven decision-making by creating Dashboards for CIO/CTO to provide insights on overall trends in quality and uncover risks, create mitigation plans to help with required course corrections in the program
- As Head of Quality Engineering, define quality gates at different phases of SDLC, define and track KPIs, RCAs, implement Defect prevention techniques and improve delivery quality
- Established Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) to position QA as a central service to the various Business Lines, by leveraging resource skill set and focusing on efficiency, learning and continuous improvement
- Optimized cost by 46% by moving from T&M to Fixed Price model via vendor consolidation, cross-training and automation
- Established a Quality First Culture and implemented shift-left strategies that reduced SIT defect rates from 40% to below 5%, reduced SIT cycle time by 25% and improved Regression test coverage from 30% to 85% leading to significant reduction in production tickets
Associate/ AVP
JP Morgan Services India Ltd
Mumbai
11.2010 - 03.2017
- Managed multiple teams across payment processing, MIS reporting and Liquidity management systems for the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Line of Business
- Enabled global rollout of payments and reporting platform by leading QA, UAT activities while ensuring stability and continuous support for multiple existing legacy platforms
- Devised automation strategy for 90%+ Regression coverage across legacy and data warehouse and MIS applications
- Setup Service Virtualization/API testing to remove dependency from 3rd party regulatory applications for testing
- Consolidated multiple teams from across departments to establish specialized central End to End testing capability leading to 50% faster delivery by removing redundancy
- Undertaken additional responsibility as Business Resiliency Lead strengthening organizational capability for business continuity across mission-critical functions across locations ensuring zero business impact and safety of human resources
Technical Test Lead
Infosys Technologies Ltd
Pune, India
08.2005 - 11.2010
- Lead teams of QA and UAT testers for clients like JP Morgan Chase, USA and RBS Citizens Bank, USA, accountable for the various multi-year strategic programs in the Investment Banking and Retail Banking
- Managed onsite and remote teams delivering 12+ large enterprise release and multiple monthly releases for critical payment and reporting applications
- Owned effort estimation, strategy, planning, delivery, monitoring and reporting (daily, weekly and monthly) for multiple business-critical projects with key focus on quality improvement
- Nurtured client relationships leading to additional business in Application Development, Quality Assurance, and Production Support engagements
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
11.2019 - 07.2021
General Management Program For Executives (GMPE) - General Management
04.2014 - 05.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications Engineering
10.2001 - 08.2005
Skills
Project Management : End to End SDLC processes (Agile and Waterfall/Hybrid), Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Scoping, Product Backlog Management, Facilitate Story Grooming, Effort Estimations, Schedule Management, Environment Management, DevOps, Functional and non-Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Problem Solving, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Go-Live Readiness, Change Management, User Training, Post Go Live Support
Technical Skills : Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), Statistical Analysis, Regression and Classification Techniques, Random Forests, Ensembles, XGBoost, Clustering, Recommendation Systems, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Object Detection, Semantic Segmentation, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Web Scraping, Text Classification and Summarization, Chatbots, Attention Mechanism, Transformers, Transfer Learning, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering
Tools and Applications : JIRA, Azure DevOps, ALM, Salesforce, Tableau
Languages, Libraries and Cloud Technologies : Python, SQL, R, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, Keras, Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Plotly, Seaborn, LangChain, Azure, AWS
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Work Availability
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Timeline
Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
09-2023
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
02-2023
Great Lakes, India And University of Texas, Austin - Post Graduate Diploma, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
11.2019 - 07.2021
Project Management Professional (PMP)
03-2018
Senior Manager - Puma Energy
04.2017 - 09.2022
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
06-2015
Indian Institute of Management - General Management Program For Executives (GMPE), General Management
04.2014 - 05.2015
Associate/ AVP - JP Morgan Services India Ltd
11.2010 - 03.2017
Technical Test Lead - Infosys Technologies Ltd
08.2005 - 11.2010
Visvesvaraya Technological University - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communications Engineering
10.2001 - 08.2005