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Srijan Batra

Srijan Batra

Summary

Test Manager with 11+ years of experience in leading large-scale QA deliveries across digital platforms in financial and wealth management domains. Proven expertise in setting up and scaling QA teams from ground up, driving process excellence, and establishing test governance frameworks. Skilled in managing multi-skilled, distributed teams across Manual Testing, Automation, and Business Analysis. Strong focus on client engagement, stakeholder management, and ensuring delivery excellence. Passionate about building high-performing teams, fostering collaboration, and driving continuous quality improvements.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Manager

FNZ Group
08.2023 - Current
  • Spearheaded the setup and exponential growth of the QA team from 2 members to 65+ within 8 months, overseeing hiring, onboarding, and defining team structure
  • Managed end-to-end QA delivery for digital platforms (web & mobile) in the financial and wealth management space, ensuring timely, quality-driven releases aligned with client expectations
  • Currently managing a large distributed team comprising 6 Test Managers, 1 Test Lead, 42 Manual Testers, 8 Automation Engineers, and 8 Business Analysts across multiple projects and locations
  • Established project-specific QA structures for Manual Testing teams across 3 large-scale wealth management programs, ensuring efficient resource allocation and proactive alignment with changing project demands
  • Defined and implemented governance frameworks, processes, and best practices across all QA streams including Manual Testing, Automation, and Business Analysis
  • Built the Automation Testing team from scratch, driving the vision, resource planning, and capability uplift across projects to support accelerated delivery cycles
  • Established a dedicated Business Analyst team within the test function to strengthen requirement analysis, bridge communication gaps, and improve early defect detection
  • Defined and implemented end-to-end test processes, governance frameworks, metrics, and KPIs to ensure structured test execution, continuous quality monitoring, and proactive risk management
  • Designed test strategies and plans aligning with FNZ’s delivery model, ensuring seamless collaboration with product, development, and environment management teams
  • Championed the creation of dashboards and reporting frameworks for senior stakeholders, enabling data-driven decision-making and real-time quality insights
  • Mentored and coached future leaders within the QA practice, creating succession pipelines and fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
  • Led client engagement and stakeholder governance, aligning QA deliverables with business objectives and ensuring delivery excellence through structured reporting, transparent communication, and proactive risk management
  • Strategic planning and management, continual process improvement, change/scope management, conflict resolution, resource planning and utilization
  • Implemented rigorous quality gates ensuring defect rejection rates are maintained below 5% across all deliveries, supported by structured review processes for test execution, scripting, and documentation
  • Review and sign-off test strategy, planning, and exit reports to ensure quality adherence and readiness for client and release board approvals

Lead Q.C. Engineer 2/Assistant Manager

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services
11.2015 - 08.2023
  • Providing leadership and technical expertise related to Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools, Techniques and Quality Assurance across the team
  • Planning and execution of Test Strategy from Architectural Design phase till release using Agile Methodology for multiple products
  • Collaboration with key stakeholders, including leadership, product owners, developers & business users, to establish clear scope & goals and ensure that deliverables align with client requirements
  • Managing Resources and executing framework/environment configurations based on varying client requirements while overseeing technology delivery of the recommended testing solution
  • Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Scrum ceremonies, ensuring the participation and engagement of the team members
  • Driving execution for functional, non-functional & automation testing of web & mobile applications
  • Mitigating day to day impediments related to application environment, bottlenecks & dependencies
  • Bring agile mindset and knowledge to the team and organization through workshops, knowledge sharing sessions, 1:1s, etc
  • Ensuring CI/CD implementation for test suites in Azure DevOps
  • Establishing Risk Management program to identify, analyze & mitigate risks in the testing lifecycle
  • Providing weekly and monthly progress reports to stakeholders, which include updates on sprints, overall project progress, and any identified risks and dependencies
  • Championing the implementation of end-to-end Agile QA processes for new testing teams across the business unit
  • Contributing to QA Centre of Excellence practice by organizing Tech-Talks, Training Sessions & implementing process standardizations across the business unit
  • Coaching and mentoring professionals to support their growth, enhance their skills and capabilities in their roles

Test Engineer

AVEVA Solutions
06.2013 - 10.2015
  • Test Design, Test Execution Bug reporting using HP Quality Centre and Microsoft TFS
  • Onsite Co-ordination of 3 months for software testing activities from Cambridge, UK
  • Demonstration of bugs, queries and resolution to stakeholders
  • Presenting the weekly metrics of QA activities around completed items
  • Preparing cross-tracing metrics for tracking of requirements and testing associated with it

Education

B.Tech. - Applied Petroleum Engineering

University of Petroleum & Energy Studies
Dehradun
01.2013

Skills

  • QA Strategy & Governance
  • End-to-End Test Delivery Management
  • Client & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Team Setup & Scaling (Manual, Automation, BA Streams)
  • Process Definition & Continuous Improvement
  • Test Metrics, KPIs & Reporting Frameworks
  • Risk Management & Issue Resolution
  • Quality Gate Implementation & Defect Prevention
  • Resource Planning & Utilization
  • Agile & DevOps Delivery Models
  • Azure DevOps (Boards, Pipelines, Dashboards)
  • JIRA, Confluence
  • Postman, SOAP UI (API Testing Oversight)
  • JMeter, LoadRunner (Performance Testing Oversight)
  • Selenium, Appium, (Automation Oversight)t)
  • MS Excel/Power BI (Reporting & Dashboards)

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • SEC 542-Ethical Hacking & Web Pen Testing
  • Performance Testing & Engineering

Publications

Whitepaper on Employer Led Innovation for Healthcare Delivery and Payment Reform

Awards

  • Award - Leading by example
  • 5 Spot Awards – Always Keeping Quality at the forefront
  • Applause Award - Outstanding Value to the Clients
  • Year Award for identifying the most critical issues in the application

Tools & Technology

  • Atlassian Jira
  • Azure DevOps
  • Microsoft TFS
  • Postman
  • SQL
  • Load Runner
  • Jmeter
  • BurpSuite
  • HP QC
  • Grafana
  • Swagger
  • Visual Studio
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Relativity
  • ECapture

Affiliations

  • Online Gaming
  • Poker Enthusiast

Accomplishments

  • Awarded multiple spot & applause awards for high performance and successful client deliveries
  • Recognized by Senior Leadership for setting up API Testing & Performance Testing(Deloitte)
  • Awarded for finding the most critical defects in application

Timeline

Test Manager

FNZ Group
08.2023 - Current

Lead Q.C. Engineer 2/Assistant Manager

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services
11.2015 - 08.2023

Test Engineer

AVEVA Solutions
06.2013 - 10.2015

B.Tech. - Applied Petroleum Engineering

University of Petroleum & Energy Studies

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