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TAMAL KANTI MUKHERJEE

TAMAL KANTI MUKHERJEE

Quality Leader || 15 Years’ Work-ex || Director – Quality & Operations Excellence || MBA || B.Tech
Kolkata

Summary

Tamal has an overall 15 years of corporate experience post his B. Tech and on either side of his MBA from Symbiosis, Pune. At the beginning of his career, he was associated with legacy organizations like Bosch, Wipro & Capgemini for seven years in Quality & Process consultancy roles. While he spent the latter eight years in different Quality leadership roles across unicorn organizations like Flipkart, Ola and Oyo.

In his last assignment, he worked as the Director of ‘Quality & Operations Excellence’ with Interview Kickstart, a Silicon Valley-based Ed-Tech company.

His key skill set includes Quality Strategy, Quality Management, Testing Design, Functional Testing, Non Functional Testing, Process Excellence, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Lean Six Sigma, Operations Management, MOST and DBMS. Tamal has vast experience in building large teams and scaling up businesses across regions.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Director, Quality & Operations Excellence

Interview Kickstart
Remote
04.2022 - 03.2023

Key Responsibilities:-


  • Taking accountability for all aspects of quality across both run and change and business as usual activity
  • Overseeing the output quality from all testing phases
  • Making sure defects are detected and prioritized, based on impact
  • Undertaking end-to-end test management including planning, risk & issue management

Associate Director, Quality & Data Analytics

Leverage EdTech Private Limited
Delhi
08.2021 - 03.2022

Key Responsibilities:-


  • Owning the Quality & Data Analytics function of the organization
  • Reviewing all key collateral relating to delivery and making sure it is of sufficient quality and with no gaps or duplication
  • Taking accountability for all aspects of quality across both run and change and business as usual activity within the assigned platform or domain

Solution Leader, Quality

NSL Hub
Hyderabad
07.2020 - 10.2020

Key Responsibilities:-


  • Overseeing the output quality from all testing phases owned and making sure it meets the requirements of each quality test strategy
  • Making sure defects are detected and prioritized, based on impact, and resolved at the earliest possible moment and before the last responsible moment

Manager, Quality & Operations Excellence

OYO
Kolkata
11.2018 - 06.2020

Key Projects:-


  • Designed 56 zonal level processes for the 'Operations' and 'Revenue' functions and ensured adherence through periodic audits
  • Led 35 Quality Standardization & Process Excellence initiatives across the zone resulting INR 15 million savings

Manager, Quality

Ola
Kolkata
10.2016 - 11.2018

Key Projects:-


  • End to end Zonal Quality Strategy Building and SOP creation for 47 zonal operational processes
  • Reduced the 'Unhappy customer ratings' by 45% in a quarter
  • Trained 75 + employees on Quality Management
  • Mentored 58 process improvement initiatives (Kaizen, Yellow Belt & Green Belt) to improve the service quality


Manager, Quality

Flipkart
Kolkata
12.2014 - 10.2016

Key Projects:-


  • Increased Average Productivity per delivery hub for the zone by 22% in less than 3 quarters
  • Drove a reduction of 'Cost per shipment' for the last mile leg by 15% in less than 2 quarters
  • Mentored 35 Yellow Belt & Green Belt projects initiatives for the zone leading to a notional financial saving of INR 16.3 L
  • Facilitated 380 Kaizen initiatives (unique and cross deployed) for the zone leading to a notional financial saving of INR 20.5 L
  • Trained 50 + employees on Lean, Kaizen & 5S principles

Department Quality Manager

Bosch Limited
Bangalore
02.2014 - 12.2014

Key Responsibilities:-


  • Managing the Quality of the BSI department - responsible for ensuring Product & Process Quality Leadership
  • Driving compliance towards ISO 20000, ISO 9001, CMMi-SVC, OHSAS 18001 & ISO 14001
  • Effective management of the Institutional customer complaint handling process to ensure on time and satisfactory handling and resolution
  • Driving Process improvements through Lean, Six Sigma, TPM and 5S
  • Designed the 'Lean Six Sigma' training material and imparted training at different levels

SQA (Middle East & Asia Pacific)

Wipro Limited
Bangalore
10.2012 - 02.2014

Key Responsibilities:-


  • Regularly collaborated with onshore quality analysts to understand and implement the Quality assurance practices within the program
  • Conducted internal quality audits and preparedness audits for external certifications like ISO 9001:2008, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, CMMI-SVC, ISO 22301, OHSAS
  • Handled clients from FMCG, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas domains for the regions
  • Led the unit-level 'Lean Six Sigma Task Force'
  • Coached team members on different Quality & Requirement tools for enhanced tracking of data integrity

Senior Consultant - Quality

Capgemini India Private Limited
Kolkata
04.2011 - 10.2012

Key Responsibilities:-


  • Conducting internal quality audits and preparedness audits for external certifications like ISO 9001:2008, ISO 20000, CMMI-SVC etc
  • Preparing projects for CMMi assessment
  • Performing internal audits and findings analysis to provide executable solutions for client's process optimization
  • Leading Lean Six sigma improvement initiatives
  • Conducting RCA (Root Cause Analysis) initiated by different triggers
  • Conducting Corporate Process Trainings
  • Regular interaction with global clients

Software Engineer, Quality lead

Satyam Computer Services Limited
Bangalore
09.2006 - 06.2009

Key Responsibilities:-


  • Reviewing project deliverables and reporting weekly to onshore quality team
  • Ensuring adherence of quality processes by the offshore team

Education

MBA - Systems

Symbiosis International University
Pune
06.2009 - 04.2011

B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology
Kolkata
08.2002 - 06.2006

Skills

Quality Strategy

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Additional Information

  • Nationality: , Indian Permanent Address: Block B, Flat 604, Loharuka Green Residency, Kaikhali, Chiriamore, Kolkata – 52, WB.

Accomplishments


· Won ‘Top 10 Young CX Champions of the year’ from Quantic

· Won CXO level Business Excellence Award in Ola

· Won the Best zone award in ‘Business Excellence’ and innovation in Flipkart

· Won the ‘Business consultancy case study’ contest as a part of the ‘Bosch Techfest 2014’

· Won the ‘K-Ace’ award for contribution in ‘Knowledge Management’ in Wipro

· Won the ‘Best process trainer’ award in 2012 in Capgemini

· Was rewarded with ‘Pat on the back’ award from Satyam for my contribution to the project

Certification

Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Timeline

Director, Quality & Operations Excellence

Interview Kickstart
04.2022 - 03.2023

Associate Director, Quality & Data Analytics

Leverage EdTech Private Limited
08.2021 - 03.2022

Data Science and Machine Learning

06-2021

Solution Leader, Quality

NSL Hub
07.2020 - 10.2020

Six Sigma Master Black Belt

12-2018

Manager, Quality & Operations Excellence

OYO
11.2018 - 06.2020

Kaizen Champion

10-2017

Manager, Quality

Ola
10.2016 - 11.2018

Maynard Operations Sequence Technique (MOST)

09-2015

Manager, Quality

Flipkart
12.2014 - 10.2016

Department Quality Manager

Bosch Limited
02.2014 - 12.2014

Lean Practitioner

09-2013

SQA (Middle East & Asia Pacific)

Wipro Limited
10.2012 - 02.2014

Senior Consultant - Quality

Capgemini India Private Limited
04.2011 - 10.2012

MBA - Systems

Symbiosis International University
06.2009 - 04.2011

Teradata Certified Master

08-2008

Software Engineer, Quality lead

Satyam Computer Services Limited
09.2006 - 06.2009

B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology
08.2002 - 06.2006
TAMAL KANTI MUKHERJEEQuality Leader || 15 Years’ Work-ex || Director – Quality & Operations Excellence || MBA || B.Tech