Vijay Nakrani
Senior Manager- QA Lead
Navi Mumbai,MH
Summary
Experienced QA Leader with 10+ years of expertise in Quality Assurance, Test Management, Stakeholder Management, and Team Leadership. Proven track record in Wealth Management, Asset Services, Digital Client Onboarding, PMS, AIF, OMS, and Remittance Platforms. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, driving quality initiatives, API testing, defect management, and delivering business-critical releases.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager – QA Lead
Nuvama Wealth Management Limited
08.2022 - Current
- QA Lead for the Digital Client Onboarding Project for PMS, AIF, and OMS Project.
- Manage and mentor a team of 12 QA professionals.
- Own end-to-end QA strategy, release governance, test planning, execution, and sign-offs.
- Collaborate with Business, Product, Development, and Operations stakeholders.
- Received the Champion Award from the Business Team.
- Developed strategic initiatives to improve client engagement and satisfaction levels.
- Led cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and streamline processes.
- Mentored junior staff members for skill development and career progression within the organization.
- Received the Top Performer Award from the Technology Team.
- Established strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships and repeat business.
QA Lead
Fable Fintech
10.2021 - 08.2022
- Project: Digi Remit – Inward & Outward Remittance Platform
- Led QA activities across functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing.
- Worked closely with Business and Technology teams for successful product releases.
- Ensured high-quality delivery of remittance workflows and API integrations.
- Managed defect lifecycle and release validation.
Team Lead – Quality Assurance
QualityKiosk Technologies
12.2015 - 09.2021
- Managed team of 15 Quality Engineers, Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties BFSI project’s
- Coached team members on QA Methodologies, Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC), providing feedback and encouragement toward reaching SLA goals.
- Initiated timely response to emails, voicemails and written correspondence.
- Performing Root Cause Analysis for detractors on various parameters.
- Conducting brain storming sessions to identify reasons for major defect parameters and reporting using Fishbone analysis and Pareto.
- Weekly sharing CCRP Trend across Business unit to track Service Quality and to understand Critical VOC, Action Items, loop holes and Areas of improvement.
- Participated in cross-functional team-building activities.
- Coordinated weekly meetings for internal and external groups, including teleconferences and videoconferences, interacting with all levels of management.
- Drove corrective and preventive actions at leadership level to accomplish project closure and recurrence control, providing necessary resources and clearing roadblocks.
- Regular connect with Operation's on Identified potential product risks to develop plans to mitigate or eliminate hazards, also to understand new operational QA needs
- Clearly communicate team goals and deliverables and keep team updated on changes.
- Assisting Hiring by conducting first round of interview
- Conduct performance appraisals annually.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology -
North Maharashtra University
Jalgaon, India 04.2001 -
Skills
JIRA Postman SQL API Testing Functional Testing Regression Testing UAT Defect Management Agile Methodology RCA Quality Metrics
Strategic planning
Cross-functional collaboration
Key Achievements
Successfully delivered major NI and RI modules of Client onboarding into production., Champion Award – Nuvama Business Team., High Performer Award – Nuvama Technology Team., Promising Qkite Award – QualityKiosk Technologies., Promoted to Senior Manager at Nuvama.
Timeline
Senior Manager – QA Lead
Nuvama Wealth Management Limited
08.2022 - Current
QA Lead
Fable Fintech
10.2021 - 08.2022
Team Lead – Quality Assurance
QualityKiosk Technologies
12.2015 - 09.2021
Bachelor of Engineering Technology -
North Maharashtra University
04.2001 -