Vikram Soni

1. Technology partner and delivery head for two accounting systems for Barclays Bank (Corporate).

2. Responsible for production availability & resilience, product development and engineering for continuous improvements using tools and technologies.

3. Also responsible for budgeting, resourcing, CIO reporting and team management.

4. Responsible for owning and running 5m GBP portfolio, that generates 70m GBP revenue for Barclays every year.

5. Leading team size of 50 members, that includes BAs/Designers/Developers/Testers/PMs and service company colleagues across 5 different geographical locations in India, UK and Philippines.

• Responsible for end to end delivery (scoping, designing, development and testing) of new changes in system
• Worked with various business units of the bank of delivery (stakeholder management)
• Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every month and well-organized sprints.

• Escalated issues discovered during QA testing to PM, facilitating rapid resolution by supplying detailed information on fault parameters and replicability.
• Recommended changes to product during iterative development, rapidly advance prototyping efforts through continuous improvement

• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
• Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations.

• Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.