Ashutosh Budhkar

Background

About Ashutosh Budhkar

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PRINCE2 (Practitioner) & ISTQB (Foundation) Certified Professional • Overall 23+ years of experience in IT and Banking Industry. • Domain experience on Payments, Open Banking, Core Banking, Retail, Lending and Insurance Domains. • Key experience areas o Currently working as Offshore Delivery Partner and managing portfolio of 16+ MEUR revenue o Managing delivery and operations of the account from offshore o Manage multiple projects and phases simultaneously o Planning and monitoring program execution o Project coordination and managing project interdependencies o Creating and managing budget o Assist top management in taking decisions that will improve delivery and customer satisfaction o Developing close and strong alignment between the business and IT agendas o Dealing with vendors - resource costs, resource on-boarding etc. o Working with and providing inputs to pre – sales process o Agile (scrum) methodology o Transition of legacy automation frameworks to latest selenium – cucumber based automation framework o Test estimation, Test strategy, test approach, test closure o CR management o Formation and implementation of Test Efficiency and optimization Program o Ensure coordination between partner systems by communicating / sharing all testing plans to conduct smooth testing between all applications. o Working in an onshore / offshore model o Managing multiple teams consistently over 130+ resources - virtual and geographically distributed o Performance management, pay hikes, promotions etc.