John Richard

Background

About John Richard

Quality Assurance Manager in Banking & Financial Industry. Worked closely with the senior executives and delivered consistent results. Extensive experience in managing delivery for portfolios comprising Systems Development, Enterprise Transformations, Regulatory Compliance. Hands on experience in commercial cards, Banking and mobile applications in SDLC like Agile, Waterfall, I have implemented contemporary software quality assurance processes, and provided technical guidance to Leads & System Analysts. Well experienced in project delivery involving Onshore Teams, Remote Teams, Vendors and Associations. • Experienced Professional in Operations and Technology (O&T) in Corporate cards, Mobile payments & Funds Transfer, Banking Applications in a highly matrix organization in multinational financial institutions. • Proactively establish and implement effective processes for managing project scope throughout the entire project lifecycle. Set and uphold high standards for project quality and performance. • Leading end-to-end project lifecycles, encompassing requirement definition, deployment, and beyond. Proficient in identifying and establishing project schedules, scopes, and budget estimations. • Developed test strategies, methodologies, and standard processes for all work streams based on a thorough analysis of business requirements. Ensured testability, traceability, and comprehensive coverage of end-to-end business processes. • Created comprehensive test plans in accordance with project objectives, work plans, timelines, milestones, and key dependencies, assessed the resource requirements necessary for the successful implementation of the test plan. • Helped the Scrum team understand and apply agile practices like continuous improvement, self-organization, and cross-functionality; I guided and trained the team as it adopted and implemented Scrum's principles, beliefs, and practices. • Demonstrated strong leadership skills by leading and facilitating Scrum ceremonies, such as daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. • Experienced in managing end-to-end projects like System Build, Testing, Operation Readiness, and Release Implementation, Production check out and create strategy for risk mitigation and contingency planning and anticipate program release problems and take corrective actions. • Strong agile delivery background with ownership of delivery for several Agile teams in a globally distributed set-up with matrixed reporting structures.