Prabal Biswas

Background

About Prabal Biswas

Vice President – DevSecOps and Change Tooling (Global), Credit Suisse. Responsibilities: • Manage DevOps, Security & Test automation transformation across FSG Tech globally ( one of the largest divisions with 200 applications), accountable to the Department Chief Architect (N-4). • As DevOps and testing automation workstream lead in the Technical Leadership Program (TLP) accountable to FSG Tech for requirement digitization and test automation transformation. • Leads a global team of DevOps engineers and architects to deliver improvement in the way software is continuously tested across all FSG Tech N4. • Establish DevOps tools strategy and guidelines, driving adoption of strategic DevOps automation tools, and deliver automated for the key projects/programs Accomplishment: • As FSG Tech DevOps lead, delivered DevOps strategy, standard tool, and practices to over 50 applications and key projects/programs. Accelerate the adoption of the bank's standard toolset such as Odyssey and Bounty by contributing platform improvement, customization, and training to the teams. • Delivered 100% Git adoption for the Division. • In 2020, on-boarded a tool for data validation (iCEDQ) that has transformed lengthy data reconciliation and validation process in testing. In the first year itself, the adoption of iCEDQ scaled up across the bank. • In 2019, as Test automation Working Group lead of Risk IT, was able to drive efficiency via automation, resulting in the reduction of Cost per test case execution by 41% and QA spends reduced by 25%. • Successfully led team and vendor resources to bring in tools that improve SDLC processes such as iCEDQ, Katalon Studio, and Open Source tools such as JMeter. Contributed code atop the bank's standard tool (Odyssey) being used by teams to deliver a 1-click build-deploy-test pipeline. • From 2017 to 2019 lead automation team and deliver a solution to many application teams.