Prashant Virkar

Background

About Prashant Virkar

Overall 20+ years of experience in QEA (Functional & Non-Functional Testing) and development in managing medium to large regulatory QA programmes in banking and retail domain, set up Managed Test Centres for retail bank ( Lloyds Banking Group & Halifax Bank), investment bank ( J. P. Morgan and Credit Suisse) and retailer (ASOS).* Lead QA delivery by managing, governing and working with various QA service lines like Functional, Non-functional, Data Migration Testing, Test Environments Management, Automation, Test Data Management in Waterfall and Agile delivery model using BDD and ATDD methodology.* Expertise in QA Programme Management with overall Programme Management experience of 10+ years for large and complex programmes such as UK Regulatory - Industry Accounts Switchers, SEPA PSD, and Other Programmes Resilience - for UK’s Tier 1 Retail Bank, Two UK Tier 1 Retail Banks Mortgages Integration, Payments Simplification – Transaction Management Hub (FTM) and Digital Core – for Online Fashion Retailer in the UK with QA budget management of £2 Million to £15 Million over span of 3 years.* While working for the UK Online Fashion Retailer (for 3+years) Digital division - as QA Programme Lead, successfully implemented PIM and ESB (mule soft) based solution for product data management at ASOS om AWS and AZURE Cloud Platform * Expertise in managing onsite, offshore QA team and leading the delivery of multiple projects within programme and portfolio in onshore (UK)-offshore (India) delivery model, Other shores – Zurich and USA for team size up to 100 + resources at peak time. Also managed 3rd party testing teams and permanent employees at client site. Experienced in developing new portfolio for BFS, Retail, Hospitality and, Manufacturing clients upto £10 Mil GBP YOY. Experienced in managing the P&L at BU level for the region and service line.