Viswanath Ghawalkar
Senior Manager Consulting at Deloitte Consulting US-India Pvt. Ltd.
Summary
Viswanath Ghawalkar - is a Senior Consulting Practitioner with Deloitte Consulting LLP. As a Technology Leader, his role is Global testing Delivery leader for a major US Healthpayer system.
Worked with Top US Clients as a Testing Leader to help them establish & transform Center of Excellence (CoE) structure across shores. Adept in Quality Engineering principles with focus on methodologies like Shift Left methodology, Rapid QA, Agile QA for CI/CD, Defects prevention & Automation strategy
Prior to Deloitte, Viswanath's 14 yrs career was associated with Quality Engineering practice in North America with Cognizant Technology Solutions. As a Director he was managing $42M topline business with peak team size of 400+ in ODCs. Accountable & responsible for Delivery Excellence, Test Consulting, Managed Services, TCoE Setup and driven QA Transformation for major US Healthcare and BFS customers
Experience
Senior Manager Consulting
Deloitte Consulting US-India Pvt. Ltd. / Hyderabad
Role of Global Delivery Leader:
- Responsible for Delivery, organizing and leading all Quality Assurance activities (onshore &offshore) over 140 resources (employees and consultants) for major US Healthcare Customer with $50M revenue/Yr.
- Leading SDET Delivery practices comprising Agile QA, DevOps, Build Deploy Test of Selenium Automation using Maven & Test NG Methods
- Automation Architect for Selenium using Page Object Model (POM), framework deployment using Java
- Develop and prepare testing dashboards, including Defect Metrics, Test Execution Risks/SLAs, and weekly presentation to Customer VP/Director of Testing
- Extremely adept in delivering "Metrics that Matter" and gain trust with Internal/Customer stakeholders
- Creation and implementation of a QA Methodology, Test Management Plan, Defect Management Plan, Code Migration Plan, test scripts, automation, overall test policies and procedures and Workflow Processes
- Tested applications developed with a proprietary scripting language running on Legacy framework. Also supported software test automation using Selenium and Java
- Implemented Robust & Rapid automation techniques for Test Data Management & Healthcare Claims Validations
- Executed testing in multiple environments: Desktop - Windows Server 2003; SQL Server 2005; Mobile Device - Hybrid & Native
- Utilized Team Foundation Server 2005, Sharepoint, MS Project, Remote Desktop, VMWare Server Console to manage and execute QA processes.
Director Quality Engineering
Cognizant Technology Solutions / Nashville, TN
Testing leader (Director) for HealthCare business in the US & UK region
- Managed and delivered $40 MM Revenue portfolio as Delivery Lead overseeing large Banking Customer portfolio
- Implemented the “TCoE Model” in offshore working with multi-vendor testing teams and achieved 8% -12% staff reduction YoY by co-location strategy, process improvements & Test Automation methods
- Served as Testing leader for various US Healthcare marque customers in Cognizant NA
- Established Testing Center of Excellence (CoE) Model for a very large US Clearing House customer
- Built-in Test Integration Models, Agile QA, UI automation and API/Service automation & Tools consolidation
- Managed revenue growth from $6M to $12M in 3 Yrs
- Developed Strong Customer relationship management,adept at New Business mining, Growth strategy
- Skilled in illustrating PoVs to Cognizant leadership & Customer with hands on Product/Application knowledge
- Blue Cross Customer – Testing Head of Shield Advance acceleration of Legacy Migration Testing of 4M members
- Quality Transition & Transformation Consultant –
- Established QA Roadmap for Healthcare Services Customer of MMIS implementation for NH, NY
- Managed Services Model (MSM) –Health Plan & Pharmacy Quality Baseline, 3 Yrs Cost optimization implementation
- Various Role played as UAT Test Manager, Quality & Process Transformation Consultant with signature Health Care/Health Plan US Customers
Applications Engineer
Oracle India Pvt Ltd / Hyderabad
- ORACLE Payroll Implementation – Functional Specialization of Payroll, OTB, GL & HRMS Product Integration Testing
- Automation Testing using Mercury Tools - Scripts Development, Testing & stabilization in Test & UAT environments
Education
Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Technology
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