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Sharing with you an excellent opportunity for Head of Testing Practice in Bangalore.

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Job Title: Head- Testing Practice (GM/AVP Level)

Location: Bangalore, India

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Robust hands-on experience with the offshore delivery model, preferably must have worked for 3+ years at an I-5 employer (TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, Satyam, Mindtree etc); 5+ years of experience in the Testing space
• Handled team sizes of 50-100+ over multiple concurrent testing projects.
• Good balance of onsite (client facing)/offshore experience.
• Managed multiple end-to-end enterprise class testing programs starting with strategy/requirements through to deployment/maintenance.
• Sound understanding of the proposal/opportunity life cycle; Anchored multiple proposals/RFPs in a competitive scenario.
• Sound understanding of project commercials/financials; Must have executed both Fixed Price and Time & Materials engagements.

Competencies
• Strong business communication and presentation skills.
• Good client relationship building skills – ability to evolve as a “trusted partner”
Good “consulting” skills – ability to work with diverse set of stakeholders to generate consensus and drive solutions
• Business acumen - ability to identify opportunities for growth (prospects as well as existing clients)
• Excellent team building skills – ability to hire and groom right talent into a well knit “practice”
Team player – ability to collaborate with sales/onsite delivery teams to deliver successfully to the end client
• Provide solutions/technology/product consulting, system deployment, and sales support in a delivery leadership role.
• Understand client specific requirements and create Solutions.
• Handle Client interactions independently
• Evaluate solution options and make recommendations to clients
• Prepare in-depth and high-level technology and product presentations, white papers and case studies for field distribution and presentation to clients
• Key contributor to customer RFI, RFP and RFQ responses
• Interact with CXO level and make presentations
• Review plans, architecture and strategies
• Lend a high-touch consultative approach to the selling process
• Contribute to business and technology vision and direction by influencing strategies and monitoring execution of major technology endeavors relating to the QA space
• Manage and supervise the delivery and be the first point of contact for any client escalation.
• Contribute in creation of go-to market strategy for the new solutions / offerings.
• Identify gaps in testing process and recommend short term and long term goals for client organization.


Education and Work Experience
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- Bachelor's degree in Engineering;
- 10 to 15 years of experience in delivering complex Testing projects in a GDM environment
- Delivery Experience in Test Process Assessment, Creation of Test Strategy, Test Automation, Manual Testing,
- Hands on experience in various Testing tools like QTP, Rational Robo, Test Partner etc.
- Well versed with SDLC and other Quality processes.
- Experience in solution definition, effort estimation, proposal pricing, proposal preparation and client presentation
- Ability to engage with CXO level
- Strong business communication (oral and written) and presentation skills
- Should have done engagements relating to Test Automation strategy, Test process assessments
- Should have an App. dev background
- Should have been involved in test tool evaluation, comparisons

Thanks n Best Regards,
Amit Gupta
Recruiting Pundits
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