Suresh Chandra Email Address

Head of Intelligent Automation and Quality Assurance at NewDay

NewDay is a fast-growing business and one of the largest issuers of credit cards in the UK. We have a clear, simple idea to guide us – we wa

• Total 13 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing. • Expert in Testing Practice Management, Test/Project Management, Client Relationship & Vendor Management, Offshore Management, setup of Testing Center of Excellence (CoE). • Experience in managing testing on multiple large scale programmes/projects • Expertise in Test policy development, Test Strategy & Planning, Estimation, Scheduling, Team Management, Business Requirement Management, End-to-End Test Life Cycle Management, test automation • Implement and improve industry best practices in Software testing • PRINCE2 Practitioner, IT Project Manager and Programme Test Manager. • Domain experience in Banking, Credit Cards, Risk, Telephone Banking. • Led Multi-geographical teams (UK, India, Asia Pac) and managed large testing teams of 100+ resources with annual testing budgets upto £10m. • Expertise in Test strategy, Test planning, Test Architecture, Testing Estimation, Proposals. • Excellent knowledge of Waterfall, V-Model and Agile methodology. • Developed Enterprise test strategy which has been rated as 'world class' by Delloitte and Price Waterhouse coopers. • Expert in building proposals for TaaS based work engagements. • Expert in coaching and training business teams in testing tools and processes. • Certified Lean Six Sigma Practitioner QA Interests: Avid believer in Test Driven Development, Agile Methodology, ZDLC (Zero Defect Life Cycle), TaaS (Testing as a Service), Cloud Testing, Test Virtualisation