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Debarghya GhatakDG

Debarghya Ghatak

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Senior Program Manager | 18 Years in BFSI, Pharma & Manufacturing | Agile, SAFe, QA

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTIMindtree)MCKV Institute of Engineering

Debarghya Ghatak is an accomplished Senior Manager (Projects) at LTIMindtree with 18 years of experience in program management, software testing, agile coaching, and PMO functions across major BFSI and pharma organisations including Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, TIAA, and Novartis. He is a Prince2 Practitioner, ISTQB Certified Tester, and SAFe-trained Release Train Engineer with hands-on expertise in automation testing, cloud data engineering, and establishing QA centres of excellence spanning 54+ team members across multiple geographies.

Experience

Senior Manager (Projects)

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTIMindtree)

•May 2022 - Present•Kolkata, India

Leading QES Presales (Bids & Solutions) and managing Honeywell HPS PMT and SAB ERP programs in SaFe Agile model. Service Delivery Lead for HPS program and Release Manager for PMT program.

Senior Project Manager

Vinci Energies (Axians India)

•May 2020 - May 2021•Kolkata, India

Senior PM for NovaRIM - Regulatory Information Management System for Novartis Pharma. Performed milestone planning, vendor management, and intelligent process automation.

Senior Manager Projects / Lead Product Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd.

•Nov 2007 - Feb 2020•Kolkata, India

12+ years spanning Program Manager, QA Delivery Manager, and Test Engineer roles across Credit Suisse (Switzerland), TIAA (US Insurance), and JP Morgan. Established test factories, automation CoEs, and SaFe agile transformation programs.

Senior Software Engineer

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (now Tech Mahindra)

•Jan 2004 - Nov 2007•India

Senior software engineer role across testing and software development projects.

Education

MCKV Institute of Engineering

Jan 2003•Grade: 3rd position in merit order at Vidyasagar University

Licenses & Certifications

Prince2 Certified Practitioner

APMG International, UK

Scrum Master Orientation

Good Agile Inc. / Scrum Alliance UK

Scaled Agile Framework (SaFe) Orientation

CS Private Banking Zurich

ISTQB Certified Software Tester

ISTQB / Swiss Testing Board

DCU Certification for Synthetic Delivery Platforms

CS Private Banking Zurich

Certified Lean Navigator (Driving Change)

Harvard Business Publishing

Appway Practitioner for Appway 6 Digitalization Suite

Appway AG

Cognizant Certified Professional (CCP) - Banking & Financial Services

Cognizant Academy

Skills

Program Management
Project Management
PMO
Agile
Scrum
SAFe
Kanban
Software Testing
QA Management
Automation Testing
HP UFT
Selenium
HP ALM
JIRA
SOAP UI
MS SQL Server
Oracle
DB2
ASP
VB .NET
VB Script
Java
Azure
Google Cloud
Amazon
Test Management
Risk Management
Stakeholder Management
Defect Management
Requirement Traceability
BDD
Gherkin
Microsoft Project Plan
ITPPM
ServiceNow
SharePoint
Team City
SVN
Pre-sales
RFP/RFQ