Sarika Grover

Products | Empowering PAYMENTS PRODUCT Engineering | Advisor for Women In Tech

Delhi, India

About

SUMMARY With 16+ years of experience in software industry – Managing Project teams, Quality Assurance and Release Management activities with Agile approach - Delivered projects ensuring quality and time to market with proven ability to establish quality standards, automation testing development - Built a strong collaboration with the stakeholders to address real customer scenarios & requirements. Leading cross-group collaboration to effectively manage relationships, dependencies. EXPERIENCE - 12 Enterprise Web applications, desktop applications, mobile applications, analytical dashboards, backend webservices - Scrum/agile methodology - automation tools i.e. Selenium, E2E inhouse Tool, UI Vision, jMeter, Postman, Jira DOMAINS Payments, Financial, Data Analytics, Government/NGOs ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Client retained for 10+ years because of Quality Project Delivery • Helped multiple clients conceive and elucidate multiple product ideas in-house • Planned and executed a massive data research project in record time

Experience

  • Women in Tech®India (2 yrs 9 mos)
    • Advisor for Women in Tech India
      Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • Regional Director - North
      Oct 2023 - Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Women in tech in India are challenging traditional norms and making significant strides in the field. With initiatives such as scholarships and mentorship programs, there's a growing emphasis on encouraging women to pursue careers in STEM. Networking groups and support communities provide crucial platforms for connection and shared experiences. Successful women in the industry are serving as inspirations and role models, contributing to increased visibility and representation. Corporate diversity programs and government initiatives are playing a key role in promoting gender equality in the tech sector. Despite persistent challenges, the collaborative efforts of various stakeholders are shaping a more inclusive and diverse landscape for women in tech in India. We are on a mission to empower 5 million girls and women across the globe by 2030.

  • Product Head at Fi911
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Paxcom India (P) Ltd - A Paymentus Company (New Delhi, Delhi, India)
    • Project Manager
      Nov 2018 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      ● Led programs and activities with Agile approach, and implementing them in 3 different teams (20+ Team members) for multiple projects ● Managed Project, QA (Manual & Automation) and Data Research Teams for * Invoice Presentment and Payment system for a global organization * Merchant Onboarding and Payment Processing platform * Visual Marketing Research tool * Pan India Food Sharing Platform * Chatbots ● Strength is to understand and work closely with business stakeholders and Dev/QA teams ● Help the team career growth throughout -- Guiding the team on every step. ● Proven excellence in managing long term client accounts and relationships with Client retention and positive feedback. ● Active participation in company level growth initiatives ● Led both onshore and offshore teams in fast paced Agile environment. ● Effectively supplied risk assessment, and mitigation to ensure projects are on schedule and budget

    • Quality Assurance Manager
      Oct 2018 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      ● Quality Assurance operational aims achievement by defining and implementing QA best practices, methodologies, and procedures across software development teams ● Successfully planned and executed test activities in multi-platform, multi-projects environment (Daily regression) including ● Ability in making decisions about readiness of a release for delivery into production based on test results and risk assessment ● Overseeing into using Load Tests and Automation Tests to reduce costs and shorten delivery times

  • Paxcel Technologies (P) Ltd (Full-time · 11 yrs)
    • QA Lead
      Apr 2013 - Sep 2018 · 5 yrs 6 mos

      ● Creation of Project workflows, Requirement documentation, Use Cases ● Prepared Test Plan, Estimations and designing of Test Scenarios, Conditions and Cases for the same as per the Advanced Level Standards ● Projects and domains * Financial Suite for Equity markets * Blood Bank Automation System * Merchant Onboarding suite in Payment processing * Analytics suite in Media & Advertising ● Sending status reports to clients on a regular basis. ● Error reporting, bug reporting, Bug verification and Phase Completion Reports. ● Automated Testing tools - JMeter used for application performance testing

    • Sr. QA Engineer
      Oct 2007 - Mar 2013 · 5 yrs 6 mos

      ● Estimations for testing tasks, change requests and new modules. ● Error reporting, bug reporting, Bug verification and Phase Completion Reports.

  • Asstt Manager- Switch at Reliance Communications
    May 2005 - Sep 2007 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    ● Aided in Design, development, and implementation of management information system ● Switch monitoring, doing analysis, creating Insights, and sharing with managers