Project / Delivery Senior Management Professional - It

SABARI GIRISH JANAKIRAMAN

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PROJECT / DELIVERY SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL - IT

 Test / Quality Management  Program Management  Delivery Management

AN OVERVIEW

A senior management professional offering over 19+ years of comprehensive experience in Test Management, Test Automation and Quality Assurance, Program Management, Delivery Management andSoftware Development,.

Presently associated with Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bangalore as Director–QA, Platform Engineering Group, Analytics and Information Management.

Significant exposure in Test Automation,Black Box Testing,Regression Testing, and Manual Testing

Strong experience in Test Automation and Automation framework and Regression Test Management, Test Data Management (TDM) and Test Environment Management (TEM).

Excellent Customer Focus with strong experience of Customer Support for Beta Testing(Early Field Trials – EFT), CustomerEscalation management, Customer IssuesTriage Management, Driving Live Troubleshooting Sessions on Customer’s production environment, Participating in Design/Solution/Workaround discussions with customers and Driving documentation updates for products and features.

Deployed effective & efficient testing and automation controls, sufficient verification & validation processes, emphasizing on early engagement of testing including test automation/optimization in SDLC processes to bring a significant benefit from testing value chain.

Established & defined testing processesto minimize the cost of quality in the Testing Value Chain by understanding key attributes of service / product (quality) & processes (productivity) and impact analysis.

Diversified professional experience as a strategic leader, an effective manager, software tester, software developer, and a trained mentor.

Developed a CoE for Testing and Quality at Satyam Computers with a team of 20.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master from ScrumAlliance

CGBL (Certificate of Global Business Leadership from Harvard University, London) through an online 6 month course sponsored by Satyam Computers.

Cisco Security Ninja White Belt

SKILL SET

Project Management;

Scoping, Planning and mobilizing resources, managing deliveries and resolving dependencies like testbeds and test tools required.

Instituting various measures for smooth project delivery such as Task Priority Management, Escalation Management, Planning for early automation; reviewing the project progress and reporting on project status.

Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines

Monitoring / tracking projects with respect to planned scope, expected quality at various checkpoints, and time over-runs.

Responsible for overall Functional Delivery for the designated releases.

Test Management;

Adhering to test processes and designing test controls to implement & maintain a testing strategy that interlinks with day-to-day operations of the ongoing projects.

Preparing and tracking of test schedule; managing dependency between deliverables.

Guiding the team in coming up with test automation framework/approach, methodology/processes and implementing them on the running projects.

Driving development ofautomation framework and various automation libraries

Developing test optimization strategies and executing automation projects and driving the automation strategies and adherence to automation standards across the business unit; leading the automation council.

Quality Assurance:

Tracking project quality management plan including defect finding rate, schedule variance, effort variance and review efficiency.

Providing scope, resource and time estimates for projects presented to QA for testing and analysis.

Working with Business Analysis function, marketing Team and Development Team to ensure QA testing requirements are appropriately identified and included in the requirements matrix to track test coverage.

People Leadership;

Developing competency among the team members; conducting interviews to recruit the right talent and resources and developing employee competency.

Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations and ensuring that the operational efficiency and process excellence goals are met.

Driving various training programs (Internal/External) for the team to improve the skill sets of the team members and hence delivery efficiency of the team

CAREER SUMMARY

COMPANY / PERIOD / POSITION
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bangalore / Since April–2016 (Currently 1 year) / Director – QA, Platform Engineering Group, Analytics and Information Management
Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd., Bangalore / June–2008 to May–2016 (8 years) / Sr. Software QA Engineer
Satyam Computers Ltd. / May-2007 to May-2008 (1 year) / Project Manager
HCL Technologies Ltd., Cisco Offshore Development Centre, Chennai / November-2000 to April-2007 (6.5 years) / Project Lead
Efunds Technologies Ltd., Chennai / May-1998 to October-2000 (2.5 years) / Systems Executive

CAREER RECORD

Since Apr’16 working with Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bangalore as Director – QA, Platform Engineering Group, Analytics and Information Management

Significant Contributions: Hiring and Building a QA team from ground-up, Setting up QA gates, release gates and QA processes, Driving Functional Test Strategy, Automation Strategy, Performance/Load Test Strategy, Regression Strategy and Security and Vulnerability Test Strategy across all the PEG platforms

PEG Platforms

COGNIZANT BIGDECISIONS CORE PLATFORM is a Business Solution Platform that enables sophisticated business analytics from a multitude of information sources, including and not limited to structured / unstructured / streaming (IoT)/ Mainframe data for timely, intuitive and context specific decision making. The platform helps in the Business Transformation by accelerating seamless ingestion of complex data and robust information architecture build to quick-start business analytics and data discovery in a secure fashion. Core platform components are: Identity and Access Management, Data Ingestion Workbench, Data Integration Workbench, Smart Connectors, Data and Analytics Bazaar, Analytical Sandbox, Interactive Analytics Workbench, Data Discovery Workbench. The platform also has pre-built domain specific Business Applications (BizApps) apart from providing a platform for the customers to build their own BizApp in quick time. Following are the sub-platforms that are integrated into this core platform:

BigDecisions BigStream
BigDecisions BigFrame
BizApps- ONERetail, Network Analytics, Telematics

Responsibilities as a Director-QA

Hiring, building and mentoring a QA team from ground-up

Driving QA strategy including Functional testing, Automation, Performance/Load testing, Regression testing and Security and Vulnerability testing across all PEG platforms

Driving and institutionalizing processes to standardize regression requests, report format, bug filing guidelines, centralized WiKi/confluence to track the program

Driving Procurement and setting up various commercial tools like JIRA for Defect Management, Confluence for collaboration, Test Rail for Test Management and opensource tools like Jenkins for Regression Scheduling

Driving Procuring and setting up Testbeds for Automation and Performance/Load Testing on Cloud (AWS/Azure) and On-Premises within Cognizant Data Center

Driving Automation by setting up a dedicated automation team, including hiring an Automation Architect

Driving Performance/Load testing by setting up a dedicated Performance/Load testing team

Defining various QA metrics for Test Coverage, Bug Leakage, Product Health, Automation Coverage, Regression Issues

Organizing team trainings, outings

Budgeting

Leading and tracking the QA cycles per release by syncing up with the QA Manager, Automation Lead, Functional Test Lead, Performance Test Lead, Regression Lead and Security Test Lead

Participate and track the reviews and approvals of: Product Requirements Document (PRD), Software Functional Specifications (SFS), Software Unit design specification (SUDS), Unit Test Plan (UTP), Unit Test Results, Test Scoping, Test planning, Test Execution and Test Automation

Driving and leading the customer issues triage team

Jun’08– May’16 with Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd., Bangaloreas Senior Software QA Engineer

Significant Contributions: Program/Technical Management, Release Lead, Feature Test Ownership

Program/Technical Management

Program Manager for Platform dependent/Platform Independent feature regressions (IOS XE on ASR 1000 and CSR 1000V routers) across multiple Stakeholders in CISCO

Handling various processes like regression requests, report format, bug filing guidelines, centralized WiKi to track the program

Release Lead (Platform Dependent India devtest team):

Leading and tracking the devtest cycles per release.

Leading the customer issues triage team

Hold weekly sync-up meetings with the India Devtest team to track the progress and discuss various defects & escalations (Sev-1, Sev-2 etc.)

Leading Automation Council for the BU with teams working across geographies.

Feature Test Ownership:

NAT feature test ownership for various releases

Manual testing and automation for different NAT features coming up in various releases

Triaging Customer issues on NAT

Test Scoping, Test Planning, Reviewing PRD/SUDS/SFS/UT plans/UT results/Test plans/Test scripts/Test results

Uni-dimensional Feature Performance and Scale Testing

Appreciations: Received many awards from manager and peers for Customer Focus and being an excellent and easily approachable team player respectively.

May’07 – May’08 with Satyam Computer Services, Bangalore as Project manager – Service Offerings

Significant Contributions: Building a Testing CoE, Mentoring and Training, Responding to proposals, Handling Performance Appraisals, Tracking and Updating Project Status

Building a Testing CoE

Created a new Quality and Test Engineering Team of 20 with varied industry/domain experience

Plan and Organize trainings for the team in various Testing and Networking technologies

Mentoring the team and guiding them in doing various PoCs

Managing the resources based on Client requirements

Facilitated new features for testing such as providing special environment requirements for testing, its turnaround strategy, etc.; created Quality Framework, defined standards, best practices and testing procedures.

Responding to Proposals

Gathering requirements through RFIs

Collaborating with various internal teams and responding to proposals through RFP response

Project/Team Management

Tracking project status and updating the project status to senior management through Ops Reviews

Handling Performance Appraisals for the team members

Nov’00 – Apr’07 with HCL Technologies Ltd., Cisco Offshore Development Centre, Chennai as Project Lead

Significant Contributions:

Leading various teams engaged in Regression, Automation and Manual testing of various Cisco Products likes 7200 Router, CMTS (Cable Modem termination Systems) and GGSN (Gateway GPRS Serving Node)

Writing and executing test plans

Cable labs certification testing

Design and execute functional and black box tests and test procedure for various features

Test automation using TCL/Expect and ATS

Organize script/test plan reviews.

Build regression and automation test beds.

Setup EARMs (Regression tests scheduling tool).

Fine-tuned about ~90 odd scripts in regression to reduce the run time by a day.

Holding conference calls with the Cisco team, writing proposals, preparing and tracking schedules, weekly status reporting, preparing Ops-review reports to the Management, Resource allocation and management.

May’98 – Oct’00 with EFUNDS Technologies Ltd., Chennai as Systems Executive

Significant Contributions

Developed various UI libraries for the Automated Clearing House software of US based Deluxe Corporation using C, C++, Java

Rendered extensive support to Deluxe corporation in helping them migrate to ORACLE RDBMS from their old legacy BTRIEVE record management system

Extended support to EFUNDS Technologies in automating their UI testing using QA Runner

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Applications (MCA) from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli in 1998.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Mathematics Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli in 1995

TRAININGS ATTENDED

Core Python

Effective Coaching and Mentoring

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Managers

Working with Multi-Cultural Global Teams

Teamwork and Collaboration

Software Quality Management.

Strategic Leadership Skills.

Project Management Professionals Workshop, Bangalore, Project Management Professionals Chapter (PMPC), Bangalore, 3 days

Dynamic communication Skills

Conducting Smooth Appraisals

CMM Overview, ISO Overview

PERSONAL DOSSIER

Date of Birth:3rd May 1975

Permanent Address: C-301, Gopalan Habitat Millenium Apartment, ITPL Road, Kundalahalli, Bangalore-560037

Location Preference: Bangalore / Chennai / Coimbatore

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