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HEMA KANAKKAN

McKinney,TX

Summary

Highly self-motivated Software Engineer, Recruiter and Technical Support Engineer with great organizational and communication skills. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in projects. Self-starter with proven ability to manage multiple openings by effectively blending management, interpersonal and technical skills. In-depth knowledge of CRM and ATS utilization and customization for attaining maximum outcomes.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Sr Technical Recruiter/Talent Sourcer

AMAZON
Seattle, WA
05.2022 - 12.2022
  • Coordinated with IT team leaders to forecast hiring needs and department goals.
  • Source, phone screen, schedule interviews and manage entire candidate process, including offer negotiations and closing.
  • Recruited by conducting in-depth interviews to source high-caliber SDE candidates while also recruiting and referring SDM, TPM, FEE, SysDev and DevOps candidates
  • Successfully built a robust pipeline by conducting an average of 100 reach outs per day using Beamery, Hire, Hiretual,
    LinkedIn Recruiter, Dice and GitHub as well as social media
  • Managing applicant data within Applicant Tracking System.
  • Foster relationships with candidates and clients to ensure they have positive experience.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Reqroute.com
Milpitas, CA
05.2015 - 08.2017
  • Leveraged multiple sourcing strategies and channels including referral generation, ad placement, direct sourcing, cold calling
    and networking to secure high-quality candidates
  • Effectively recruited candidates and build talent pipeline through LinkedIn, Indeed, Career Builder, The Ladders, Dice,
    Social Networks, Monster, Glassdoor and Stack Overflow
  • Used GOOGLE XRAY and Boolean operators effectively to navigate Google to find talent resources

Software QA Engineer - Intern

Oodle
San Mateo, CA
10.2012 - 05.2013
  • Manual testing,Functionality, Browser Compatibility, Browser Page Testing, Application Testing & Internationalization. Performed functional testing, smoke testing, regression testing and acceptance testing. Developed SQL Queries for Back end Testing

Software QA Engineer - Intern

SlickPic
Los Altos, CA
02.2011 - 08.2012
  • Prepared Test Plan, test Cases, Test scripts, Test data database Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression and System, End to End Testing. Recorded, maintained & tracked defects & severity levels using JIRA.

Software QA Engineer

The Bessemer Trust Company
Edison, NJ
09.2007 - 04.2008
  • Analyzed user/business requirements, functional specifications and developed and maintained test cases in Quality Center. Performed data verification with the Mainframe reports against Global Plus and Cognos reports. Maintained the test logs, test reports by using Quality Center.

Education

B.E: Instrumentation & Control Engineer -

Madurai Kamaraj University
Tamil Nadu, India
01.1999 - 09.2003

Software Quality Assurance Information Technology

Portnov Computer School
Los Altos, CA
01.2011 - 03.2011

Skills

    Applicant Tracking System

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Timeline

Sr Technical Recruiter/Talent Sourcer

AMAZON
05.2022 - 12.2022

Senior Technical Recruiter

Reqroute.com
05.2015 - 08.2017

Software QA Engineer - Intern

Oodle
10.2012 - 05.2013

Software QA Engineer - Intern

SlickPic
02.2011 - 08.2012

Software Quality Assurance Information Technology

Portnov Computer School
01.2011 - 03.2011

Software QA Engineer

The Bessemer Trust Company
09.2007 - 04.2008

B.E: Instrumentation & Control Engineer -

Madurai Kamaraj University
01.1999 - 09.2003
HEMA KANAKKAN