NARAYAN SIVARAMAKRISHNAN
IT Quality Engineering Leader
Rancho Cordova,CA
Summary
A driven, results-oriented Technology Manager with over 15 years of Industry Software Test Engineering and Test Management experience in delivering High quality Enterprise scale Web and Mobile Applications and Cloud Applications in varied IT domains – Healthcare, Financials, Auto Insurance, Hardware; Experienced in leading large scale end to end initiatives for QA Testing, Business Analysis, Release Management, UAT coordination; Passionate about leading/transforming full lifecycle Testing efforts for Cloud based, Multi-Tier, Stand-Alone, Client/Server and Web Based applications and delivering a high quality product to Business Customers ;Successfully managed and led offshore, nearshore and onsite resources across geographically dispersed Time Zones (USA, Manilla, Singapore, Mexico & India) for end-to-end Functional Testing, UAT, Release Management and Production Support of High visibility initiatives and large complexity Enterprise Web projects.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
Work History
QA IT Program Manager
Centene Technologies, Formerly Health Net Inc
Rancho Cordova, CA
12.2010 - Current
- Leading a cross-functional team of Quality Engineers, UAT Testers, Offshore contractors and Performance Engineers responsible for the End-to-end Testing of Centene Web Applications spanning 5 web portals for 50 plans
- Built an integrated QA engineering Test Center of Excellence practice to standardize QA process, tools and support delivering quality products to customers and stakeholders
- Key partner in the transformation to quality engineering effort by upskilling manual testers in automation scripting to drive efficiencies in test execution.
- Led a team of Quality Engineers to create an Automated Framework to reduce overall Project Testing times by more than 60% through scalable Automation suite of Regression Test cases and in-sprint Automation; Significantly increased the time to market for the MVP
- Created a reusable Framework of smoke tests and deployed to the pipeline to be scheduled and run on-demand for Business Analysts , UAT Testers and on-call team which significantly reduced the need for Manual Testing efforts during deployments and cut down execution times by 80%.
- Training and Mentoring new hires - Hired and Mentored Interns, quality assurance testers to upskill skillsets to Quality Engineers with focus on Exploratory Testing, TDD, Code review and Automation Testing.
- Worked closely with a cross-functional team of Scrum Masters and development managers to incorporate best practices like TDD, Grey Box Testing, Code Reviews and Lean Shift-left testing at a Scrum level; Improved Unit Test coverage by involving QA Engineers in the design and code review stages which led to significant Improvement in overall code quality and reduction of In-sprint defects by 50% in the Testing phase
QA Program Lead
Excellence, Health Net
Rancho Cordova, CA
09.2009 - 12.2010
- Managed the Testing efforts of ongoing projects for Web Software and Mobile Applications
- Assisted in the development of quality assurance procedures and standards
- Managed vendors and established KPIs to hold vendors accountable for deliverables and overall quality
- Worked closely with a cross-functional team of project and development teams throughout the systems development lifecycle to ensure quality
- Managed a team of Offshore/Onsite resources for meeting Functional and Automated Testing deliverables across Multiple QA projects of moderate/high complexity
- Lead overall project efforts through project estimation, planning, execution and rollout
- Collaborated with stakeholders to verify delivery of desired quality requirements to distributors.
Education
M.S - Electrical Engineering
University of Texas
09.2000 - 05.2002
B.S - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
University of Madras
08.1996 - 05.2000
Skills
Java, Javascript, Python, Angular jsundefined
Certification
Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance (Jan ’21)
Timeline
QA IT Program Manager
Centene Technologies, Formerly Health Net Inc
12.2010 - Current
QA Program Lead
Excellence, Health Net
09.2009 - 12.2010
M.S - Electrical Engineering
University of Texas
09.2000 - 05.2002
B.S - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
University of Madras
08.1996 - 05.2000
Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance (Jan ’21)
ITIL Foundation
Agile Bootcamp
DevOps CI/CD course – Linkedin Learning
User Story Writing Bootcamp
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