Sai Ganesh Sankara Narayanan
Team Management - Quality Assurance
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
Summary
Accomplished Team Management Professional with proven track record at Envestnet Financial Technologies and SunTec Business Solutions, building & enhancing team capabilities and driving innovation in data quality, performance testing and automation. Expert in AWS, EKS, and Snowflake, coupled with exceptional skills in team building and management. Achieved significant improvements in testing efficiency and software deployment quality.
19+ years of industry exposure with 12+ years of solid functional and technical team building and management expertise.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead QA Performance Engineer
Envestnet Financial Technologies
Berwyn, PA
12.2021 - 07.2024
- Strategizing, Planning and Designing Tests for Technical Projects
- Building and Mentoring Team
- Task Allocation, Monitoring and Management
- Risk analysis and Mitigation designing
- Time and Effort Management
- Designing and Developing Testing Tools
- Capacity Planning, Performance, Scalability, Endurance Testing
- Data Quality Test Designing
- Industry Research and Analysis AI ML based Data Quality Testing
- Hands-on experience on testing and certifying migration of monolith software to AWS cloud based deployment
- Hands-on experience on testing and certifying product for High Availability deployment
- Hands-on experience in testing technology deployment including Redis Caching, EKS, SQL Server Availability Group,
- AWS, Snowflake, Qlik Replication, Data Warehousing
- Hands-on expertise in monitoring tools including Neoload, Redis Insights, AWS health-checks, Git
- Hands-on expertise in Project Management using Jira, creating and maintaining dashboards, statistics and widgets for monitoring and tracking, Zephyr and Tempo effort log monitoring
Senior Consultant - Quality Assurance
Envestnet Asset Management
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
10.2014 - 12.2021
- Team Building and Team Management
- Hiring and on-boarding team members
- Mentoring and upskilling team members
- Building career path for team considering individual, organizational and industry growth and vision
- Conducting annual and semi-annual performance appraisal and feedback sessions
- Conducting interim connects to analyse growth and alignment of each team member based on the career path designed
- Ideated, designed and developed Automation and Performance Test Framework for the organization
- Performing continuous industry and market analysis on quality assurance in automation and performance testing front
- Building vision and roadmap for the team
- Handling functional and technical teams
Senior Manager - Customer Support
Suntec Business Solutions
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
12.2004 - 10.2014
- Team Building and Team Management
- Client-facing across telecom and BFSI customers
- Building and Managing Testing Management Services team
- Managing functional QA teams
Education
MBA - Financial Management
Annamalai University
TamilNadu, India 01.2017 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Science - Software Systems
Amrita Institute of Computer Technology
Kerala, India 08.2001 - 06.2004
Skills
Team Building and Team Management
Hiring and Firing
Mentoring and Upskilling Team
Building Vision and Roadmap for team and individual team members
Performance Review and Appraisals
Resource Requirement Projection
Task allocation, monitoring and tracking
Effort and budget tracking
Ideating, designing and building teams and team competencies
Data Quality, Performance, Automation test strategizing and designing
AWS, EKS, Snowflake with AI & ML, SQL server, Qlik, Git, CI/CD, Microservices, Data Warehousing, Neoload, JMeter, Selenium, NodeJS, Caching technologies, NewRelic, AWS Health-checks, Load Balancing, Capacity Planning
Expertise in Telecom, BFSI and Finance & Portfolio Management domains
Websites
Accomplishments
- Innovations in Testing Award - QAI Global
- Lakshya Achiever of the year Award
- Envathon semi-finalist for Innovation
Timeline
Lead QA Performance Engineer
Envestnet Financial Technologies
12.2021 - 07.2024
MBA - Financial Management
Annamalai University
01.2017 - 09.2020
Senior Consultant - Quality Assurance
Envestnet Asset Management
10.2014 - 12.2021
Senior Manager - Customer Support
Suntec Business Solutions
12.2004 - 10.2014
Bachelor of Science - Software Systems
Amrita Institute of Computer Technology
08.2001 - 06.2004