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• An accomplished project and people manager with experience in Delivery, Project Management, Software Test Management, Customer Escalation Management, People/Resource Management, Customer Engagement, Cost-Revenue and Project Margin Management• 1½ Years as Engagement Manager with an offshore team size of 100+, 7 Years as Test Manager, Test Lead and Test Architect. 6 Years of experience in developing QA tools, Test Automation, and GUI Automation with proficiency in PERL. Experienced in domains such as backup and recovery, storage, QA tools, ESX server automation• Developed and implemented comprehensive SDLC and test methodologies department and company wide• Experienced in planning and executing tests from large system wide tests to individual functional tests and regression tests. • Methodologies used include waterfall, iterative and agile that resulted in 100% on-time-deliveries• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a track record of motivating and developing team leaders and team players. Experienced in managing on-shore, off-shore, and mixed teams• Designed and managed an Assignment Based Training program resulting in 40+ engineers gain competency in scripting languages• Proven hands-on experience with quality assurance practices, including test strategy development, test plan development, test case & test data review, test automation frame work and test automation• Successfully rolled out guidelines, processes and tools to entire QA automation teams, achieving streamlined test automation development and execution that made test suites to be robust, portable and reusable• Creative problem solver with advanced analytical, planning, and scheduling skills with a focus on timely delivery
Akula Cuisines Pvt Ltd
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Founder And DirectorAkula Cuisines Pvt Ltd Nov 2019 - PresentBengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Delivery ManagerTechelium Info Systems Pvt Ltd Aug 2018 - Oct 2019Bengaluru Area, India -
Senior Principal ConsultantGenpact Headstrong Capital Markets Feb 2015 - Jun 2018Bangalore• Effective delivery management for an account of 100+ engineers working across 2 different offshore locations – Hyderabad and Bangalore• Cost, Revenue and Project Margin maintenance for account revenue of over USD 7 Million• Streamlined onsite-offshore communication with formally published calendars• Manage customer escalations, internal escalations and issues, with efficient day-to-day operations• Facilitate ideation sessions, formulate and manage team ideas on technical and process improvements that impact client’s business• Engage with track leads to prepare, maintain and publish project management reports and metrics such as, internal status dash boards, engagement calendars, timely status reports and engagement dashboards to customers, metrics related to people, revenue and productivity• Stakeholder management (customer and internal), risk management and communication management• Managed and motivated members on cross functional training activities that resulted in making resources fungible across different tracks and appreciated by customer• Handled additional responsibilities for the QA horizontal service line in terms of revenue, resourcing, bench and people aspirations, was instrumental in getting USD 1 Million revenue reconciled for the horizontal -
Founder And DirectorChesterton Haute Cuisines Pvt. Ltd Jun 2014 - Nov 2014Bangalore
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Verification & Validation LeadGe Healthcare Jan 2013 - May 2014Bangalore• Leading 20 manual verification engineers for PETMR verification activities• Hired and mentored a team of GUI test automation developers on PETMR host UI• Achieved 100% automation of identified test cases within the identified verification procedures o Defined roadmap and strategy for PETMR automation framework and test harness o Effectively identified tools (to be procured and to be built in-house) o Designed and developed the identified in-house tools o Successfully automated both product and identified processes such as reporting and metrics collection• Successfully evaluated and determined a potential UI automation tool suitable for PETMR UI automation (Squish for Java 4.2.3) • Performed and documented Computer System Validation (CSV) Analysis of Non Product Software on the determined automation tool and the entire automation system • Implemented exploratory test strategy o 30% additional defects discovered o 25% additional test cases created• Efficiently drove verification activities to completion as per management timelines o Test plan design and preparation o Test execution plans and hands on test execution o Resource scheduling plans (both onsite and offshore resources) o Efficiently maintained cordial relationship with development team leads for coordinating verification activities o Timely collection and publishing of verification metrics to management and team o Ensured smooth verification cycles by coordinating onsite and offshore verification activities o Completed the verification cycles with effective test execution results review, preparation of verification summary and in-time reporting -
Member Technical StaffNetapp Apr 2008 - Nov 2012• Achieved more than 50% reduction in time for reusing tests by building Test Qualification Processes and Tools• 100% automation of collecting and reporting compliance metrics for Test Qualification Process• Practiced agile methodology • Designed, developed and lead a team of test automation library developers for o Test Automation Libraries for NetApp Storage product o Test Automation Libraries for VMware ESX, Linux KVM and Citrix XenServer o Test Case Selection, Plan File Generation and Test Execution Tools o Perl Interfaces for HP Quality Center in Linux -
Test LeadMindtree Ltd Sep 2005 - Apr 2008Bangalore• Trained and supervised a team of over 10 test engineers, supported testing and delivery of desktop Disaster Recovery and Disaster Recovery Management products• Achieved 100% ahead of time delivery of, regularly scheduled releases and maintenance releases for 4 projects as a Test Lead• Preparing test strategies, test plans, test estimation, test scheduling, assignment and tracking• Practiced and achieved expertise in Iterative methodology of development and testing process• Performed SQA activities such as drafting and tailoring V&V processes, procedures, documents, guidelines, templates and reports as per predefined quality standards• Compiling test metrics for tracking test activity progress and reporting it back to management• Weekly quality reviews with central quality team to drive defect reduction and prevention• Conducted and facilitated peer review sessions for test cases for 10 different projects • Mentoring and appraisal activities for a team of 12 engineers for 2 consecutive years• Handled onsite coordination representing MindTree at client location (Symantec, Utah, USA) -
Test EngineerMindtree Ltd. Apr 2004 - Aug 2005Bangalore• Analyzing and scoping test requirements, scripting test cases, performing test execution on Disaster Recovery Management products• Conducting and facilitating peer reviews for test cases• Practiced iterative methodology of development and testing• Manual and Localization testing of enterprise Disaster Recovery management software• Test Bed preparation using – VMware Workstation, VMware Server and ESX Server• Worked closely with software development group in resolving software bug fixes and verification• Handled onsite coordination representing MindTree at client location (Symantec, Utah, USA)
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Test EngineerEpiance 2001 - 2004• Manual and Localization testing of process automation products • Test Bed preparation using Norton Ghost, maintain a repository of various Windows operating system versions• Automated documentation verification process using Rational Robot
Prashanth Bk Skills
Prashanth Bk Education Details
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Computer Science -
School Of Engineering Studies, Lrde, BangaloreDigital Communication -
Vet Bvl PolytechnicComputer Science And Engineering
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St. Xavier'S Boys High School, BangaloreSecondary Education
Frequently Asked Questions about Prashanth Bk
What company does Prashanth Bk work for?
Prashanth Bk works for Akula Cuisines Pvt Ltd
What is Prashanth Bk's role at the current company?
Prashanth Bk's current role is Founder and Director at Akula Cuisines Pvt Ltd.
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What schools did Prashanth Bk attend?
Prashanth Bk attended Visvesvaraya Technological University, School Of Engineering Studies, Lrde, Bangalore, Vet Bvl Polytechnic, St. Xavier's Boys High School, Bangalore.
What skills is Prashanth Bk known for?
Prashanth Bk has skills like Test Automation, Testing, Agile Methodologies, Test Planning, Manual Testing, Software Quality Assurance, Test Management, System Testing, Sdlc, Requirements Analysis, Perl, Quality Assurance.
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