Speaker Bio:  

Gunasekaran Veerapillai
Competency Development Head - Testing Services, Wipro Technologies
Gunasekaran has 25+ years of experience in retail banking, test project management, and automation testing. Before joining Wipro in September 2006, he served as a Test Project Manager in some IT majors in BFSI testing. He has carried out portfolio assessments, test process assessments and automation assessments for many BFSI clients. Identification and evaluation of the right tools for application technology and creation of robust automation frameworks is another challenging task in which he was able to succeed. Currently, Gunasekaran heads test automation practice at Wipro Technologies. The automation CoE has developed multiple accelerators around test automation which helps testers to improve their productivity and reduce overall effort. Guna has co-authored a book called Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement along with Bill Lewis, which was published by Auerbach Publishers in the U.S.
Rohit Kishore
Senior Director -Testing Services, Cognizant
Rohit has 19 years of Industry experience with more than a decade focused on QA & Software testing. He has played multiple transformational roles that touched all aspects of Delivery, Sales, P&L and Consulting. He has been also instrumental in setting up specific test function capabilities which includes large deal team and industry specific domain solutions teams. His global experience in large testing deals & engagements across industry verticals has equipped him with strong customer insights, good understanding of industry trends, and rich implementation experiences in test transformations governed by benefits framework. Rohit presently heads HealthCare Testing practice of Cognizant.
T. Ashok
Founder & CEO, STAG Software
Ashok spearheads the operations of STAG and has 18+ years of working experience. Earlier he setup and managed global test group at VeriFone. Quite active in test engineering community, he has given 10+ lectures in test forums, and presented about 10 tutorials/papers in International / National conferences. He is highly passionate about software test engineering and devotes time in his lab pursuing his interests in software patterns, test design, test automation, object technology, process engineering and measurement. Ashok has been presented with the Thought Leadership award for his contribution to the testing community at the Test2008 international conference. He has an MS in Computer Science (IIT Chicago) and is a B.E. (Electronics and Communication) Anna University, CSQE (ASQC).
Ramesh Aralikatte Subramanya
Director - Testing Services, Logica
Ramesh is the Director of Testing Services at Logica. He is having more than 20 years of Experience in Quality assurance, Software Testing and Software program management, with ISO and SW-CMM/CMMI implementation credentials and vast professional and technical skills.
Raghavan Puranam
Director - Quality and Release Engineering, Yahoo!
Raghavan is a Software Leader with two decades of extensive industry experience in building high performance Dev and QE teams, delivering highly scalable and business critical platforms in both Product & Internet Companies collaborating across the globe, with a keen eye for quality and customer focus
Amiruddin Syed Mohamed
Associate Director & Regional Practice Lead - Global Testing Practice, CSC
Syed is a Senior Testing Practice Leader responsible for Testing business in CSC India. He is Responsible for developing new testing service offerings to address technology and market demands. He has over 26 years of experience in Software Development, Quality Assurance, Software Testing and business development. His areas of specialization include Testing Centers of Excellence, Test Automation, Performance Engineering and Testing and Quality Engineering advisory. He is a Key note speaker in various Testing colloquiums and technology conferences.
Nagarajan Pichumani
Founder & CEO, Softsmith Infotech
Nagarajan, the Founder & CEO of Softsmith Infotech, has around 2 decades of Industry Experience. He began his career in 1992 with the Essar Information Technology, where he quickly ascended the ranks. He then worked with TCS in the capacity of Project Manager and then also had very successful (overseas) stints with Tandem Computer, US Defense, TRW Experian & Satyam computers. During his career, he has provided consulting & project management services to leading organizations and also has assessed organizations on SEI CMM Certifications. He is known in the industry circles for his strong leadership qualities, a high understanding of testing methodology and an efficient project management skill.
Mudit Kumar
AVP - Testing, Mahindra Satyam
Mudit is currently working as Asst. Vice President, Testing in Mahindra Satyam. With more than a decade of experience in IT, Mudit has managed complex testing projects, worked as solution architect and presales consultant across various industry verticals. He has developed numerous tools such as test consulting tool for test assessment based on TMMI, tool for infrastructure capacity planning during testing execution and framework for System complexity Analysis during test planning. One of the award winning tool was designed to estimate regression test effort based on statistical analysis without test selection. A white paper on the same was presented in PSQT Conference in USA. Mudit is an engineer from IIT BHU, Varanasi and a management graduate from Symbiosis Management Institute, Pune.
Tejasvi Kumar
Senior Technology Strategist, Microsoft
Tejasvi is a Senior Technology Strategist with Microsoft India - Developer and Platform Evangelism team. He has been with Microsoft for over 6 years specifically focusing on their Testing Tools spanning across manual, automation and performance testing. He is passionate about software tools & processes and regularly contributes articles to IT magazines, speaks at events globally and has been a spokesperson on Television on the trends in software development lifecycle. He holds an MS in IT.
Murthy Navarathna
GM - Software Engineering Group & QA, Samsung India Software Operations
Murthy is having more than two decades of experience in the computer software and hardware QA/ testing industry. He is currently responsible for the Process and Product Quality of Samsung in Bangalore. He has served in both product based and service based companies. He held Quality Director level positions at National Software Testing Laboratories, Ravisent Technologies, ST Microelectronics (all in the USA), McAfee and Oracle Corporation. He has authored articles and test reports for publications around the world and served as a COMDEX Asia advisory board member.
Soumen De
Engineering Group Manager - Advanced Vehicle Quality, General Motors
Soumen, PMP, presently is the EGM, Advance Vehicle Quality at General Motors Tech Center India. Presently he is also an honorary Director of PMI Bangalore Chapter. He has got a MTech in Electrical Engg from IIT Kharagpur and MBA degree and has two decades of experience. He has got diversified experience in managing factory automation in shop floor, R&D and advanced engineering functions in reputed Indian and Multinational Engineering companies. He is six sigma green belt and has presented technical papers at different national and international conference. He has 14 technical patents in the area of integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) area.
U M Taranath
Founder & CEO, G.T.Enterprises
Taranath is having more than two decades of experience. He founded G T Enterprises in 1995. Prior to this he has served the Indian Navy as a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO). He has been awarded software certification from Department of Electronics Accreditation and Indian Navy. U.M.Taranath in the early 90s came across Linux FOSS, and was hooked. Realizing the potential of the technology, he started GT Enterprises in 1995.
Mehulkumar Pancholi
Head - Quality Assurance, Arvind Retail Limited
Mehul is having almost two decades experience in Managing Product development, Technical and Quality Function. Managing International Quality Standards for one of the leading Retail Chain of India, covering a range of products in both Apparels and Non Apparels. Experienced in setting up new departments viz. Product Development, Quality Assurance and Technical. As Head of QA - Have been instrumental in implementing Quality Right at First time at various Vendor - supplier factories. Have developed a Software – QRFT, indigenously with NIFT students. The software was customized for factory to monitor production/ Quality online.
Anuj Magazine
Software Testing Practitioner, Citrix R&D India
Anuj is a Software Testing practitioner currently working at Citrix R&D India. In his current and past experiences, he has been extensively involved in different aspects of Software testing in both Consumer & Enterprise products across a myriad of languages. He likes exploring new avenues and their intersection with the Software testing profession such as Handwriting Analysis, Assembly line approach, Six thinking hats etc. He holds a professional qualification in Handwriting Analysis.He has been a regular speaker at conferences, such as QAI, ISQT Step-Auto, SoftTec, bug de-bug etc. and has spoken on several software testing topics.
Anand Bagmar
Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks
Anand has been in the Software Testing field since early 2000, and overall IT field since 1996. He completed his M.S. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, IL, USA. He is currently working as a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, India. He does everything related to testing like manual, automation, process, consulting, coaching, speaking at conferences, mentoring the ThoughtWorks QA community members, helping in their capability building, etc.
Suvojit Mukherjee
Program Manager - Testing practice, Collabera
Suvojit heads testing for three verticals. He also heads the Automation Center of Excellence at Collabera. Prior to that he was Senior Test Manager with iGATE Global Solutions, managing large Business Unit testing group. Prior to iGATE, he was with Infosys Technologies playing various roles in software testing and quality management. He has over 11 years of experience in Program Management, Consulting, Account Management and Software Testing.
Subash Newton
Sr. Manager - Testing Services, Dell
Subash having more than a decade of experience and currently leads the Performance & Security Testing Practice in Dell Services, focusing on business development support and delivery for its GTM customers. His areas of specialization include setting up Testing Centers of Excellence, Test Automation, Performance & Security Engineering. He has been a regular speaker at conferences such as ISQT Step-Auto, Swiss Testing day etc.