Dr Ramamoorthy Shankar
Vice President ,Software Testing, Rave Technologies
Dr. Shankar is a dedicated TQM professional, who has spent much of his 20-year career managing change and improving software engineering efficiency through business driven quality management systems.
With 20 years of Process Quality, Testing and cross-functional experience in Software Industry,he has managed change and improved software engineering efficiency through business and objective driven Quality Control and Quality Assurance systems for companies he has worked for.
He is credited for setting up 4 Test COE s, 3 CMM/CMMi Rollouts, 4 ISO 9K rollouts, 1 TL9K Rollout, and 3 ISO 27K rollouts in his entire career spanning domains like Telecom, BFSI, Enterprise Application, IT Services.
He started his career with C.DOT as Software Research Engineer and moved on to Product validation group and Quality functions in his career. He has worked Ness, Adeptia, at Senior Management Positions and has managed large Test Labs (COE s) during his career. His last assignment was Vice President of Customer Advocacy group at Bharti Telesoft handling the Product Testing, Process Group, KM Group and CSAT group. He was Director of TQM for Genband Technologies , a product company in VOIP space. He has being consulting for Fortune 500 companies in the Testing, ITIL, CMM, space in US prior to joining Genband.
He has pioneered the Objective Question Metrics (OQM) Model which was his thesis topic at IIT-Delhi. This model provides guidance to Software Companies to install business driven metricate systems.
Dr. Shankar is a computer science engineer from NIT Tiruchirapalli and is armed with a Phd in Software Quality from IIT Delhi, an M.Tech from IIT-Delhi in Management Systems, and an MBA from AIMA-Delhi .