Speaker Bio:  

Ramesh Tumuluru
Head of Product Testing & Support, TCS
Dr Ramesh K Tumuluru joined TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) in 1992 and worked in management and IT consulting engagements extensively since then. He has managed a number of large programs successfully. For almost 5 years, he worked in Systems Engineering and Cybernetics Center (SECC). During this tenure at SECC he worked in modeling Software Requirements and Software Program Management using System Dynamics. Dr Ramesh, obtained his Doctorate Degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India, in 1987, in Reliability from the Mathematics Department. Prior to joining TCS, Dr Ramesh, worked in Academics for almost 5 years, teaching Management and Engineering students at many Universities. Currently he is the Head of Product Assurance Group, in TCS Financial Services, for BaNCS Insurance platform. He was also the head of Global Automation Lab in TCS.
Sylvia Veeraraghavan
Vice President - Testing Business Unit, MindTree
Sylvia has more than 20 years of experience in IT, spending time as a developer, project manager, head of the testing practice and process evangelist. At MindTree Sylvia started as a Project Manager, she was called to found the Testing Practice for one of the divisions in 2003, under her the team grew to a 550+ in 5 years, since 2009 she has been playing the role of a Process Evangelist for the Testing BU, she has revamped the Test Processes, introduced new tools and frameworks, and has deployed the Test Dashboard, which has been core for the governance of Testing Projects. Prior to joining MindTree, she worked at Wipro for 10+ years. Sylvia is a member of the ISO/IEC JTC7 Working Group 26 software Testing. As part of this, she is a co-editor of the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard.
Shishank Gupta
AVP and Senior Delivery Manager, Infosys
Shishank has over 17 years of experience across Retail, CPG and Banking space. He leads delivery of specialized testing teams for Retail, CPG, logistics and Life Science clients globally. He is also responsible for testing market analysis, design and development of new services, innovative testing solutions/IPs. Shishank has been involved in several forums such as Times of India & Vishweshwariah Technical University and been delivering talks/speeches to evangelize Independent Testing as a rewarding career. He has authored multiple whitepapers in international publications on optimizing testing effort, about creating a learning culture, KM in the organization and business value of testing. He has presented papers at International HR Conference, Amsterdam and PMI EMEA Congress, Budapest. His article on ‘maximizing your investments in e-commerce’ was published in the RIS business journal and on ‘Business value of testing’ by Risk-UK. He delivered a key note lecture at QSIT on ‘Achieving more with less’ in the context of QA organizations. He holds a patent for his work on the Test Unit Estimation model. As a leader, his passion is for people, and he believes in creating winning teams and taking them along the exponential growth path.
Prabakaran Karuppiah
AVP Quality Engineering & Assurance, Cognizant
Prabakaran (Prabakar), the BU head for Technology, Communications (TELCO), Information, Media, and Entertainment (IME) vertical Quality Engineering & Assurance at Cognizant,comes with 20+ years of industry experience spanning multiple roles and industry domains includingengineering consulting and management consulting. His global IT industry experience touches numerous functions including business analysis, process reengineering, concurrent multi-project delivery management, management of large application maintenance and transformational deals, sales management, and leadership in complex cross-functional and global team matrix environments. Prabakar also has wide experience handling service lines involving Application Development and Maintenance (ADM), Infrastructure services (IT IS), and Testing Services.
Sharad Kumar
Principal Solution Architect, Mahindra Satyam
Sharad has over 24 Years of IT Experience (Over 13 Years in Testing programs) with deft of experience in Business Enablement, Delivery & Process Excellence, Team Management, Practice Management, Defining and setting up the futuristic roadmap for competency, in alignment to organizations vision. He also has hands on experience in Technical & Commercial Solution Architect addressing business pain points, Industrialization & Productization of test offerings, Rolling out Proactive market leading elevated service offerings as thought leader, Non Linear growth enablement by cross leveraging tools & technology, Conceptualizing productivity enhancing wrapper’s to leverage functionalities across heterogeneous tools sets, Business aligned Alliance JGTM / GTM modeling with partnering Vendors. Sharad has developed Test Process and Performance Engineering handbook. He has imparted 9 days Training session on Test Methodology for Ministry of Defense, South Korea as speaker. Sharad has also been a Keynote speaker in various testing forums and on Advisory and Jury panel of testing forums.
Dhananjay Kumar
Evangelist - Automation Testing, Telerik
Dhananjay Kumar is industry speaker, prolific blogger and Microsoft MVP. He is big advocate of Testing Automation and work with Test Professionals to educate them in automation testing. He evangelizes Telerik Automated Testing Tool in India. He regularly blogs at http://debugmode.net/ and http://telerikhelper.net/. You can follow him on twitter @debug_mode for updates on his blogs and speaking engagements.
Narayan Raman
CEO, Tyto Software
Narayan Raman is the founder, CEO of Tyto Software Pvt. Ltd, a Bengaluru based software products company specializing is software automation products. Narayan is the author of Sahi, an award winning open source web test automation tool. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry and holds a B. Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay. Tyto Software, started in 2008, helps organizations simplify and achieve success in their test automation process. Tyto is now a small, successfully growing company.
Srinivas Kantipudi
Senior QA Manager, Progress Software
Srinivas has more than 14 years of experience in software development and testing, including four years in Silicon valley, USA. He is currently working as Sr QA Manager at Progress Software, Hyderabad where he has designed lot of tools and frameworks for automation and manages different product lines. Most of his experience is with product based companies which includes a couple of start-ups where he got a chance to work on wide variety of technologies. He is passionate about software testing, loves UI automation and always strive in improving the testing infrastructure.
Shyamsundar Sundaresha
Experienced Software QA Leader, Independent Evangelist
Shyamsundar is a practicing software QA professional with about 13 years of QA experience in services and product based organizations. He comes with a well-rounded experience across scale based QA delivery management, QA consulting, QA practice setup & operations and QA services pre-sales. He has served organizations like Adobe, Infosys, Reuters & Wipro and interacted with several fortune-100 customers. Particularly he loves to coach and mentor QA professionals about enterprise automation strategy, QA organization structure and QA organization transformation.
Vijay Balasubramaniam
General Manager & Global Head of Testing Practice, ITC Infotech
Vijay is highly skilled professional with 14 years experience in Software Testing. He is currently serving in senior leadership roles as Global Head of testing services, Assistant Vice President of Testing, End-to-End Test Manager and Project Manager with some of the top IT Service Providers, Multinational Banks and Product Makers. Vijay manages a service portfolio consisting of E2E Functional testing, Automation testing, Performance testing and Test consultancy in the domain areas Banking Financial Sector Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Product Life Cycle management, Engineering services and Test Process Consultancy.
Gandhi Aryavalli
Technical Lead - Quality Assurance, Intel - McAfee
Gandhi has over 17 years of IT Experience. He is skilled at Information Security, Networking, Automation, Performance & Information Security practices. In his current role he is working on Network Threat R&D Unit (IPS/IDS). His expertise lies into Malware analysis, Research on Cutting-edge Persistent threats, IDS/IPS, Firewall/ WAF, Pen-tests, Code Reviews, Rootkits, Signature analysis and Researching Bots, QA Process etc.
Thakurdas Paul
Director - Suite Test Centre, SAP
Thakurdas Paul holds a Comp Sc. degree from BITS, Pilani. He has close to 15years of experience in the industry primarily in the Product Engineering space. Right now, he is a Director in the Suite Test Engineering team in SAP Labs. In this role, he is responsible for the comprehensive end to end testing for a set of SAP Suite of products. He has been involved in pioneering several new concepts in the testing space including implementation of Exploratory testing etc. He has also been in the forefront of deriving a holistic technology enabling strategy to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of testing. He is also versed in several latest methodologies like LEAN, Design Thinking and Executive coaching. Prior to this, he has played multiple roles which includes Project/Program/People management for Banking and other industry solutions in SAP.
Srinivas Labhani
Director – Software Testing, Alliance Global Services
Srinivas Rao Labhani heads the Testing Solutions Group focusing on developing IPs, provide automation solutions & help implementing engineering best practices in the projects and provide support to the QA services sales team. He has more than 15 years of experience in Software Testing expertized in developing automation strategies, framework design & development, pre-sales activities and organization level test assessments. He has been instrumental in defining Alliance's ScriptLess Automation Framework and has been involved in defining testing methodology for test automation & managed testing services.
Rohith Sudhakara
QA manager, GlobalLogic
With around 14 years of QA expertise, Rohith Sudhakara currently serves as a QA manager at Globallogic, a leader in product development services. Over the years, he has worked across optical networking, OSS/BSS and VoIP domains and has developed skills in various testing practices, processes and methodologies. In his current role, he has Test management responsibilities overseeing various testing functions of functional testing, performance testing, interop testing, Test automation development and continuous integration.
Suvojit Mukherjee
Delivery Manager – Testing Practice, Collabera
Suvojit has over 13 years of experience in Program Management, Consulting, Account Management and Software Testing. He currently heads testing for three verticals and also heads the Automation Center of Excellence. Prior to Collabera, he has worked as Senior Test Manager with iGATE Global Solutions, managing the Large Business Unit testing group. Before iGATE, he worked with Infosys Technologies playing various roles in software testing and quality management.
Rajesh Bhave
IT Specialist - QM, IBM Rational Labs
Rajesh Bhave is IBM Rational specialist on Quality Management products. His vast years of experience includes project QA delivery and expertise on Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Code Quality products, Test Virtualization, Test Management products.
Jagan Mishra
Quality Manager, HP
Jagan is a Software Testing and QA Evangelist with over two decades of experience in Industry, 12 years in IT. He is a Certified Lead Auditor to various ISO standards, Six Sigma Black-belt, CSQA and Certified SCRUM Master. Prior to joining HP, Jagan has led PMO Quality Portfolios in SeeBeyond Technology Corporation and later SUN Microsystems, Principal Test Consultant & Quality Head in AppLabs and Corporate Quality Head of GSS America. Currently, Jagan is working as a Quality Manager – Total Customer Experience and Quality, for the ENNS India R&D Central Test Organization, in HP STSD, Bangalore.