Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy
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About
Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy is a passionate Software Test Professional comes with the good experience of 13 years in the IT industry,who closely linked with the Banking & Financial Domain and follower of the Agile model for the past 8 years and continue to gather rich experiences using this model.
Venkatesh is an engineering graduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering and has about 12 years and 7 months of IT industry experience in Software Testing .He hasassociated with Thinksoft and Cognizant Technology Solutions for the past 12 years. Over the years he has worked on projects in Financial Services and Banking and has a good knowledge of Banking and Finance domain. He had been working for clients like GE & Morgan Stanley for the first 2 years after his graduation and FDI Vision PLUS, Credit Suisse, JPMC & BNP Paribas projects for the last 7 years. He had travelled to US for the base release of VisionPLUS® a credit card application and also to Switzerland for the Credit-Suisse testing projects involving the testing of Credit-Suisse Investment banking applications in the Market and Financial service area. He has extensive experience in manual and functional testing of Derivatives, Cash Management, Treasury Services, Payment and Accounts modules. He is a Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance and having experience of close to 5 years in the agile model Projects with the Clients like Credit Suisse and JPMC. He also has a hands on experience with the automation testing using Quick Test Professional and also successful in creating an automation regression test suite for the Credit Suisse client.
Apart from that he has been involved in functional specification analysis, Identifying Test Scenarios, Requirement Traceability, Test Case Designing, Test Case Execution, Defect Tracking, Defect analysis, Root Cause analysis and Reporting. He has good experience in project management covering all the stages of the Software Testing Life Cycle. He was also involved in the projects uses the Agile Model and successfully played the role of the test manger/Defect coordinator to perform the Root Cause analysis on the defects.
As part of the CSM / Scrum Team member the following activities are completed in the Agile projects
Provides inputs for creation of the Collaboration Plan and the Team Building |
Ensures a clear understanding of Epic(s) and Personas |
Understands the User Stories in the Prioritized Product Backlog |
Agrees with other Scrum Core Team members on the Length of Sprint |
Seeks clarification on new products or changes in the existing products, if |
Provides inputs to the Product Owner on creation of User Stories |
Estimates User Stories approved by the Product Owner |
Commits User Stories to be done in a Sprint |
Develops Task List based on agreed User Stories and dependencies |
Estimates effort for tasks identified and if necessary, updates the Task List |
Develops the Sprint Backlog and the Sprint Burndown Chart |
Creates Deliverables |
Identifies risks and implements risk mitigation actions, if any |
Updates Impediment Log and dependencies |
Updates Burndown Chart, Scrumboard, and Impediment Log |
Discusses issues faced by individual members and seeks solutions to |
Identifies risks, if any |
Submits Change Requests, if required |
Participates in Prioritized Product Backlog Review Meetings |
Demonstrates completed deliverables to the Product Owner for approval |
Identifies improvement opportunities, if any, from the current Sprint and |
Participates in the Retrospect Project Meeting |
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2017-01-17 - present - NITEO Partners NEC Company (Program Manager-QA)
- 2009-03-01 - 2010-06-15 - Cognizant Technology Solutions (Test Manager)
- 2010-06-16 - 2011-04-30 - Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd (Test Manager)
- 2011-05-01 - 2012-04-30 - Cognizant Technology Solutions (Scrum Team Member)
- 2006-10-04 - 2017-01-13 - Cognizant Technology Solutions (Manager - Projects)