Dr. Koti Reddy Bhavanam

• 16 Years of experience in the field of Software development and Functional & Automated Testing • 12 year of experience in agile methodologies • 7 years of rich agile coaching experience • 6 years Agile Project Manager experience • 5 year of experience in scrumban/kanban • 3 years of experience with Release management as a Release Manager • Having about 9 years of automation experience on SilkTest suite • Develop and lead initiative to build end-to-end system test environments, drive development of test strategies and quality assurance roadmaps, delivering products to schedule and program expectations. • Responsible for resource planning, managing team workloads and budget management for project needs. • Proven history of driving thought leadership with focus on customer needs, developing and executing test scripts that verify product functionality maps to customer requirements. • Hire, manage, coach and coordinate QA engineers to work toward a common goal of getting quality products to market in a timely fashion. • Review, evaluate, and perform periodic reports of staff. • Motivate, lead, mentor and empower QA engineers by working with employees on individual development plans. • Develop strong relationships across the organization, both onshore and offshore. • Understand the value of automation and leverage it for repetitive testing, build acceptance, and regression/scaled-up testing. • Understand and able to manage the 508 compliance testing • 6 years of experience in ERP domain • 6 Years of Health Care experience • Experienced Professional Scrum Trainer • Trained about 1000 employees at my present and previous companies in agile scum and XP • Produced 50 PSMs, 4 PMI ACPs and 10 PMPs • Experience with Agile CMMI • Having project and Program management experience • Experience developing test strategies for complex programs • Having expertise in Defining, setting up and improving the Process • Experienced Scrum Master and senior Agile Coach • Experience with managing the mobile projects development • Experienced with CMMI Auditing • Experienced internal quality auditor • Experience with ISO 9001:2008 standards • Handled teams of sizes varies from 25 to 150+ EDUCATION: • PhD Scholar in management science • MBA (Operations Management) • B.Tech (ECE) CERTIFICATIONS: • PMP Certified • PMI ACP Certified • AMH 250 certified • Certified IQA • Certified Scrum Master • Certified Professional Scrum Master • Certifies Scrum Practitioner • Certified Black Belt from ISI, Hyderabad • Certified ISTQB tester Achievements: • TOP TRAINER of the year 2013 award for agile training delivery at OGS • Participated in Agile Olympiad at Bangalore in 2013 and won 6 prizes • Speaker at agile India meeting at Hyderabad and Bangalore conducted by UNICOM in 2013 • Speaker at PMI local chapter on agile METRICS in 2012 • BEST MANAGER award at GSD for the year 2013 • Designed curriculum and training material for CSM, PSM, PMI ACP and other agile scrum courses • Presented technical paper in management at 5 national and international seminars • Best Paper award for the managing changing customer needs at Optum, test next symposium • Published 5 management papers in international journals • Achieved Hall of Fame award twice from Symphony, Services, Bangalore • Awarded Performance Excellence award twice from Primavera, Inc., Philadelphia, PA • Trained about 1000 people on agile scrum for various certifications • Submitted two technical papers on management for ISSN publishers Publications: Agile alphabets @ http://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2012/august/the-agile-alphabet Test Management and Challenges in Agile Scrum Methodology @ https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=www%2Eclear-research%2Ein%2F&urlhash=_OVo&trk=prof-publication-title-link Riding Project Success - What Makes it Happen @ http://www.zenithresearch.org.in/images/stories/pdf/2011/Dec/EIJMMS/13_EIJMMS_VOL1_ISSUE3.pdf