Vinay Gopinath

Technical Program Manager

Seattle, Washington, United States19 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of engineering experience across diverse technologies.
Expert in driving software product strategy and execution.
Proven track record in managing cross-functional teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Technical Program Manager with expertise in SaaS and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingProgram ManagementProject ManagementTechnical Program ManagementQuality AssuranceTest ManagementTest Automation

Other Skills

APIsAWSAgile MethodologiesAntAppiumAutomationAutomation FrameworksBDDBusiness Process ImprovementFunctional TestingHP Quality CenterJMeterJUnitJavaManual Testing

About

20+ years of comprehensive engineering experience across various roles, technologies and software products. Strong expertise in taking ideas from inception to production, establishing scalable processes for various stages across product development. Experienced in driving strategy, roadmap and roll out plans for software products. Seasoned "Technical Program Management” experience in driving technical strategy, managing technical dependencies, project management, establishing repeatable & consistent development, test & release processes to enable predictable and high quality software releases. Solid experience in managing cross functional teams (across Geo's) with varied levels of experience, enabling organizational transformations & transitions to Micro-services based models, SaaS domain and Cloud computing.

Experience

Walmart global tech

Director Technical Program Manager

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States · Hybrid

Zillow

Principal Technical Program Manager

Jun 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Amazon

4 roles

Senior Technical Program Manager - Amazon Retail (A.IN)

Mar 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Senior Technical Program Manager - Prime Video Personalization

Aug 2020 – Jul 2021 · 11 mos

Senior Technical Program Manager - AWS S3

Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 · 11 mos

Managed strategic AWS programs like (a) Region Build Automation, (b) building S3 in new AWS regions seamlessly and (c) Ensure operational readiness of S3 for AWS customers !

Senior Technical Program Manager - Amazon Retail

Nov 2016 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Leader for strategic, cross-organization & high-impact programs for Amazon Retail and Amazon.IN business to solve various customer frustrations and enable new shopping experiences.
Responsible for defining technical strategy, partnering with product management to create roadmaps, operations planning/funding efforts, manage complex cross team dependencies, review technical designs, creating program execution plans, tracking progress to delivery software changes to customers!

Bluejeans network

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Test Group

Apr 2016 – Nov 2016 · 7 mos · Bangalore

Lead the “Platform Test Group" for meetings product-line of BlueJeans which was responsible for 99.9% Availability (Up-time), Scalability & Reliability of the meetings Service. Efforts done in the group included Functional Testing & Test Automation , Performance & Resiliency test functions.

Engineering Manager - Middleware & Mobile Apps Test Groups

Nov 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

Engineering Manager for Middleware and Mobile Apps Test Groups @ BlueJeans. Built the Middleware and Mobile Test Groups from scratch to 7 - 8 member in each of the groups / teams. Successfully handled 14 iOS and 8 Android Mobile App releases for BlueJeans with highest quality. Scaled Middleware testing across 30+ services with 2000+ API tests built to have solid platform releases. Championed Internship program for BlueJeans India.
Leading Testing & Test Automation efforts in various areas of the product which included : Middleware ( Web-services ), Mobile Apps and Web-UI. I was responsible in expanding the test coverage both in depth and breadth which has led to more robust and well tested releases. Evangelized "test automation" for the entire org ensuring excellent automation coverage in both Middleware ( Web-services testing ) & Mobile App Testing. I created the framework for Web-UI and Native Mobile App automation.

Projectplace india pvt ltd

Test Evangalist & Architect

Sep 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

Lead the "Automation framework development" efforts using WebDriver, Python and Lettuce BDD. Automated tests for various modules like notifications, conversations etc. Created functional API tests and conducted performance testing of various REST API's. Conducted system performance testing of the service ( www.projectplace.com) using JMeter.
Lead Inception, design, development & testing efforts of the new Projectplace Desktop App.

Citrix r&d

Lead Engineer

Sep 2009 – Sep 2012 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built Automation Frameworks for UI and Middleware Testing. Lead "Test Automation" and "Performance Testing" teams to deliver high quality software releases of various Citrix Products.

Thoughtworks

Senoir Performance Test Analyst

Feb 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Performance & Resiliency Testing for the largest UK Retailing Company "Trainlines" using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Built automated functional tests using Selenium & Java

Encora inc.

Senior QA - Google ( Consultant )

Nov 2006 – Feb 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Sr.QA Consultant at Google Bangalore I tested and was involved in the launch of various Google web products like "Google Books" , "Google Patents" and "Google Finance". Built an automation framework using Selenium & Java to automate tests for these applications.