Satish Koli — CEO

Total 15+ years of IT Experience in Technical marketing and Software Quality Assurance of Windows and Linux graphics driver, Video codec testing, DirectX/OpenGL 3D games testing. • Customer management : - Experienced in Project / Program Management, Escalation Management, Client / Customer Interface, Product Enabling, Requirements Engineering - Forecasting and prioritizing customer requirements for current and future platforms - Capable in handling tough customers in any situation and get a win-win situation with trust. - Know and understand exactly where in the launch process customer is. Be aware of gating issues, potential obstacles, testing status, board’s timelines, and help drive issues to resolution prior to launch • Technical Skills : - Strong understanding of complex concepts related to computer architecture, device driver development and maintenance model, SDLC, STLC - Expertise in GFX device driver components such as Display / Multimedia / 3D. Expertise in MIPI/eDP/HDMI panel enabling, Multimedia / codec validation, 3D APIs such as DirectX/OpenGL/OpenGL ES and benchmarking. - Understanding of HW, FW/BIOS, OS internals, device drivers and their interaction with each other • Soft skills - Proficient in designing new processes, identifying improvement areas and implementing adequate measures to meet business objectives - Proactive in supervising tasks such as dashboard reporting and analyzing the same as well as ascertaining quality of deliverable's by strictly adhering to quality standards - Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities in team management and planning

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Quality Assurance expert in the Graphics and Multimedia industry.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 18 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Project Management
Customer Management
Technical Marketing
Software Quality Assurance
Team Management
Graphics Testing

Career Highlights

15+ years in IT with strong technical marketing expertise
Proven track record in managing global teams and customer relations
Expertise in graphics driver development and testing

Work Experience

Intel Corporation

Graphics PnP software architect (6 yrs 5 mos)

Program Lead (4 yrs 3 mos)

Technical Marketing Engineer (2 yrs 9 mos)

AMD R&D Center

Senior Software QA Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)

NVIDIA Graphics Pvt. Ltd

Software QA engineer (2 yrs 8 mos)

Jabil

Graduate engineering trainee (6 mos)

Education

B.E. at North Maharashtra University

SSC at St. aloysius high school

Satish Koli

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in IT with strong technical marketing expertise
Proven track record in managing global teams and customer relations
Expertise in graphics driver development and testing

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Quality Assurance expert in the Graphics and Multimedia industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementCustomer ManagementTechnical MarketingSoftware Quality AssuranceTeam ManagementGraphics Testing

Other Skills

Escalation ManagementClient InterfaceRequirements EngineeringCustomer NegotiationTechnical TrainingQA PlanningTest ExecutionTest PlanningPerformance TestingDevice Drivers testingMultimedia testingWinDbgDirectXOpenGLGPU

About

Experience

18 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Intel corporation

3 roles

Graphics PnP software architect

Nov 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

Program Lead

Promoted

Aug 2015 – Nov 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Lead a global team of Technical Marketing Engineers (in Taiwan, Japan, India and China) to ensure successful enabling of Intel graphics technologies for the next generation Tablets, Netbooks and Convertibles with Intel Atom and Celeron processors
Deal with customers (across Asia) and escalations on critical launch gating issues and solve them on time for customers by working with global teams
Strategic Planning for business processes for future products

Project ManagementEscalation ManagementClient InterfaceRequirements EngineeringCustomer Management

Technical Marketing Engineer

Nov 2012 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Participate in new product development, representing the customers technical needs, creating competitive analysis, developing and presenting technical product training materials to internal and external customers
Responsible for working with internal stake holders and resolve graphics driver related bugs filed by customers. Handle customer negotiations/internal negotiations to ensure timely delivery of fixes for bugs submitted by customers.
Owns creation and maintenance of data sheets, Collateral and customer communications and developing technical specifications and marketing communication literature to Original Equipment Manufacturers and Original Device Manufacturers

Technical MarketingCustomer NegotiationTechnical TrainingCustomer Management

Amd r&d center

Senior Software QA Engineer

Apr 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Roles and Responsibilities:
Assist QA manager from planning and scheduling to execution
Handle a team of 8+ members, handling the execution of multimedia validation.
Review new and existing test plans and test cases
Understand the test coverage matrix and review before every release and update test cases
Coordinate with onshore test execution team to make sure no overlapping effort takes place
Coordinate with other leads and managers for completion of release and time estimation efforts
Create work schedules and allocate weekly tasks and making sure task completion on time
Test execution of new features for Windows and Linux (2D/3D/MM) graphics driver.
Understand the technical issues and technical snags and glitches and find out WAR.
Improve quality of bug by ensuring required information to developers
Create daily, weekly, monthly and release wise status reports
Part of the elite training team which trains the interns/new joiners regarding the entire QA Architecture and Testing.

QA PlanningTest ExecutionTeam ManagementSoftware Quality Assurance

Nvidia graphics pvt. ltd

Software QA engineer

Mar 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Testing of various Graphics Card (GPU) and windows drivers of NVIDIA GPU product.
Creating and updating test plan, test cases & test procedures to validate the functionality and performance.
Video testing of Blu-ray, DVD’s and various Video clips on different GPU families and with different display connectors like S-Video, Component, Composite, DVI, HDMI and DP to validate multimedia component in the GPU driver software
Audio testing over DP, HDMI, and PCI express HD bus audio. Testing of various audio formats using A/V receiver manually.
High Definition Blu-Ray playback/performance testing on various chips of NVIDIA using different decoders e.g. Cyber link Power DVD, Arc Soft TMT, and Corel Win DVD
Digital content protection (HDCP) and Analogue copy protection (ACP and macro-vision) testing.
Testing of latest 3D games and benchmarks to validate the DirectX and Open-GL component in the GPU driver software
3D Vision testing using 3D vision capable display and HDMI 1.4.
Adobe Flash testing that uses GPU for decoding of the video with different browsers
Performance testing for video trans-coding with the help of GPU for encoding and decoding, with various applications like Cyber link Media Show, Nero Move-it, Bada-boom.

Graphics TestingTest PlanningPerformance TestingSoftware Quality Assurance

Jabil

Graduate engineering trainee

Sep 2007 – Mar 2008 · 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Study the failures of EchoStar Satellite TV Receiver boards (DTH) & Techno Trend Satellite/Cable TV Digital Set Top Boxes for reduction of failures in production.
Installation, commissioning & maintenance of highly sophisticated testers such as Functional Validation Test equipments
To give feedback to the quality and production department depending on test analysis reports so that the quality of the product can be enhanced.
Give continuous feedback to design engineers to develop better quality Automated Testers with good accuracy & less testing time.
Assist team members set up and qualification of Test Equipment for production use.