Kiran Kumar-KK — Director of Engineering
Overall 21+ years of IT experience and 19+ years of experience in AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Hyderabad), managing GFX base quality Validation Testing team in 3D Graphics Drivers-Windows and Linux and involved in various phases of Product life cycle viz, Test Strategies/Methodology Development, Process improvements/optimization, mitigation plan, resource allocations, HW procurements along with following activities like Requirement Analysis, Test case Design, Test Planning, Deployment and Execution, Prioritizing Test activities across various Product lines and Test domains including Professional Graphics, Multimedia Graphics and different API functional areas. My responsibilities include, overall responsible for AMD WS Enterprise driver quality including ISV applications certification/qualification, Content creation, test strategies, prioritization of defects, QA frame works, resource allocation, test plan and deployment, ensuring the enablement of quality of Graphics driver, QA methodology, QA optimizations and leveraging, project status reporting, etc…Managing around 24 members team with respective to career/ professional life as well as people management along with Workstation Windows and Linux Test planning and deployment along with other responsibilities like postmortem analysis, Event coordinator for team building, get-together and outing activities.... Strong knowledge in project lifecycles (from requirements to project closure), software development life cycles (SDLC), software process methodology, and product deployment and ADLC (ASIC development life cycle). I have joined as fifth member of AMD R & D- QA team in Hyderabad India and built the team up to 150 members and trained almost 50 newly joined testers by conducting knowledge sharing sessions as well as training sessions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Software Quality Assurance within the Graphics and Embedded Systems industry.
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Experience: 21 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Software Quality Assurance
- Test Planning
- Software Engineering
- Testing
Career Highlights
- 21+ years of IT experience with AMD.
- Led a team growth from 5 to 150 members.
- Expert in Graphics driver quality assurance.
Work Experience
AMD
Senior Manager Software System Design (1 yr 9 mos)
Manager Software System Design (4 yrs)
Section Manager Software Quality Engineer (9 yrs)
Sr. Software Engineer (4 yrs 11 mos)
AMD
Software QA Engineer (5 yrs)
scion
BPO IT Service (1 yr)
Education
MCA at Osmania University