Vinoth Kumar G — Engineering Manager
SUMMARY: A seasoned IT Business/Technology professional with successful track record of building and delivering world class products to millions of customers worldwide. Having 18 years of total experience in end-to-end product development, QA and support engineering, including last 12 years at Amazon and managing team of managers, SDEs, SDETs, QAEs, associates and release engineers. Successfully built and operationalized new offshore teams by hiring new talents, establishing processes, workflows and mechanisms. Possessing rich experience in building customer facing products from scratch, migrating legacy systems to AWS Cloud, CI/CD Integration pipelines and E2E Validation frameworks. TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT: • Equally comfortable working with large enterprises & start-ups developing products, services or combined. Highly experienced in building top quality mobile device applications from scratch. • Agile development technology evangelist, experienced in successfully setting up and implementing scrum framework for the team. CI/CD, TDD advocate • Experienced in collaborating closely with leaders of various critical wings of org including Product Management, UX, Program Management, Software development and Operations for successful delivery of flag-ship products • Adept in all facets of QA methodologies including Functional, Integration, Security, Performance and Longevity testing using various in-house built/open source tools PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: • People Management skills include Staffing (recruit & retain talents), Budgeting, Training, Career Planning, Mentoring, etc • Goal Setting, Performance Management, Rewards & Recognition, Talent Acquisition Strategy, Competency Mapping and Knowledge Management • High Influencer, believing in building star teams and make them outdo their own performances. BUSINESS/STRATEGIC/TACTICAL MANAGEMENT • Post Graduate in Executive Business Management, with specialization in Data Analytics • Responsible for defining strategic vision for my team, setting short-term and long-term goals and converting them into individual’s goals/objectives • Experienced in driving various process efficiency and automation drives in the organization to improve team’s YoY productivity
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned IT professional specializing in Cloud Computing and Quality Assurance for B2C applications.
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Experience: 20 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Cloud Computing
- Qa Engineering
- Agile Methodologies
- Quality Assurance
- Test Automation
Career Highlights
- 18 years of experience in IT product development.
- Expert in building customer-facing products from scratch.
- Proven track record in team management and process optimization.
Work Experience
Amazon
Engineering Manager - SDET/QA (12 yrs 2 mos)
Quality Assurance Engineer - II (3 yrs 5 mos)
Sasken
Senior Software Engineer - Testing (2 yrs 9 mos)
Wipro Technologies
Software Test Engineer (2 yrs 6 mos)
Education
Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at The University of Texas at Austin
Post Graduate Program in Management - Executive at Great Lakes Institute of Management
Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Thiagarajar College of Engineering