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Vinoth Kumar G

Engineering Manager

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India20 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned IT professional specializing in Cloud Computing and Quality Assurance for B2C applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingQa EngineeringAgile MethodologiesQuality AssuranceTest Automation

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)CI/CDDigital Commerce Payments SystemsPerlShell ScriptingStress TestingDefect TrackingClearCaseArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningTest PlanningManual TestingSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Regression TestingScrum

About

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

Experience

20 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
15 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

2 roles

Engineering Manager - SDET/QA

Promoted

Mar 2014Present · 12 yrs 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Having a 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.
Cloud ComputingAmazon Web Services (AWS)CI/CDAgile MethodologiesQA Engineering

Quality Assurance Engineer - II

Oct 2010Mar 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Worked as QAE on Amazon Digital Commerce Payments Systems, responsible for Quality Assurance of highly scalable and available DOCS workflow pipelines
  • Successfully took part in migrating DOCS payment systems from legacy workflow to new modularized Order Processing Engine
  • Responsible for successfully enabling Digital Order Payments systems on CA and BR market places.
Quality AssuranceTest AutomationDigital Commerce Payments Systems

Sasken

Senior Software Engineer - Testing

Dec 2007Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Title - Senior Software Test Engineer
  • Client - Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
  • Domain - Telecom, Network Security
  • Scripting Lang. Used - Perl and Shell
  • ROLE/RESPONSIBILITY/RECOGNITION:
  • Worked as test automation engineer, deputed as onsite engineer for R&D division of Bell Laboratories. Written multiple test automation libraries for our in-house test framework.
  • Was part of the team responsible for establishing automation framework from scratch to perform functional regression tests on Bell Labs' patented wireless laptop security product NLG (Non-stop Laptop Guardian).
  • Winner of Spot Award at Sasken for contribution in handling critical patch release
Test AutomationPerlShell Scripting

Wipro technologies

Software Test Engineer

May 2005Nov 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Title - MFP-CPE (Multi Function Peripheral Current Product Engineering) Duration Test Engineer
  • Client - HP (Hewlett Packard)
  • Domain - Embedded Systems
  • Scripting Lang. Used - Tcl, Perl and Shell
  • Tools Used - Clear Case, HP DSS, Anteater
  • ROLE/RESPONSIBILITY/RECOGNITION:
  • Responsible for Performing Stress Testing on Printers to check for the Firmware stability. Work involved designing and executing testcases for periodic releases and identifying memory leaks in MFP firmware.
  • Worked as release lead, in-charge of analyzing Crashes/Hangs, memory leak and performance test results and logging defects and tracking them in our internal and external Defect Management Systems.
  • Winner of Feather-in-my Cap award in recognition of implementing a process improvement that helped to detect the software crashes during the stress testing exercise, upto 8 hrs in advance. Built an automated tool that polled for crash metrics in printer devices 24X7 and sent e-mail messages to the stake-holders.
Stress TestingDefect TrackingClearCaseQuality Assurance

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jun 2020Feb 2022

Great Lakes Institute of Management

Post Graduate Program in Management - Executive — Data Analytics

Jan 2018Jan 2019

Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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