Ajith kumar Gopala Krishnan

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 11 years of experience in Silicon Hardware.
Expert in Delivery and Project Management.
Proven track record in Agile methodologies and team leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Validation Engineer with strong expertise in Agile project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementTest ManagementAgile MethodologiesTestingQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Automation testingTest planningTest ReportingRisk AnalysisRisk managementScrumTeam ManagementManual testingRegression testingPerformance testingLeadershipPyTorchArtificial Intelligence (AI)Gen AISQL

About

A result oriented Technical professional on Silicon Hardware with 11+ years of experience in Delivery Management, Project Management, Quality Engineer on Hardware testing, Customer Relationship Management. Pre-Silicon till Post-Silicon managing projects and programs with Client Management and Client delivery as a Key Stakeholder. A through professional with consistent track record of achieving targets and goals within rapid-changing environment, capable of thinking in and out of the box, generating new design solutions and ideas. Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities in Delivery management and Team management. Keen at taking up challenging & diverse opportunities across industries.

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Ust

6 roles

Team Lead Manager

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

Associate III Semiconductor Product Validation

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

Associate II Semiconductor Product Validation

Feb 2018 – Dec 2018 · 10 mos

As a Subject Matter Expert to ensure the facts and details are correct so that the project's/program's deliverable(s) will meet the needs of the stakeholders, legislation, policies, standards, and best practices

Associate I Semiconductor Product Validation

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr

 Acting as a Scrum master to drive all Agile Ceremonies, up skill team on agile way of working also helping to improve the revenue and business of the organization.
 Currently managing 25 peoples off shore testing team to handle end to end US programs from Trivandrum & Bangalore location.
 Hands on experience on Automation testing using the created python Scripts and debugging
 Well experienced in Test Management ,Test planning, Test Reporting ,Review, Risk Analysis and Risk management activities
 Understanding the requirements from Client then Share/Drive the Team to complete the product development activities within the time frame.
 Flexible to work as individual contributor also the team work to complete the targets which are pointed by the customer and management.
 Negotiating the ongoing purpose and deliverables of the test efforts
 Creating the Yearly, Quarterly and monthly Business review documents to present the client to get the next business opportunities
 Learning from mistakes and mentoring team to travel towards success path by the thinking of positive thoughts

Automation testingTest ManagementTest planningTest ReportingRisk AnalysisRisk management+1

Senior Validation Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Senior Validation Associate

Jun 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

This is my First wonderful Carrer experience with UST organization.
Post Silicon Validation
During this Role working a Validation technician working in the Semiconductor product development.
Learned the testing basics and performed my role as a outstanding contributor
Manual testing
Regression testing
Performance testing
Test reporting
Doing first time enablement of the new features integration in the products.
find the Software and hardware feature failures and working for the Solutions with dev team

Ultima touch computer care

Computer Service Technician & Computer Hardware education Trainer

Jun 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India

After my First Job , started working as a Computer Service engineer by Self as a part time in Nagercoil
in this position providing quick solutions for system related problems to our customers
During this time worked as a Computer hardware Trainer in CDAC Nagercoil.
As a mentor to given the computer hardware related knowledge transfer to the students for their career development
learned a lot of experience and ground reality from this job.

Manual testingRegression testingPerformance testingTest reportingTestingQuality Assurance

Hcl infosystems ltd.

QA Apprentice

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Pudhucherry, India

After My Diploma degree in Electronics, My first position started as a "QA Apprentice" in HCL infosystems ,Puducherry.
Here My Responsibilities are
Customer Level Audit & Daily Machine audit of Desktop, Laptop, Server and Tablet products
Finding the issues before the customer level and providing the proper Root cause after the discussion with the owners
Testing the motherboard hardware and system peripherals manually and automated ways
Doing the Reliability testing to ensure the product stability
Doing Patrol Audit in the plant to ensure all associates are following the process without any deviation to improve the quality.
Performed a good team members with the quality team and supported for a lot of production development.