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Guruprasad Bhat
www.linkedin.com/in/guruprasad- Director of Engineering (Testing/QA) at Oracle Cerner, Ex. Cisco,
bhat-1651549 (LinkedIn) Ex. HP, Ex.GE, Ex. Philips, Ex. Siemens
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Agile Project Management Summary
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A seasoned leader (23 years of rich experience), who has high
Regression Models
degree of commitment, passion and drive for delivering world class
quality products with optimum cost. With unique mix of knowledge
and rich experience across various domains (Medical, Healthcare,
Computing, Storage, Virtualization, Networking, Audio/Video) in
IT, I can help set up high performing teams or bring in efficiency of
existing QA/Test organizations by means of transformation as below
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1. DO MORE WITH LESS - Adopting Engineering models (eg - State
transition diagrams, Decision tables, Control and Data flow diagrams
etc) to test/validate enterprise solutions that enable System thinking
2. DO THINGS RIGHT AT THE FIRST TIME - Eliminate waste by
practicing best in class proactive methodologies such as but not
limited to Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Fault Tolerance Models etc
3. LEARN FROM HISTORY - Effective and Action oriented RCAs
using Fish Bone Analysis, SWOT and many more
4. FASTER, CHEAPER YET BETTER - Optimize test effort through
Function Dependency Matrix, Orthogonal Defect Classifications, Test
Oracle etc
You do not believe it unless and until you have experienced these
models.
Testing is NOT JUST a FUNCTION but is a COMPETENCY. Many
organization struggle with the quality because of sheer ignorance
and if you do not want to be in that list, I can help with my experience
and knowledge !!!!
Experience
Cerner Corporation
Director Of Engineering QA/Testing
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January 2022 - Present (3 years 3 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Define and execute test strategy for suite of healthcare products that are of
enterprise class
- Spearheading a strong troop of test evangelists to deliver products that match
customer expectations
- Coach, mentor and provide strategical directions to enable increased
customer satisfaction
- Define and track multi dimensional metrics across product, project and
process
- Be an ambassador of "Testing" and advocate/educate to bring awareness of
Quality across the organization
- Drive RCAs/CAPAs thus helping to integrate feedback which can be
converted as opportunities
Robosoft Technologies
Senior Program Manager Test
December 2020 - January 2022 (1 year 2 months)
Udupi, Karnataka, India
- Delivered high quality releases in the space of OTA
- Hired and built testing/QA teams from scratch that driven 100% automation
- Close and regular interactions with customer facing groups to understand the
end user perspective of products, thus helping to enhance overall customer
experience
- Have set standard procedures and proesses to help deiver quality programs
at a faster pace
Samsung Electronics
Head India QA for Professional Solutions (Harman)
February 2018 - October 2020 (2 years 9 months)
Bangalore
- Instrumental in setting up Testing CoE which strived for end-to-end
automation of 20+ Audio/Video products
- Built a strong team of engineers and architects in the space of testing domain
that helped reducing customer escaped defects to just 2%
- Engaged teams to set up quarterly testing events to share thoughts on latest
technology trend, best practices, next gen test methodologies
- Raised bar of testing teams from nowhere to "Global STAR Performers" in
just 6 months
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Cisco
Senior Engineering Manager QA
January 2013 - November 2017 (4 years 11 months)
Bangalore
- Managed Global QA/Test teams between India, US and China which helped
in delivering test automation to all products across Computing, Storage and
Networking space
- Provided technical leadership to a set of Architects, Managers to define/drive
test strategies and automation
- Expanded the portfolio from Computing domain to include products in the
area of Storage, Virtualization and Networking
- Continuous interaction with end customers to understand the usage of
products so that overall test strategy can be finetuned
- Encouraged teams to develop tools that help increase productivity and test
efficiency
- Awarded as one of the Top-5 Leaders in APAC & Japan regions
NetApp
Engineering Manager QA (Scrum)
August 2011 - January 2013 (1 year 6 months)
Bangalore
- Built a team of strong QA/Test engineers that accomplished reducing overall
test cycle by 42%
- Was instrumental in validating a platform that's used by engineering
community for development and marketing for sales of NetApp products,
without the need for hardware
- Driven parallel releases aggressively with no compromise on quality by
maintaining the right momentum
EMC
Principal QA Manager/Architect (Scrum Master)
February 2010 - August 2011 (1 year 7 months)
Bengaluru Area, India
- Driven a team of Developers, SDETs and release engineers to reduce huge
defect backlog from thousands to hundreds within a span of 8 months for a
Data Security Product
- Awarded as "The Best Scrum Master Award-2011" and acted as a Agile
champion within the organization
- Introduced Performance Test Model that discovered significant critical defects
in-house thus saving the cost and enhancing the brand impact
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- Developed and practiced People Management Model that ensures objective
approach of perfrmance management
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Test Specialist
October 2008 - February 2010 (1 year 5 months)
- Has driven an initiative called as "Simplification" across the Lab (Business
Unit) that focused on increased productivity and reducing test effort
- Implemented Testing As Service Model which is fully automated at a click of
single button
- Defined standard set of leading and lagging test metrics to help identify
quality gaps and better tracking
- Driven initiatives that accomplished coverage improvement from 62% to 90%,
for selected products
Philips
Senior Technical Specialist
May 2006 - October 2008 (2 years 6 months)
Bangalore
- Explored and implemented various engineering test models such as but
not limited to state transition diagrams, Decision tables, Control/data flow
diagrams, Business process testing etc, to help improve coverage
- Instrumental in setting up Performance Integration Lab where all software
and hardware integrations are done to provide with field/customer like
experience
- Had set up fully automated Product Confidence test suit, the results of which
were regularly consumed by product teams to make release Go /No Go
decisions
GE
Senior Design Engineer
September 2005 - May 2006 (9 months)
Bangalore
- Was responsible for end-to-end test automation of Health Information system
using WinRunner/QTP
- Driven entire test planning, strategy definition for one of the solutions - Lab
information Systems
- Introduced and implemented test optimization methods such as Test
Oracle, Orthogonal Test Arrays, Orthogonal Defect Classification, Functional
Dependency Matrix
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Siemens
Associate consultant
August 2000 - August 2005 (5 years 1 month)
- Test planning, automation, execution and reporting
- Defined standard test reports (Radar, Test case and Test Effectiveness etc)
that helped taking quicker yet better release decisions
- Has always ensured high value for Defect Removal Efficiency of 98%
- Always strived for test automation and met close to 90% coverage
Education
Manipal Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science · (September 1996 - July
2000)
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