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Govind Kamalakaluva

Govind Kamalakaluva

Tirupati

Summary

  • A competent professional with 17+ years experience in the software testing industry in testing Web based, Network & Storage Applications with Manual and Automated Software Testing Methodologies on Virtualization and Cloud environments
  • Hands on experience in Dev Ops Methodologies and well versed with defining Scrum boards for the Delivery Units Hands on Experience working with Dev Ops Tools (Jenkins, Nexus, Puppet, CheckMkNagios, Dynatrace, Docker)
  • Responsible for Team Management, Effort Estimation, Creating & Maintaining Test Schedules/Quality & QA Plans/Test Strategy/Test Plan/Test Cases, Test Automation (Strategy & Framework), Reviewing Functional Specifications, Defect Management (Defect Triage), Mentoring & Training, Metrics Collection, Tracking & Reporting, Test Statistics & Analysis
  • Exposure to Scrum Master and Product Owner Roles

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Senior Technical Manager

HCL Tech
01.2017 - Current

Client : DELL ,USA

Project : Storage Resource Manager & Avamar - Vcloud

Domain : Storage

Environment : UNIX, Java, Postgres 13.9, Docker, Virtualization, Dell Tools & Cloud Director

As a Senior Technical Manager, work responsibilities include:

  • Defining Scrum boards for different UoMs across Avamar projects
  • Gathering requirements for Vcloud DPE with Product Marketing
  • Representing Ops & Escalation meeting and providing the Test metrics to the Senior Management
  • Interacting with customer/stakeholder in baselining the new features for Vcloud DPE
  • Creating customer like environments on Cloud for QA, Stage, Production Environments
  • Creating Docker based labs for QA and Stage Environments
  • Handling 10 members QA team of 2 UoMs
  • Follow up application issues/problems with QA, Dev team & Escalation Engineering & Support Engineering
  • Baselining the Test Automation frameworks, Test planning, Designing and Execution

Technical Manager

HCL Tech
04.2011 - 12.2017

Client : Cisco, USA

Project : DNA Telemetry, Cisco Active Advisor & Cisco Network Assistant

Domain : Networking Applications

Environment : UNIX, Java, Applets, Postgres 9.2.4, Tomcat7, Cisco Tools

As a Technical Manager, work responsibilities include:

  • Acted as Scrum Master and running Daily Stand ups
  • Interacting with customer/stakeholder in scrum calls on daily basis
  • Performing Dev-Ops Engineer role
  • Handling 15 members QA team of three projects
  • Assigning the tasks, follow up and coordinate with onshore team day to day

Technical Lead

HCL Tech
03.2009 - 03.2011

Client : Control point solutions, USA

Project : Maverick

Domain: Telecom

Environment : J2ee, Oracle 9i, web logic 9.1, Bugzilla

As a Technical Lead, work responsibilities include:

  • Responsible for Team Management, Mentoring, Training, Metrics collection, Tracking & Reporting
  • Analyzing & Understand functional requirements of the product
  • Involved in preparation of automation plan document.
  • Design, execute, verify, and analyze the performance test scenario using Egg plant.
  • Log the bugs in bug tracking tool (Bugzilla)
  • Work distribution and monitoring and reviewing


Lead Engineer

HCL Tech
12.2007 - 02.2009

Client : CBA, Australia

Project : Colonial First State

Domain : Banking & Financial

Environment : UNIX, JSP, Servlets, Web logic 9.1

As a Lead Engineer , work responsibilities include:

  • Participation in Status Reviews with the stakeholders.
  • Preparing Test Plan, Test cases, Test Data, Bug reports.
  • Deploying the Application as and when Basis for test
  • Daily Status Report Preparation and reporting the status to the client during status review calls.


Education

M.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Sree Vidyaniketan Engineering College
Tirupati
06-2006

B. Tech - Computer Science & Systems Engineering

Sree Vidyaniketan Engineering College
Tirupati
12-2003

Skills

  • Cloud infrastructure management
  • DevOps practices
  • AI- Infused Testing
  • Docker container management
  • Black Duck security testing
  • Automated testing with Robot Framework
  • Git version control
  • Jenkins automation proficiency
  • Virtualization
  • Test Management
  • Jira project management
  • Qtest proficiency
  • Selenium automation

Certification

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (Consumer) Trainings for Managers
  • Certified Scrum Master from International Scrum Alliance
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP Trouble shooting)
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP Switching)
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • ISTQB Advanced Level Certified Tester from Indian Testing Board (ITB)


Languages

Telugu
English
Hindi

Timeline

Senior Technical Manager

HCL Tech
01.2017 - Current

Technical Manager

HCL Tech
04.2011 - 12.2017

Technical Lead

HCL Tech
03.2009 - 03.2011

Lead Engineer

HCL Tech
12.2007 - 02.2009

M.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Sree Vidyaniketan Engineering College

B. Tech - Computer Science & Systems Engineering

Sree Vidyaniketan Engineering College

Awards

  • SME Award, Evaluating best practices for Good Practices Conference -2 within HCL, 2018
  • O5 Award, Continuous outstanding performance for five years
  • Best Support Dev Ops Engineer, Handling more customer tickets

Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Andhra Pradesh
  • Passport Number: Available on Request
  • Date of Birth: 06/23/81
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Visa Status: US Business Visa valid till 2026

Key Areas And Strengths

  • Strong Knowledge in Dev-Ops methodology and its tools
  • Artificial Intelligence aspirant contributing to AI force Team in HCL for Testing Domain
  • Hands on in working with Docker/Container & VMs in Virtualization/Cloud Environments
  • Good technical knowledge in Web, Client Server, Standalone, Network and Storage applications
  • Involved in Functional Automation and having experience in working with Keyword Driven, Hybrid driven frameworks using Selenium – Web Driver, Acceptance Driven using Robot
  • Excellent organizational, Leadership, Management, Interpersonal and communication Skills
  • Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any project


Awards

  • SME Award, Evaluating best practices for Good Practices Conference -2 within HCL, 2018
  • O5 Award, Continuous outstanding performance for five years (2015-2019)
  • Best Support Dev Ops Engineer, Handling more customer tickets


Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Andhra Pradesh
  • Passport Number: Available on Request
  • Date of Birth: 06/23/81
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Visa Status: US Business Visa valid till 2026

Key Areas And Strengths

  • Strong Knowledge in Dev-Ops methodology and its tools
  • Artificial Intelligence aspirant contributing to AI force Team in HCL for Testing Domain
  • Hands on in working with Docker/Container & VMs in Virtualization/Cloud Environments
  • Good technical knowledge in Web, Client Server, Standalone, Network and Storage applications
  • Involved in Functional Automation and having experience in working with Keyword Driven, Hybrid driven frameworks using Selenium – Web Driver, Acceptance Driven using Robot
  • Excellent organizational, Leadership, Management, Interpersonal and communication Skills
  • Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any project


Awards

  • SME Award, Evaluating best practices for Good Practices Conference -2 within HCL, 2018
  • O5 Award, Continuous outstanding performance for five years (2015-2019)
  • Best Support Dev Ops Engineer, Handling more customer tickets


Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Andhra Pradesh
  • Passport Number: Available on Request
  • Date of Birth: 06/23/81
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Visa Status: US Business Visa valid till 2026
Govind Kamalakaluva