Jithin Raju
Bangalore
Summary
- 8 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Engineer and helping the organization to deliver higher Quality products and services through regular process and quality checks and continuous improvement activities to increase productivity.
- Experience with working multiple stake holders including Senor Executives, Product planning, Global Cross functional Development ,Testing
- Plan & Manage Project communications & Stake Holder Management
- Implementing Agile frameworks and training the Org with Scrum, Kanban and Software development best practices.
- Driving delivery governance meetings with higher management and Quality/process/software metrics reporting and dashboard administrations.
- SAFe and Enterprise level Agile Driving. Tracking the agile release trains for the different business units.
- Hands on experience with Waterfall model, ASPICE standards & V-Model
- Involved in CMMI and ISO standards implementations and Audits. Experience in Implementing and Managing QMS as per industry standards and best practices.
- Risk monitoring and control, QMS, Metrics and Statistical analysis and SEPG activities.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Supervisor Quality
Infinera
Bangalore
03.2024 - Current
- Monitored performance against key indicators such as schedule, scope and quality metrics.
- Phase-wise internal audits for the typical waterfall legacy projects. Monthly process compliance reviews. Gating reviews for the completed Software dev. Phases
- Supporting the development teams on the Code Coverage improvements by continuous process improvement activities like Test maturity index, Statistical code analysis, Architecture code analysis
Lead Software Engineer
Samsung RnD Institute, Samsung Electronics
Bangalore
09.2018 - 03.2024
- SQA for network Division projects, Involved in Process & Quality facilitation for the latest 5G products
- Helping the RnD teams to deliver Quality products
- Engaging in process and Quality audit checks for the research projects
- QMS engineer, actively involved in the QMS revamping of org
- Templates, Guidelines and process& procedures
- Developed excellent working knowledge of industry trends, improvements in processes & IT project stakeholder management activities with good communication skills
- Metrics analysis on the Agile (Both Scrum & Kanban), Other software Quality metrics analysis and reporting in Delivery governance forums
- Shift left analysis on the Software/Review defects for the individual projects and also at the org
- Level for the better defect preventive actions
- JIRA tool Administration, Creating workflows and screen
- Experienced Customized dashboards for projects
- Confluence page management and administration
- Phase wise internal Audits for the Typical waterfall legacy projects
- Monthly process compliance reviews
- Gating reviews for the completed Software dev
- Phases
- Document Reviews: Template and mandatory fields reviews on the Req.Spec, HLD, DLD & STR Documents
- Conducting the Delivery Governance meeting with RnD teams and metrics and productivity reports to management
- SAFe Implementation on the Samsung Testing Horizontal
- Monthly metrics analysis for testing projects and Agile coach for Testing projects
- Code coverage and UT coverage improvements: Driving the Unit testing practice and awareness trainings and good knowledge on the UT automation tools like Junit, Gtest frameworks
- Supporting the development teams on the Code Coverage improvements by continuous process improvement activities like Test maturity index, Statistical code analysis, Architecture code analysis
- Agile Culture change in the organization and Agile coaching for the supporting projects
- Facilitating the projects during various phases of the project like Project Initiation, Project Planning, Project Execution, Project Monitoring & Control and Project Closure in coordination with the Product owners
- JIRA and Confluence tool administration
- Familiar with tools like SonarQube, unit test automation frame works, SCM tools like Git/Gerrit, Open source license verification tools and different PM activity tools
- Hands on experience with Quality Control tools and Root cause analysis, Defect prevention & shift left analysis
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
SLK Software Services
Bangalore
01.2016 - 08.2018
- Worked as proxy/offshore scrum master role for Agile projects
- Agile project tracking with Rally Tool (CA Agile Central)
- Active participant in Lean initiative (TAAS Implementation for testing projects) at the organization level
- Manual testing of software applications (Banking Software)
- Participating in the customer status calls to monitor the status of the project closely and highlighting the issues to the senior management thus helping the team in mitigating risks well in advance
- Performing weekly reviews and providing the Project Health Indicator in terms of Green, Amber or Red stating the health of the project on weekly basis
- Perform Phase Gate Reviews/Pre-Release Audits and address the gaps at each phase of the project
- Implementing applicable metrics based on the project scope and performing metrics analysis on monthly basis, reporting inferences which would help the project team in deriving action plans to further enhance the quality of deliverables
- Involved in C-SAT reports collection, analysis and action items identification
- Training juniors in quality concepts and analysis techniques
- To analyze lessons learnt, best practices from the past projects and apply them to the future projects
- Contributed in setting up competency framework for Process & Quality Team
- Performing Root Cause Analysis using tools like Pareto Analysis, Ishikawa Diagram etc
- Conduct trainings on Software Project Planning and Process Awareness to the delivery teams
Education
B.E - Computer Science: Computer Engineering & software
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Belgaum, Karnataka01.2015
Skills
- Agile project management
- Agile frameworks
- Quality Management System (QMS)
- Software Quality Audits
- Phase reviews
- Automotive Spice
- Continuous process improvement
- Lean process
- Design thinking
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Project monitoring
- Tracking
- Controls
- Training skills on Quality
- Process
- Tools
- People management
- Process management
- Risk management
- Monitoring
- Process & Quality Performance Metrics monitoring
- Process compliance index
- Jira
- Confluence
- Rally
- SonarQube
- Git/Gerrit tools Knowledge
- Admin activities
- ISO standards
- CMMI standards
- Kanban
- Scrum frameworks
- Configuration management
- Engineering software
- Quality engineering
- Quality controlling
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Hobbies and Interests
- Hiking
- Football
Languages
- English, First Language
- Malayalam, First Language
- Hindi, C1 Advanced
- Kannada, C1 Advanced
Timeline
Senior Supervisor Quality
Infinera
03.2024 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
Samsung RnD Institute, Samsung Electronics
09.2018 - 03.2024
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
SLK Software Services
01.2016 - 08.2018
B.E - Computer Science: Computer Engineering & software
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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