Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
CONFERENCES & PATENTS
Timeline
Nisha Ramachandra

Nisha Ramachandra

Innovation R&D Principal Director
BENGALURU

Summary

Experienced Technology Research and Development Director with over 22 years in IT, specializing in software research and development, strategic product roadmaps, and full-cycle product development. Led cross-functional teams to meet project milestones and enhance client satisfaction through effective training and demonstrations, ensuring adherence to high-quality standards.

Overview

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Work History

Innovation R&D Principal Director

Accenture
06.2026 - Current
  • Managed cross-functional teams to formulate and deploy innovative solutions for client challenges.

Sales and go-to-market contribution: sold Sustainable IT work to clients as 10% of the total tech sales revenue by working with sales and solutioning teams.

  • Worked on RFPs to embed Sustainable IT and Green AI as client differentiation in delivery.
  • Developed strategic partnerships to enhance service delivery and drive client satisfaction
  • Streamlined operational processes, resulting in improved efficiency and reduced costs across projects.
  • Mentored junior staff, fostering professional growth and enhancing team capabilities.
  • Facilitated workshops to engage stakeholders in collaborative problem-solving and innovation sessions.
  • Delivered trainings on Green AI and Sustainable IT

Technology R&D Sr Principal

Accenture
08.2021 - 05.2026
  • Conducted market research and developed the roadmap for Green User Experience. Developed assets—an advisory and carbon energy measurement for web application projects. Worked with various clients to provide a carbon reduction roadmap of about 10% with respect to only user interface and user experience.
  • Embedded Green SW ways of working in over 200 delivery projects within Accenture, and created case studies about the same.
  • Created an interactive digital persona of a famous artist using conversational AI and deepfake technology. The persona is live and running in the MAP Museum, Bangalore. Also enabled art search through pattern identification, applying machine learning and computer vision techniques.
  • Created a tool to test the generalization, robustness, and interpretability of image classifiers.
  • Created a solution using AI and Behavioral science to identify important emotions and provide feedback for improving soft-skills. Partnered with Her Second Innings for implementation of the same


Senior Software Engineer until Technology R&D Principal

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 07.2021
  • Projects:
  • 1. Precision Testing: Precision Testing is a suite of modern Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Modelling algorithms that aims to bring ‘efficiency’ into Testing.
  • 2. Accenture AI Engine: Accenture AI Engine is a platform which assists in Creation of scalable and differentiated NLP, plug-n-play ML routines, Rules engine and Ontology / semantic data Services.
  • 3. ATCA- Accenture Test coverage analyzer: ATCA (Accenture Test Coverage Analyzer) is a technology agnostic tool that parses a set of test cases to reverse engineer them to business processes automatically
  • 4. ARA - Accenture Requirements Analyzer: ARA is an “intelligent” platform that executes deep quality analysis on software requirements and generates test artifacts from software requirements documents
  • Key Roles & Responsibilities
  • Planning, Estimation, Control, Execution and Management using the Agile Framework
  • Interacting with various teams and product launch
  • Involvement in research to find out gaps

Senior Quality Engineer

Impetus Technologies
02.2008 - 09.2009
  • Project title: Web testing(black-box) for the BSC carrier
  • Project title: Web testing(black-box) for the IBC carrier
  • Project title: E-health and Norvax Interface for the IBC carrier
  • Summary: Web-application testing and testing the interface between E-health/Norvax and IBC. To verify proper data incorporation into the IBC system if the user selects and submits an IBC application from the E-health/Norvax web-site
  • Client: Connecture.
  • Responsibilities Included: Understanding requirements, Estimation, Writing of Test cases using the Test Director, Test execution, Creating XML files, Feed testing, Bug reporting through the Test Director, Verification of the UAT defects, Client correspondence

Software Engineer

ROBERT BOSCH INDIA LIMITED
02.2006 - 12.2007
  • Software Verification and Validation for Chimes Module
  • Software Verification and Validation for CDM Module
  • Software Verification for PK4 Module
  • Analyzed requirements and code, executed black box and white box testing, developed test cases, reviewed test outcomes, compiled test result reports, conducted diagnostics testing with CAN analyzer/Canoe, automated functional tests using CAPL, supported bug-fixing efforts, and evaluated code for design and requirement compliance.

Software Engineer

C. G Smith Software Pvt Ltd
05.2004 - 02.2006
  • Radio Validation of CCAR,BMW cars
  • Cluster Validation of PQ35, Fiat, CD34x,P150, X150,X358,X250 cars(Validation of X150 was carried out onsite)
  • Conducted HVAC validation to verify functionality and performance standards.
  • Conducted verification of Denso code to confirm operational integrity.
  • Performed mapping of Denso specifications to associated code for coherence.
  • Analyzed requirements and code, executed black box and white box testing, developed test cases, reviewed test cases and outcomes, reported results, created summary reports, conducted diagnostics testing with CAN analyzer/Canoe, automated functional testing with CAPL, supported bug-fixing, and inspected code according to design and requirements.

Education

MBA -

Deakin University, Australia
06-2026

MBA

Trailblazer - Executive development program

MIT Sloan School of Management, Masachussets
04.2001 -

ITIL V3 -

PeopleCert, India
01-2012

ITIL V3 Certified

B.E. - Electronics and communication

SJICIT, Visweswaraiah Technological University, Chickaballapur
01-2003

GPA: 76% aggregate

Skills

Product Development

Software development

Feature Integration

Patent innovation

Research publications

Market Research

Program oversight

Project Management

Resource Allocation

Process Optimization

Client Relationship Management

Customer Engagement

Strategic Partnerships

Accomplishments

    https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Nisha+Ramachandra&oq=inventor:(Nisha+Ramachandra)

CONFERENCES & PATENTS

  • Co-author & Speaker : “Remodeling dynamic learning with contextual and personalized approach” and “Empowering women and youth with emotion analytics” at GHCI Conference
  • Co-inventor of two patents “Reverse Engineering Functional Diagram from Test Scripts” , “Facilitating Merging of Concept Hierarchies”
  • Inventor of a patent filed- “Human Centered computing based digital persona generation.”

Timeline

Innovation R&D Principal Director - Accenture
06.2026 - Current
Technology R&D Sr Principal - Accenture
08.2021 - 05.2026
Senior Software Engineer until Technology R&D Principal - Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 07.2021
Senior Quality Engineer - Impetus Technologies
02.2008 - 09.2009
Software Engineer - ROBERT BOSCH INDIA LIMITED
02.2006 - 12.2007
Software Engineer - C. G Smith Software Pvt Ltd
05.2004 - 02.2006
MIT Sloan School of Management - Trailblazer , Executive development program
04.2001 -
Deakin University - MBA,
PeopleCert - ITIL V3,
SJICIT, Visweswaraiah Technological University - B.E., Electronics and communication
Nisha RamachandraInnovation R&D Principal Director