Sampath Vijayakumar
Bengaluru
Summary
Seasoned Quality Engineering Leader with 23+ Years of Experience
- Proven track record of strategizing engineering and quality vision, driving quality delivery without compromising Time-To-Market using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- 20+ months of experience building and leading the Quality Engineering Organization at Junglee Games, scaling talent, transforming to a QE mindset, improving release and product quality, cycle time, processes, metrics, automation, and documentation
- 5 years of experience building and driving Test Centre of Excellence and DevOps/Cloud Platform for Altimetrik, creating accelerators and reusable solutions to help customers accelerate their release cycle and improve quality
- 4+ years of experience building and leading teams delivering business application and platform engineering quality for Visa's Digital Mobile & Developer Platform, Merchant Acquiring and Processing Product Organizations
- Key role in conceptualizing and implementing a common automation framework strategy and solutions within Visa to improve predictable quality and customer satisfaction
- 6 years of experience managing the Core Payments team at PayPal, emphasizing and governing Customer Quality while isolating and building services, refactoring interfaces, implementing SOA, and re-platforming for scalability and availability
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
VP Quality Engineering
Junglee Games Pvt India Limited
Bengaluru
11.2022 - Current
Head of Engineering – QE & DevOps Practice
Altimetrik Pvt India Limited
Chennai
07.2017 - 11.2022
Director of Engineering – Test, Platform & SRE – Digital Mobile Payments
Visa Inc
Bangalore
05.2015 - 07.2017
Senior Manager Quality Engineering
Altimetrik Pvt India Limited
Chennai
06.2013 - 05.2015
QA Manager 2 – Core Payments Infrastructure
PayPal Inc.
Chennai
07.2009 - 04.2013
QA Manager - Core Technologies ASG CQ, PayPal
NESS Technologies Limited
Chennai
08.2007 - 06.2009
Tech Lead – Engineering
Quintegra Solutions Limited
Chennai
11.2003 - 07.2007
Senior Software Engineer
Newgen Software Technologies Limited
Chennai
01.2001 - 10.2003
Skills
- Product Engineering
- Test Engineering
- Automation Strategy
- Managing Global Teams
- Risk Management
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Leadership Coaching
- Hiring & Coaching
- Data Platform Quality
- Stakeholder Management
- Driving Initiatives
- Program Engagement
- Continuous Delivery/Testing
- DevOps Toolchains
- Release Management
- Cross-functional team leadership
Educational Qualifications & certifications
- Bachelor’s in Science – June 2000
- ADSE[H] – Advance Diploma in Software Engineer with Honors – June 2000
- Web Architect Certified – Sept 2000
- Oracle Certified Professional 9i – Sept 2003
- Agile Certified Practitioner – Dec 2012
Recognitions
- Best Team Award for Innovation and Best Practices at Altimetrik – Jan 2015
- Best People Leader at Altimetrik – Oct 2014
- Outstanding Contribution Award at Altimetrik – Sept 2013
- PAT Award for Best Manager at PayPal – 2009 and 2010
- Best Team Award for Innovation and Best Practices at PayPal – 2011
- Nominated and Completed GTD by eBay/PayPal 2011
- Nominated and Completed Emerging Leadership Program by eBay/PayPal – ELP 2012
Knowledgepurview
- Expertise in leading Test Centre of Excellence to innovate and provide solutions for our customers/partners
- Expertise in driving and leading Automation and Tools for Infrastructure, Platform Engineering and Live Support Teams
- Expertise in Design & Implementation of Automation Framework solutions using Selenium/Playwright/WDIO, Appium, NightwatchJS, Mocha/TestNG/JUnit/Cucumber/Spec Flow/Gauge/Pytest/Unittest, JMeter/Locust, Blaze Meter/Taurus, ZAProxy, Burp Suite, Paros, Gradle/Maven/NPM, Robot Framework
- Expertise in Building Self Driving and highly skilled Global teams for Agile needs
- Expertise in SAFe Scrum, Kanban, and D-Agile methodologies
- Familiarity with Implementing Shift Left Practices like Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Testing and Delivery, In Sprint Testing & Automation, Backlog Automation and Implementing Design Patterns in Automation, Unit Test Coverage, Static Analysis and early automation & NFR Test practices, Build Automation framework and On Demand Cloud Farms for Device Testing, which includes Mobile (Android, iOS, Windows), POS terminals, Exposure to building Negative Testing, Chaos Monkey, and Race Condition Test Scripts, Experience in Business Intelligence, Performance Testing and Application Security Testing, Exposure to Mobile Test Automation using Robotium and Appium, Proven track record of Innovating/Developing Tools to minimise Mean time to test with no compromise on product quality
Timeline
VP Quality Engineering
Junglee Games Pvt India Limited
11.2022 - Current
Head of Engineering – QE & DevOps Practice
Altimetrik Pvt India Limited
07.2017 - 11.2022
Director of Engineering – Test, Platform & SRE – Digital Mobile Payments
Visa Inc
05.2015 - 07.2017
Senior Manager Quality Engineering
Altimetrik Pvt India Limited
06.2013 - 05.2015
QA Manager 2 – Core Payments Infrastructure
PayPal Inc.
07.2009 - 04.2013
QA Manager - Core Technologies ASG CQ, PayPal
NESS Technologies Limited
08.2007 - 06.2009
Tech Lead – Engineering
Quintegra Solutions Limited
11.2003 - 07.2007
Senior Software Engineer
Newgen Software Technologies Limited
01.2001 - 10.2003
Similar Profiles
Saksham ChaubeySaksham Chaubey
Data Analyst Intern : at Junglee Games India Pvt. Ltd.Data Analyst Intern : at Junglee Games India Pvt. Ltd.
Vinodhkumar SVinodhkumar S
Customer Support Lead at Junglee Games India Pvt LtdCustomer Support Lead at Junglee Games India Pvt Ltd
Aman SharmaAman Sharma
Senior Fraud Analyst at Junglee Games India PVT. LTD.Senior Fraud Analyst at Junglee Games India PVT. LTD.
SACHIN RSACHIN R
Software Engineer at Tech MahindraSoftware Engineer at Tech Mahindra
Manoj VManoj V
Associate Consultant at Avaali Solutions Pvt LtdAssociate Consultant at Avaali Solutions Pvt Ltd