Kamesh Sundaram

Director, OpenText & Chapter Chair, STeP-IN-Bangalore

Graduated from Murugappa Polytechnic Chennai in Dec 1985. Started my career as a Field Support Engineer in the field of telecom EPABX systems in 1986 with HCL communications Ltd Chennai, Continued to work as Customer Support Engineer at Crompton Greaves Ltd till 1989. Took a break and furthered my education and pursued my Bachelors and Master’s program in Electrical Engineering. Worked in the US for about 14 years in Small, Mid-Sized and Large organizations between 1996 and 2010. Relocated to India in 2010 as a Director of Quality Assurance and Product Support at Onmobile Global. Currently, I am with OpenText GXS as Director of Software Quality (Strategic Projects). I am an active member of STeP-IN forum one of the largest Test Professional Groups in India and Asia. Additionally, I am chairman of STeP-IN Forum for the Bangalore Chapter.

Sunil Peter

Sr. Manager & Head of Process Methods & Tools (PMT) at Maveric Systems

Sunil is an experienced Technology & Business Process Leader with multicultural background of 15 years’ experience in the areas of Business Quality Management Consulting, Process Architect for Cross functional processes & ERP automation, Coach, Trainer for change management. He is an expert in adapting global models such as SEI-CMMI, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, ISO, PSM, EFQM, TMMI & TMAP to benchmark and improve Service Delivery & Operations Excellence for internal & external clients.

Sunil has delivered various projects across various industry verticals like Defence/Aerospace, FMCG, Telecom, BSFSI, Travel & Transportation, spanning across APAC, Middle East, North Africa, US & UK. This gives him great understanding of the delivery challenges faced in multicultural settings & trouble shoots effectively.

He currently heads the corporate quality (PMT function) at Maveric & plays the additional role of Chief info sec officer.

He is a certified SAFe Agilist, CSP, CSPO, CSM, CMMI ATM, Green Belt.

He is a student of theology & philosophy. Loves traveling, meeting people & works for social causes.

Kalilur Rahman

Head - IT, QA & Testing at Novartis

Kalilur Rahman is a Head of IT – Testing and Quality at Novartis, handling Test Delivery operations for Commercial IT unit. Before Novartis, Kalilur was a Senior Manager / Vice President – Communications, Media and Technology practice aligned to Testing Capability

Sundar Ganesh

Director - Head Testing (Barclaycard), Barclays

Sundar is a banking and financial information technology professional leads large global teams. Sundar specialises in software quality and is focused on enhancing customer experience. Sundar joined Barclays Technology Center, India in its inception and was instrumental in setting up its testing practice from 2007. Under his stewardship, Sundar has matured a world class testing CoE which delivers quality with agility and innovation. Currently he heads the cards testing globally.

Sundar has a track record of successful delivery of testing projects for banks and financial institutions in USA, Europe, Asia Pacific and for global 500 financial organisations such as GE, Citigroup, Standard Chartered Bank, Wipro, CNA and State Bank of India. He is very passionate about QA and a keen contributor to the IT industry and partcipates in industry forums.

Rahul Vishwaroop

Senior Quality Engineering Manager at Adobe

As the Lead Quality Manager for Adobe InDesign, he is responsible for ensuring timely and quality release for this flagship desktop and digital publishing product. The team is distributed across India, US, Japan and China. In collaboration with a team of managers, he oversee the progress of the product and have devised measures to quantitatively monitor progress and success. We have formulated processes that have helped testing become agile and optimal.

Link: www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-vishwaroop-9052b4

Abhilasha Vyas

Director, OpenText & Chapter Chair, STeP-IN-Bangalore

Working as a Director with Sapient, Abhilasha is currently playing the role of Sapient Global Markets QA Domain Lead having 13+ years of experience. She has rich experience of designing and implementing functional and automation test strategies & solutions for complex projects. Over the last decade, she has worked extensively on finance domain projects playing various roles ranging from BA, QA strategist and PM across custom and product (Calypso) implementation. Additionally, as a part of her current profile she works with clients to understand their needs and provide an optimal QA solution, provide strategic support to new and complex engagements, collaborate with teams to define standards/ best practices, design / manage training programs and conduct research on the trends in the Industry. Additionally, she also leads one of the tracks in WLN (Women Leadership network) at Sapient primarily to mentor and grow more women in Technology.

Balamurali Lakshmanan

Director- Quality & Testing Group, NeST IT & Chapter Chair, STeP-IN-Trivandrum

Balamurali is currently heading the Quality and Testing Group of NeST Information Technologies. He is responsible for setting the standards and methodology for process quality and testing, including framework for assessing benefits and risks for the organization. He is an M.Tech Post Graduate from IIT Kanpur with more than 18 years of experience in IT industry. He has extensive hands on experience in designing QA Strategies including design & implementation of Quality and Testing Processes & Methodologies, KPI & Metrics management. He engages with practitioners making them understand the implications of process quality and testing. He ensures adherence to organization defined standards and good practice in the development, systems testing and quality assurance arena. Has played a lead role in implementing the models like CMMI ML5 Dev V1.3, ISO9001:2015, Automotive SPICE, ISO 27001, IEC61508, ISO 13485, TL9000 and ISO 26262, TS16949 in the organization.

He also plays an active role in the core group of the Trivandrum chapter of Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN). Product quality is his aspiration and continuously pushes for quality-oriented practices across people and organizations through such kind of public groups. Teaching and talent sharing has always been his passion and has conducted many public workshops and corporate trainings on Software Engineering, Quality Models and Testing Process and Techniques. He has marked presence in various International Conferences like QAI, STC, and ISQT by presenting papers in concepts of CMMI High Maturity, Software Testing and Automation, Quality Assurance etc.