Sathish Kuppuswamy Engineering Manager, Fourkites Inc, Chennai ✏ SATS.KUPPUSWAMY@GMAIL.COM | 9962001015 LINKEDIN CAREER OVERVIEW: Seasoned professional with experience in, product development and testing, delivery management, quality management and client relationships. Domain expertise in Licensing, storage, ERP ,Saas product on Object Oriented Programming in Java. ➢ Having 17 Years of IT experience in software development & Testing. ➢ Experience in working with building high performance teams from scratch at Norton LifeLock (aka Symantec) and HCL Technologies. ➢ Experience in leading and developing data systems with traffic of over 50+ billion events per day with low latency, high availability, business continuity and data completeness. ➢ Expertise in end-to-end program planning and implementation from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in adherence to quality guidelines and norms. ➢ Experienced in leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirement gathering, feasibility analysis, design, architecture, testing, and transition to support. ➢ Adept at managing project in software analysis, design and development cycle including requirements analysis with use cases, domain modelling, sequence diagrams, robustness analysis, applying UML design Patterns, Unit Testing, and Implementation & Maintenance ➢ Experienced in managing delivery of projects within the time frame, and as per clients specifications; conversant with java technologies. ➢ Polished leadership skills with ability to motivate teams to increase productivity. ➢ Involved in Functionality, Integration, System, Performance and Regression testing of Critical User Deployment Systems. Work History ➢ Engineering Manager in Fourkites Software Solutions Chennai from June 2021 to till date. ➢ Manager Development in Norton Life Lock (aka Symantec Software Solutions), Chennai from Jan 2013 to June 2021. ➢ Technical Lead in HCL Technologies India, Chennai from Jan 2010 to Jan 2013. ➢ Consultant in Polaris India, Chennai from June 2007 to till Jan 2010 as “Senior Software Tester” for Hitachi Projects. ➢ Test Engineer in Palpap Ichinichi Software International Ltd, Chennai from May 2005 to May 2007. 1 Core Skills Product Engineeri ng Leadershi p Process Improveme nt Customer-first &Startup mindset Agile Methodologies Business and Strategy developme nt Building HPO Automation, Quality and Business Intelligence Strategic and Tactical Decision Planning Product manageme nt Leading and Coaching Domain Skills • Cyber Safety / Security • Licensing • Storage / Platform Management • ERP • SaaS product Key Achievements • Implemented insprint automation and overall increased the automation coverage from 35% to 92%. • Implemented Shift Left Testing process and reduced the bug leak from 80% to 38% . • Implemented release based regression which helped the team to certify the changes quickly with the help of automation. • Transitioned Norton Licensing product from the US to India and started to deliver product deliverables from Chennai Center. • Experience in managing Consumer, Enterprise and Commercial flavours of products under Security / Privacy domains with a common codebase. • Defined Engineering / Product roadmap, and provided leadership to execute across Product Management, Program Management, QA Management, Partners, and Development teams. 2 Driven decisions using a data- driven approach with a focus on the customer. • Facilitated and drove key technology decisions to simplify our automation framework that resulted in reducing the time taken to automate as well as the execution time by 300% and reduced QA manual testing. • Reduced GTM release strategies from 3 Months/release to biweekly. • Lead Automation initiative and achieved 100% of our Automation Goals in two years along with an integrated one-stop dashboard, a long-pending challenge for Norton Business Unit. • Raised competencies, capabilities, and collaboration across 10+ scrum teams distributed across geo-locations, coordinated, collaborated, and influenced other leaders in the organisation to win together and align with common organisation engineering goals. • Proven track record of building from inception and working with 50+ member globally located team and currently leading a 15-member team of high caliber engineers and quality technical leaders • Demonstrated experience in managing and delivering large consumer-facing applications available across many countries, segments, and channels as a Release Manager. • Managed the scrum execution for the team including Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog Grooming, etc. Provided guidance, contribution with my technical know-how, using Scaled Agile Framework. Responsibilities in Current role Technical Responsibilities: • Drive drill down of customer requirement, design, estimation and code reviews • Involved in feature design and development • Ensure vital health parameters of the project is intact through various release / process checklists. • Handle in-field issue and provide technical solution • Challenge the engineers technically for fixes identified as part of resolving in-house and in-field issues. Managerial Responsibilities: • Team ramp-up, training, tracking deliveries, resolving issues and be a SPOC for all external communications pertaining to the team. Sets goals, groom team for higher responsibilities / productivity. • Spearhead the Operational and Program Reviews and present the data to leadership group. Arrive at estimates and schedules for new projects and enhancements. 3 • Oversee quality of deliverables, plan backlog reductions, ensure team is adhering to project timelines. Prepare and submit weekly project status reports to senior management. Technical Qualification Detail Specifics Operating System Windows ,Linux Expertise Software Testing, Test Management,Jenkins,Azure,Jira Programming languages Perl, C++, Java, VB,Python,Java Markup Language XML Database SQL Server 2000,Oracle,COSMOS,CASSANDRA Configuration management Tools Rational Clear Case, SharePoint,Perforce,ReviewBoard Testing Tools QC,QTP, Quality web, CL Man,TestLink,Test Rail, Selenium,SOAPUI,TestNg,LoadRunner,PostMan Bug tracking tool Burt Web Interface ,MS Excel, Quality Web,JIRA Reporting Tools View Pro, MS Office,JIRA Protocols ISCSI, FCP,NFS,CIFS Educational Qualification Qualification Education Board/University Passing Year Percentage BE Sriram Engineering College / Anna University 2005 72 DCT SEVEN Hills Polytechnic 2002 88 Xth Tamilnadu State Board 1999 73 4
