Narasimha R. Kusupati, M.B.A, M.S., B.S.

512-***-**** adjiht@r.postjobfree.com

Round Rock TX 78665 https://www.linkedin.com/in/narasimhakusupati/

VP/Director of Software Development & Quality Engineering/Assurance - Professional who mobilizes teams to deliver performance excellence.

Dynamic leader with a track record of building, motivating, and aligning organizations and programs through change initiatives, achieving measurable business goals and financial improvement. Skilled at implementing consistent development and testing processes that decrease cycle times, improve quality, and increase margins for products and delivery solutions. Extensive experience leading distributed teams to achieve strategic and operational objectives. Track record of successfully elevating test maturity to CMM Level 3 from Level 1 by deploying CMM and TPI.

Core Competencies

Building high-performance Teams Contract Negotiations Conflict Resolution DevOps Integration

Program & Project Management Budget & Cost Control P & L Management Onshore/Offshore Team Leadership Strategic Vision Quality Process & Framework Global Team Leadership Cross-Functional Team Leadership Vendor Relationships Continuous Integration Root cause analysis Embedded Software Solutions

Technical Proficiencies

Platforms & Development Methodologies: Mainframes, Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, HP and Novell Platforms. Waterfall, agile, iterative, prototyping, cleanroom and object-oriented development. Systems level firmware, embedded software, system software, applications, databases, web-based multi-tier, multi-platform and multi-browser

Test Methodologies & Test Types: Requirements based and risk-based testing, continuous integration, regression, confirmation, and exploratory testing. Requirements, risk, configuration, platform, and data coverage assessments. Capability, upgradability, performance, reliability, installability, maintainability, security, volume, capacity, endurance, failover, stress and other test types.

Automation & Tools: CAT, IBM Rational Toolset, HP ALM and Quality Center, CA agile, Jira, TestNG, open source tools selenium, ant, postman, Cucumber, Jmeter, uft, sql

Professional Experience

Broadridge Financial Solutions, El Dorado Hills, CA August 2017– August 2019

Senior Director of Quality Assurance

Direct report to the CIO and a member of the executive leadership team with high-level authority over planning, budget (over 20 $Million) strategy, organizational development and developing and mobilizing global workforce to deliver Tech2020 objectives of Broadridge Customer Communications Services.

•Complete organization redesign to reduce 2 layers.

•Built organization from 30 to 92 to support complex applications on multiple platforms – Digital platform, Linux Client systems, Print2020 solutions and Canadian eArchive and Scanning solutions.

•Implemented and aligned QA to conduct Functional, Solution Integration, pre-UAT and Pre-prod deployment test phases.

•As a member of the executive leadership team – member of steering committee led product roadmap, development, deployment and delivery of all Broadridge Customer Communications (BRCC).

•Automation - Cucumber TDD, BTDD, Selenium Web driver, API scripting, DevOps Integration

ELECTRONIC ARTS Austin, TX May 2015– May 2017

Director of IT Core Engineering and QA

Directed broad functional area with high-level authority over planning. Developed long-range plans and created specific strategies to achieve goals. Established objectives and managed project teams to ensure that goals were met within specified timeframes, and that products/projects met quality standards. Implemented strategic initiatives to monitor and improve product validation quality, process, and efficiency.

•Built team from 2 to 10 and led an additional 50 partner resources.

•Drove successful development, delivery, and deployment of complex sales analytics data warehouse that included multi source data and boundary systems, including Oracle ERP, BI Apps, Demantra, STR, and Tableau as analytics reporting application.

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USPTO (US PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE), Alexandria, VA February 2015–May 2015

Divisional Director, Software QA

Directed software QA division with high-level authority over Directors, senior planning team, senior automation development architects, and program managers.

•Led team of 100 full-time employees and 200 contractors - QTP automation and DevOps Integration

•Oversaw budget of $60M.

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA November 2007– February 2014

Director of Software Engineering & Test

Directed and provided leadership to broad functional area with high-level authority over planning, senior managers, and senior consultants. Developed long-range plans and created specific strategies to achieve goals. Established objectives and managed project groups to ensure that goals were met within specified timeframes, and products/projects met quality standards. Implemented strategic initiatives to monitor and improve product validation quality, process, and efficiency.

•Built engineering and test (QA) organization from a team of 30 to 90 employees in Symmetrix Software Engineering.

•Managed budget of >$15M that covered sub-organizations of mainframe host connectivity, mainframe host compatible applications, product certification test, host applications, GDPS, GDDR products, customer recreations, global automation, and global remote test teams.

•Established standards in each area of testing to help ensure testing consistency and effectiveness. Led test teams to develop and implement strategies for functional, performance testing, test automation and CI/CD.

Level 3 Communications, Broomfield, CO August 2005– January 2007

Director of Test

Directed strategy, planning and execution, product development initiatives, organizational development of test and sustaining engineering, vendor management, project/program management, outsourced and offshore management, and customer interoperability. Supported customer-facing organizations by providing executive-level escalation support for mission critical issues related to network and services.

•Led engineering and test organization of 45 employees with a $6M budget—Sub-organizations of first verification office and Sustaining engineering, solutions integration test, product test, interoperability test and business solutions partners (Wipro and Infosys)

•Spearheaded efforts in defining and setting up end-to-end test strategy to achieve annual savings of $1M.

•Test strategy encompassed joint qualification testing (JQT) with vendors and technology alliance partners.

OISS INC, Georgetown, TX October 2003 - April 2005

Director of Development

Dell Computers, Round Rock, TX December 2000 - March 2003

Senior Test Manager

IBM, Tucson, AZ July 1997 - December 2000

Advisory Software Engineer

Amdahl, Sunnyvale, CA February 1989 - May 1997

Staff Software Engineer

Education

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA January 1991 - June 1997

Master of Business Administration in Business and Administration

Clemson University, Clemson, SC January 1988 - June 1989

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India June 1980 - June 1984

Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications

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