Karthik GV
Architect Microsoft India
Hyderabad, Telangana Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/karthik-Gv/196ic4eff8o6e6f4
Willing to relocate to: hyderbad, Telangana
WORK EXPERIENCE
Architect
Microsoft India Hyderabad, Telangana
February 2005 to Present
DevOps One of the key members of the DevOps team in the Enterprise Services Global DevOps
program.
Readiness Provide Devops readiness to the end customer.
Sr. Program Manager
Microsoft India
March 2016 to January 2018
Key Projects Aurora BI (SAP), ES Analytics, BI as a Service, Service Center BI, Premier services
(PSR)
I am accountable for implementing a unified analytical platform for the entire Enterprise Services
business (~$6 billion) in Microsoft. This allows the services business to strategize and take key
operational decisions during the monthly and quarterly business reviews with the Leadership
Team.
Key Responsibilities
Product Owner Manage & prioritize product backlog. Evangelize product feature with other
teams and enable more product adoption.
Product Roadmap Prepare roadmap for the product for the upcoming fiscal year.
Sprint Planning & monitoring Scoping, resource levelling / smoothing
Stakeholder management Manage key business stakeholders, get / set expectations and
manage communication.
Risk management & mitigation
Co-ordinate cross functional teams for product releases
Product Retirement Plan and manage existing product retirement, interact, communicate with
all downstream systems to ensure product retirement and replacement is smooth.
Product migration Retire Informatica and migrate to Azure Data Factory for ETL process.
Compliance Management
Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Analyze, estimation and planning for the BI group.
Key Skills Microsoft Azure SQL DW, Azure Data Factory, SQL Server 2016, Power BI dashboard,
Rest API
Methodology Agile model
Architect
Microsoft India Hyderabad, Telangana
September 2013 to March 2016
Mckesson, Singapore Provident Fund, SSE Home Services
Key Responsibilities
Delivery Management Provide technical leadership and strategic direction to the testing
organization and project delivery team.
Presales closely interact with customer & pre-sales team, response to RFP, Test estimates and
prepare Statement of Work. won multiple test only engagements from CEE, LATAM, India region
Test Strategy & Test Plan development & review for test only engagements.
Test Consulting Services Worked with the UK based customer "SSE Home Services" to provide
test consultancy and technical guidance to the offshore TCS Kolkata team.
Test Processes Defined process steps and quality gates for test only engagements at
organization level.
Quality Analysis Analysis of trends in testing, identify best practices, improvement areas. I
have prepared checklist for presales & delivery team that reduced the effort and cost of review
and lead to faster turnover to the customer.
Project Recovery Team I am one the key members in the project recovery team. I work closely
with the project team and leadership to ensure that the project is recovered successfully. I have
successfully recovered 3 critical project with high quality. In the current recovery project, I have
managed a team size of 103 team members.
Project Delivery review- As a part of Technical Quality Assurance (TQA), I am the quality
gatekeeper for all dashboard projects (-30 projects) within Microsoft Global Delivery. All test
artifacts, test approach, test processes are reviewed and signed off during TQA review.
Key Skills
Sr consultant
Microsoft India Hyderabad, Telangana
June 2008 to March 2016
Sr Test Engineer
Microsoft India - Hyderabad, Telangana
February 2005 to June 2008
2013, SQL Server 2014, Test automation using Coded UI, Selenium.
EDUCATION
PGDBM
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
2017 to 2018
SKILLS
Program Management (2 years), Product Management (2 years), Quality Assurance (10+
years), Business intelligence, Devops
LINKS
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AWARDS
Microsoft Technology Guru
February 2012
Microsoft Role Model
June 2007
CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES
Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Master
CITA
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Methodologies - Agile model, Iterative Model
Test Management - Resource forecasting, team sizing and budgeting, release planning, team
management, technical
guidance to the team.
Role: Sr. Consultant (June 2008 Sep 2013)
Experience on managing test team for Data Warehouse / SQL Server BI, Net App Development
Projects, API / Framework, Windows phone apps and Performance Testing engagements. Played
role of Test Lead / Manager in all engagements.
Key Projects - NHS UK, Baxter, ATI, Intel Corporation, Merck, EXL, Oman BI, PwC, ANZ Bank, SQL
Server PDW (Parallel Data-warehousing), Azure Cave tool
Key Responsibilities
Test Manager in all engagements.
Test Planning & Execution Define test strategy and test plan. Onboard resources allocate and
track tasks. Identify risks and mitigation plans.
Define & implement Test Automation
Performance test planning and execution
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Define defect triage process with project & customer.
Team Management Managed maximum team size up to 8 resources.
Key Skills
Technologies Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft Test Manager 2012, Azure, Test Automation using
Coded UI, Unit Test Framework, Performance testing using Visual Studio 2012, SQL Server 2012.
Methodologies Iterative, Agile model, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Microsoft IT India, BI CoE (Feb 2005 June 2008)
The Business Intelligence CoE in India manages multiple applications that require Data
warehousing, Reporting, Analytical and other BI related Capabilities.
Role: Test Lead
I was the test lead for multiple Data Warehousing / SQL Server BI projects. My primary role has
been the test lead for all these projects.
Key Projects - MSSales, Rhythm of Business (RoB), Services Information Repository (SIR)
Key Responsibilities
Planning and Estimation of quarterly releases
Define test strategy and Master Test plan
Review & Inspection of BRD, FSD, TSD, Test Cases & Test Plan
Execution of Test Cases and defect logging.
Conduct / participate in Defect Review meetings with the developers / client
Analysis of Defects Analysis of the root cause and the Injection phase of each defect.
Test automation on MS BI, RoB, PTS Web, SIR & CFR.
Team Management (includes FTEs) managed team size of max 10 resources
Key Skills
Technologies -SQL Server 2000 / 2005 / 2008, SSRS, SSAS, SQL Server PI, SharePoint, Azure,
Enterprise Library
Tools: Visual Studio 2012, QTP 8.2, TFS 2012.
SDLC & Test Methodologies Agile methodology, Iterative model.
Royal Bank of Scotland, New Delhi Aug 2004 to Jan 2005 (6 months)
My role as a Quality Engineer involved in
Review of functional requirements
Design test plan
Design & review of test cases
Test automation using Winrunner 7.6, QTP.
Test case execution and defect reporting.
Set up Performance testing environment-using Loadrunner. Completed a POC for performance
testing of a D2K application.
Key Skills Acquired
Technologies: Oracle, D2K
Tools: Winrunner 7.6, QTP 6.5, Test Director 7.6, Loadrunner 8.0, clearcase, SQL Navigator
Sapient Corporation, New Delhi June 2003 to Aug 2004 (14 months)
Role of Quality Engineer and primarily involved in
Review of functional requirements.
Create & execute system & Integration test cases in Test Director
Test automation script development & execution using Winrunner 7.6.
Maintenance of Test Automation environment.
Production deployment support Testing in Production.
Key Skills Acquired
Technologies: Java, JSP, Ariba 1.5
Tools: Test Director 7.6, Toad, Winrunner 7.5, Trackgear 3.5, PVCS Tracker, WinCVs, Togetherj,
Visio, Winmerge