Kiran Kumar Abburu

Has over 18+ years of experience in IT industry by virtue of working with multiple IT product and service companies and clients located across USA, UK, Canada, Australia and India. Has progressive experience in managing products/applications/projects/programs focusing on quality assurance/testing, software development, project management, people management, vendor management, strategic outsourcing, application development and integration, release management and process improvement. Has demonstrated excellent project and account management skills across various projects/programs and was instrumental in building various accounts across multiple vendors. Strong expertise in Pre-Sales in creating collaterals, presentations and Point of views (PoV) for specific to testing related problem statements of customers and test offerings Excellent propensity in building client relationships with various project stake-holders and demonstrated exceptional leadership skills (led teams up to 80+ members). Strong experience in performance management reviews, recruiting, and retention models to decrease turnover at the staff and contractor levels including the implementation of consistent expectations frameworks and evaluation criteria for all resources. Demonstrated the ability to work in complex environments including matrix organizations. Worked with external vendors, offshore vendors, outsourcing contracts and managed the performance of the contracts. Certified as CSM (Certified Scrum Master) and CSQA (Certified Software Quality Analyst), is a very seasoned player in the industry and has proficient understanding and experience of STLC & SDLC processes across various models like AGILE SCRUM, KANBAN Iterative, DEVOPS, Continuous Integration, Waterfall and RUP Software development methodologies. As a Delivery Manager for multiple products/projects/programs was involved in evaluating the scope, establishing the test strategies, functional decomposition, defining the test processes for end-to-end test management, release management budgeting, project financials, estimation of work and providing the required plans & schedules for various development and testing engagements on multiple technologies ranging from data warehousing, ETL, Data Analytics, database testing and functional and non-functional testing solutions like load and performance testing in the Audit, Tax, Brokerage & Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare, Entertainment and E-Commerce domain based applications. Was instrumental in analyzing and proposing a test automation approach for regression testing to multiple clients in turn reduced the testing time and achieved better test effectiveness. Adept in designing the measurement plans, metrics, dashboards and scorecards. Has the primary responsibility of providing overall testing status, risk management, resource planning, test environment planning and tracking various SLA’s with relevant stakeholders and vendors. As a Technical Delivery Manager, has proficient level knowledge and understanding of large scale enterprise client/server and web based applications using SHAREPOINT, .NET, JAVA, J2EE platforms, possess very good experience and knowledge on SQL SERVER, ORACLE databases. Instrumental in performing Scrum Master role in managing high performance delivery teams comprising of developers, testers & BAs for various applications in Deloitte (BIG-4). Possesses exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and was instrumental in winning over various clients and project expansion owing to the same. By virtue of working in different work cultures, is versatile to work environments and holds a U.S. B1 visa and Australian Business Visa.