Venkata Narayana Rao Ganji
VP, Lead Software Engineer, Technology Manager EQE, Wells Fargo
Hyderabad
Summary
18 Years of expertise in Quality Engineering , Played diversified roles as a test architect, Technology Manager Quality Engineering with key focus on confirming proper functionality and usability of software products before release. Adaptable, quick learner with demonstrated understanding and expertise in all phases of software development life cycle process. Able to operate effectively in both managerial and technical roles. Flexible self-starter with proven ability to achieve and influence in diverse working environments through effective leadership, communication and teamwork. Versatile Software Engineer talented at contributing to team-developed projects.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
LEAD Software Engineer, VP
Wells Fargo
6 2020 - Current
- Developing test frameworks in order to create tests for complex features.
- Played a key role in the establishment Automation Center of Excellence in designing and developing robust enterprise level automation framework
- Provides Technical Leadership and Strategic Direction to Testing Organization (TO)
- Leading Automation effort for capital finance projects. Actively involving in developing Smoke, Critical and Regression automation suites for ABL and Admin tool using WAF framework.
- Lead automation initiative aimed to automate 100% regression suite for 7 different applications across Digital On boarding Group
- Good exposure to performance testing using Jmeter
- Established consistent automation process across all projects .
- Develop Automation mindset and transformation to Quality Engineering roles from Quality assurance roles.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- On boarded all projects on to CICD using Jenkins tools.
- Asses project automation maturity and come up with automation improvement plans
- Reviewing code done by team members Distributing and Collaborating work with team to finish tasks in timeline
- Infrastructure automation using Ansible playbooks.
- Implemented Synthetic monitoring using Thousand eyes
Technology Manager -Enterprise Quality Engineering
Wells Fargo
11.2014 - 05.2020
- Managing successful delivery of multiple testing projects. Accountable for delivery and quality for Digital Onboarding , Origination and Forms Capability teams in Hyderabad and Bangalore
- Manage resource hiring, resource management and capacity planning for 25+ FTE team
- Increased automation coverage across all projects and established health check integrated with CI/CD.
- Played key role in establishment of TCoE (Testing Center of Excellence, Automation Center of Excellence) and managed Enterprise level automation.
- Have Identified major important services and have implemented Service Virtualization that is simulating behavior of select components within application to enable end-to-end testing of application as whole in Forms Capability.
- Proactive risk management including identification of risk, prioritization and mitigation
- Publish strategic and tactical reports for senior leadership, effectively highlighting status, Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies
- Effectively collaborate with various stakeholders across Wells Fargo USA and India to ensure successful delivery
- Develop testing strategy, plans, estimates, and schedule, to support projects and product releases
- Having knowledge on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) and their prime responsibilities like 1. monitoring of different verticals like security, system, application health and database. 2. Incident Management 3. Change Managements and 4. Operation process Automation.
- People Management:-
- Managing recruitment, training and selection of technical personnel as well as organizing, planning and staffing operations
- Identifying team’s training & development needs, designing and developing Competency Development Plans.
- Design goals for staff in line with group objectives
- Manage Performance of Staff and deal with poor performers.
- Use Rewards and Recognition to motivate staff and encourage performance.
- Improve Staff Engagement and manage attrition.
Senior QA Analyst
Wells Fargo
12.2008 - 10.2014
- Established QA best practices and performance metrics/KPI's to ensure quality throughout the SDLC and holistically
- Implemented automation frameworks for regression testing.
- Managed contractors and guided the team in testing artifacts, standards and support across the Credit View Platform
- Scheduled Review Meeting for Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Conditions covered based on Functional specifications with Subject matter Expert, Development team.
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro
04.2006 - 11.2008
- Worked as Onsite Test coordinator for BP Client
- Play a key role in designing the GPS Test Automation is to reduce the testing effort in regression test cycles across projects by automating the end to end business scenarios
- To check the environment readiness after each deployment before major testing activity starts
- Distributing and Collaborating the work with the team to finish the tasks in timeline
- Sharing the Weekly status report with the Management and conducting Status call twice in a week.
- Prepared the New Test Cases with test Conditions for changes and Executed Test Scripts and was involved in getting sign-off from business analysts
- Scheduled Review Meeting for Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Conditions covered based on Functional specifications with Subject matter Expert, Development team.
- Recruitment, staff management and supervision of QA engineer and testers.
- Diving process improvements and sharing best practices effectively across the organization.
- Establish & implement clearly defined methods for staff to apply.
- Analyses patterns of defects for projects & communicates findings to facilitate continual improvement.
Education
Master of Science - MCA (Master Degree in Computer Application)
Hindustan College of Engineering
Chennai, TN 06.1998 - 06.2001
Bachelor of Science - B.sc(Electronics)
Andhra Loyola College
Vijayawada, AP 06.1995 - 06.1998
Skills
SD Methodologies (Water Fall, Agile with SCRUM)
Accomplishments
- Received SpotLight Award for Q1 2024 for successful implementation of post deployment validation tool.
- Received Achieving Excellence 3 award for Q3 2016 from Wells Fargo
- Awarded the highest Award at Wells Fargo “Gold Coin” (R&R) Award for Q1 2013 for excellence in Delivery and Organizational initiatives followed by Wells Fargo Annual Conclave award for same year.
- Received Achieving Excellence 2 award for Q3 2012
- Received Achieving Excellence 4 award for Q2 2011
- Wipro Hercules Award for successful implementation of test automation framework for BP Client
Certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance
Timeline
Certified Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
10-2022
ITIL Edition 4Foundation Certified
11-2020
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance
06-2019
Technology Manager -Enterprise Quality Engineering
Wells Fargo
11.2014 - 05.2020
Senior QA Analyst
Wells Fargo
12.2008 - 10.2014
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro
04.2006 - 11.2008
Master of Science - MCA (Master Degree in Computer Application)
Hindustan College of Engineering
06.1998 - 06.2001
Bachelor of Science - B.sc(Electronics)
Andhra Loyola College
06.1995 - 06.1998
LEAD Software Engineer, VP
Wells Fargo
6 2020 - Current
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