About

Vikram KV is a forward-thinking and result-driven Engineering Manager with over 13 years of experience in software quality engineering. He is committed to delivering exceptional products with top quality, building and managing teams, test automation, test operations, and development. Vikram is a hands-on leader with a proven ability to build strong teams from the ground up, coach, motivate and lead teams, and improve quality, efficiency, productivity, on-time releases, and reduce bugs, tests, and automation maintenance. He is skilled in driving continuous improvements and operational excellence by strengthening automation and performance tools, skills, and infrastructure for faster and quality releases, execution efficiencies with the highest code quality. Vikram is also deft at handling responsibilities such as recruiting, capacity planning, cross-functional team collaborations, agile practices, mentoring, people reviews, bug triage, data-driven metrics, and predictable quality deliverables. Vikram has a vast knowledge of end-to-end product design, architectures, development, BE-FE-Mobile-DevOps-Cloud Tech stacks, and tools. He plays the role of Software Quality Evangelist, driving innovations, building Centre of Excellence (CoE), exploring new tools and technology, updated with the latest trends, building PoCs, Product Ideations, UI/UX, Journals. Vikram also collaborates with management to understand OKRs, define KRAs, measure KPIs. He builds test strategies, test plans, TDD, robust automation solutions, tools, quality vision, roadmaps, test coverage, release management, ATCoE. He has designed and developed automation, performance test frameworks from scratch, implemented unified automation frameworks, and in-sprint automation. Vikram is at the forefront of technical engineering capability and effective management. He is well-versed in using design patterns, solving automation stability, scalability, reliability, ease of use problems. Vikram has excellent academic records, 92 percentile in GATE, 90+ percentage in Class 10&12, and has been awarded in PESIT and RVCE colleges for conducting workshops on Software Test Automation. Vikram's skills and specializations include Engineering Manager, Scrum Master, Automation Lead, Test Lead, Communication, Co-founder, Fintech, Ideation, SWOT, MVP, Product Owner, Functional, Non-Functional, Performance, Localization, Microservices, API, Web, Mobile Automation, Designing Frameworks, Agile, SAFe, SDLC, TDD, Selenium, App