KRISHNA KUMAR
WYNDHAM VALE,Australia
Summary
With over 10 years of experience in information technology, I have held various roles in development and testing. Currently serving as an Engineering Manager for Mobile, I have been leading and managing a diverse team of engineers for the past 2 years. Throughout career, I have gained skills in software agile design principles, project management with stakeholders, and quality assurance and automation. Recognized as a high-performing and key player within current organization for almost eight years, I have extensive experience in the digital native mobile application domain across both front end and backend development since 2014. My consistent drive for successful outcomes has benefited both colleagues and customers alike.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Manager - Mobile
National Australia Bank
09.2022 - Current
- Lead successful scrum team of 8 developers across iOS and Android, business analyst and quality engineers and ensure successful delivery of features to production
- Worked and coordinated with release train engineer and product owner to define and prioritize backlog planning for quarterly plans for mobile team
- Played predominant key role to get first hand understanding of requirements of new features in Progressive Elaboration session and work with business analyst and product owner to define breakdown of features into user stories to help drive breakdown of work and timelines of delivery
- Managed and maintained optimal financial operations of team in terms of team funding resources requirements and cost metrics despite funding challenges during 2022 period
- Advocated for engineers success for features delivery by appreciation of key players and highlighting success of team to higher management. Successfully achieved through most valuable player nominations for few of team members
- Brainstormed and removed multiple blockers as much possible from engineers highlighted in standup meeting forum with alternate plausible solutions in collaboration with technical leads,business and designers with adequate safe risk principles to ensure feature deliverables are catered within timelines
- Delivered successful proof of concepts of module integration in mobile app for a feature and demonstrated to senior stakeholders which gathered huge appreciation for team.
- Collaborated with project managers of features, attending as representative of scrum team and ensuring key callout's in case of any blockers and status of deliverables are understood clearly on progress on sprint level and also formulate release planning to production working through dependencies necessary to make it to production. Successfully delivered more than ten mobile feature initiatives of few examples such as scams identification prevention. migrations of old API stack to microservices migration to production with no major production incidents on clean delivery
- Worked with head of technology and senior leadership to ensure to understand key strategic pillars focus items for year on year to ensure team understands how their work translates to organisation strategic goals in terms of success
Test Automation Team Lead
National Australia Bank
06.2015 - 07.2022
- Investigated and debugging of test failures of nightly test suite, updating tests, or reporting bugs as necessary
- Served as a subject matter expert in test automation methodologies within the company, providing guidance for other teams seeking expertise in this area.
- Mentored junior team members, improving their technical skills and overall productivity.
- Led a team of automation engineers to deliver high-quality software releases on time.
- Coordinated with development team to ensure efficient handover of code for testing phases, expediting release schedules.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology -
Amrita College of Engineering
Bangalore, Karnataka06.2011
Skills
- Java
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Javascript
- Bitbucket
- Git
- Test automation tools
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Engineering Design
- Strategic Planning
- Project Management
- Decision-making skills
- Stakeholder Communication
- Prioritization
- Technology Integration
- Engineering Software Proficiency
Certification
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect
Timeline
Engineering Manager - Mobile
National Australia Bank
09.2022 - Current
Test Automation Team Lead
National Australia Bank
06.2015 - 07.2022
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology -
Amrita College of Engineering
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