Srinivasan Desikan

Current

• Master System technologist on Testing, Automation at Hewlett-Packard

Past

• WorldWide Director - Quality Assurance & Testing at Agile Software
• Director at Siebel Systems
• Director at Talisma Corporation

2 more...

Education

• Pondicherry University
• Bharathidasan University

Recommended

17 people have recommended Srinivasan

Connections

462 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Book
• My book at Amazon
• Google search results on Srini

Srinivasan Desikan’s Summary

Have been in the Software Testing and Product development field since 1989.

Authored the one of the best selling book "Software Testing ; Principles & Practices" published by Pearson Education.

Honarary board of Advisor to many testing companies based in India..

Have filed couple of patent disclosurers pending to be filed. Working on creating reference architecture for web-based, Testing-as-a-service and cloud computing models for product life cycle management.

Founder member of STeP-In Forum that conducts international conferences on testing.

Currently, Convener of Quality Forum at Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Srinivasan Desikan’s Specialties:

Quality Engineering
Software Testing
Product Development

Srinivasan Desikan’s Education

• Pondicherry University

  MCA , Computer Science , 1986 — 1989

  From the First batch of Pondicherry Engg College and Pondicherry University

• Bharathidasan University

  B.S , Computer Science , 1983 — 1986

  Secured 1st Rank at the college.
  
  This was the first time Bachelors degree in Computer science was introduced by this university

Additional Information

Srinivasan Desikan’s Websites:

• My Book
• My book at Amazon
• Google search results on Srini

Srinivasan Desikan’s Interests:

Software Testing Product Development Process models, standards and practices

Srinivasan Desikan’s Groups:

STeP-IN

•    Novell Alumni
•    Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems) User Group
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Software Testing Club - the online software testing community
•    Six Sigma Professionals ( SSP )
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    ITIL v2 / v3 Service Management (ITSM) and ISO 20000 + Subgroups
•    India Leadership Network
•    WeWIPROite
•    Siebel Certified & Expert Consultants
•    The ITIL Group
•    The Indus Entrepreneur
•    Quality Assurance Discussion Group
•    HP Connections
•    PLM Group
•    Pondicherry Engineering College Alumni
•    QA & Testing Group
•    Performance Specialists
•    Authors, Writers, Publishers, Editors, and other Professionals
•    The HP Way
•    Tech Journalist Worldwire
•    Lean software
•    'Quality' Folks
•    QAGuild Network
•    Indian Authors Around the World
•    Novell India Edirectory Alumnus

Srinivasan Desikan’s Honors:

1. Received one of the highest awards in Novell Engineering called "Employee of the year in 1999"
2. Felicitated by SPIN, and by 4 universities for promoting software testing as a topic in academia
3. The research paper on regression testing was honored by IIST, USA and selected for presentation twice
4. Felicitated by Bangalore technical books forum, for authoring the book on Software Testing and awarded as one of the best selling book in it's category.
5. Serving as Honarary Board of Advisor for three of the testing companies in India
6. Awarded by test2008.in for authoring the Software Testing book and services for Academia and Industry on Software Testing

Srinivasan Desikan’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests