Vivek Kumar

Current

Senior Manager, Software Quality at Marketo
Program Co-Chair at MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)

Past

Lead QA Engineer at Software AG
Operations Chair at MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)
Software QA Lead at Amdocs Inc

Consultant at Saama Technologies
Software Engineer at Satyam

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Education

National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur
St Marys Hindi high school

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

VLAB

Vivek Kumar’s Summary

Software Professional with of experience leading and building teams and delivering high quality SaaS and Enterprise software application.

-Proven track record in building teams and establishing processes and methodologies.

-Demonstrated success in establishing and sustaining profitable QA outsourcing operation.

-Extensive experience in software development life cycle, including testing product sets using both manual and automated test methodologies, review and providing feedback on Product Requirements, Architectural Design, and Functional Specifications.

-Successfully managed global testing cycles and phases for testing enterprise and SaaS applications.

-Created and evolved software development and quality assurance methodologies and presents them to internal and external audiences including customers.

-Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills, with proven analytical ability to work closely with Software Engineers, Customer Support Engineers and Customers to validate product use cases and requirements.

Vivek Kumar’s Specialties:

•Building onsite and offsite teams from Ground Zero.
•Building the process and methodology to communicate between offsite and onsite teams.
•Ability to coordinate testing activities remotely between multiple QA teams located in different locations.
•Help to promote the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people

Vivek Kumar’s Experience

Senior Manager, Software Quality

Marketo

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

November 2009 — Present (1 month)
Program Co-Chair

MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Oversee programs for VLAB, which hosts the largest ongoing gathering of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and thought leaders at our monthly events at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Each event gathers the leading minds in technology to discuss an idea or trend that will have a significant impact upon the tech industry.

• lead events teams serving a community of 25,000 Silicon Valley influencers.
• Manage programs with topics ranging from Greentech to biotech to cloud computing.
• work as a liaison with VCs, angel investors, entrepreneurs and proffessionals.
Lead QA Engineer

Software AG

(Public Company; SOW; Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — October 2009 (4 years 7 months)

*Led a team to test and deliver social BPM offering in Amazon cloud.
*Understood the busiess problem ensuring that the product delivery is align with customer business goals.
*Worked with the executive management to kick-start cloud computing initiative in the company.
Operations Chair

MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

October 2006 — September 2007 (1 year )

As Operations Chair, I am a member of the executive committee and work on securing speakers and developing event topics that would be interesting to an audience of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and service providers. I am responsible for organizing and running the monthly event which brings entrepreneurial community and venture capitalists together.
Software QA Lead

Amdocs Inc

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DOX; Computer Software industry)

October 2000 — April 2005 (4 years 7 months)

I have lead technical teams, providing QA support from Product Design through functional, system, integration and regression testing. I am responsible for developing and executing test plans, validating the product specifications and requirements, documenting the test results, and interacting with the developers to ensure a quality product is released on time. My ability to report the bugs, communicate with development to get the fix and verify the fixes have helped team to deliver high quality product. I have successfully communicated and lead offshore team for my various assignments.
Consultant

Saama Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2004 (4 years )
Software Engineer

Satyam

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Vivek Kumar’s Education

National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur

BS , Computer science and Engineering , 1994 — 1998

Activities and Societies:

MIT Stanford Venture Lab(VLAB), VP-M Macintalkers
St Marys Hindi high school