Ravikumar Varikunta

About Ravikumar Varikunta

With a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from JNTU and SITAMS, I bring extensive experience in technology leadership to my role at Virtusa. Over the course of more than two decades, I have contributed to transformative projects across global organizations like Virtusa, CSC, IBM, and CA Technologies. My career has focused on driving AI-led innovation in quality engineering and managing large-scale portfolios while aligning technical strategies with business objectives to deliver impactful results.At Virtusa, we specialize in making experiences better through cutting-edge technology. By combining strategy, design, and engineering expertise at the intersection of industry and technology, we help organizations grow faster while ensuring profitability and sustainability. Our services span digital transformation, cloud solutions, artificial intelligence advisory services, data analytics, systems integration, customer experience transformation (CX), digital assurance programs—and more—across industries such as financial services and healthcare. Contact me if you’d like to explore how our innovative solutions can drive real-world impact for your organization!

Experience

1. Associate Program Director

   Virtusa

   Jan 2024 — Present

   Strategic oversight of a $11M+ QA & Managed Services portfolio, leading a team of110+ onshore/offshore resources while driving the adoption of next-generation AItesting frameworks.• AI-Led Transformation: Defined and executed the enterprise QualityEngineering vision, integrating GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities to modernizelarge-scale transformation programs.• Innovation Implementation: Championed Agentic AI-driven testing frameworksthat enable autonomous test planning, execution, and defect triage, resultingin 50–60% faster regression execution.• Pipeline Modernization: Embedded AI-powered quality gates into CI/CDpipelines, improving early defect detection by 40%.• Executive Governance: Established predictive quality dashboards to provide C-suite stakeholders with release risk scoring, readiness indicators, and defectleakage predictions.• Commercial Success: Led pre-sales, RFPs, and GTM initiatives, contributing tomultiple multi-million-dollar QA transformation wins; acted as a trusted clientadvisor on AI ROI modeling and responsible AI practices.• Process Excellence: Played a key role in CMMI Level 5 enablement andprocess standardization to ensure consistent delivery margin optimization.

Education

• SITAMS

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

  1998 — 2002

• JNTU

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Qtp
• Performance Management
• Selenium
• Test Management
• Test Cases
• Manual Testing
• Test Estimation
• Jira
• Jenkins
• Harvest
• Selenium Testing
• Regression Testing
• Quality Center
• Project Planning
• People Skills
• Scrum
• Hp Qtp
• Quality Assurance
• Test Driven Development
• Hp Quality Center
• Test Planning
• Vss
• System Testing
• Agile Testing
• Loadrunner