Veena Gopalarathnam

About Veena Gopalarathnam

Forward-focused Program Manager with expertise in concepts of end-to-end program planning & implementation from scope management to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in coordination with the business & stakeholders- Certified SAFe Agilist and CSM Certified from Scrum Alliance offering over 20 years of experience in Project, Program & Delivery Management, Scrum Practices, and Software Testing in various domains such as Conferincing Application, Retail/E-commerce, HR, Finance, Logistics & Postal services, Insurance, Automobiles & Multimedia businesses- Portfolio ownership for 3 different Projects handling the budget efficiently- Managed R&D divisions’ s Centre of Excellence team by restricting to annual budget for 2 years to develop Automation framework, Demo, Internal and external selling of the product, Maintenance, hiring, training & certifications, mentoring, R&D Investments, Sales and Presales activities, setting vision and Roadmaps, reported ROI to Management- Acted as Product Owner for a ecommerce Mobile application- Strong management skills, leading & motivating a team of 80 individuals- Expertise in setting out delivery standards for various operational areas, while adhering to the SLAs and business services- Handling entire SDLC with higher Customer Satisfaction Index, Go-to-leader with ability to listen, establish relationships, gain consensus & confidence and establish credibility of multiple stakeholders across different functions to ensure successful execution of Projects- Obsessed with achieving extraordinary results in shortest time, Capable to co-ordinate with team from different time zones like USA, Europe & AsiaSpecialties: Possess SAFe Agile, CSM, Program Management/Portfolio Management//Project Management, JIRA/ADO, Cloud Technologies AWS Cloud, Certified DevOps Practitioner, Test Management - Automation Performance testing and Manual, Devops and Release management

Experience

1. Senior Manager Quality Engineering

   Accenture

   Feb 2026 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• The Oxford College of Education, Bengaluru

  Diploma, Electronics and Telecommunications

• Madurai Kamaraj University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

• Madurai Kamaraj University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Quality Assurance
• Bugzilla
• Scrum
• Testng
• Performance Testing
• Testing
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Selenium Webdriver
• Test Planning
• Test Automation
• Software Quality Assurance
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Test Strategy
• Defect Tracking
• Appperfect, Performance Testing
• Web Applications
• Web Testing
• Test Cases
• Jira
• Software Project Management
• Selenium
• Integration Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• System Testing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Requirements