Ananth Perinkulam MBA,Pmp,Csm,Itil
About Ananth Perinkulam MBA,Pmp,Csm,Itil
Ananth Perinkulam is a Senior Quality Assurance Manager with an MBA from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has extensive experience in quality assurance and testing, having held various managerial positions across multiple companies since the late 1990s.
Work at Softrams
Ananth Perinkulam has been serving as the Senior Quality Assurance Manager at Softrams since 2018. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing quality assurance processes and ensuring that testing practices meet industry standards. His contributions include developing processes and procedures to establish a repeatable quality testing process, which involves setting metrics and maintaining test documentation. He has also initiated release management and enterprise testing efforts for over 40 modules within the Health Plan Management System and Medicaid Drug Programs.
Education and Expertise
Ananth Perinkulam holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he studied Business Administration and Management from 2005 to 2007. He also completed a Postgraduate Program in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Business Applications at The University of Texas at Austin from 2021 to 2022. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University, completed from 1991 to 1995. He is certified in Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), and ITIL.
Professional Background
Ananth Perinkulam has a diverse professional background in quality assurance and testing management. Prior to his current position at Softrams, he worked as a Program Test Manager at Vidoori Inc. from 2017 to 2018 and at ActioNet, Inc. from 2015 to 2017. His earlier roles include Senior Software Consultant at Birlasoft Inc. from 1997 to 2002 and Senior QA Consultant at Videology Group for a brief period in 2011. He also held positions at Lockheed Martin as Work Order Manager for 10 years and as Test Manager at Northrop Grumman Corporation from 2012 to 2014.
Key Contributions and Initiatives
Throughout his career, Ananth Perinkulam has made significant contributions to quality assurance and testing processes. He has trained various teams on testing tools such as TestRail, Jira, Apache JMeter, Wave, and JAWS. He has led teams in conducting root cause analysis for production defects and has deployed best practices in automation testing, integrating test automation with Jenkins in collaboration with the DevSecOps Team. His efforts have promoted continuous integration and continuous delivery practices within the organizations he has worked for.