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SENTHIL KUMAR VS

@senthilkumarvs

Senior Project Manager at Strive India Pvt Ltd

Chennai, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/senthilkumar-vs/

Strive India Pvt Ltd

Senthil Kumar VS is a results-driven Senior Project Manager with over 15 years of expertise in software services and agile transformation. He has a proven track record of leading large teams and delivering major agile releases that significantly boost efficiency and reduce costs. He is skilled in stakeholder management, resource planning, and implementing automated testing strategies to drive operational excellence.

Experience

Senior Project Manager

Strive India Pvt Ltd

Jul 2023 - PresentChennai

Directed high-stakes projects with an annual revenue impact of up to $2 million, leading a diverse team of 48 professionals. Led the implementation of agile best practices and managed complex project schedules, budgets, and performance metrics. Successfully reduced cycle time from feature scoping to production delivery from 6 sprints to 4.

Senior Delivery Manager

Temenos India Pvt Ltd

Oct 2021 - Jun 2023Chennai

Led cloud onboarding activities across the product lifecycle. Managed multiple concurrent projects and program-level deliveries. Scaled the team from 12 to 60 members within 15 months. Delivered the first self-service API solution for cloud onboarding and implemented reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Associate Manager / Scrum Master / Delivery Manager / Release Manager / Test Manager

Virtusa India Pvt Ltd.

May 2006 - Sep 2021Chennai

Directed application release planning and coordinated all scrum activities. Partnered with DevOps teams to uphold quality standards and ensure Right First Time delivery. Administered project annual budgets worth £1million. Formulated detailed test strategies and led all phases of software testing for diverse testing disciplines.

Senior Test Analyst

ReadyTestGo Pvt. Ltd (now part of Movate)

Dec 2003 - Apr 2006Chennai

Developed comprehensive test cases and scenarios based on detailed design specifications. Configured Remedy’s AR System lab environment and led integration and system testing efforts. Directed functional, regression, and system test planning and execution phases.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Computer Applications

Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

Licenses & Certifications

Prompt Engineering for Generative AI

Issued: Jul 2023• No expiration

Learning Design Thinking

Issued: Aug 2022• No expiration

Enterprise Agile: Growing Scrum

Issued: Jul 2022• No expiration

How to Make Strategic Thinking a Habit

Issued: Jun 2021• No expiration

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance Inc.

Issued: Aug 2014• No expiration

Accredited Integration Specialist HP Quality Center v9

Hewlett Packard Inc.

Issued: Mar 2007• No expiration

Marimba Certified Analyst

Marimba Inc. (BMC Software)

Issued: Apr 2004• No expiration

Skills

JIRA
VersionOne
MonkeyTalk
Borland Silk Test 2006 R2
HP Quick Test Pro 10.0
SOAP UI 3.5
HP ALM
HP Quality Center 12.x
Remedy QM
Chrysalis
Git
SVN
Perforce
CVS
Jenkins
MS-Project
MS-Excel
Oracle 9i
Oracle PIM
BPEL (SOA)
VBScript
XML
HTML
Java
Shell Scripting
Docker
Kibana
Terraform
Microservice
IaaS
PaaS
SonarQube
JMeter
Figma
Lucid
Confluence
MS-Sharepoint
Agile
Kanban
Waterfall
Iterative
TDD
ATDD
BDD