About

Krishna Chaitanya Vedantam is a highly experienced Software Test Automation and Software Test Leadership professional with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. He has worked for 6+ years with automotive infotainment systems, and has a strong background in software validation and test automation. Krishna is particularly skilled in automation framework development using Python programming language. Krishna has worked with a renowned automotive Tier-1 supplier in the infotainment domain, and has experience working closely with OEM customers such as GM, FCA group, Maserati, Subaru, and Harley Davidson. As a Software Test Manager for infotainment systems, he has achieved significant milestones such as developing a global automation centric test strategy, reducing the software validation cycle time by 50%, and building test labs that are connected to the cloud to create a DevOps pipeline and reduce dependency on physical hardware requirements for every developer/tester. Krishna has also led a team of high potential software test automation and tools development team in developing a test automation framework using cognitive QA techniques. He developed a universal automation board that helped consolidate the majority of test equipment onto a single PCB driven by a single board computer, reducing the cost of test equipment to 1/5th of the original cost. Krishna has also helped the development team reduce their turnaround time for every bug triage by 50%. Krishna has a B.Tech in Electronics and Control Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, and has also studied at Can Junior College and Little Angels High School. His tech stack includes test, SDET, Senior Software Engineer, QA, Python, and DevOps. With 15.54 years of relevant experience, Krishna is currently working as a Senior Project Engineer at Wipro.