About

Nagasai Kavuri is a highly competent professional with 13 years of experience in managing software quality assurance and data analysis projects. He is ISTQB certified and has a proven track record of managing new software QA projects and several migration projects. Nagasai has experience in leading and managing software project teams and correlating team portfolio goals with organizational goals. He is highly skilled in engaging and driving teams towards organizational goals by focusing on high ROI. Nagasai has experience in planning team budget, resource planning, and preparing Level of Efforts (LOE). Nagasai is an expert in managing release cycles and maintaining release schedules by streamlining the release pipeline. He has experience in preparing team performance objectives for every team member so that their objectives are directly proportional to the organizational goals. Nagasai is skilled in conducting team performance evaluations with respect to organizational rubric and communicating team budget requirements with higher management effectively. He has experience in maintaining and managing employee retention rate by proper succession planning. Nagasai has worked with business analysts, business users, and IT leads in gathering and identifying business requirements to further transform requirements into technical and functional design specifications. He is experienced in working with Excel Pivot and macros for various business scenarios. Nagasai has defined testing methodologies and implemented effective QA in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). He has extensive experience in performing different types of testing, including functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, ad-hoc testing, content testing, installation testing, and user acceptance testing, web services testing. Currently, Nagasai is working as a Portfolio Lead (Product Analyst-QA) at United Airlines - ValueLabs. He has previously worked as a Project Lead at Nielsen - ValueLabs and as a QA Lead and Data Analyst at Nielsen. Nagasai holds an MBA in Business Analytics from the University of Akron, an M.Tech. in Computer Science from JNTU, and a B.Tech in Information Technology from JNTU. Nagasai's tech stack includes test, QA, software engineering, and web development. Overall, Nagasai has 9.62 years of relevant experience in the field.