About

Sankara Narayanan is a seasoned leader with over 24 years of experience in building high-quality systems through reliable automation solutions. He is currently working as a Senior Director at Visa, where he is responsible for product quality engineering, merchant management services, and Visa Checkout. Sankara has hands-on testing and management experience in web and eCommerce applications and is an expert in test planning, execution, and load/performance tests. Sankara has expertise in managing/testing high availability web applications and setting up offshore teams and management. He is highly skilled in reliability engineering, incident management, production support, and client monitoring. Sankara is an expert in planning and implementing automation roadmaps using Selenium, TestNG, and other custom-made test frameworks. Sankara's specialties include reliability engineering, performance engineering, monitoring, anomaly detection, incident management, and delivering high-quality applications through reliable automation. He has strong database domain knowledge and expertise in the e-commerce industry. Sankara is well-versed in QA process, test planning, performance testing, SaaS/SOA test management, automation using SilkTest/QTP, Coldfusion, PL/SQL scripts, managing high availability web applications, and white box expertise. Prior to joining Visa, Sankara worked as a Senior Director at Visa, where he was responsible for payment acceptance, transaction processing platform management, and merchant management services. He has also worked as a QA Lead at Adobe, where he was responsible for Adobe.com eCommerce services. Sankara holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University and a Stanford Advanced Project Management degree from the Stanford Center for Professional Development. His tech stack includes test, web, SQL, QA, and Selenium. With his vast experience and expertise, Sankara is a valuable asset to any organization.