Haris Poonthala

Edreams is an Indian software product company developing a patented personal learning software for the K-12 space. As VP - Product Assurance, responsible for complete quality assurance of the product from both features and content that gets released. Built the QA, Pedagogy and XML Development team from scratch to meet the product development needs. As a senior management, involved in all departments from Sales/Services and Operations of the company.

As Manager - QA, handled the QA team and responsible for customer releases

As Director - SQA, Built a dedicated and capable QA team in India at a very low cost(< 1/5th the cost of a similar US team). Managed distributed, multi-cultural team across India and US. Created the process and tools for effective Quality Assurance and collaboration across geography. Handled multiple customer releases from Quality assurance. Also engaged with Pre-Sales and Engineering support team for customer demos, installation and support

Worked on multiple projects including onsite assignments during my tenure at MindTree. 1.Project Manager - Off shore Sustenance Engineering and L3 support of a High Availability Storage product 2.Project Manager : Development and maintenance of J2EE web application automating building infrastructure and process work flow 3.Senior Technical Support engineer: Level 3 technical support for Messaging server product suite 4.Senior Development Engineer: Multiple projects

Worked on network management applications as Development Engineer/Lead: Multiple projects • Design and implement profile support for ATM and Frame Relay signaling link by writing a managed object • Enahancements and sustenance engineering for Multi platform proprietary SNMP based Network Management application that integrates with HP OpenView. • Rich windows GUI client for Frame Relay tester card used for testing any frame relay card having T1/E1 interfaces