Speaker Profile
Kamala Parvathanathan is a Senior Engineering Manager in the Quality Management Products division, IBM Rational India lab. She is responsible for driving the development of products like Rational Functional Tester and Rational Quality Manager. She has in the past worked in other domains such as databases and application servers in both management and engineering roles. Based on her extensive experience in distributed development, including setting up a team and processes and collaborating with teams located in various geographies like the United States, the United Kingdom and India, she has also lead the efforts and co-authored an IBM Redbook on Global Development and Delivery in Practice. Kamala also has experience in managing projects following agile programming principles that has led to her focus on test management for agile projects.