Saikrishna Darbha, Vice President Testing Services, Wipro Technologies
Speaker Profile
Sai started his career with ISRO (Indian Space research Organisation) and became an expert in the field of Real time and Embedded Software for satellites and launch vehicles there. Sai joined Wipro in 1998, as a Senior Project Manager, after a short stint with Novell. In a career at Wipro that spans more than 20 years, Sai has had the unique distinction of moving across the technology and engineering spaces of the organisation with ease, gathering a deep insight into both segments. He is also instrumental in creating a shared QA ODC within Wipro for managing the Client’s end to end Software Product Testing to ensure quality Product/Services Roll outs. Sai moved into the role of Vice President and Head of TPE business in Testing Services in 2005. Under his leadership, the Testing group has focused on new initiatives like Driving Green Test labs by creating proprietary solutions around Virtualization Technologies.
Sai did his Mechanical Engineering in Computer Science from IISC (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore). He has a Bachelors degree from JNTU, Kakinada in Electronics. Sai is a noted speaker in various forums where he has spoken on various subjects ranging from Outsourcing to QA related Technical Panel discussions. He is also on The Executive committee of the recently formed STeP-IN Forum Chapter in Hyderabad.