Gunasekaran Veerapillai (GUNA) is a Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) and Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI USA. After 15 years of retail banking experience in Canara Bank, India he moved to IT in 1995. He was managing the EDP Section at Bangalore. He has been working in various roles in the testing arena and has turned out several testing projects in banking domain for various clients across globe. He specialized in the niche areas like Test Process Assessment, Automation Assessment. He worked in companies like Thinksoft, HCL Technologies, and Covansys. He also completed the Certified Ethical Hacker certification from EC. He was heading the testing division at Bangalore unit of Covansys before moving to his current assignment. Currently Guna is heading the Test Automation Practice at Wipro Technologies (www.wipro.com). This practice carries our niche automation activities like creation of required automation frameworks, automation assessment, and tools evaluation apart from executing end-to-end test automation projects. Guna has contributed papers and presentations in international software testing conferences conducted by QAI, Swiss Testing Conference, ISQT , QSIT, Stickyminds.com etc.,
