Manikandan Lakshminarasimhan

Manikandan Lakshminarasimhan has a range of experience in the field of testing and quality assurance. Manikandan is currently working as the Head of Test at Buddi. Prior to that, they worked as an SC Test/ITM Project Consultant at NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) in 2020. From 2015 to 2020, they held multiple roles at CGI, including Test/Quality Assurance/Project/Defect Manager - Contracting. Before that, they worked as a QA/Test - Finance Projects Consultant - Contracting at BancTec from 2011 to 2015. Manikandan started their career at Big Lottery Fund, where they worked as a Test Consultant from 2007 to 2011.

Manikandan Lakshminarasimhan completed their Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning between 1994 and 1997. Manikandan then pursued a Masters in Computer Applications (MCA) from the University of Madras from 1998 to 2001, specializing in Computers.

Additional certifications include the ISEB/ISTQB Practitioner certification in Test Management from the International Software Testing Qualifications Board and the Prince 2 Certification in Project Management from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. The specific dates of obtaining these certifications are not provided.