Ramanath Shanbhag is a General Manager at MindTree Ltd., Bangalore, a SEI CMMI Level 5 company. He manages Innovation (including R&D), Process Standardization, Delivery Excellence and Delivery Assurance activities of the Practice. He has played key roles in business needs analysis, organizational assessments, assisting in building Test Competency Center, testing, training, and consulting. His recent contributions have been Plug-n-play Automation Framework around Open Source Technologies, Outcome-based Delivery Model for Testing, Testers’ Toolkit and Test Quality Index prediction (TQIp) model to name a few. He has exhibited thought leadership through external and internal evangelism like solving various project problems, presenting papers at various international conferences, and conducting Test Leadership Programs within the organization. He is an active member of Technology Solutions Group, and is involved in proposal creation and pre-sales presentations. He also works towards promoting organic growth in-line with the company’s competency framework through effective training and talent transformation programs. He has expertise in incubating complex projects, and growing those engagements into large teams through delivery excellence and value-additions. He has been successful in growing many projects into Multi-Million Dollar engagements. Prior to joining MindTree he has worked with prestigious companies like Aditi Technologies, Microsoft Corporation, and Accord Software (a consultant to HP).