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Aaditya Iyer

San Francisco ,CA

Summary

  • Seasoned QA Engineering manager with 11+ years of experience.
  • Exposure to each stage of the organization from startup to M&A
  • Experienced in B2C and B2B delivery models
  • 2 years of management experience
  • Domain expertise in Streaming and video conferencing

Proficiency :

  • Building teams from ground up - Built a team of 12 Engineers, coached 3 of them to be leaders
  • Managing multiple project deliveries and teams simultaneously
  • Proficient in managing front end QA - (Desktop, Mobile, Browser), Middleware and Media QA teams.
  • Work hand in glove with Product and Design teams
  • System testing - End to end experience
  • Customer escalation handling
  • Customer environment and issue reproduction in Labs
  • Enterprise and customer deployments and updates

Metrics and KPI :

Q-Score - Customer rating - 4.7/5
Defect Escape Ratio - 97% [0% P1-P2 escapes ; 3% P3-P4 escapes]
Bugs to Noise ratio - 98% [Bugs raised and taken action upon]
Automation coverage - 58%
Unit test coverage Monitoring -82%
Feedback RTT - 2 days average [Time taken to find bugs from its introduction]
QA-experience (QA-X) - 0 attrition in 3 years

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Verizon
San Jose, CA
03.2021 - Current

Manage a cross geographic team which is responsible for quality and delivery of Bluejeans desktop application.

Quality assurance - Clients, Media, Middleware - Test planning, Test bed setup, Execution, reporting
Agile Quality process - Building a cadence for High throughput - High quality product delivery
Product requirement and design discussions - In depth analysis of requirements, architecture and design of the feature before it is signed off for a release, helps in better quality drops to QA
Team building and appraisals - Hiring FTE and contractors, Built a cross geographic QA team from ground up (USA,Ukraine and India), setting KPIs and OKRs for each team member and the team, Annual appraisals
Mentoring - Guiding and growing team members 1:1, Creating a framework of solutions and approaches, Exposing the team to challenges to get them to next level
Customer escalations and RCA - Handling enterprise customer escalations, Resolving issues, Root cause Analysis
Good practices - Documentation, Jira practices, Metric dashboard, Enhancing test plans based on the escaped defects
Quarterly Business Reviews - Represent the work done by the team to the executives, Reviewing the targets and achievements

Lead Software Engineer

Bluejeans by Verizon
San Jose, CA
02.2019 - 03.2021
  • Responsible for end to end quality and delivery of enterprise grade video conferencing applications on Mac, Windows, VDI and Linux platforms.
  • Leading and mentoring a cross geographic team

Lead Engineer

Bluejeans Network India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, Karnataka
09.2014 - 02.2019
  • Responsible for end to end quality and delivery of enterprise grade video conferencing applications on windows desktop platform.
  • Leading and mentoring a team based in Bengaluru

Software Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Bengaluru, Karnataka
09.2012 - 03.2014
  • Member of Integration and test team, focused on building STB headend from bare metal servers and testing and maintaining it.
  • Building customer environment in the lab to root cause the field issues.
  • Bridging Product , Dev , QA and Delivery teams

QA Engineer

Sling Media Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, Karnataka
08.2010 - 04.2012
  • Member of Sling QA team, worked on Streaming via Sling boxes and Dish network Set top boxes (STB) on Phone (iOS, BB, Win Phone) , browser and connected TV platforms (Google TV, Boxee)
  • Worked on analytics based testing approach
  • Firmware update testing on Slingboxes and Dish Network STBs

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Dharmsinh Desai University
05.2010

Skills

Quality Assurance

Release cadence and process

Stakeholder management

Enterprise and consumer applications

Mentoring and team building

Video conferencing

Streaming - HLS, HDS, silverlight

Media testing - Audio, video, ABR

Set top box - firmware and UI

Test planning

Enterprise deployment strategies

Customer environment recreation

Root cause analysis

Analytics

Automation

Additional Information

  • Testrail , onTestpad, Quality center
  • Zeplin and Invision wireframes
  • Jira, ClearQuest
  • Charles proxy, fiddler
  • Wireshark
  • Postman
  • AWS S3
  • Netem
  • Netropy
  • Selenium, Appium
  • Jenkins
  • Java Core
  • Crashlytics, Firebase
  • Tableau, OBIEE, Flurry
  • Icinga
  • Confluence

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Verizon
03.2021 - Current

Lead Software Engineer

Bluejeans by Verizon
02.2019 - 03.2021

Lead Engineer

Bluejeans Network India Pvt Ltd
09.2014 - 02.2019

Software Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.
09.2012 - 03.2014

QA Engineer

Sling Media Pvt Ltd
08.2010 - 04.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Dharmsinh Desai University
Aaditya Iyer