Well organized and progressive leader with exceptional ability to plan in line with company objectives. My constant focus and passion towards Quality Engineering enables me to take up greater challenges. I believe in team success, I go above and beyond to achieve that.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Engineering Lead | Manager
Horizon Software International, Llc
06.2019 - Current
Quality gate-keeper across Egnyte hybrid projects - StorageSync, SmartCache and Public cloud connector in AWS and Azure.
Recruit, lead, mentor, and develop talented high-performing team of technical SDETs.
Manage ambiguity and energize team to stay focused on short term and long-term goals.
Drive key matrices around quality, including how quality is reported at each step of the development lifecycle.
Manage Automation requirements and develop with Python based automation frameworks.
Partner with CI/CD automation team to deliver business continuity.
Strong partnership with Product Management, Development, Support, Sales and Services teams to prioritize and manage risks/issues and ensure successful delivery.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Horizon Software International, Llc
11.2015 - 06.2019
Designed System, Solution and Longevity tests to expand the test charter and coverage for scale products Developed and maintained unit, API-driven automation tests integrated with CI/CD pipeline.
Led impactful automation initiative, converted 70% of manual tests that help reduced the QA regression test cycle from 1 week to 3 days.
Built scale test strategy for Egnyte hybrid solutions to support 300 AD users that includes one million folder permissions for large enterprise customers.
Built performance and reliability test strategy to support SMB file sharing protocol using tools like smbtorture and Helios.
Developed efficient test plan for security features like OAuth/SSL cert services enabling secure https access connections.
Partnered with customer escalation team to RCA and troubleshoot issues in production environment.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Dell EMC
06.2008 - 11.2015
Led team that emulates highly-scaled enterprise customer environments for Cloudboost solution with Networker.
Work as key Quality engineer to validate Data Domain and Backup software Networker integrated solution.
Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to develop test plans and test designs, performed execution to qualify various solutions.
Executed key test permutations to qualify with multi Cloud vendors AWS, Azure.
Prepared scaled virtual test environments to qualify across multiple data centers.
Handled critical Customer Escalations.
Software Engineer QA
Dell EMC
01.2006 - 06.2008
Worked in Global Device strategy team, TCE initiative
Performed RCA [Root Cause Analysis] activity on all device related customer escalations.
Run manual/automation tests for on-going releases.
Expertise in Qualifying various storage devices NAS, NetGear, CIFS/NFS, Tape Libraries, Jukebox, SILOs.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
India
Skills
Data protection, Cloud Storage, Virtualization, Multi Cloud
AWS, Azure, GCP
Python, Pytest, Nosetest
VMWare, Hyper-V
Orchestrator and Monitoring tools : Kibana, Grafana, New Relic, Jenkins