Shahul Hameed Tenghalabbai Mohamed
FREMONT,California
Summary
Dynamic IT Project Manager with over 12 years of leadership experience at Cisco Systems, adept at driving Agile methodologies and enhancing automation strategies. Proven track record in delivering high-quality software releases while managing diverse teams. Expertise in virtualization and risk-based testing, ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations and project goals.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Project Manager/Program Manager
Cisco DNAC
North Carolina, USA
03.2023 - Current
- Managed and negotiated release activities to ensure timely software launches.
- Monitored progress to meet quality standards for software releases.
- Communicated release details to business teams for alignment and transparency.
- Initiated and oversaw progressive release processes for continuous improvement.
- Collaborated with PMO team to conduct release readiness and milestone reviews.
- Managed risks and resolved challenges impacting release scope, quality, and schedules.
- Planned release windows and cycles across portfolios and components.
- Prepared reports, summary updates, and dashboards to inform stakeholders on status.
QA Manager
Cisco Systems Inc.
09.2013 - 03.2023
- Complete QA ownership on product release on Compute, Storage, Orchestration, Admin, Security, Networking, Cisco APIC and API Automation modules.
- Build the team from 6 members to 35 members. Responsibilities included recruiting, coaching, motivating, retaining, task prioritization, annual performance reviews, billing, etc.
- Modernized the software QA practices, infrastructure and test-automation strategy.
- Automation first strategy was adopted which helped to increase the automation coverage.
- Build New Automation Selenium BDD framework from Scratch and helped team to adopt it.
- Detailed Security testing plan. automated security scans using Nessus, Burp suite and Qualys tools.
- Partnered with product management on roadmap planning, feature adaptation strategy, go to market strategy, translation of customer requirements into product features, etc.
- Mentored team on Agile Adoption and successfully drove iterative testing.
- Monitor and help team on Datacenter lab management on VCenters, Networking and LDAP Servers.
- People Management (Billing, Staffing, Performance Appraisals, Client and Stake holder management, etc…)
- Responsibility of meeting Value Addition and Best Practice targets.
- Mentoring new engineers (Start-up and On-job).
- Client Interaction on New Project Proposals, Billing, Resource allocation, Test Schedules, Estimation, Results, Reports etc…
- Customer Survey result preparation and presentation to Client (6 monthly).
- Maintaining Quality Process Adherence (CMMi, TL9K, ISO Standards).
QA Lead
Cisco Systems Inc.
08.2012 - 08.2013
- Team leadership of 16-member team on Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution (LMS) Sustenance and Feature testing on Admin and System modules (8 members) for Prime Infrastructure Project.
- Complete ownership of all Testing activities for the owned modules.
- Prepared Test Estimation, Schedule, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Allocation, VM setup, Lab setup, Tracking and Reporting entire team activities.
- Prepare setup and Execute Endurance and Scalability Testing.
- Maintain Automation framework and Fix automation failures and track automation reports.
- Owned server management for the entire Business Delivery Unit (500+ lab devices). Server/VM allocation based on needs, ordering servers, requesting budget and UCS server resource configuration using Netformix done efficiently.
- TEACAT and BEACAT bug resolution and action plan.
- Bug analysis, Test plan update and action plan.
- Tracking Team competency and improvement plan.
- CFD Bug analysis, Customer Cases analysis, Test plan update and action plan.
- TIMS ownership and regular test status and summary update.
- Internal test team resource management on Transition and Attrition.
QA Engineer
Cisco Systems Inc.
02.2006 - 08.2012
- Team leadership of 6-member team for Cisco QOS Policy Manager (QPM) and Cisco Multicast Manager (CMM) Projects.
- Prepared Test Estimation, Schedule, Test Strategy, Test Planning and Device Simulation setup using Cisco Simcafe.
- Test Allocation and tracking entire testing activities.
- Tested all the features of CMM including Install/Upgrade, License testing, Data Migration Testing.
- Created and maintained Multicast-VPN topology in lab using 20 routers. Used Cisco Pagent traffic generator for traffic streams.
- Tested all the features of QPM including Install/Upgrade, License testing, Data Migration Testing of multiple versions.
- Owned Performance testing using TeamQuest Tool for QPM4.0 and QPM4.1 major release. Also Owned Scalability testing for 10000 devices.
- Simulated 10000 devices with Cisco Simcafe Tool with multiple personalities. Added scripts to allow QoS commands deployment and Import from simulated devices.
- Generated Scripts and used MGSoft MIBbrowser to set SNMP CBQOS-MIB OIDs to generate QoS traffic in the simulated device.
- Done Load testing using Rational Performance Tester tool for 10 concurrent users.
- Automated basic acceptance test cases using Rational functional Tester tool.
- Went to Customer site as single Cisco representative and successfully Completed Beta Testing at the T-Mobile customer site in Germany for QPM4.0 Project release on Jan 2007.
- Tested QPM integration with other NM applications LMS, ACS, NCM.
- Simulated 3000 device Multicast device setup with PIM neighbors for scalability testing.
- Handled Engineer hiring and mentoring on-job.
QA Engineer
Cisco Systems Inc.
12.2004 - 03.2006
- Developed Test Strategy, Test Plan and Device Simulation setup using Cisco Simcafe.
- Owned Install/Upgrade, Data Migration Testing, Performance testing, Scalability and Reliability testing on Windows and Solaris platforms. Used Windows PerfMon tool for collecting Windows system information.
- Worked on the Functional, regression testing on all the modules in the application.
- Reviewed Software Functional Spec, Design Document, Online Help.
- Participated in Design discussions with development Team and Document team.
- Simulated devices for testing using Cisco Simcafe and SaPro tools.
- Simulated device traps and generated device alerts by setting SNMP OIDs for testing.
- Worked on Acceptance test case Automation Scripts (Using XDE Tester Tool).
- Worked on FAQ documents. Prepared complete DFM project new hire training plan. Mentored two new engineers on this project.
Project Manager
HCL Technologies
Chennai, India
- Progressive leadership and management experience with proven track record of building QA teams and delivery of software products with high quality of testing.
- In-depth understanding and execution experience of Software Engineering Principles, Architecture, Software Development Life cycle, Test Methodologies, and Agile Methodologies.
- Deep expertise in Virtualization, Data Center, Compute, Storage, Networking, Orchestration and Software Defined Infrastructure with an emphasis on customer/user experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge in the design/development of Automation frameworks. Delivered exceptional results in reducing execution cycle using automation.
- Evaluated and adopted new strategy and delivered exceptional results. Automation first strategy was adopted which helped team to increase the automation coverage.
- Evangelized Agile adoption and successfully drove the iterative development including test-driven development which enabled the team to ship quality products on schedule.
- Stakeholder Management: Partnered with product management on roadmap planning, feature adaptation strategy, go to market strategy, translation of customer requirements into product features, etc.
- Having IT Experience of 15 Years and 5 Months with Leadership Experience of more than 12 years of handling 7-40 members team.
- Expertise in Team Management: Experience in Building the team ground-up - Managed the end-to-end responsibilities included recruiting, coaching, motivating, retaining, task prioritization, annual performance reviews, budgeting, etc.
- Managing/Leading diverse distributed teams both onshore and offshore.
- Demonstrated knowledge in Agile Methodologies and Scrum Master Role.
- Fast paced execution with focus on delivery.
Education
Diploma in Business Management -
The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
Tripura01.2008
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
University of Madras
01.2004
Skills
- Test Technologies
- Black box testing
- White Box testing
- Agile Testing
- Context driven testing
- Risk based testing
- Cloud
- Virtualization
- Compute
- Storage
- Orchestration
- SDN
- TCP/IP
- QOS
- Multicast
- SNMP V2/V3
- Routing Protocols
- L2 Protocols
- LAN
- Selenium
- Behaviour Driven Development
- Cucumber Tool
- Core Java
- Python
- HTML
- Java Script
- Nessus Scanner
- Burp Suite
- MS Project
- MS Visio
- TeamQuest Manager
- Cisco Simcafe
- SAPRO
- VMWare
- Rational Functional Test
- Rational Performance Test
- PerfMon
- MGSOFT-MIB Browser
- JMeter
- Cisco Pagent Traffic Generator
- SOA Test Tool
- Netformix for UCS Design
- Windows
- Red Hat Linux
- Solaris
- CMMi
- TL9K
- ISO
- Vmware ESXi Servers
- Netapp
- EMC
- Nexus devices
- Cisco UCSM
Overall Experience
19 Years and 5 Months, 19 Years and 5 Months
Certification
- Cisco Certified Network Associate, 2006
- Implementing Cisco Quality of Service, 2009
- Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks, 2012
- Certified Scrum Master, 2016
- ISTQB Test Manager, 2022
Expertise
Testing methods (Black box, White Box), Testing models (Agile Testing, Context driven, Risk based, Agile testing), Cloud, Virtualization, Compute, Storage, Orchestration, SDN, TCP/IP, QOS, Multicast, SNMP V2/V3, Routing Protocols, L2 Protocols, LAN, Selenium, Behaviour Driven Development Cucumber Tool, Core Java, Python, HTML, Java Script, Nessus Scanner, Burp Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, TeamQuest Manager, Cisco Simcafe, SAPRO, VMWare, Rational Functional Test, Rational Performance Test, PerfMon, MGSOFT-MIB Browser, JMeter, Cisco Pagent Traffic Generator, SOA Test Tool, Netformix for UCS Design, Windows, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, CMMi, TL9K, ISO
Personal Information
- Passport Number: N3984340
- Date of Birth: 02/22/83
Timeline
IT Project Manager/Program Manager
Cisco DNAC
03.2023 - Current
QA Manager
Cisco Systems Inc.
09.2013 - 03.2023
QA Lead
Cisco Systems Inc.
08.2012 - 08.2013
QA Engineer
Cisco Systems Inc.
02.2006 - 08.2012
QA Engineer
Cisco Systems Inc.
12.2004 - 03.2006
Project Manager
HCL Technologies
Diploma in Business Management -
The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
University of Madras