Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in resource planning, team sizing, and optimizing budgeting for efficient project execution.
Proven expertise in delivery management, Agile leadership (Scrum Master), and overseeing end-to-end software development.
Skilled in creating detailed instruction manuals, conducting PMO demos & Stakeholder Presentations and facilitating seamless communication to ensure project success.
Experienced Cloud Security Specialist with extensive expertise in Certificate Lifecycle Management across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, and Azure Key Vault. Proficient in managing digital certificates, ensuring secure authentication, encryption, and compliance in cloud environments.
Complete understanding of Development & Testing processes used in the product-based companies
Passionate about innovation and continuous improvement in cybersecurity.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Software Engineer
DigiCert
11.2017 - Current
Product Overview: DigiCert ONE is a unified suite of digital trust products that allow you to deploy and manage multiple PKI solutions in any environment. The DigiCert ONE platform is flexible and scalable to your specific PKI needs and connectivity
Managing Agile sprints, coordinating with stakeholders, resolving blockers, enhancing team productivity, and ensuring timely project delivery using Scrum best practices and Release sign offs
Tracking Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to drive team alignment, measure progress, and ensure successful execution
Managing QA budgets by optimizing resources, controlling costs, and ensuring efficient test execution
Creating and maintaining product documentation to ensure clarity, consistency, and knowledge sharing
Partnered with the leadership team to develop an automation strategy and execution plan
Trained and guided team members in quality assurance standards, policies, and procedures
Perform code reviews of the automation code developed by team members
Lead multiple product releases right from providing test plan, test progress, release summary to higher
Cloud expertise in AWS (EC2, ALB, NLB), Azure Key Vault, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a focus on SSL/TLS certificate management and security validation
Senior Software Engineer
Symantec
08.2011 - 11.2017
Product Overview: CD&A is a hybrid solution with a cloud-based management console and data repository that leverages an on-premise presence ('CD&A Sensor') residing in one or more parts of an enterprise network
Interacted with Product Manager and Developers in requirements analysis, design reviews, test plans and documentation for application
Actively Participated in Scrum meetings, reviews and developed test scenarios
Reviewed functional specification documents, design documents, requirements traceability matrix and involved in developing test plan, test estimations for each deliverable
Identified and Automated New Scenarios Using Selenium
Performed the Browser Compatibility Testing on different OS like Windows XP/IE/FF
Deploying the web services on tomcat server, hosting services on apache webserver
Executing functional, performance, scalability and reliability tests
Participating in sprint planning and design discussions
Senior Technology Specialist
Wells Fargo
03.2011 - 08.2011
Product Overview: The purpose of the Physical Access Management system (PAMS) is to provide the functions needed to manage access requirements across multiple PACS systems while loosely integrating with the smartcard management system (SCMS) such that significant changes in status of smartcards are reflected in the availability of physical access using the same cards.
Involved in Design, Review & Execution of Functional & Acceptance Test cases
Involved in Creation & Execution of Automation scripts
Involved in UAT and Production deployment validations
Interacted with client in bugs triaging and CR discussions during UAT
Senior Software Engineer
VERISIGN
01.2009 - 08.2010
Product Overview: Go Secure! for Microsoft Exchange integrates with Microsoft Exchange Server to distribute VeriSign Digital IDs certificates to Outlook users and to publish certificate information to the Global Address List (GAL)
Preparing Project status reports and software test report
Responsible for writing test plans, provide estimates, participate in Sprint planning
Leading all testing activities including strategy, process definition, continual improvement, and bug tracking
Working closely with Product Management in refining use cases, product features and overall application flow
Involved in Daily Stand-Up Meetings, Agile Meetings, & Scrum Call
Running automation sanity suite for product backend releases
Resolving the customer support issues from engineering team
Setting up test users and mailboxes
Testing the signed and encrypted mail exchanges between different users
Setting up Active directory, Installation of application.Token testing using eToken Client
Testing activity involved installation and deployment of application on different platforms and web servers
Executing winrunner test scripts, Performing performance tests and SQL Injection and cross-site scripting tests
Participating in Pilot/Production deployments
Senior Test Engineer
Magna Infotech
03.2008 - 06.2009
Company Overview:Managed PKI Service is a PKI digital certificate management and authentication service that runs on VeriSign’s proven, globally managed, highly reliable infrastructure
Setting up test environment on different operating systems
Writing System test cases for different releases
Execution of Winrunner automation scripts for regression & Functionality test
Preparing defect summary reports, test summary reports
Performed manual testing and Automation Testing
Involved in analyzing the bugs and generating the reports
Submitting weekly status reports to QA Manager
Test Engineer
Sasken Technologies Limited
08.2007 - 02.2008
Product Overview: NCD-CMS is an application built on a lightweight web container. CMS is deployed as a web site to help Nokia manage its operators and the operator’s associated content providers (CP). It also helps Nokia, operators, CP(s) manage and publish their contents to clients.
Prepared SQL queries and executed to validate the processed data in target database
Verified the column mapping between source and target DB
Performed Minimum Acceptance testing, Functionality testing of the products and automated
Regression Testing of different business scenarios in Builds and releases
Education
MBA With Dual Specialization (Systems & HR)
Sikkim Manipal University
Bachelor of Computer Application
Vagdevi Degree College
Sri Venkateswara University
Skills
Team Leadership, Resource & Time Management, Process Improvement, QA Charter Development, One-Pager Documentation
Test Planning, Requirement design, Grooming meetings, Resource and Task allocation, Test metrics