SUMMARY

• Architected, designed, implemented automation strategies, test processes, frameworks to help drive quality upstream constantly and reduce the market time to markets for Confidential, global sites, mobile apps and various MS products.
• Designed API infrastructure framework, tools to quickly validate the product. Recently helped Starbucks release a promotion to living social in two hours.
• Hired & managed high performance QA teams. Managed multiple offshore teams in India, China, & Ireland.
• Planned, scheduled, delegated, constantly drove for results across various aspect of SDLC quality for e.g. feature crew building, automation, performance, CICD, processes for test and development etc.
• Involved in resource management at regular intervals and annual performance revies. Helped improve various health indexes of the organizations.
• Worked with the management & teams for planning, strategizing, progressing, analyzing gaps, constantly improving and making better features, products, processes, and teams.
• Solved numerous technical challenges and have hands on experience in various .net & open stack technologies & machine learning (ML) - AWS, Microservices, Sonarqube, CICD, Pentaho, BI, MicroStrategy, ETLs, Tableau, Data Analytics, C#, C++, SQL, MSMQ, Office Apps, Reporting, Websites, test tools, API, UI, Automation, OBIEE apps, JIRA, SBT, Tableau, Jenkins, BitBucket, Scala, ScalaTest, BDD, TDD, Azure Cloud, Splunk, Visual Studio Performance tool, NUnit, MSBuild, MSTests, CCover, Perl, SOA arthictecture, RESTful/SOAP API services, Matlab, R, Neural Networks, Python etc.
• Strong penchant and desire for constant learning, growth mind set, raising the bar on various aspects of engineering, quality and management practices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C#/VB.NET, C/C++, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, ASP.NET, FORTRAN, Pascal and VHDL, Perl., Python.Assembly languages Microprocessor 8085/8086

Databases: Oracle 7.x (includes report and forms), MS Access, SQL 2008.

Packages: Advanced MS Office, P-Spice (hardware design simulator), Magic (layout designer for circuits), Work View (circuit simulator), and MATLAB.

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Win9x/NT/2000/Windows/Windows 2003 server/Windows 2008 Server

Standards: Amalga, HL7, Parser packages, CSS2.1/3.0Academic Courses

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr.Manager/Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team through design, implementation, testing of numerous features/components via various quality gates, toolsets & processes for various ITAM/SAM product offering bringing greater efficiencies to teams to improve quality, & more throughput.
• Hired, Coached and managed teams across geos to test functional and non-functional areas for all BDNA product-line - ITAM, D2, V6-API and Data Platform.
• Ensured high quality for BDNA’s Cloud Asset Insight (CAI) offering that was built from ground-up for asset management using AWS stack - EC2, EC2 API, EC2 SM, Athena, Various Policy Documents
• Exercised federated test model across geos to ensure right things were done for quality across various products pipeline. Grew the team by 100% over a period of 1 year with meticulous planning.
• Involved with resource, project, budget planning through various projects timelines and AOP.
• Collaborated closely with PM, Dev, Support, Management to bring about various quality related changes like CICD (via Jenkins), Smoke Test, Full Functional Automation, Static Code analysis (Sonar Qube), Pull Request code review process, etc.
• My team is responsible for various functions in the org - Build, Release, Deployment, Technopedia DB maintenance, Performance, Security (HP WebInspect), Function testing, Environments,

Engineering Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of SDET Lead/Manager to bring in great talent to build SDET & QA teams to build solid tool set, automation framework, test artifacts to release quality product for .com and mobile applications.
• Hired, Mentored, Directed & Managed 20+ SDETs and QA members/leads to build quality standards, tool sets, process, and automation for various Starbucks applications and projects.
• Responsible for quality for disaster recovery projects, customer support tools, user centric applications like .com, mobile, Mobile order and pay systems.
• Hands on experience with open stack technology - Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, Test Rails, Scala, ScalaTest.
• Architected, designed, implemented automation strategies, frameworks to help quality upstream constantly and reduce the market time to markets for Confidential global sites.
• Designed API infrastructure framework, tools to quickly validate the product. Recently helped Starbucks release a promotion on living social in two hours. 1.5MM orders were bought in about less than 20 hours.
• Helped saved Starbucks over $4MM during course of last 5 years by
• Built a great tool set eliminating manual verification to great extent.
• Reduce the release to market duration there by increasing the bottom line.
• Negotiated with vendors on getting great candidates to form great test and dev teams.
• Hands on experience and expert in .Net Stack like C#, .Net framework, SQL, various Tool set(Firebug, Perl, C/C++, OOPS, Patterns, E-Commerce techniques), Visual Studio 2010, Web Test toolset, Performance tool set, Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall etc.
• Contributed and help managed the testing of fraud detection systems working with Accertify that saves Starbucks $2MM/Month.

Software SDET Lead/Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a health product with heavy SQL transactions, packages and parser engines.
• There is some 30+ databases and 100+ tables across the product that deal with various scenarios involving doctors, patients, nurses, staff, and partners. It’s highly customizable product via SQL.
• Formed a team (onsite and offshore) to lead enterprise health product. Managed a team of 12 high potential people to deliver high quality product.
• Worked to form consensus across management chain, groups, and teams to build a great team and test the product to highest QA standards.
• Successfully engaged in all cross group collaboration to get some high profile things done like dependencies, feature crews, performance, integration work, cross-feature testing etc.
• Understood and Managed Amalga UIS/HIS dependencies on the product to mitigate the risks to the end users and E2E user scenarios.
• Engaged with customers from the beginning to understand their needs so that right things were built.
• Successfully innovated, involved, and improvedvarious QA processes to plan, track, empower employees, to gain higher efficiencies in the systems.
• Hands on involvement with Logging, Performance, Coding in C#, SQL, Reporting, DB schema, Setup, Code coverage.

Software SDET Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to API test new layout engine for Internet Explorer 8 that shows greater compliance with CSS 2.1 and 3.0
• Responsible for test planning, scheduling, daily tasks accomplishment, design of the test harness, test strategies.
• Worked on designing, test and automate the world class layout engine for clients like MS Office, IE and Windows.
• Participated in design, implementation, and developing test apps to test the new layout engine.
• Collaborated with partner teams like core IE for CSS compliant implementation in test harness.
• Designed uniscribe USP10.dll wrapper to better test layout in test harness. This component is used to process, shapes, ligatures and layout the international data on the client.
• Fast learning curve on gaining knowledge of wide variety of aspect like CSS, IE, client documentation for layout of lines and objects.
• Test harness development involved C, C++, and XML.

SoftwareSDET Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, test and automate test cases for Excel Client/Server as part of Office12 product.
• Responsible for automated, manual testing. Documented test design specification end-to-end scenarios, automate the cases using C# and other .NET technologies like MOTIF. Involve heavily in code review for the fellow testers.
• Implement the teams’ automation requirements using C# and MOTIF. Have excellent project driving skills for driving various projects from planning, scheduling, meeting deadlines, driving bug goals, to OSG Intl automation, to automation needs for the team. Involve in the migration of the legacy scripts to the new MOTIF framework. Involve in HIRING people to the team.

Software Test lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 6 people. Responsible for leading the international and globalization testing efforts for Web data framework, Datasheet control, Web parts as part of Microsoft Windows SharePoint services (WSS)/(MOSS) during MS Office System product cycle.
• Designed test plans, processes for spec review/inspections, white box and black box test efforts, automaton efforts. Collaborate with test team to work closely with developers, pm and meet the Microsoft QA standards.
• Drove the testing List control of WSS/MOSS for international sufficiency and globalization feature like date/time, currency, DBCS, automation, etc.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Job involves writing test plans, and designing top of the line test cases following the specifications for Office XP (Publisher).
• Automating these test cases using Win32 API, Test Wizard, Rational Visual Test, VB, and VBA and executing them for every build. Logging bugs, tracking bugs using RAID system, regressing bugs.
• Execute test scripts on Win9x/NT/Win2k/Windows. Worked closely with Developers, Project Management, and Test Lead & Test team and cross teams. I have complete understanding of SDLC starting from customer requirements to specifications to designing to testing, and shipping and sustaining the product.
• Other tools that I am familiar with during the process were Test studio, SD, VSS, OASYS.

Teaching Assistant & Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Teaching assistant for undergraduate computer science students, job responsibilities include assisting, teaching, and conducting C/C++ (Classes)
• Designed web page for Confidential & M University, which include interactive web pages development using Front page and HTML. Created online information collection tool and synchronizing it with database. Maintaining the old and new website was also part of the job