OBJECTIVE:

To manage and lead software QA / Test Automation Team focused on validating operating systems, virtualization, storage and networking. Build strong teams in order to deliver high quality software by adapting industry standard practices.

SUMMARY:

• Managed QA Teams testing Storage (FC/FCOE/ISCSI) & Ethernet PCIe Adapters, Kernels & Virtualization products
• Teams across different geographical regions including China and India.
• Lab setup & Test Automation & Infrastructure Management.
• Project/Program Management of Hardware/Software projects
• OEM Programs (HP & Dell) QLogic HBA adapters ( FC/CNA/FCA/Ethernet)
• Linux Device Drivers for FC/FCOE/ISCSI/Ethernet in RHEL, KVM/Xen, SLES, Oracle UEK and Citrix.
• VMware Vsphere, Virtual Server & Workstation
• HP Quality Center, Aptest, Testlink & other TCMS tools
• Test Execution & Automation
• Juniper QFabric Director Nodes & User Interface Fabric Manager
• VMware monitor, VMware Server & Workstation
• NetApp ONTAP WAFL File system & Networking
• Solaris Kernel & Data Center servers
• Over 9 years of experience in managing large Quality/Test/Automation Engineering teams in System Software (Linux Kernels, Virtualization, Storage & Networking). Over 15 years of testing & development experience in system software using C, Perl & Pthon.
• Transformed informal devtest organization into formal Quality Organization wif about 20 engineers across 3 locations in US & India. Setup labs in all locations wif about 1m worth of equipment, Test Management using Quality Center and concurrent OEM oriented test execution.
• Managed Test Resources & Quality Processes for TEMPeffective Validation of Ethernet, Fiber Channel and CNA adapters in various Linux Kernels by uncovering over 90% defects during the Engineering Integration Testing Phase.
• Created a new offshore team in Shanghai wif a team of 12 engineers. Brought them up to speed wifin 3 months. The team has successfully delivered quality releases for 5 major milestones and was a critical partner in the release of VMware Server 2.0
• Setup an TEMPeffective regression environment to exercise the Networking Stack in ONTAP kernels by automating over 100 new tests in test harness to run nightly and weekly regressions on 4 different branches.
• Automated over hundreds of tests in Perl to test the WAFL file system and made them run in an automated test beds regularly.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Manage complex testing/automation projects in Storage & Networking
• Manage global organizations and co - ordinate testing activities for timely release of products.
• Test Automation using Perl, Python, C and Shell scripts
• Testing/QA of VMware Virtualization products in core kernel, Monitor components
• Network QA - TCP/IP stack, VIF (LACP), VLANs, NIS, DNS, NFS, CIFS
• Storage QA - WAFL / ONTAP.
• OS testing (Solaris internals) - memory subsystem, filesystem, me/O and device drivers
• Programmed in C, Perl, Expect, Java, shell, x86 and Sparc assembly language

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Engineering Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Transformed an informal dev-test team into formal QA organization (EIT) in order to detect and resolve issues before the System Test cycle.
• Created Automation Team to convert manual tests into automated Python Scripts using industry standard automation practices.
• Established QA processes in order to manage testing resources across US and India locations for the release of Qlogic HBA FC/CNA/FCA adapters for Channel and OEM partners.
• Partnered wif Development and Program Management/Product Management to manage product test cycle by detecting and resolving important defects earlier, thus providing the executive management wif predictive release cycles.

Tech Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented Test strategy and automation to qualify KVM-QEMU based Virtual Machines running Junos Routing Engines.
• Collaborated wif other teams to qualify Redhat Cluster Framework on the QFabric Cloud Solution.
• Technical project lead to integrate QFabric wif MX Routers.

Manager (QA)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• QA Manager for Testing and Test Development team to test Xen Virtualization based Distributed Virtual Machine Monitor and NUMA kernels.
• Influenced Development Teams to improve the documentation and participate in Test Reviews.
• Improved Remote collaboration among teams in USA, China and India, mentoring team members and managing the Team deliverables.

Project Lead QA (PM)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead for functional testing and Automation of Monitor/BIOS/Platform Infrastructure in VMware Server 2.0, Workstation 7.0
• Created a new offshore team in Shanghai wif 10 engineers. Trained them and brought them up to speed wifin 3 months. Setup necessary infrastructure for seamless exchange of information between Palo Alto and Shanghai.
• As a single point contact for Server 2.0 wifin Confidential, me managed all aspects of product level testing including hiring, training and partner management.

Senior Quality Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for quality of VLAN, VIF, NIS and DNS modules in ONTAP kernel
• Implemented a nightly regression test suite in Perl to automate tests in WAFL and Networking subystems.

Software Quality Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical QA Lead to qualify UltraSPARC processor and associated software on SunFire Enterprise servers.
• Managed entire program from end to end coordinating 8 functional teams in different geographical regions and business units
• Implemented code in C to test kernel module support in Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 for UltraSPARC processor

Software Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improved performance in Oracle Server on Sequent Dynix/Ptx by rewriting frequently used C library calls in assembly language.
• Rewrote Unix Shell commands and Library modules as per POSIX 1004.2 and XPG4e Standardization.
• Implemented and Tested UNIX packaging and installation to include all default device-drivers and created a new pseudo device driver to dynamically configure appropriate drivers for SCSI, Ethernet, serial-port and line-printers.