SUMMARY

• 17+ years of technical leadership and management experience in large, medium and startups software companies.
• Software Quality domain expertise in Cloud PaaS Services, Integration and SOA Cloud Services, API Platform Cloud Service, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Healthcare Integration products and Databases.
• Deep understanding of software development processes, principles, lifecycles and release management.
• As a disciplined leader and motivator, have built strong technology engineering teams distributed in USA and globally providing 24X7 test coverage.
• Objective, Data Driven and Test Driven management style with emphasis on solving customers' requirements.
• Delivered industry leading software products i.e. Oracle PaaS Cloud Services, Oracle SOA Suite, BEA's WebLogic Integration products, TIBCO's integrations products suite, WebMD's e - health B2B Physician Portal, Oracle Database.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Linux, UNIX (SUN, HP), Windows,
• Java, Python, C++, C, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell, MFC
• Oracle 12c, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Splunk, MongoDB, SQL 2000, MySQL, KNime,Neo4j WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat,
• Google Cloud Platform, JIRA, Confluence, CI/CD Tools, GIT, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Puppet, Chef, JUnit, JMeter, TestNG, Selenium, Security test tools i.e. WebInspect, Burp, Docker,
• BugDB, NetBeans IDE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redwood City, California

Senior Software Development Director

Responsibilities:

• Leading SOA QA Team, which has been delivering industry leading Cloud and On-premise SOA integration product suite which is a key component to Oracle's PaaS, SaaS Cloud Services and Fusion Middleware. The products are delivered on Public and Private Clouds, Oracle Cloud Machine and On-Premise customers using Agile and Scrum development processes.
• Currently delivering next generation of PaaS services i.e. Integration Cloud Service which lets users integrate Oracle SaaS applications ( CRM, HCM, Financial), Oracle Cloud Applications (Taleo, RightNow, Oracle Sales Cloud) and third party Cloud applications i.e. SalesForce, NetSuite, Workday on Oracle Cloud. Also delivering Oracle Streaming Analytics Cloud Service built using Kafka and Spark, API Management Cloud Service and SOA Cloud Service.
• Led and contributed to Usability experience testing on Oracle Public Cloud to find all issues impacting customer trials and usage.
• Implemented Scrum software development methodology with emphasis on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment by increasing test automation to over 120,000+ tests. This increased code coverage comprises of Security Vulnerability testing, System tests, Performance, Stress, Longevity tests, end-to-end customer Use cases, Accessibility, Resiliency, High Availability and Failover tests, Concurrency tests, Enterprise Deployment and Cluster tests. Cloud Services are also provisioned on Cloud, tested for Hot Patching and post provisioning. This has helped in releasing products on monthly cadence with higher quality and customer satisfaction.
• Built and scaled a very strong globally distributed team (US, India, China, UK and Argentina of 130+ engineers, managers and directors) by hiring, developing, mentoring, motivating, nurturing engineers, managers and directors, providing them strategic guidance and direction, and by focusing on results and deliverables. It is a highly productive, technically competent, customer centric focused team that is providing 7X24 coverage by following the sun model.
• Engaged with customer in various cycles during POCs, development and deployment, upgrade cycles, escalations, Customer forums, Beta programs and Customer Advisory Board meetings. The customer engagements helped in augmenting and improving tests coverage based on customers' feedback, projects, use cases and tests scenarios. This has resulted in further test coverage improvement of 20%+.
• Provided leadership for testing approaches, implementation and test automation to Partners at BristleCone, iWay, and Attunity to release jointly developed products.
• Delivered comprehensive product suite comprising of BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Service Bus, Stream Analytics, Complex Event Processor in IOT Cloud Service, Integration Insight Analytics, Business Activity Monitoring, Connectivity products (B2B, HealthCare Fast Path, Manage File Transfer), ERP, Technology and Cloud Adapters, Business Process Management, Workflow tools, Business Rules, Notification Service and Enterprise Service Scheduler, SOA JDeveloper (Designer tool), and SOA-Enterprise Manager (Deployment Management and Monitoring tool). These products were tested with clients on Mobile devices running on Android and iOS as well as desktops.
• Led major releases of FMW Suite comprising of 16+ Products over 3 years. The Fusion suite comprised of Weblogic Server, Identity Management Products, Business Intelligence, Portal, Enterprise Manger, JDeveloper.
• Led 3 major Fusion Middleware Releases, providing consultative QA guidance and strategic direction to 15 QA Teams (of 800-1000 engineers teams) and Development VPs and Directors, QA Architects, Cross Functional teams (Stress, Performance and High Availability), Documentation, Infrastructure (build) and Release Management teams. Instrumented release progress from product requirement definition to feature definition, effort estimation, test planning, product and test development progress. Reported bi-weekly QA progress status to Executive Vice-President based on Key Performance Metrics. All 3 Stack releases were delivered with higher quality and on targeted release dates.

Confidential, San Jose, California

Director, Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Led various QA teams which delivered BEA's leading Service Oriented Architecture and Integration product, including AquaLogic Service Bus, WebLogic Integration (WLI), AquaLogic SOA Management, Adapters, B2B solutions i.e. EDI, ebXML, RosettaNet, BPEL BPM solution and WorkList (products are based on latest industry standards i.e. Soap 1.2, Web Services, WSDL, XML, BPEL 2.0, XQuery standards).
• Worked with various cross functional teams comprising development managers, architects, product managers, marketing managers, program managers, quality assurance teams, documentation teams, infrastructure (build) teams, and release managers to deliver major and minor releases, maintenance packs, and service packs. Reviewed product specifications, tests plans and specifications thus ensuring delivered products meet specifications.
• Tracked release process from product requirement definition to feature definition, effort estimation, release definition, test planning, project planning, project tracking, deliverable dates, and contingency plans.
• Led the QA effort of partner QA teams at iWay, Cyclone and AmberPoint to release jointly developed products.

Confidential, Palo Alto, California

Senior Manager, Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• As a senior manager led multiple QA teams based at multiple locations in USA as well as in Pune and Bangalore in India, comprising of about 30 people, to deliver BusinessWorks Workflow, ActivePortal, B2B, Adapters and BAM products. Drove the test automation effort in the teams to over 40,000+ regression tests.
• Led the quality assurance team for integrating Physician portal with Practice Management Systems of leading vendors' i.e. Medical manager, Medic, IDX.
• Designed and developed a test suite for doing data exchange between various employers and insurance companies for SaaS application i.e. Benefit Central i.e. employees Benefit Administration Application.