SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with 14+ years of experience,excellent communication and people management skills,accustomed to working in complex, project - based environments& ability to handle multiple stakeholders.
• Well conversant in Project Management, Software Development Lifecycle, Reporting & MIS and testing

HIGHLIGHTS

• Skilled in project management of telecom and capacity implementation (telecom and Cloud) domains.
• Proficient in designingtest strategies, developing test plans and executing test cases.
• Hands on experience in unit, integration, regression and user acceptance testing methodologies, both manual and automated (HP Quality Center - now HP ALM)
• Experience of delivering Capacity Management services for transmission network, Cisco UCS based virtualization infrastructure (vCloud/vCenter/IaaS/PaaS), Storage and Backup which includes writing business cases, setting up capacity reporting, report analysis and project management of capacity implementation and expansion projects
• Proven expertise in building and maintaining relationships across geographies and teams
• Skilled in MS Excel, MS Access, VBA based automation and creating effective PowerPoint presentations
• Strong ability to learn and adapt quickly as well as work independently

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Test lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordination with solution architects for test plan creation and execution strategy (Unit, Regression, Integration)
• Collaborate with SAP Functional Leads for test scenarios identification and development of test cases, testing templates and upload to HP-ALM
• Daily status reporting

Sr. Team Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for licensing requirements of the Shared& dedicated platforms Microsoft, VMWare, Citrix etc., capacity management of the Cloud based Virtualization infrastructure andmonthly license reporting
• Developed capacity and license dashboard for senior management (COO, CFO, VP - Ops, VP- Solution Design),monthly reporting presentationsand investment proposals to the financial, marketing and operations heads.
• Along with resource capacity mgmt, implemented service capacity management for Customer dedicated platforms.
• Managed the Data Center Infrastructure Audit project and streamlined the processes.
• Determined best testing solution amongst various options for automating license reporting and implemented test strategy to customize software solutions like SNOW

Sr. Team Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the optimization projects for Storage and Virtualization working on ideas/ devising methods for optimal and cost effective use of resources, promoting team’s visibility
• Managed multiple Capacity implementation projects as Project Manager from business case to project closure
• Oversee test plan execution in HP-ALM for a new module generation in XNG.
• Partner and vendor collaboration with Vendors and partnerslike Cisco, EMC

Sr. Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the capacity budget for Virtualization and Storage - Spend tracking and budget forecasting
• Improvised financial reporting to supportsenior management decision making
• Instrumental in developing and standardizing processes and then documenting the Level 3 and Level 4 processes
• Worked as a QA test manager on a data warehousing project (Netezza and Business Objects). Co-ordinated with multiple teams to gather and collate requirements, developed test plans, identified business testers and implemented test strategy.
• Enhanced skill set with PowerCLI cmdlets and Powershell scripts for data extraction.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualized the reporting setup for IT & Network capacity management for Virtualization infrastructure
• Develop excellent understanding of the backend infrastructure architecture design forVirtualization services, identify monitoring parameters, their data sources and standardize key reporting parameters and setup reports
• Engineered resource, business capacity management and testing strategy of COLT's Virtualization backend infrastructure (Cisco UCS)& Storage (EMC and Solidfire)
• Initiated a Sales Pipeline project to gather inputs from various sales team and integrate them into the forecasting model used for demand forecast
• Monitoring and analyzing infrastructure usage trends and create business cases and secure finance approvals by highlighting the cost impact of capacity needs Vs the projected revenue
• Interact with the approved Vendors to decide on Inventory strategies based on COLTs forecast, maximizing benefits from periodic promotional schemes and end to end order management

Sr. Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Automated the as-is MIS reports that were earlier generated manually (Platform- Oracle 8, MS-Access, MS-Excel)
• Developed small data processing tools to reduce man hours required for various small tasks.
• Created an Internal Business Case Management tool with financial reporting for IT& Networking operations teams (Platform- Oracle, MS-Access, MS-Excel)
• Test lead for the customization of XNG network software: test planning and created test scripts for scenarios, team work with other functional teams for integration testing

Engineer/Sr. Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed software (Platforms: C#.Net, ASP.Net, JavaScript, SQL Server) for various departments of Spectranet as well as for clients outside Spectranet involving the complete software development lifecycle from gathering system requirements to testing.
• Executed test cases for client server and web based applications manually and using tools (Mercury Quality Center)
• Provided technical support to Internet Data Center for software, website and database related issues
• Formulation of policies for implementation of ISO 27001 across the organization and documented as per standard.
• Conducted audits to ensure workflow and documentation to be in accordance to ISO 9001:2000 guidelines