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California, United States

Drive the maturity of Mashery quality and release engineering teams to an enterprise grade state that fosters innovation, predictability, and creativity.Build and lead the Mashery QA and Release teams.Coordinate QA resources needed for each scrum team effort and weekly releasesTriage issues during the release process to ensure resolution and systemic root cause removalManage complex program level test and infrastructure projectsProvide objective information about the quality of each release based on a set criteriaHelp establish policies around release activities and make decisions based on those policiesAct as a change agent within the organization to improve quality, quantity, and agilityAttract a top notch team of quality engineers and provide career guidance and growth opportunities for team members

Head of Engineering Responsibilities:- Report to CEO- Implement and manage all product delivery operations: development, test, release, monitor and support.- Convert business requirements into software architecture & implement software solutions to release SaaS mobile brainstorming platform.- Operate at all levels: hands-on architecture plans creation, engineering execution, hire the onshore and offshore engineering teams, manage the teams, update the company and the board on product readiness and represent the company with customers.- Continue the on-going quality, operational stability and performance improvements of all DiscoveryCast engineering services.Accomplishments: Quality AssuranceBuild, facilitate and manage high quality software delivery process by implementing engineering standards and procedures for development, test, deployment and monitoring. Assemble onshore and offshore development, test/QA and technical support teams from the ground up. Implemented Agile software development method for delivering high quality SaaS brainstorming platform, written in PHP, HTML5, Java running in the AppFog cloud, accessible via mobile devices. Implement Rally Agile Application Lifecycle Management platform to collect project requirements and test case suites and monitor the progress.Put into practice white and black box automated test approach. Implement Selenium automated tool for regression, stress and monitoring test process for the platform. Built in-house QA test lab.Ensure the on-going quality, operational stability and performance of all core platform services.Technical SupportImplement pre-release Training procedures for local and international Sales and Marketing departments.Start internship program, using students from Hult and USF Universities.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

VMware Acquires SlideRocket!!!Accomplishments: Put together quality assurance process for testing and releasing SaaS, mobile presentation platform.Reduced “test and release” time and budget by implementing automated processes and by moving QA engineering processes from off-shore in China to in-house laboratory by hiring local engineers. Created and maintained test strategies, test plans and track test coverage; maintain testing environments. Prepared test plans, procedures and acceptance tests for all testing phases of the project. Planned and implemented functional, regression, stress and performance testing. Generated detailed reports for test results, indicating strong and weak points of products and made recommendations for product improvements.Worked with Product Management and Development teams on set ting up software schedules and deliverables.

Accomplishments: Developed technical road map and organizational plan for testing online marketing tool built as SaaS platform.Plan the creation of Quality Assurance engineering department from ground up.Plan and put together Technical process (Agile methodology)

San Jose, Ca, Us

Started as BCN Systems, Inc an early-stage startup company and was acquired by Cisco systems.Engineering Manager Accomplishments: Put together the entire quality assurance process from scratch for testing next generation of mid-range router - ASR 1000 Aggregation Services Router. Created and maintained test strategies, test plans and track test coverage; maintain Dev testing environments.Planned and implemented functional, regression, stress and performance testing.Worked with Product Management and Development team to set product schedules and deliverables. Setup and worked with offshore regression test team located in India.Created test matrices and bug status metrics reports.

Accomplishments: Implemented the entire QA process for testing applications written in Java, C and C++ in the client/server architecture; Client runs on embedded Win CE OS and communicates with backend infrastructure, which is build with following technologies: Weblogic, Tomcat, Oracle and Crystal Reports servers via CDMA, 802.11 and satellite modems.Benchmarked web application performance using Mercury Interactive Load Runner automation tool.Created and administered Build and Release process.Identified and tracked servers bottlenecks and suggested solutions for performance improvementsOptimized performance of MobileAria Weblogic servers using Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) process by providing a framework for each resource cost as a function of any usage profile, service hardware: CPU, cache, system bus, RAM, disk subsystem, and network.

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Build, facilitate and manage QA and Technical Support Departments from the ground up. Develop QA standards and procedures, define and measure software quality and performance metrics and manage the entire QA process for testing and tuning ChemConnect portal.Implement and maintain File maker Pro database to manage project test case suites.Chose, purchased and implemented Silk automated tool for regression stress and performance test process for all company productsGenerate detailed reports for test results indicating strong and weak points of products and make recommendations for product improvements.Build in-house QA test lab.Started summer QA internship program using students from SFSU.