Akshay Deodhar Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Google Cloud

Mountain View, Ca, Us

ChromeOSTransformation lead for ChromeOS &. Android Compatibility Test Operations.Overall Reduced Lab Usage by 70% and Reduced testing time and resources required for release by 63% over my tenure of 3 years.Release Process Optimizations: - Reduced time to test (android compatibility) and release ChromeOS by ~63%.- Reduced testing operations budget by about 40%.- Worked on training and transitioning key responsibilities to low cost geo teams.New Product Initiative:- Multi year plan that highlights key milestones and testing maturity req. as the new product evolves.- Worked with various engineering, TPM and Product Management teams to get alignment on the plan.- Set up foundational set of automated tests and test processes to orient the operations towards future success.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

ChromeOSLab Testing Optimizations:- Multi quarter 3 phased approach to making testing more optimized and efficient.- Reduced Lab Machine Testing by 70% without affecting compatibility or quality.- Saved $2.4M / year in resource cost [ electricity, machine replacement, labor and other costs] as a result of the effort.- Provided long term solution by using 8 different optimizations technique.- Curbed future linear testing growth to much reduced sustainable growth.- Transitioned test beds to use more stable test infra for Camera oriented operations.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Business Communications:- TL/M for a team of 5 Software Engineers.- Own team strategy, yearly planning, performance review.- Align with engineering teams to provide solutions to improve on time to test and release.- Team supported 3 client surfaces and multiple backend teams.

Mountain View, California, Us

Lead quality releases for the effort to create new generation payroll platform(API) that decomposes old monolith system. New platform is REST based and has Service Oriented Architecture that supports internal and external clients.*Drive and own quality for the complete new API system*Define various Test Metrics, best practices for overall improvement of quality.*Come up with innovative ways to solve technical challenges. - Conceptualize new tools or improvise existing tools to help broader teams.* Custom Test Framework in JAVA around REST Assured and TestNG, improvements and adoption.* Advanced testing techniques like WireMock * improved simultaneous use of same proxy and improved test run reliability by open source contribution to WireMock. http://wiremock.org/about/* Mentor, help in hiring and coaching junior engineers and new hires to help them contribute at higher level*Increase productivity of QA Analyst by finding efficiencies in testing process and developing tools that reduces time for regression and so time to deployment.*Tools: Java, TestNG, Gradle, Splunk, JIRA, Git,

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sr. QA Engineer working on native applications for real time communication.Ownership of quality for real time communication product on Mobile [ Android ] platform.Lead a team of 4 test engineers to see product quality improve over every monthly release.Lead remote test engineers, assignments. Motivated to contribute at a higher level. Yahoo! Messenger - Android - improved play store user rating from 2 to 4.5Created test strategy and test plan according to the need of the product in evolution journey. Improved testing efficiency by introducing various automation test techniques.UI automation, Acceptance tests , product stability improvement via constant feedback from automated tests.Yahoo! Hub - Androidowned quality of a then "whatsapp" competitor that was a new product inside Yahoo! that was based on "messaging over IP + SMS" product.Involved in various aspects of test planning from the concept over to the first product out to production.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Glendale, Az, Us

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics And Communication

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering