Ashok Kumar Selvaraj Email & Phone Number

Result-driven QA professional with 20+ years of experience in Quality Assurance with the Security domainknowledge, 10+ years of Manager experience with establishing in-house quality standards, procedures andtechnical skills to execute Functional, Automation, Performance, and Security testing projects, Proven abilityto direct and improve quality programs, reducing defects, and improving overall efficiency and productivity.Key skills:Fortanix is a leading multi-cloud data security company. I am currently working as Director of QA and managing the entire Fortanix product release.- Experience in managing different product line QA managers, scrum masters and technical leads- Defined and established the quality process across the team and implemented a unified automation framework and automated nightly deployments.- Reduced the overall automation CI execution time from 12 hours to 3 hours- Increased the automation coverage up to 80% and reduced the manual tester headcount- Handled bi-weekly and monthly SaaS release and On-prem release- Tracked key performance indicator (KPI) metrics and improved the overall product quality- Handled customer escalation and reduced the overall customer escalation bugs up to 30 %- Grown up the QA team from 3 to 20 in 6 months- Defined strict guidelines for release approval, story acceptance, Sev1 Escalation, and patches- Experience in recruiting, leading, mentoring, and developing a talented, high-performing team of technical Quality Engineers- 10+ years of experience in Managing 20+ members QA team and a year of experience in leading a development team- Worked closely with Development, Product Management, Support, and Sales to prioritise assignments and manage risks to ensure successful delivery- Hands-on work Experience in JavaScript, java, Selenium, web applications, Security test, Performance test and Automation framework- Strong work experience in Coverity, CI/CD, build integration and deployment tool like Git, Jenkins, Ansible- Excellent work experience in Windows/Unix servers, Third-party applications, VMware, Hyper-V virtualisation and AWS cloud technologies- Strong work experience in Agile / Scrum processes and expertise in JIRA, confluence board creation and management- Excellent communication, organizational, debugging and troubleshooting skills- Ability to handle multiple teams and projects simultaneously- Excellent working knowledge in Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), SSL and Security domain product

Listed skills include Test Planning, Software Quality Assurance, Agile Methodologies, Performance Testing, and 11 others.

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  Director Of Engineering (Qa)

  Fortanix

  Mar 2023 - Present - India

  As a Director of QA, I manage the entire Fortanix products release ( Confidential computing, Confidential AI, Data Security, Data Privacy ) and the QA team.