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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Manage 30+ Private Cloud Platform services globally (Paris) to ensure they are aligned with Production grade standards and implement the new features that meet customer needs over time. Lead teams of 30+ to ensure punctual delivery of high-quality products and manage Program increment Planning Responsible for product vision, strategy, portfolio management, roadmap, backlog and implementation of adequate products Identifying new product opportunities based on in-depth market research Leading Program Increment Planning every 10 weeks with Global teams Partner with design, development, engineering teams on design concepts and product iterations Gathered customer feedback from PI demos and worked with product teams to define roadmaps for future PI’s Measure product adoption at platform level through a set of key indicators Maintain and develop product presentation / communication kits for Pro sev

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Started New Feature team and defined the Product Vision, future Roadmap & Scope. As part of SAFe Framework, evolving the Product in PI Planning with global Cloud Platform services.Introduced groundbreaking product at global banking Applications:Managed concept-to-launch as Open Source solution enabling real-time performance for all internal applications and sets path for cloud transformation. Completed development and global product launch of “CACHING” solution for all BL’s. Led development of a suite of CACHING features with underline technology as REDIS, providing bank customers with the ability to complete fast & Secure Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations. Excelled at gathering feedback and requirements; communicating needed changes to development team; and overseeing seamless, high-quality rollouts to on-time and on-budget conclusion. Developed a deep understanding of the business objectives of internal and external stakeholders; evangelized the product vision and built trust by maintaining an accurate and achievable roadmap

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Project is to develop and maintain iOS mobile applications for crew to submit & manage faults.Prepared Test Strategy & Creating Test Plan for each release Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination Ability to multitask and prioritize work to meet deadlines

Dublin, Ohio Us

• Responsible for the ongoing support and sustainability of all QA services and Service Level Agreements• Driving QA implementation and adherence to standard processes while supporting continuous improvement• Managing testing activities concurrently on multiple projects• Initiating JAD session to collect clear requirements from stakeholders • Working closing with dev & cross teams to get the impact analysis for release & prod defects• Requirement analysis requires meeting/brainstorming with Business Analysts and Technical Lead to ensure that the testing team has complete knowledge of all the requirements in a current release. • Preparation of Test Plan, Test Strategy and Estimation documents • Conduct Test Review and Defect Triage meetings with Solution Owner, Business Analyst, Developers and other stakeholders. • Review test cases and test scripts developed by offshore team • Leading Automation and Manual Test Development and Test Execution activities.• Co-ordinate with different teams at onshore to collect/prepare data required for test execution.• Testing 20+ reports for different report ordering applications • Implemented DevOps in multiple projects• Responsible for all QA deliverables for multiple Build/Run Projects• Signing off on the Product for Deployment to Production environment. • Preparing and circulating Test Status Reports (TSR) to the Project Managers, Testing Segment Manager, and Testing Team members.• Supporting Deployment Activities at onshore.• Configured Sauces Labs for Cross browser testing• Migrated ALM to JIRA• Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Preparing & executing Test plan and getting reviewed by Business Partners & PM• Provides test deliverable's specific to the project releases and Co-ordinates with impacted teams• Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, (UAT ) User Acceptance Testing and End to End Testing• Execute Automation scripts using Ruby\Cucumber and analyzing the test reports and fixing the scripts • Used HP Quality Center for Defect Management Tool• Demonstrating the working functionality to all the stakeholders as part of shown and tell• Tested the application in highly dynamic environment with sprint team using Agile methodology• Ability to multitask and prioritize work to meet deadlines• Implemented Page Object Model Automation framework with ruby, Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber.• Involved in functional, black box testing, negative testing and compatibility testing• Used Hudson as a Continuous Integration server to configure jobs that executes the scripts unattended and shared the results daily.• Participated in Walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically.• Responsible for keeping up with the test schedule and interacting with the team(Both offshore and onshore) to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect reportsTested the application in highly dynamic environment with sprint team using Agile methodology.• Test Strategy Walkthrough with all the stakeholders• Responsible for creating risk book by prioritizing the features based on business need to be tested at first during system testing phase• Working with the stake holders to resolve their issues and improve the testing processes by working hand-in-hand with them. Creating Test Status reports/Defect reports and providing test metrics to the upper management to ensure QA standards and processes are met.• Experience with coordinating End-to-End testing, this included coordinating with different project teams

Bengaluru Area, India

Yellowstone QA Team is involved in testing the Trading Application which enables the end-user to trade different categories like Stocks, Options• Involved in Test cases design, Executing Test cases and logging Defects in HP ALM/ Quality Center • Responsible and Accountable for all the deliverables related to Project• Involved in creation of Test Plan, Test cases, Traceability Matrix and Test Data for all the releases• Ensured that testing environments, applications and tools are functional during the start of release• Executing the regression scripts using QTP automation tool• Co-ordinate and assign the work accordingly to team members• To monitor and track the progression for each project of every release • Lead daily status meeting with Onshore on the defects and issues found• Provide Daily status report to Onshore for all the projects during execution phase• Provide weekly status reports to Business

Bengaluru Area, India

Testing the INTEL Software Management Software in various types of Operating Systems like All windows and Linux flavors, Win PE & EFI on INTEL Itanium /Xeon processor based servers• Involved in Test cases design, Executing Test cases, Finding Defects and Defect regression.• Managing, mentoring and training new joiners as well as team members• Testing involves SCSI, SAS, SATA and RAID configuration.• Benchmark testing for different brands of servers.• Responsible for Intel Server management software testing on Microsoft Windows, Redhat Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise server OS and Extensible firmware interface.• Preparing & maintaining test setup and environment• Tracking daily status report , defects & helping to resolve the technical problems to team

Ottawa, Canada Area & Bengaluru Area, India

Testing of video surveillance software, product for one of the leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications for loss prevention, risk mitigation, improved security and operational efficiency. QA Team involves in Testing the client tools available with the suite provide an array of capabilities designed to enhance productivity and effectiveness for security and loss-prevention staff, fraud investigators, operations managers and IT personnel alike. Targeted applications include Live Monitoring Console, Evidence Manager, Evidence Reviewer and Administrator Console.• Played vital role in testing Functionality of Video Surveillance Software on Server/Client/DVR’s• Test cases Designing and Execution and logging the defects• Maintaining test setup and test environment• Documenting software results and Tracking Bugs through Bugzilla.• Work allocation and monitoring the work progress• Attending team meetings & Bug review meetings at Customer Site • Mentoring the team on setting up the test environment & handling and maintaining the VMware server • Helping the team on resolving the Hardware and software related issues

Cochin Area, India & Bengaluru Area India

Development and Maintaining Original Equipment Manufacturer product for one of the leader in Customizing the Toshiba Multi Functional Peripheral Utilities according to the requirement of OEM vendors. OEMTeam is to customize and test the OEM specific changes. System testing of the individual modules will be tested for the OEM specific changes and the major features will be exercised to identify the errors in the end-to-end functionality of the OEM product. OEMs are manufacturers who resell another company's product under their own name and branding.• Played Vital role on setting up the AS400 test setup and environment • Preparing, Executing & maintaining test scenarios and environment and tracking defects in Bugzilla.• Submission of HCT test logs to Microsoft for WHQL certification. • Performing basic UI and overall Functionality testing of printer driver and client utilities.• Played vital role in Testing, Installing AS400 & AIX on IBM Server• Testing web application, client-server, Roles in creation and execution of testing processes and bug documentation • preparing daily status report , schedule tracking , providing technical guidance to team • Maintaining the Windows, Linux, Novell, Citrix, & IBM AS/400 Servers in QA Lab. • Helping in ROM updating the Controllers (MFP’s)

Chennai Area, India

• Worked as a Customer Support Engineer, Installation and Configuration of system and application software. • Act as front line interface to users, performing end user training and support on operating system, application software issue. • Providing technical support on Win2K servers/clients, MS Exchange servers and clients, Lotus Notes. • Handling various network devices like Cisco routers & switches, Leased Line modems etc.