Own product offering of Medicaid enrollment and payroll systems comprising .NET, Angular, DocuSign, NAV/BC, CRM, EDI, Azure Microservices.Responsible for and the custodian of the long-term technical strategy for the products within the portfolio.Collaborate with product management to continuously evolve the product portfolio and deliver value to the business.Build and maintain product solutions which will meet and exceed operating targets of reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and performance.Consistently challenge and reduce the development lead-times by ensuring appropriate balance of risks are built into delivery plans, whilst ensuring quality and service requirements are achieved/exceeded.Ensure accountability/ownership and the workflows of product development process steps are agreed and understood by cross teams.Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical solutions and approaches to product development.Develop and monitor key KPIs.Proactively drive team and project performance, identifying and championing Best Practice Software Development processesProvide input for strategic direction and manage tactical execution. Lead team of software and application developers (30+)Lead team of DevOps/Release engineers (5+) and provide direction on build and release related activities to manage the environments setup in Azure.Lead a team of QA members (25+) Design and develop applications using agile methodology and followed BDD, TDD, Agile.Introduce new tools for performance testing (OctoPerf), cross-browser testing (Browser Stack) for better user experience.Support IT Audits, Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery, SOC Compliance.Prepare IT Policy & Procedures and ensure the controls are in place. Engage in product forecasting and budgeting.Manage license costs for software used by IT teams.

• Drive the overall vision and strategy for quality and strive to continuously improve the development and quality processes. • Research emerging tools and technologies to incorporate in software development.• Leverage technical experience and depth to help engineering bring more automation and efficiency to the development process, for higher frequency high quality releases.• Reinforce best practices and influence and empower the development team to build quality into everything they do, driving a culture of quality across organizations.• Build a strong team with Quality Engineers and SDETs to improve quality in products and to help build new automation frameworks and maintain and improve existing ones.• Work cross-functionally with various stakeholders including product managers, development managers, Dev Ops engineers.• Demonstrate operational excellence, by way of managing continuous improvement programs and implementing standard tools and best practices.• Established annual Deployment/Release Calendar (collaborating with IT, SA and DEV Directors) depicting all milestones and deliverables throughout entire Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)• Provide estimates, schedules, resources, and oversight for all projects to ensure quality deliverables.• Implement new work item management system and preparing company-wide training- Azure DevOps• Create and maintain process manuals for cross-functional departments like QA Automation and DevOps.• Design and provide timely monthly quality control reports to upper management Provide in-house expertise on products to advise scope of new features, client configuration and customizations.• SOC and Compliance: Manage IT SOC controls.

QA manager leading and building QA teams, defining the team’s charters and objectives, determine and establish procedures and quality standards, shape the teams into highly successful testing teams and significantly contribute towards enhancing the overall QA delivery capabilities.Responsibilities:• Setup the QA team from scratch, the team size is 26 presently.• Propose, implement, and maintain QA processes and procedures.• Propose, implement, and maintain a review framework designed to determine QA participation in requirements analysis/technical design to create customized software test solutions.• Lead and support QA methodology implementations, improving process/system, and training end users as required.• Execute the testing effort for those applications, reports and interfaces that are determined to be owned by the QA team.

• Managed a portfolio in HR domain having applications like www.careers.microsoft.com• Responsible for managing 5 applications that need regular enhancements. Some of the applications were rewritten to embrace the latest technologies like Azure services, WCF, etc.• Collaborate with partners on the Product Management and Development teams, Solution delivery teams to understand specific areas of the design or code in more depth, which resulted in the resolution of multiple issues in assigned features.• Design test scenarios which are used to derive well-organized test cases that clearly identify the quality goals of the test plan, which results in productive and timely test cycles.• Effective resource allocation and timely project delivery• Domain expert for features within an application and was sought out by others to assist with problem solving or cross-training of others for feature area.• Helped mentor others, both formally and informally, on team processes and application features and/or technologies, which resulted in increased productivity for the team.• Using Sharepoint/VSTF for maintaining test artifacts• Performing extended role of “Build Engineer” for deployment in test environment.• Backend testing which involves writing complex queries in SQL Server 2005• Actively participate in UAT of all released and available in Redmond every time to facilitate users with the use of applications.

• Onsite UAT exposure: Participated in User Acceptance Testing for implementation of the project in Title Security Agency of Arizona (TSA) and Lawyer’s Title Agency of Arizona(LTAA) in USA. Main responsibility was to assist the users to work on the system and help them understand the functionality and meet their expectation. Successfully trained all the users on system leading to successful implementation of the project.• Reviewing Requirement specifications and giving sign off.• Preparing test cases against the specifications.• Code deployment using Tomcat• Executing the build for the test cases which includes functional testing, system testing.• To find, log and track bugs using JIRA.• Preparing Traceability Matrix.• Regression Testing.• Exploratory TestingSkills/Tools/Environment Used: • RIA(Rich Internet Application)• Java• Flex• SQL• Bug Tracking through JIRAOther Exposures:Participated as FAR member for CMM appraisal of the company. In this I represented the Testing team of our project to discuss the various standards and procedures followed by our team for CMM Level 4 appraisal.

• Software Quality assurance and testing. The main tool used for creating market research projects is Confirm-It which involves coding in the languages like ASP, VBScript and JavaScript.• The main responsibilities include thorough testing the projects made in Confirm-It so that they abide by the client requirements. This also includes collecting the test data to make sure that correct data is collected in the end. Sometimes, the delivery of the project also involves communicating with the client so that all the requirements are fulfilled.

Test case writing, Black Box testing, System testing, UAT testing