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Santa Clara, California, Us

Engineering leader with 20 years of experience in product design, development, managing engineering programs, and customer support engagementDefine and set standards for engineering rigor and help cultivate an engineering-driven culture to continuously improve quality based on current metrics.Implemented DevOps methodologies and automation to increase technical agility rapidly and improve the productivity and efficiency of the Engg teamsFostered collaboration and strategies with Product management and stake holdersOwn Test Engineering architecture, Infra and automation related capabilitiesWork with DevOps to improve and automate CI/CD & test environmentsCollaborate with Support & Dev teams in process optimization, customer issue analysis & resolutionResponsible for product qulaity (stability, availability, benchmarking - perf. & PEN tests and scans)Partner with Product Management, DevOps and Program Management in release planning

Santa Clara, California, Us

Implementing Network Automation road map for Infoblox product lines - DDI (DNS, DHCP & IPAM), Cloud (AWS, Azure, Openstack, GCP, Ansible, Terraform and Docker platform), SaaS, Reporting and Threat Analytics. My team works on building the best possible automation solutions for products to optimize processes, reduce test cycle times to deliver products on time to meet business goals.Define and set standards for engineering rigor and help cultivate an engineering driven culture to continuously improve quality based on current metrics.

Dublin 2, Ie

Define and set standards for engineering rigor and help cultivate an engineering-driven culture to continuously improve quality based on current metrics and as QE- Automation point of contact for senior leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Led a wide range of activities such as providing automation assessments, strategy, roadmap, and implementing strategies based customer needs and technology to increase risk & test coverage. Drive knowledge agendas and community engagement within automation practice and guide and support practice managers. Supervised project delivery teams in:• Implementation and transforming to agile practices and CI/CD• Prepare long, mid and near term business strategy for the automation practice• Establish and stabilize, optimize the automation implementions

San Jose, Ca, Us

(Engineering & IT)Lead the E2E business flow Adobe Subscription Model agile process, tools & test automation to improve coverage, time-to-market, efficiency, and effectiveness for eCommerce.Evaluate the testing processes, resolve discrepancies and make improvements for effective testing ensuring adoption of test processes. Establish QA best practices and processes and ensure compliance to the same utilizing metrics and training. Own the overall test architecture, ALM & Automation tools, and technologies selection for the QA. Developing QA approaches that fit the overall strategy, overseeing the execution of test plans, and monitoring the progress of testingDesign, develop and implement tools to automation frameworks for the Adobe subscription model. Overall QA architecture and engineering considerations. Provide technical insights based on product/web app quality considerations to product/web app management ( ALM Solutions and Integration )Understand the best technology and tools to address DEV/QA processes and concerns. Reviewing vendor products and services to ensure all technologies properly integrate together. Lead PoC, integration, and user acceptance testing.Identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support technology solutions for software development, testing, and test automation organizations. Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of ALM systems.ACHIEVEMENTS:1. Reduced SAP test execution effort by 83%2. Reduction in critical defects reaching production by automating E2E business scenarios3. Automated Test Data Preparation tool reduced overall test cycle time by 20%4. Automated SAP Regression Tests to reduce - SAP Refresh, Upgrade and Release Cycle times

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Work included test framework design and development for various applications, input to requirements in terms of testability & dealing with clarifications, risk & issue logs, presenting project reports (including stats), etc.( ALM Architect )A key player in the Application Life Cycle Management process customization, Integration and process automation in requirements, SCM, QA & Build management. Implemented effective Application Life cycle Management solution starting from requirement capture to product release.Implemented effective ALM solutions for large European Finance, Retail and IT Organisations. ( Pre-Sales )Pre-sales activities like test process consulting, responding to RFPs/RFIs, PoC and demonstrating test automation experiences and capabilities during client visits.ACHIEVEMENTS:1. Investment Banking - Credit Derivative Apps (reduced manual QA effort by 40%)2. E2E Warehouse Management System (RedPrairie) - reduced test cycle time by 25%3. Fuel Card Services (eCommerce) - reduced the manual test data entry effort by 80%4. ERP (CRM & Finance) - successfully executed CRM Customization UAT to reduce business risks and prod defects5. Telecom Billing Products - automated call handling tests to reduce manual test efforts by 50%6. Developed a tool for standardizing Testing as Service to manage shared QA resource pools - improved the SLA timelines and productivity by 15%

Montreal, Qc, Ca

A track record of successful project delivery of high quality software across a number of industry sectors; including financial, investment banking, government, retail, telecom and commercial software. Successfully delivered test automation packs using QTP, Selenium, SOA, JSON, XML, Continuous Build, VBScript, TestNG, NAnt, C Sharp, Java, JavaScript and Coded UI( Pre-Sales ) Pre-sales activities like test process consulting, responding to RFPs/RFIs and demonstrating test automation experiences to clients. Preparation of value-based customer proposals, demonstrating clear test automation ROI business cases.I have been directly involved with Pre-Sales management and strategic wins (GBP 1m) in one of Logica UK accounts.

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Successfully delivered effective automation framework using VS2010, C#, SVN, Bamboo and Telerik WebUI in an complex web applications-integrated environment. Automation framework running in excess of 400 functional regression tests every day in agile continuous build environment.(Pre-Sales)I have been directly involved with PreSales management and strategic win in this Logica USA account (multi year test automation project).

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Successfully delivered Test Automation solutions, using a broad range of tools and in all kinds of environments to achieve cost savings and efficiencies much more rapidly. Developed test automation frameworks based on a clients' unique set of needs and capability at below client locations.1. Major Investment Bank - CREDS, AMAZON, and TRAMS application testing•Performed functional testing of CDS, IR swaps, curves, total return swaps, exotics, and trade capture applications•Also, undertook functional testing for trade blotters/ status, instruments, counterparties, and reference data modules in middle and front office environment•Setup system test environment for credit derivatives applications2. One of major banks in UK - UK•The aim of the project was to manage test environments, tools, processes, and people to decrease costs, enhance quality, and accelerate the speed of testing for Barclays’ Global Retail & Commercial Banking divisions (globally)•Tasked with implementing standard test processes, metrics, and reports for all projects; and performing demonstrations/ providing training for new enhancements 3. One of Major Retail Organisation - UK•Liaised with third party vendors to produce end-to-end integration test data for large test team•Implemented re-usable test data generation scripts to download masked production data and assisted the testing team in resolving technical issues4. Major Telecom Company - Australia•Managed functional testing for mobile pre-paid billing and OSS/BSS applications and developed an automation test, regression pack for pre-paid data billing systems – setup the system and UAT test environment •Developed a test approach and regression testing strategy, defined test scope, assisted quality reviews, and produced test completion reports to obtain UAT sign-off

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Direct line management of 10 staff, including the application development and functional testing, day-to-day career and performance management.

Web based application development on Microsoft technologies - ASP. NET web developmentUnit testingDefect fixes