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As the Director of Engineering, my role involves collaborating with the Sales team and CxOs to strategize the company's growth. Key responsibilities include driving revenue growth, ensuring smooth delivery of client projects, fostering new customer relationships, exploring new business opportunities, visiting customer locations with the Sales leadership, and acting as a bridge between customers and the project team to ensure seamless delivery without disruptions.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

As the LOB leader in cloud technology for the company, my primary role involves developing and implementing next-generation cloud engineering and DevOps solutions. I also focus on expanding the company's cloud practitioner community, maintaining client relationships, and engaging with industry analysts.Additionally, I lead the transformation of functions across the business unit to ensure future readiness, emphasizing robust processes and structures to support growth in industry segments and digital areas.I oversee various cloud and security initiatives, collaborating with Product Managers, Product Architects, and Engineering teams to address shared challenges. My responsibilities include shaping solutions, implementing best practices, cloud migration strategies and advocating for SAAS application development and operations, ultimately contributing to the successful delivery of high-quality products to our customers.

Pune Area, India

During my tenure as an Engineering Manager, I held the responsibility of offering strategic direction and supervision for the successful execution of intricate software development projects. My main emphasis was on guaranteeing the delivery of high-quality solutions that not only met but exceeded client expectations. To accomplish this, I supervised resource allocation, project planning and budgeting, and the implementation of engineering best practices.

Pune Area, India

As an Associate Engineering Manager, I oversaw project requirements, coordinated resources, and provided technical direction for client engagements from definition to implementation. I ensured teams followed procedures, mitigated risks, and maintained control over engineering efforts to meet established timeframes.

Pune

As a Principal SQA Engineer, I successfully led the planning, development, and delivery of multiple releases of the Veritas Cluster Server. Through my leadership, I reduced the defect backlog by over 75%, resulting in less than 1% visible issues at the product launch. Collaborating closely with Engineering, Product Management and Program Management teams, I gained a deep understanding of the product vision and effectively prioritized and developed software release planning. Additionally, I spearheaded the development of strategies based on the analysis of requirements and design documents, resulting in an overall increase in coverage by 30%.Furthermore, I maintained regular communication with senior management, providing measurable input that led to the implementation of new processes and standards, resulting in a 25% increase in efficiency.

Pune

As a Senior SQA Engineer, I led the planning, development, and execution of quality assurance processes, tracked progress, and coordinated with cross-functional teams. I identified automation opportunities and worked on end-to-end quality assurance for multiple VCS and VOM releases on AIX, HP-UX, and Linux platforms.

Pune Area, India

As an SQA Engineer, I designed and developed validation cases for VCS features and have hands-on experience in installing, upgrading, and configuring Veritas Cluster Server on multiple platforms. I conducted various types of assessment, including manual and automated, on applications such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase, NFS, and Apache with VCS. I reported issues promptly and logged them into the Etrack defect tracking tool.

Pune Area, India

As an Associate SQA engineer, I installed, configured, and validated VCS and HP-UX. I conducted various assessments, including smoke, functional, GUI, regression, end-to-end, and production verification assessments. Additionally, I installed and evaluated Willow Cluster.

Indore Area, India

As a System Administrator, I managed computer vendors and procured various computer parts at a cost savings of 15%. In addition, I worked as part of the System Admin team to define and implement IT recovery plans for servers and workstations, resulting in a 20% reduction in downtime during system failures. I also played a key role in maintaining and improving the information technology plan at the client site, resulting in a 25% increase in overall system efficiency. Furthermore, I was responsible for managing backup systems, Linux servers, Windows PCs, patch management, and network maintenance, ensuring 100% compliance with customer AMC requirements.

Computer Hardware And Networking Professional, Computer Hardware And Networking

Bachelors, Commerce

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Project Management