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Hyderabad, Telangana, India

● Manage a team of highly passionate test engineers who are tech-savvy in the area of MCU peripherals, Bootloader and Security testing.●Responsible for all management duties (resource loading, recruiting and retaining) of a highly skilled SQA team from scratch who will interact with a co-located SW Development Team as wellas with regional Program Managers and Applications Engineers.● Work closely with stakeholders including PMs, Architects to understand the business requirements.● Drive the backlog working in close partnership with PMs and stakeholders● Lead a team of software test engineers, setting goals and priorities, allocating resources, assigning tasks and sprints and ensuring delivery on time and budget● Hire and grow a team of test engineers. Manage their performance reviews, coach and mentor the team and oversee the career development of the team members● Participate in architecture, design & code reviews● Drive automation for different projects on bootloader, MCU peripherals and Security. Advocate clean code and clean architecture principles in software development● A problem solver and a hands-on person leading the team from the front and finding solutions using technology and logical thinking● Executing and regularly presenting the progress of the projects to local and global leadership.● Help moderate different events at global level.

Bengaluru Area, India

● Developed and enforced best architectural practices for automation. Prepared architectural requirements to meet current and future testing needs. Applied QA best practices and actively look for process improvements.● Defined the QA Strategy. Designed, developed, test and implemented Automation Framework and infrastructure to optimize the testing needs of API, windows, web and mobile-based applications. ● Lead the migration of web and mobile based automation to Robot framework thus enhancing the productivity of test engineers.● Owned, managed code coverage metrics and analysed coverage gaps to achieve coverage targets.● Restructured the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and VM infra to drastically enhance the test feedback and reliability.● Lead a global team in identifying a Test case management tool which can fit across different product divisions. Evaluated multiple tools, Identified and maintained qTest TCM including creating projects, customizing workflows, and training the entire organization. Create and maintain test cases and test data using qTest.● Work closely with Development, Product Management, Support, Marketing and Service teams to manage risks/issues to ensure successful delivery, with high quality and reliability.● Plan and execute Field Trails at customer locations globally and capture the results, feedback and customer satisfaction.● Identified, monitored quality metrics and generated centralised automated metrics reports using qTest for stakeholders. Deliver/Present artefacts as required at Gate reviews.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

● Lead a team of automation testers ensuring testing standards and guidelines as specified in test plan.● As Scrum Master, facilitate sprint ceremonies, protected team from outside distractions, impediments while maintaining focus on product backlog. Worked closely with product owner in backlog management.● Developed efficient quality automation frameworks and infrastructures. Resolve all the issues in the test suites.● Designed automation test cases in C# for both functional and non-functionals scenarios. Architected and implemented test cases that can be reused across different products.● Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins which helped in reducing the time to feedback from 3 days to 15min with Smoke tests and 4hr for complete test suite and cycle time by 3 months.● Perform automation framework assessment and setup roadmap for improving the maturity. Conducted and participated in RCA’s and usability studies.● Developed automated test strategies with defined measurable metrics to gauge success.● Supported the Manager by engaging with different teams and leverage my test automation expertise. ● Manage defect tracking and provide informative updates as requested.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Design and develop automation framework and white box testing in C# for CTF. Played an active role in adopting Agile-TDD software development.• Created Test plan, Test Strategy and got it reviewed with Development and Business teams. Used different Test Case Design Techniques.• Collaborate closely with development teams to deliver software releases with an ever-increasing level of quality• As a developer implemented new features, fixed the issues reported from the customer.• Successfully implemented a POC using HTML5, JS, Android and integrated with the H/W. • Acted as a Scrum Master for a year.Achievements• Received Individual Excellence, Team Excellence awards, multiple spot awards, during my tenure for efficiently contributing towards the testing of CTF framework and with just 1 bug slippage in 4 years. CTF is awarded as the best platforming software globally by Honeywell.● Initiated a POC to enhance the existing desktop application to Mobile platform, completed, showcased to the higher management and received a certification of appreciation for the same and the POC was converted into a New project.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Client: DRDO. Developed a ATE for Cavitation Tunnel Facility to test the design and performance of the propellers. Analysed the customer requirements and complexities within H/W, S/W and identified the tools required. Designed, developed the software in Borland C++, tested and deployed at the client location 2 months prior to the deadline. As a Senior Manager Coordinated development task for cross-location teams. Synchronised development, testing and documentation for achieving project goals. Participated in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development and code review on LabVIEW for the DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM. Define a test plan and followed up on the execution of testing and collecting all the required metrics. Enforced Quality standards. Co-ordinate with the client and deployed the software on time.

Hyderabad Area, India

Design analysis, System integration, Configuration, Development, Manual Testing of different S/W application and H/W modules. Test design and execution. Creating the Test summary report. Involved in development activities when required. Mentor the trainee engineers. Train the clients. Contributed to different high profile DRDO projects.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 1St

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