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Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

• Worked on Cloud to Cloud backup SaaS product enabling MSPs to provide their customers secure and reliable access/recovery to any point-in-time data
• Designed and streamlined testing strategies to enable delivery of quality product to the field
• Provided realistic test strategies and estimates to the product design team as part of roadmap planning
• Strived continuously to develop automation in parallel to feature development to keep test coverage as close to complete as possible
• Reorganized product test repository to make coverage, automation and execution metrics conveniently reportable and analyzable
• Worked alongside DevOps team to configure and troubleshoot test environments and unblock development teams

Waltham, MA

• Worked on Kubernetes based software core platform enabling development and deployment of products with custom capabilities
• Designed test strategies and developed test plans for multiple releases of the core product, inline with Agile development methodology
• Developed, executed and maintained continuous integration strategy of the software modules
• Developed automated unit, integration and system tests
• Worked with project managers to provide QA estimates, schedule planning and providing status updates
• Assessed QA team’s technology needs, identified roadmap and implemented quality improvement projects

Hopkinton, MA

• Led the quality assurance team testing enterprise storage automation software while managing a team of test engineers.
• Worked on SaaS product (ViPR) for virtualizing multi-vendor storage provisioning
• Automated the process of having physical/virtual machines and configurations continuously available to the dev team
• Installed and troubleshooted data center devices
• Automated testing of interoperation between ViPR and VMware provisioning and monitoring products
• Fielded time bound customer escalations using diagnostic data collected at customer site

Hopkinton, MA

• Worked on the quality assurance team testing data center provisioning and monitoring product (Unified Infrastructure Manager)
• Recorded and analyzed various failures in a data center to aid development of automated root cause analysis and reporting features
• Worked with customer support engineers to troubleshoot data center issues in real time
• Coordinated between development, QA and lab teams to identify new test environments to configure, maintain/modify existing environments to the teams' needs
• Assessed and planned for delivery of new features/functionality in conjunction with the product management and development teams
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Hopkinton, MA

• Worked on the QA team for an optical network management product
• Authored, recorded and executed test plans for multiple releases of the product
• Automated event generation using true customer data reducing test times from days to minutes
• Designed, implemented and maintained simulated network environments for ongoing testing
• Worked with the QA team to develop test strategies and schedules
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Burlington, MA

• Working as a member of the network software development, testing and support team for the largest Cisco powered VOIP network.
• Conducting testing and verification of both real-time and non-critical network monitoring & provisioning components of the award winning Assured Quality Routing (AQR) system.
• Constructing test cases and developing automated test scripts.
• Responsible for configuration management of the AQR components in the field and in the lab.
• Maintaining regression harnesses and keeping Wiki documents updated as AQR components change.
• Being on-call 24x7 to address call networking issues in the field in real time

Acton, MA

• Directly responsible for testing the Wi-Fi Certification Benchmarks to certify wireless devices for interoperability.
• Configuring and testing Access Points from Atheros, Broadcom, Cisco, Proxim, Trapeze, Symbol
• Using Odyssey Funk, Windows Wireless ZeroConfig, Devicescape, Meetinghouse for WPA and WPA2 security configuration
• RADIUS server configuration using the Odyssey Funk, Windows IAS, Meetinghouse, Devicescape.
• WFA certifications for the 802.11 a/b/g Baseline, Extended EAP, WPA2, WMM, and 802.11 h + d test plans.
• Analysis of 802.11 signals using network analyzers like the Ethereal and Wildpackets Airopeek.

North Andover, MA

• Directly responsible for QA and automation of the service level management tool.
• Developed scripts utilizing PERL/CGI to automate product installation, diagnostic testing, testing for accuracy of generated reports and simulate possible deployment configurations.
• Worked with Network Management Systems such as SMARTS, HP OpenView, SPECTRUM, Advent.
• Programmed scripts to test product functionality when migrating to newer versions of component software like Python, Jre, Jserv.
• Developed scripts to test the security aspects of the product like SSL, secure FTP and Telnet.
• Performed black box / manual testing on alpha, beta and candidate release versions of product