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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• Coordinated with cloud engineering team to gain insight into various backend storage options and tradeoffs• Ran multiple release cycles coordinating test plans, release efforts, timelines and production deployments• Continuously monitored production nodes to analyze product behavior and identify issues needing a fix or potential improvements to propose to the team• Triaged daily automation runs to identify product issues and automation issuesAssisted with onboarding newly hired engineers to various aspects of the product and processes• Tools used: • CI/CD – Gitlab, Ansible • Orchestration platforms - Kubernetes • Testing - Python, Java, IntelliJ, JIRA, Confluence, GIT

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• Facilitated procuring, configuring and maintaining lab machines for the dev team working with the operations team• Tools used: • CI/CD – Jenkins, Ansible, Gradle, Maven • Containerization - Docker • Orchestration platforms - Kubernetes , Mesos/Marathon • Testing - Java , Python, Gradle, IntelliJ, JIRA, Confluence, GIT, Jenkins

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• Worked with customer solutions engineers to identify usecases, potential shortfalls and proactively addressing them• Developed test strategies, test schedules and test plans for releases providing appropriate updates to the management• Facilitated procuring equipment, defining usage and configurations for upcoming qualification plans working with the lab team• Supervised task assignments, progress and performance appraisals of the team members • Tools used: • Compute: Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere, VMware ESX/ESXi • Storage: EMC Symmetrix/VMAX series, EMC VNX series, EMC XtremIO, EMC VPLEX, EMC RecoverPoint, VCE vBlock • Network: Cisco MDS, Cisco Nexus, Brocade SAN • Testing: Perl, Java, Shell, Python, IntelliJ, JIRA

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• Tools used: • Compute: Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere, VMware ESX/ESXi • Storage: EMC Symmetrix/VMAX series, EMC VNX series, VCE vBlock • Network: Cisco MDS, Cisco Nexus, Brocade SAN • Testing: Perl, Shell, Eclipse, VersionOne, Bugzilla

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• Tools used: • EMC SMARTS Optical Transport Manager, Rational ClearQuest, Perl, Shell, Linux

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• Arrange emergency troubleshooting sessions with SMEs within the team for major real-time production issues.• Maintaining optimum call routing over Cisco gateways in the field, manage re-routing to fix/upgrade AQR running on production gateways.• Regularly report to the management on fielded issues and continuously work on improving the processes to handle real-time issues.• Work with peer support engineers to prepare field equipment and action plan for holidays with large call volume.

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.• Writing test cases and developing scripts to automate regression using PERL/CGI.• Working closely with the development team during functional specification review phase and test planning phase • Assisting Application Engineers directly by providing test data and help track issues discovered in the field.• Setting up and configuring a regression test environment and developing automation infrastructure.

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• Programmed scripts to maximize reusability and ease of maintenance• Worked closely with the developers to track down and isolate problems as well as give input on the enhancement and functionality of existing and new features.• Organized parallel, multi-platform, functional and installation test. Designed and Implemented test procedures from functional specs. • Tested application’s behavior across different browsers (IE, Netscape, Firefox), servers (NT, Unix), databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris).