•Manage a team of highly specialist cloud architects and engineers •Act as Senior Cloud Transformation Strategist, building an understanding of customer organizations, processes, mission priorities and technology objectives, helping them in defining their technology adoption and service maturity roadmaps, and lead them in through implementation. •have a working knowledge of cloud technologies and systems architecture and am comfortable working across technical and non-technical problem sets to design and deliver modern IT systems. •Manage roadmap that includes building new patterns per org requirements, maintaining and supporting existing patterns, rollout strategies, fully automated special use case handlings, building solutions to satisfy sustainability and reliability engineering , disaster recovery, and FinOps with a 0 touch mentality within the well architected architecture guidelines, while I close feedback loop with stakehodlers like principle engineers and management •Develop new and existing relationships across a complex and diverse organization to identify technology and security improvement opportunities• Collaborate with platform engineers and system business owners to architect solutions and develop supporting Statements of Work defining scope, approach and estimated work effort to support successful delivery• Perform assessments and deliver action plans and roadmaps for our clients to close their technical and security related gaps as they migrate to a cloud environment•Lead systems analysis and ensure satisfactory performance by providing recommendations, assessments, planning, deployment, configuring, systems integration, troubleshooting, problem resolution, and operations and maintenance of systems operating in the cloud•Identify new and leverage existing technology solutions to solve business and technology challenges problems•Perform research and lead proof of concept efforts to determine where additional technologies may be necessary

Led pipeline and devOps initiatives

Responsible for a team who built/managed CI/CD pipelines using GIT, Jenkins, uDeploy, Artifactory/Nexus, Confluence Database deployment automationRelease managementOperational support- SVN2GIT conversions, troubleshooting uDeploy, tokenization, component and application processes in uDeployAutomation scripting using shell, powershell, batch for ex Prod support maintenance scripts, IIS deploy scripts using Ansible automationArchitecting automation solution - for ex: Tuffin automation for firewall submissionsProduct currency migrations for ex. win 2008 to win 2016Governance of automated toolsEnvironment management and troubleshooting, splunk monitoringCertificate management using VenafiUnderstanding and applying security protocols during stand-up of new apps and throughout the app lifecycleBuilding self serve automated tools and Influencing agile teams to use them without authorityMentoring new joiners to get established confidently and learn/apply their skills

Maintain a DQI of 98 or higherDeliver test effort on time on budgetRisk based, Critical path testing with high value for buckE2E testing, Integration Testing, PVS testing, Resiliency testingWaterfall and Agile projectsCertified Scaled Agilist, SAFe Scrum master and SAFe Product owner•Seasoned manager and team lead for software applications testing - lead teams of 12 to 72 testers with on/off shore model•Leader of end to end test life cycle for projects of small, medium as well as very large scale• Successful power user of project plan to manage Test efforts, rally, Agile Central•Seasoned Test project manager known for risk Identification, evaluation, mitigations and contingency plan and communicating them to project teams, management•Devised LOE, test plans and test strategies and end of the project test summaries•Proven experience in planning, monitoring, reporting execution and control of testing•Resource management - budgeted, screened, hired, trained, on-boarded and mentored resources•Led efforts of establishing QA Best Practices – Defect Management, Test Plan folders, Writing test cases, Reporting metrics, archiving, test closure activities, Production Soak tests•Expert in analyzing Business / Functional (FRS/SRS/Use cases), technical and Customer Care Requirements•Sound knowledge and experience in SDLC methodologies Agile (SCRUM, SAFe), Waterfall•Worked in Client-Server environment with Web-based applications, non-graphical applications like Tandem, Application written in Java, oracle for navigational, functional and SIT testing•Power users of: ALM; MS office – advanced excel, word, power point, Visio, Hyperion, Informatica, DataWarehouse, Microstrategy reports, OBIEE reports, SOA, SOAP UI testing of SOA solutions, Inter-enterprise testing with multiple enterprises.Test Environment management, Configuration management, Release management. •Experienced in PVS and Stress testing and non functional testing like resiliency

Provide Technical leadership and strategic direction for larger projects and Releases.Provide Test compact document at the initiation phaseDeliver the Test Strategy for the Test team as a road map towards successful testingIdentify Phases of testinig, Scope of testing in each, Environment, Data needsEvaluate Risks, mitigations, contingency plans through out project as it evolves

I worked as Program level Test Lead for eRx and interim QA Manager for on-offshore team. In these roles, I helped● To bring coordination and direction to the QA team● Communicated statuses, risks, mitigation plans, carried out parallel testing, cod retrofitting activities and many more

•Providing Order of magnitude/LOEs/ acquiring budget for resources •Effective negotiation to get resources, resolve issues of defects, environment, scope etc•Escalations with or in absence of mitigation plan•Set up/enforce entrance and exit criteria•Hiring: Work with HR for job posting - writing job descriptions, Interviews, on-boarding, training new •Identifying training needs/ arranging trainings•Cross functional training within group for cross coverage of applications•Resource planning- resource allotment for future & current efforts•Reporting: Daily reports, Tasks updates, Issues / Roadblock status, Progress of overall effort•Decide/enforce SLAs with vendors and Dev teams•Establish industry best practices, standards of test methodology •Requirements review, impact analysis and coverage planning•Off-shore setup: Establish Connectivity, VPN access•Create/review Test Plan, strategy with project team, Architect, development, business & stakeholders•Setting up QC for release, test plan, lab•Ensure Requirement coverage, Risks visibility & mitigation plans – escalations if necessary•Test environment identification and management•Lead end to end testing - Identification of impacted apps, identify and onboard these QA teams for the project, Acquiring their resources, test environment and test data with their commitment and follow up until test summary inputs are received.•Created test project plan, test plan, Test environment plan, test data plan for very large projects with 43 applications, 23 teams for end to end test•Issue management and resolution – I facilitate, initiate or provide solutions to everyday QA challenges - environment availability, test data issues, unplanned requests of testing, scope creep, requirements changes. Create Summary documentation for project team review (provide risk assessment & quality health of product); Triage initial reporting of defects; Identify defect Owner; communicate; follow up, retests

• Setting up/managing test environments with various combinations of application and database versions.• Developed test plans, scenarios: Mostly with no formal requirements. Identified goals, limitations, risks and reported these to the project managers during planning. Used decision tables and decision trees for generating scenarios for E2E coverage. Prioritized scenarios to meet deadlines. Closely monitored changing requirements/ updated test plan and scenarios accordingly.• Creating appropriate data: created the test data sets (file formats, specific rows/columns, factual data such as addresses) testing. • Preparing automated test suits: I prepared WinRunner test suits to efficiently test out certain parts of application. • Test Execution: Executed automated/manual test scripts and many more

Application Installations, OS management, Troubleshooting of hardware & software issues, Business Analyst, Created SRS