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- Senior QE Technical Manager in Cloud Services, CyberSecurity, and Networking, leading global teams.- Recent product experience includes CyberSecurity Controls Validation, Secure Access Service Edge, and BigData Security Analytics. - 16+ years as a Software Quality Engineering Manager with focus on product Test Automation.- 4+ years as a Software Development Manager in Switch-Router embedded networking products. - 10+ years as a Software Development Engineer in Networking products.- Recent 8+ years product technologies: GCP/GKE, AWS, vSphere, Cybersecurity, Auto-scaled clusters, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Druid, SIEM, Micro-segmentation, Firewalls, IP Networking, Regional data centers, Endpoint agents.- Extensive experience with Test Automation frameworks for GUI, API, Kubernetes product components hosted in AWS/GCP. - Test Automation components include Github, BitBucket, Jenkins, Robot, PAbot, Python, Mocha, WebdriverIO, Typescript, - Manage, recruit, and train global QA teams in US, India, France, and Ukraine.- Specialize in working closely with and conducting extensive training for offshore Engineering team.- Provide hands-on technical leadership for Feature, Sustaining, Automation, and Scalability/Performance testing.- Manage stories, defects, test cases and test plan cycles using Atlassian project tools such as JIRA/Zephyr/Confluence.- Interact closely with Sustaining/Support teams to analyze Customer defects and root cause to drive Quality.- Plan and execute Agile and Hybrid product engineering life cycles involving cross-functional teams.- Plan fiscal year capex/opex budget, prepare new project Initiative proposals for Test Automation projects. - Build and manage on-prem and cloud hosted QA labs including monthly cloud cost-control billing reviews- Manage individuals by taking a keen interest in their professional growth and encouraging self-responsibility.