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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HPE Ezmeral - Ezmeral Data Fabric and Ezmeral Unified Analytics •Program managing teams for the quality deliverables with different geographies, tracking dependencies worked with Product management/Dev teams/QA teams/architects and Doc teams/partner teams for planning the quarter with milestones.•Coordinating with Cross-functional teams India, US, Ukraine and Greece team for updates/ planning till execution.•Coordinating with Product management team to streamline the process of early planning for quarter and preparation of PRDs and design discussions on feature prioritization, Exercise and Evaluate the customer cases into use cases.•Working closely with PMO office for continuous process improvements.•Leading sprint cycles, unblocking issues, conflicts and conducting retrospectives for teams taking feedback and working with leadership team and implementing the action items on improvement areas.•Leading the scrum meetings and scrum of scrum discussions for multiple teams with Engineering teams.•Managing release cycles and planning for build availability to QA and RC build schedules.•Organized and Led the discussions /update meetings with Central teams for dependency tracking between engineering teams.•Coordinated with QA teams for the builds and on time delivery of features. •Representing as R&D for core team updates with external PMO office, sales, marketing, finance, pricing, launch teams for engineering updates.•Actively participated in NOI/NPI process discussions for products.•Coordinating with doc teams and Dev/QA team for updates. During release cycle last sprints conducted daily Bug scrubs to unblock and resolve the issues.•Managed RISK and planned for contingencies for feature delivery for releases.•Reporting weekly/Quarterly status reports on feature progress and bug status to leadership and engineering teams.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HPE Oneview •Collaborated with development, quality assurance and technical support teams to resolve immediate customer issues, achieved business continuity for customers.•Resolving customer issues within the specified timeframe and with the available resources across geographies by ensuring the delivered business solutions and technical architecture meet the customer's functional requirements and for committing to customer success.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HPE NONSTOP QA Lead engineer•Led products in parallel for enterprise class of servers for global function.•Managed testing projects of 18 components, driving the quality team test activities, owning patch releases activity and major releases.•Pioneered insourcing of components in compilers quality team in a month’s time and insourced platform testing.•Reduced critical defect backlog from 40+ to ~15; introduced orthogonal defect classification, left shifting of regressions, using Deep 5 Why RCAs. •Achieved test automation, test refactoring and technical improvements and reduced regression test cycles by > 65%. HPE Oneview •Worked closely with engineering teams and product owners in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

hp Client Automation Developed test scenarios and automation scripts, conducted peer test reviews, as part of agile and scrum.

Bangalore

Formulating Test strategy, design and plans to ensure effective product releases.Defining automation strategy, resulting in cost savings.

Bangalore

Gap analysis, feasibility study, and development of a range of projects under The Government of India for e-governance programs, for several Corporations and Education Departments.

Certificate Of Business Excellence, Executive Education, Berkeley Executive Program In Management

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Post Graduate Diploma In Business Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science