VP Engineering(Infrastructure & Data Management Platform)

• Apr 2023 - Present

Head of Infrastructure & Data Management Platform at LiveRamp

• Jul 2022 - May 2023

Head of Infrastructure

• Jun 2020 - May 2023

Head of Quality and Reliability

• Aug 2019 - May 2023

Director of Software Engineering, Quality Assurance

• Jun 2018 - Aug 2019

Achievements: - Own the QA for Software and Firmware Release for Services, Web Application, Mobile Apps - Android and iOS, Unified Commerce Platform and Iot Application. - Setup team of 10+ QE Engineers ( onsite + offsite) from ground up including Scrum QE Team, Release QE and Automation/Performance Team. - Established the QE Processes for Release management for to assure high quality and timely releases - Setup Automation Framework for Services, Mobile, Web Application, Iot Application and Unified eCommerce Platform using Python/Pytest based Automation Framework. - Achieved coverage of 50% for services , resulting in high quality and efficient software releases - Setup CI setup using Jenkins for continuous test execution and integration with Build System Show less

Senior Software QA Manager

• Jul 2015 - Jun 2018

Role: Head of QE for TIVO (IPTV Clients, Next Gen Core Services) Reporting to VP of Engineering - Established the team of 34 QE Engineers across geographies focusing on Scrum QE, Release QE, Automation, Performance and Robustness testing. IPTV Clients (Mobile, Streamers, Portal):  Established inaugural Release Management for IPTV clients by setting up Dedicated Release Management team, process and release sign off criteria.  Reduced QE Release time for IPTV clients – Mobile /Streamers by 30% by effectively using Automated – Functional and Performance Testing for clients.  Appointed as the Customer liaison for IPTV Clients and Next Gen Services for any issues. Collaborated with PSO team to understand customer usage patterns and setup similar test configurations for QE Team to mimic customer data/environment.  Strategized and developed Performance and MTBR Test Framework for Streamers, improving stability by 70%. Next Gen Services:  Key collaborator of the CTO group to setup advanced Functional Automation Framework, Performance Scale and Robustness Framework to complete continuous deployment model for Next Gen Services using Jenkins Pipelines.  Setup automation workshops to train all the Next Gen Services QE teams in Services Org to use advance Functional, Performance – Scale and Robustness Test Framework  Improved coverage for core services from 10% to 90%. Decreased time to services deployment by 90% by continuous deployment using Jenkins Pipeline Model. Show less

Automation Manager

• Apr 2015 - Jul 2015

Achievements: - Hired new and mentor existing team to start the Automation for Services and Clients - Improved overall QE team efficiency for releases by setting up Services and Web Automation using the Java / TestNG based Framework - Managed offshore QE Automation Team in US and Bulgaria to support Services QE Achievements: - Hired new and mentor existing team to start the Automation for Services and Clients - Improved overall QE team efficiency for releases by setting up Services and Web Automation using the Java / TestNG based Framework - Managed offshore QE Automation Team in US and Bulgaria to support Services QE

Automation Manager/Principal SQA Automation Engineer

• Sep 2012 - Apr 2015

 Successfully hired/mentored global Automation and Performance Team with 10 + QE in US, China and India for Mobility Management Group.  Improved the time to release by 70% for Services and Mobile clients by using automated test coverage for services/mobile and reducing bake cycle.  Implemented automation framework for Mobile and Services and Improved automation coverage from 20% to 70% for services and mobile. Demonstrated improvements in acceptance and regression run times by 400%.  Proactively instituted Performance project using the JMeter thereby improved performance and scalability metrics by 90% Show less

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer || - Automation

• Apr 2012 - Sep 2012

- Setup Rest API Automation Framework using Python/Unittest - Transition the QE Team from QC based Automation Framework to Python Based Automation Framework - Added Services Test Coverage for Feature for Expense Management Solution - Design and develop the web automation framework using Python/Unittest/ selenium webdriver. - Setup Performance testing using JMeter for multiple users. Also, creating single using benchmark performance data using firebug est using Java – JUnit Test Framework. Show less

Lead Software QA Engineer

• Jan 2007 - Apr 2012

- Leading Functional, Automation and Performance Testing teams to support quality feature releases for Jasper report, iReport, Adhoc Reports and Analysis solution. - Lead the QE Team in Ukraine to support the functional and automation testing - Support functional and automated test execution for Patch releases. - Performance testing using the Unisys performance infrastructure and using TPC- H database for benchmarking reporting solution using JMeter - Scalability Testing the jasper server by varying the memory, CPU and analyzing different number of rows from the database - Automation Framework Development and Test Coverage for Web Based Application using Selenium Webdriver, Java, TestNG (regression, functional) - Automated Test Coverage for Java – web services test using Java – JUnit Test Framework. - Installing and configuring Windows and Linux production, demo and test systems and environments on different App servers: Tomcat, JBOSS, WebSphere and WebLogic - Installation testing of software on multiple databases – MYSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 and SQL server. Show less

Computer Scientist

• Aug 2003 - Dec 2005

- Developed video transmission module in VC++. This module was taking input as video and divides the video into frames at one end of simulator. On other end of simulator, the video was collected and video is created, - Designed and developed web based application in Oracle Forms and Report package of Oracle 9i for automating material management group activities. This involved requirement analysis, data base design and development of the software - Designed and developed software in Oracle Forms and Reports package for automating Intersection Memo system Show less