Principal Solution Architect

• Jun 2021 - Present

Sr. Principal QA Engineer

• May 2017 - Oct 2018

Project: Rubrik connector and Rubrik File System Filter Drivers (FFD) Contribution : Worked as Sr. Test lead End to end QA owner for: o FFD drops. o FFD final release.  Functioned as QA lead for test planning, managing daily tasks for team and effort estimations of the releases.  Involved in Test plan includes test strategy, test effort estimations and granular level test planning. End to end QA owner for: o Connector intermediate and final drops for AIX 7.1 (all TL’s) and AIX 7.2 (TL1). o Connector intermediate drop for Solaris 11.1 and 11.3. o Connector for HP-UX.  Functioned as QA lead for test planning sprint planning, managing daily tasks for team and effort estimations of the releases.  Involved in Test plan includes test strategy, test effort estimations and granular level test planning.  Test strategy includes, scope and objectives, business issues, roles and responsibilities, communication and status reporting, test deliverable, industry standards to follow, test automation and tools, testing measurements and matrices, risks and mitigation, defect reporting and tracking, change and configuration management, training plan  Involved in technical debt. Items with product management and brainstorming sessions on various features.  Involved in test cases reviews with internal QA team and development teams  Functional testing of different features, enhancement and defects.  Defect Reporting, tracking and defect triage meeting with development teams  Presented sprint demos to customer, Sales and support teams for all sprints for multiple releases.  New feature test cases design and writing. Test cases execution  Creating and sending the daily status reports to the stake holders and customer  Monitoring the team members so as to complete the testing cycle in the scheduled time.  Executing test cases using REST API framework developed by Rubrik team which is in-build in Rubrik Edge server.

Principal SQA Engineer

• Mar 2012 - Dec 2016

. Collaborated with all stakeholders in every project.. Completed quality assurance testing of developed applications and identified code areas that needed improvements.. Streamlined projects to make them meet changing needs.. Met with teams weekly in meetings for planning purposes.. Estimating the testing efforts.. Preparation of Test Plan.. Preparation & review of Test Scenarios & Test Cases.. Responsible for generating root cause analysis (RCA) reports for the customer reported defects. . Handling Beta and Production releases.. Responsible for Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) testing for the product. . Manage smooth implementation and user acceptance test of the application.. Conducting Functional, Integration, Regression, Performance and System Testing, Test Execution and reporting of bugs.. Documenting, tracking, and communicating test plans, test results, analysis, and unresolved problems to Senior Management.. Analyze the requirement from given RTM and related requirement documents.. Prepare the test scenarios and test data.. Perform smoke, functional, regression, integration testing and record the status of execution in HPQC.. Enter the defects and track them as per the defect life cycle.. Expertise in bug tracking and story defects using the tools Jira. Involved in Test Planning for the current and upcoming projects. Test Management in HPQC for different cycles in the project.. Competitive analysis for competitor products and publish the report to program manager and management.. Working with Customer Response Team (CRT) to resolve customer reported issues while evaluating and implementing products in their environment.. Understand and prepare test setup similar to customer’s environment which includes configuration of Domain controllers, network configuration, DNS, DHCP servers.. Management of Labs which includes managing virtualization environment effectively using ESX servers on HP and Dell blade chassis.

Sr. SQA Engineer

• Jan 2009 - Mar 2012

. End to end QA owner for GSS 3.0 and 3.1 releases, hot fixes (HF’s) and maintenance packs (MP’s). . QA lead for test planning sprint planning, managing daily tasks for team and effort estimations of the releases.. Involved in Test plan includes test strategy, test effort estimations and granular level test planning.. Test strategy includes, scope and objectives, business issues, roles and responsibilities, communication and status reporting, test deliverables, industry standards to follow, test automation and tools, testing measurements and matrices, risks and mitigation, defect reporting and tracking, change and configuration management, training plan. Involved in technical debt. Items with product management and brainstorming sessions on various feature.. Functional testing of different features, enhancement and defects.. Defect Reporting, tracking and defect triage meeting with development teams. Presented sprint demos to PDM, Sales and support teams for all sprints for multiple releases.. Performance testing of with multiple clients.. Providing support during the global releases. Conducted demo and showcase newly developed features to program managers, support team, sales team and customers.. Execution of test cycle on build received from GSS truck to check the quality of the build after merging of CRT and coverity defect fixes. Verified and informed the CRT defects status to the rest of the team.. Response to the customer queries related to GSS product via email whenever requested by our PM, Managers, customer support.. Actively participated in Beta program which involves day to day beta portal watch for the issues customers are facing, understand the customer’s setup in detail, understand their day to day use cases, provide the suitable solutions and get the feedback on problem resolution and addressed all product related queries. Report the issues on daily basis to management and team for the Beta program status.

SQA Engineer

• Sep 2006 - Jan 2009

I started my career in Symantec as SQA Engineer.Manual testing. Worked on testing pcAnywhere, Ghost Solution Suite and currently working on Deployment Solution part of Symantec Notification Server (formerly Altiris).

System Administrator

• Jan 2001 - May 2004

Member of Technical Staff. Managing web and database servers Member of Technical Staff. Managing web and database servers