Experience

Data Dynamics

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• VP - Product Management, Foundations

  • May 2022 - 1 year 8 months

  Houston, Texas, United States Developed and implemented enterprise level HIPPA compliant application. Delivered a hybrid SaaS software application which could be deployed partially on any cloud and on-premise. Proposed an event-driven microservice architecture solution to break the existing N-Tier bulky application to many loosely coupled services communicating over a lightweight protocol. The solution was highly scalable and was easily deployable via Kubernetes. Proposed and deployed the solutions for… Show more Developed and implemented enterprise level HIPPA compliant application. Delivered a hybrid SaaS software application which could be deployed partially on any cloud and on-premise. Proposed an event-driven microservice architecture solution to break the existing N-Tier bulky application to many loosely coupled services communicating over a lightweight protocol. The solution was highly scalable and was easily deployable via Kubernetes. Proposed and deployed the solutions for integration into external Applications such as ServiceNow via APIs. Responsible for the functional requirements and development of all products. Design UI/UX concepts along with Product flows and block diagram using tools like Lucid Charts, Visio, Adobe XD etc. Communicate with stakeholders and customers status throughout the development process of the Unified Unstructured Data Management Platform Work with Product Marketing team on collecting customer feedback, creating backlogs, and prioritizing for the development team to execute against. Performing market research and competitor analysis in shaping the product strategy of all the platform offerings. Supported Pre-Sales activities to generate over $3MM revenue each quarter. Introduced Data Analytics to the existing product.

• Vice President Of Product Engineering

  • Aug 2019 - 4 years 5 months

  Houston, Texas, United States • Provide technical expertise in the areas of design and implementation of all products. • Innovate along with Architects and Product Management in the exploration of new technologies and processes with the goal of providing recommendation on integration into the overall architecture for all product offerings • Work with Customers in the integration of Platform APIs into their existing workflows • Collaborate with SEs and Product Management in the development of Kibana reporting… Show more • Provide technical expertise in the areas of design and implementation of all products. • Innovate along with Architects and Product Management in the exploration of new technologies and processes with the goal of providing recommendation on integration into the overall architecture for all product offerings • Work with Customers in the integration of Platform APIs into their existing workflows • Collaborate with SEs and Product Management in the development of Kibana reporting capabilities and canned reports in service to our Customers • Responsible for working with Support in troubleshooting issues and providing immediate solutions to the customer as well as providing feedback and insight back into Product Management and Development on product improvement areas • Work with Support to develop tools specifically in the support of application support, like Monitoring tools, log gathering tools, or database queries et • Create write-ups for Support to create repository of training materials for ongoing training for better support for all product offerings • Support SE during the entire POC life-cycle from deployment, feature demo, trouble shooting, and product training • Run monthly meetings with Support and SEs to proactively understand issues and pain points they are facing in the field and provide insight, feedback and potential solutions back to Product Management and Development. • Responsible for scale and performance testing the product

• QA Manager/Product owner

  • Aug 2015 - Nov 2019

  Houston, Texas, United States Product Owner tasks • Collaborated with stakeholders to understand the business problem and convert into Requirements • Created user stories off the requirements and added them to TFS, established acceptance criteria and further reformed user stories with scrum teams. • Managed backlog of user stories among various releases • Ran daily scrum meetings. • Managed overall Quality assurance activities such as Test case and Test run management. • Align overall product roadmap… Show more Product Owner tasks • Collaborated with stakeholders to understand the business problem and convert into Requirements • Created user stories off the requirements and added them to TFS, established acceptance criteria and further reformed user stories with scrum teams. • Managed backlog of user stories among various releases • Ran daily scrum meetings. • Managed overall Quality assurance activities such as Test case and Test run management. • Align overall product roadmap with customers’ requirements QA and management tasks • Mange offshore manual and automation QA teams • Research on latest NAS devices, Object S3/Azure to provide better acceptance criteria for new features • Participate in initial Software Architectural meetings for deciding how a feature can/should be developed • Help QA to understand new features, requirements, and acceptance criteria. • Participate in QA team, Bug tracking, and Backlog grooming meetings. • Manage Testing progress and defects during regression. • Provide QA progress to upper management on weekly basis in form of Reports. • Deploy testing environments for all QAs, which includes deploying of new VMs (Windows server – all versions, Linux – Ubuntu and Centos, NetApp Simulators – all available versions, VNX simulator – 7 and 8, Isilon simulators – 7 and 8) and test data. • Create test data for performance and scalability testing. • Create detailed test plans for Major/Minor releases and hotfixes to check functionality • Work as a member of Agile Team to review requirements, create and execute test cases, log defects and perform various types of testing such as Smoke, Functional, Integration, Performance, GUI, Black Box, Security, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.

• QA Lead

  • Aug 2014 - Jul 2015

  QA Developer role • Provide feedback during automation code reviews (C#). • Create the framework for REST APIs for automation testing (C#) • Write verification programs in C# to aid testing IT related tasks for QA teams • Manage NAS devices such as Isilon, NetApp 7/C mode and VNX systems. Create test data such as Volumes, Qtrees, Aggregates, shares, Exports whenever needed by QA team. • Manage Object storage such as IBM COS and NetApp StroageGrid. • Manage Active… Show more QA Developer role • Provide feedback during automation code reviews (C#). • Create the framework for REST APIs for automation testing (C#) • Write verification programs in C# to aid testing IT related tasks for QA teams • Manage NAS devices such as Isilon, NetApp 7/C mode and VNX systems. Create test data such as Volumes, Qtrees, Aggregates, shares, Exports whenever needed by QA team. • Manage Object storage such as IBM COS and NetApp StroageGrid. • Manage Active Directory, DNS and Domain controller for Test Computers and users. • Manage Microsoft Certificate Authority server for generating Signed Certificates for SSL testing. • Manage ESXi and Hyperv Servers and the templates. • Responsible for deployment of Cloud S3 services such as StroageGrid and IBM COS • Responsible for deployment of Domain Controllers (AD, DNS) • Responsible for deployment of SSL Certificate Authorities • Provide testing environments for all QAs, which includes deploying of new VMs (Windows server – all versions, Linux – Ubuntu and Centos, NetApp Simulators – all available versions, VNX simulator – 7 and 8, Isilon simulators – 7 and 8) • Deploy of Elasticsearch, Redis, and Cassandra Clusters via Installers or Docker for Scale testing Support, POCs and Trainings • Conduct POCs for future customers • Provide L1, L2, L3 support whenever needed • Conduct initial product demos and training for new employees (Support, QA, DEV, and SEs) • Help trainer to deploy training environment on SkyTap • Provide technical support during training sessions whenever needed • Contribute to Training docs

• Senior QA Engineer

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2014

  Houston, Texas, United States • Responsible for developing Test Metrics Document, Test Plan, Test Cases execution for various storage management tools utilizing DFS technology. • Product training and demonstrations for technical support and sales engineers. • Tracking field issues and providing support when customer issues were escalated to engineering. • Work with QA and development team to resolve customer issues • Provided Enterprise Application support to customers when needed. • Contributed to FAQ… Show more • Responsible for developing Test Metrics Document, Test Plan, Test Cases execution for various storage management tools utilizing DFS technology. • Product training and demonstrations for technical support and sales engineers. • Tracking field issues and providing support when customer issues were escalated to engineering. • Work with QA and development team to resolve customer issues • Provided Enterprise Application support to customers when needed. • Contributed to FAQ, Troubleshooting and Best Practices documents • Contributed to interviewing new employees.



Brocade

• United States
• Computer Networking Products
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test engineer

  • Nov 2005 - Apr 2007

  Houston, Texas Area - Responsible for developing Test Metrics Document, Test Plan, Test Cases and Beta test execution for various storage management tools utilizing DFS technology such as StorageX, FLM and MyView. - Write and execute test scenarios to validated software products. - Product training and demonstrations for technical support and sales engineers. - Tracking field issues and providing support when customer issues were escalated to engineering. - Work with QA and development team to resolve… Show more - Responsible for developing Test Metrics Document, Test Plan, Test Cases and Beta test execution for various storage management tools utilizing DFS technology such as StorageX, FLM and MyView. - Write and execute test scenarios to validated software products. - Product training and demonstrations for technical support and sales engineers. - Tracking field issues and providing support when customer issues were escalated to engineering. - Work with QA and development team to resolve customer issues - Provided Enterprise Application support to customers when needed. - Contributed to FAQ, Troubleshooting and Best Practices documents Show less



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test engineer

  • May 2004 - Sep 2005

  Chandler, Arizona - Responsible for developing Use Cases, Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Execution for various Station Controllers. - Worked as a support test engineer with Asyst (External Contractors) in setting up the test environment, escalating issues, solving problems and managing defects. - Led Functional and Integration test activities with complete onsite support including test environment set up, interface testing and defect management. - Reviewed Integration test cases, managed test cases… Show more - Responsible for developing Use Cases, Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Execution for various Station Controllers. - Worked as a support test engineer with Asyst (External Contractors) in setting up the test environment, escalating issues, solving problems and managing defects. - Led Functional and Integration test activities with complete onsite support including test environment set up, interface testing and defect management. - Reviewed Integration test cases, managed test cases in the Test Director, tracked daily test case execution and communicated test metrics to all the stakeholders. - Proliferated testing and test management processes to other projects related to Station Controllers. - Conducted TestDirector training and enhanced the Test Case and defect management templates resulting in improved test productivity. - Chaired PLC (Product Life Cycle) testing group to enhance the quality of testing across different teams. Delivered Test Case and defect life cycles templates and produced the guidelines for creating efficient test cases for junior software Engineers. - Provided Level 1 support for Mercury TestDirector and in-house applications with in Intel. - Contribute to FAQ, Troubleshooting and Best Practices documents - Contributed to initial phone screening and interviewed suitable candidates. - Performed testing using Intel’s in-house web-based report software for data verification. Show less