Jul 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Leading a diverse cross-functional horizontal team, including outsourced employees,
• validating Power Management features across multiple XEON data center Platforms.
• Successfully formed and ramped-up 2 new teams, rapidly onboarded and enabled
• through efficient training and ramp-up programs to meet critical project milestones.
• Spearheaded the strategic development of comprehensive test content, execution, bug
• triaging, and automation processes, while also managing DevOps and optimizing cloud
• performance for the power management sub-system/features.
• Implemented a new orchestrator and a unique system pooling tool, reducing Validation
• cycle time by 30%, reductions in system downtime and idleness by 50%, and increasing
• system reliability by 25%.
• Working closely with engineering leaders to meet Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon Validation
• milestones, automation quality and platform’s Quality release criteria.
• Implemented a streamlined, Bottom-Up issue approach, bug triaging system, reducing
• issue resolution time by 20% and enhancing customer experience.
• Implemented rigorous quality assurance protocols, resulting in a 15% decrease in postrelease defects and improved product reliability.
• Negotiated cost-effective vendor contracts, leading to a 50% annual cost reduction and
• improved vendor performance. Driving “No Vendor” initiatives in upcoming projects.
• Revamped cross-geo project infrastructure, resulting in a 30% increase in testing
• efficiency and alignment with evolving project requirements.

Oct 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

• 1) Managing Validation, QA, DevOps & Competitive Cloud Performance team.
• Competitive Cloud Performance of multiple Open source SW products on different data center server platforms.
• Delivering and maintaining production quality of software products.
• Driving cross site and multi-functional teams.
• Building and growing engineering teams with excellent development practices and high quality/velocity engineering methods.
• Setting priorities for the team, getting results across boundaries, ensuring an inclusive work environment, developing employees and managing performance.
• Providing architectural and technical guidance and ensuring that sound engineering practices
• are followed.
• Providing direction and goals to the groups/BUs and interacts with internal & external stakeholders.
• Enabling, supporting and guiding team in day to day activity like - requirement analysis, test strategy, test scenarios, test design, test automation, test plan, code quality ( code review, static code analysis, coding guidelines, etc... ), test development, understanding & maintaining test environments, external/internal tool integration, improving & maintaining CI/CD/CV pipeline, test gap analysis based on code coverage report, test execution by running multiple parallel test suites, test reporting & sharing details with multiple stakeholders, Triaging/debugging, Performance quality ( regressions, integration with external interface, multiple workloads, etc...), meeting quality release criteria ( QRC), etc...
• 2) Created Kafka->Logstash->Elastic search ->Kibana pipeline on Intel's latest server platforms for cloud customers.
• Exercising above pipeline for high bandwidth data flow using high network interface card for continuous data query/search.

Aug 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Summary:
• Led Validation & DevOps team for OpenJDK & RTOS ( a Micro controller OS with very small footprint ) project. Responsible for End to End QA, Validation, Reliability & DevOps deliverables.
• My Roles & Responsibilities are ( but not limited to );
• QA :
• Create, define and develop system validation environment and test suites.
• Explore, uses and implementation of emulation and platform level tools.
• Define, design & execute Validation/testing techniques to ensure Quality & performance of requirements.
• Development of methodologies, execution of validation plans, and debug of failures.
• Aligned with project/BUs/Customer's milestone/timelines.
• E2E planning of QA/Test releases/deliverables in agile environment.
• Drive features/requirements and define validation risks/scope.
• Drive Test case development, test automation & test execution efficiently.
• Reviews of test plan, test code and release documents.
• Test gap analysis and Test coverage improvement.
• Generate & share timely Test reports.
• Leading bug triage, bug follow up and post fix verification.
• Deliver QA results and quality metrics/deliverables on time.
• DevOps :
• Led DevOps team, responsible for :
• Design, management and optimization of continuous integration processes.
• Application of advanced troubleshooting to automation system problems.
• Integration of tests, installs, configures, and/or supports CI software systems.
• Maintenance of the project infrastructure and Collaboration across multi-functional teams.
• Design and optimization of the SW release process management.
• SW development of related supplemental systems and support/monitoring tools.
• Automate routine tasks and infrastructure scripts to meet Open Source Software Release Processes.
• Tools/ Technology : OpenJDK, JTreg, JMH, Jcov, Elastic Search, TestRail, GitHub, Gerrit, Jira, klockWork, Python, IOT, Test case framework, open source tools & Intel Internal tools.

Oct 2016 – Aug 2017 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Summary :
• Firmware validation for PCIe based NVMe SSDs.
• NVMe Protocol conformance testing.
• customer issues re-production and validation.
• Test framework development.
• Test planning, Test case development & implementation.
• Test plan, release notes,revision history, bug tracking mechanism, etc...
• Lab set-up , test execution tracking and reporting.
• Contribution : Team mentoring, project scheduling, risk management, conflict resolution, quality standards and best practices. System testing, Reliability testing, test case design, development, reviews and implementation.
• Technology Used : STX, IPMItool, Nytrocli,nvmecli, TestRail, FIO, Lecroy Analyzer, Bullseye, Bugzilla, Python, JIRA, Agile, Medusa,VDBench,chaos
• Responsibilities :
• . QA Tech lead (manual + Automation) for all NVMe SSDs validation activities .
• . Doing All E2E Release testing of Facebook/IBM/NetApp products.
• . Best practices sharing and technical knowledge sharing sessions.
• . Guiding engineers with test methodologies, strategies,planning and execution.
• . Working with cross functional teams, issues reproduction and validation.
• . Weekly test status report, Defect verification and Quality metrics preparation.
• . QA processes & tools, STP, STR, Release notes, Revision history, defect status report.

Mar 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Have managed E2E QA activities for CRT (Customer response team) & Virtual Storage Layer (VSL) Driver validation project, where we were root- causing, simulating and validating customer requests/issues for all variants of SanDisk's Fusion-io storage products.
• Responsibility :
• 1. Managing QA team, responsible for E2E QA activities, all QA deliverables.
• 2. Release/Requirement planning, Test planning, Task planning, Developing Test scenario, Test development, Test execution, defect reporting/tracking, Test reporting and release closure formalities.
• 3. Validating customer issues in-time and closing the same.
• 4. Working with DEV team on the issues and getting resolution in time.
• 5. Understanding customer issues and able to simulate the issues locally in quick time.
• 6. Adding new test cases for every customer issue being fixed.
• 7. Ensuring the quality of patches provided to customers are of high quality with high level of commitments and ownership for the assigned bugs/issues .
• 8. Flexible enough to work on different work-stream , different kind of testing.
• 9. validation VSL drivers, which includes fixes of customer issues.
• 10. Working in Agile environment.
• 11. Responsible for end to end release cycle for Gen2/gen3/Gen3.5 storage cards.
• 12. Performance and Reliability testing of Fusion-io ( Sandisk/Fusion-io) io-drives.
• 13. Tools & Technology worked with : FIO, Medusa, JIRA, Jenkins, Testrail, Agile methodology, python, TDD, NAND Flash, SSDs, Hyper-V, Jetstress, SQLIOsim, MPx, WHCK/HLT, IOzone, Tiotest, etc..

Mar 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Worked as Lead SQA in SAMSUNG R&D Institute of India-Bangalore (Semiconductor solutions (Storage domain) \ Memory solution group).
• Doing System level Validation (manual & automation), Functionality , Regression, Performance, Reliability, stress, volume, compatibility & Certification testing .
• 2+ years in CI testing, test automation & performance testing.
• Managed a team of 6 engineers, which includes code review / bug analysis, analyzing development and test impacts, making verification plan (STCS and Test suite), Test suite execution, Driver/OS testing and other Quality/Validation activities.
• Strong experience with various Performance testing tools (FIO, Iozone, Bonnie++, sg_utils, LTP) in Windows & Linux environments.
• Good exposure to Window and Linux device driver testing for PCIe based NVMe SSDs.
• Experience with debugging and developing solutions to complex issues.
• Have hands on experience with Bullseye ,CQ,IE, DOORs, JIRA, Bugzilla and SVN tool.
• Development of System test case specification, System Test plan, Test scenarios, System Test report, scripts and procedures of spec, Release notes, revisions etc…
• Having hands on experience with testing tools like, Mass Storage Test Kit, Lecroy Analyzer, IOMeter, Polyspace, RTRT etc.
• Working closely with Design, Hardware, Development and Test-suite team in shaping the test cases /procedure.
• Good exposure to SDLC (V- model), STLC and AGILE methodologies.
• Excellent problem solving skills with strong technical and interpersonal skills.
• Customer-oriented (working with Korea and USA team), Quick learner, excellent team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.

Apr 2012 – Mar 2013 · 11 mos · Bangalore

• SDET(Automation - Script writing) using C++ & Python.
• System testing of MSTK framework for validating PCIe based NVMe SSDs.
• Creating System test plan, System test report.
• Code coverage using Bullseye coverage tool.
• Written System test Case Specification for NVMe protocol
• Windows device driver testing.
• Automation testing of PCIe based NVMe SSDs.
• QA and system testing of SRT/RDV tool.

Jul 2011 – Apr 2012 · 9 mos

• Common Rail Feature of Diesel engine (Client: SsangYong)
• Project Description : Project involved the development, testing and integration of software for Common Rail Diesel Engine meeting EURO V norms. In this project, the Simulink models are designed using Matlab and the code is generated automatically using E-coder then performing the S-function based testing to check the functionality of the generated software using the test suite generated by Reactis. Some of the features I have been involved till now are Cruise control and Fuel injection etc.
• Responsibilities :
• Effective Resource and Work Package management.
• Fixing QAC warnings and A2L errors.
• Quality controls and on-time delivery of work-products.
• Maintenance and bug fixing.
• Performed 5-WHY analysis on high severity defects reported in work product.
• Sending daily, Weekly status Reports to clients.
• Direct interaction with clients with help of Team lead.
• Contribution:
• MATLAB model based Development.
• MATLAB model based Testing.
• Creating the test suite using Reactis tool.
• Generating the software using E-Coder tool.

Nov 2008 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• The project is all about designing ,developing and testing application strategies to be part of customer applications. This project is part of complete ECU(Infineon Microcontroller) Diesel engine application which has its own development plan.
• Worked on a joint project between Delphi India and Delphi Blois, France in Powertrain Diesel. Was responsible for application code development and unit testing for Diamler project.
• Responsibilities: Testing of application layer code for various features like torque demand, fueling quantity determination, air charge management for Daimler Chrysler and Peugeot projects.
• Implementation Languages: Embedded C
• Tools used: RTRT, Polyspace.