Oct 2018 – Aug 2025 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sep 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Sydney, Australia

Aug 2016 – Apr 2017 · 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Checkout who we are : https://www.datarepublic.com/
• We are the world's pioneers in online marketplace & trust platform for secured (big) data exchange. We have backing from the biggest businesses in Australia with strategic partnerships with key players and are growing in business, mind-space and size.
• Now to me:
• I am responsible for building the test strategy and capability of this fast growing innovative team.
• My work extensively involves conceptualizing, designing & building test automation frameworks for the full stack (UI, API & Database), defining test processes, test plans and methodologies in the company and working with various stakeholders to minimize quality risk to release.
• I am also actively involved in design discussions, planning and delivery of major features of our platform and marketplace.
• Usually I employ Java, Ruby, Selenium, Capybara, Cucumber for UI automation, RestAssured or Postman for service automation and HiveQL or some SQL for (big) data testing.
• I use knowledge of Hive, Hadoop, Nifi, Ranger, Tez, Zookeeper, and the HDP stack in general for designing & executing test strategies around our platform. It is a very exciting time in Big Data & I am progressing in learning more each passing day !
• I use test automation because I believe it helps achieve effectiveness & efficiency in test outcomes as well as increasing significantly the speed & productivity of development teams in a agile/continuous delivery paradigm.

Oct 2015 – Jun 2016 · 8 mos · Sydney Area, Australia

• Growing company, great people.
• I worked on different things here:
• Developing a DevOps pipeline for a key government customer using IBM Urbancode, IBM uDeploy, Git, Jenkins, Ant among others.
• Developing Java+Selenium test frameworks
• Develop training programs for IBM Rational Quality Manager
• Investigate Ops Intelligence tools like Splunk, Graylog to develop operational intelligence solutions
• Get certified ! Tosca, Ranorex, ISTQB certificates in the bag
• Coach colleagues on automation tools and technologies

Mar 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Product: IBM Rational Test Workbench for Mobile
• I led and managed all testing efforts for this product
• Developed and executed test plans and test strategies
• Managed technical team of testers in India, France and Israel
• Collaborated with stakeholders, partner labs, and other IBM product teams to deliver integrations and services for the platform at high quality
• Delivered dozens of releases of the product in a agile/sprint format
• Worked with Beta customers and managed relations with key IBM customers as lab advocate
• Delivered high profile and high value product integrations like Worklight, Greenhat, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Functional Tester.
• Coaching and mentoring of team members
• Review publications and attend inspections
• Lead Rational Brand Quality initiatives across the worldwide IBM software group.
• Provide Test Expertise at IBM India Software Labs
• Speaker at IBM external and internal events like IBM InterConnect, VoiCE of the Customer, IBM Academy of Technology
• Provide product information, applicability and guidance to C-level executives from customer companies in IBM Executive Briefing Center

Jun 2012 – Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Panel member of the IP( Intellectual Property/Patents ) disclosure evaluation team at IBM Rational India.
• Review patents in different domains, search prior art, provide guidance and feedback to inventors on patent filing.
• Form focus groups to help inventors reach logical conclusion of their filings
• Contribute proactively in the evaluation leading to publishing/filing/closing patents with direct impact on IBM business revenue and IBM Patenting Portfolio (http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/patents.shtml)

Jun 2010 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Drive the overall test strategy of the SVT, Performance, or Integration Test
• Work with Test Architects across Rational Software Labs to drive Systems Testing methodologies, processes and technology.
• Drive continuous improvement between releases
• Participate in software architecture and design reviews
• Responsible for the test design
• Work with Test Coordinator and Test Managers to size test efforts for input to schedule commitments
• Participate and drive required test definitions
• Provide Test Manager with technical recommendations
• Provide technical advice and assistance to management and others
• Review test configuration and test applications to ensure appropriate Test coverage
• Review publications and attend inspections
• Lead Rational Brand Quality initiatives across the worldwide IBM software group.
• Provide Test Expertise at IBM India Software Labs
• Speaker at IBM external and internal events like Rational Software Conference, Innovate, VoiCE of the Customer, IBM Academy of Technology, IBM Systems and Software Engineering Technology Community.
• Product and Technology Evangelist for Rational Requirement Definition and Management Products.
• Requirement Definition and Management Subject Matter Expert.

Jun 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

Jun 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr

Jan 2005 – Aug 2005 · 7 mos

Jan 2004 – Dec 2004 · 11 mos

Jul 2000 – Dec 2003 · 3 yrs 5 mos