Oct 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1. Heading Quality and OE for Banking solutions and products
• 2. Responsible for building the right enablement infrastructure internally to build a self-enabled QE/OE team.
• 3. Leading core/strong team of 3 with ~ 20+ rockstar Engineers.
• 4. Responsible for hiring, building right quality roadmap, tools, frameworks, quality metrics, building the team, mentoring, rewards and growth.

Aug 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading/Managing a team of around 10+ engineers
• Managing the teams
• > Release Testing
• > SaaS
• > QA Infra
• > Customer Profile and System testing
• Responsible for the improving the over all customer experience of thoughtspot through quality
• Work with the team in designing, building and delivering the right automation for the tests
• Defining the right automation strategy to invest on strategic points to improve ROI
• Running multiple QE releases effectively

Sep 2019 – Aug 2020 · 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• CI/CD Architect
• Built a PaaS to provide an on-demand environment based on microservice, which would be used by CI pipelines and QA team to run tests against
• 1) Solving the problem of next gen CI
• 2) Building tools and products that bring in more confidence to the code, much before the release
• 3) Build test frameworks
• technology : AWS, docker, python, java

Dec 2018 – Sep 2019 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Role : Tech-Manager/Automation Architect - SDE-T for Platform & Learning Engine Team (Team size : 3)
• 1. Designing QA Strategy and QA Metrics for the company
• 2. Architected and rolled out BE and End2End testing frameworks from scratch
• 3. Instrumental in helping with Quality Engineering strategies and techniques in fast paced environments.
• 4. Responsible for Quality - for Platform and Learning Engine Team
• Key Areas :QA Strategy, Automation Architecting, Test Pyramids, Mentoring

Mar 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Automation Architect / Tech - Manager (Team size : 9)
• 1. Identified key value adding areas for automation drove the initiatives from Bangalore
• 2. Worked closely with multiple Engineering / Dev leaders to promote adoption of the automation tools and frameworks
• 3. Technically responsible for driving automation efforts from Bangalore
• 4. Work closely with horizontal and vertical leads, identify key automation areas for improving the overall quality
• 5. Drive the automation efforts technically - from design, coding to deployment and support
• 6. Currently solving challenging problems for EndToEnd teams to improve product quality
• Technologies:
• Java, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Unix, AWS
• Automation Architect @ Analytics team[Big Data]
• Technologies : Java 8, Elastic Search, Kafka, Docker, RESTful Services, TestNG, Performance Testing, AWS, Gatling
• Testing Areas : Functional, Performance and Stability [ Ingestion and Querying platforms ]
• Roles and Responsibilities
• 1) Building Automation strategies and architect, design and develop automation frameworks for analytics team in AppD - which handles 1 Trillion events/day
• 2) Building perf test frameworks using gatling to measure the performance of analytics product and its events platform
• 3) Code frameworks and make them readily available to stake holders to plugin tests.
• 4) Individually own feature/features across releases/components and take responsibility towards driving them to sign-off
• 5) Work on functional and non-functional testing(automated) of the product.
• 6) Analyze new avenues to improve the frameworks to scale well with the product and implement them.
• 7) Mentor junior engineers.

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed the user & geo engineering/big data platform SDE-T team. (Team size : 5)
• 1) Responsible for creating and driving the SDE-T initiatives for user/geo engineering team, with "automation-first" perspective.
• 2) A tech manager role to contribute towards architecture and design of highly re-usable and scalable automation frameworks .
• 3) Accountable towards signing-off high quality products under aggressive deadlines.
• 4) Hunting bright minds ,who can be part of a top-notch team, to break the system in faster and smarter way.
• 5)And yes! Along with this - Architect, design and code test frameworks!

Oct 2013 – Jun 2014 · 8 mos · Bangalore

• White Box Tester/Automation - Big Data/ Search Platform
• Responsibilities : Automation Design and Coding for eDiscovery platform
• Technology Used : Unix,Java, TestNG, JNI, Kafka, Storm, Elastic Search, MongoDB,Ceph

Jul 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• Test Lead / SDE-T for the Big Data and Analytical Data Modelling team.
• Primarily working on QA and Automation works of Batch Data Platform and Low Latency Aggregators.
• Responsibilities:
• QA Estimation, QA Planning, Test plan creation, test cases generation, coding the test cases, Bug filing and verification,testing and sign-off

Sep 2008 – Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Palo Alto, California/ Bangalore, India

• 1. Contributed in developing the testing framework for vCenter API testing team.
• 2. Developed testing tools and testing projects and frameworks to automate the CIM and its interfacing application tests.
• 3. Write Test Cases, Test Design Specs for CIM (CIM-XML/WS-MAN), Hardware Monitoring Service in vCenter Server and Hardware Health monitoring system for ESX Server.
• 4. Worked on 3 major releases of vCenter, ESX/ESXi.
• 5. Worked on SMI-S testing for vMA in CIM-XML and WS-MAN protocols.
• 6. Leading the CIM feature from the functional QE side for the most recent release.
• 7. Involved from end-to-end in FVT life cycle.
• 8. FS verification, identify tests, code the tests, run regression and file bugs.
• Platform & Environment : ESX, Linux, Windows,CIM, vMA, SMI-S,Java, vSphere sdk, ant, perforce, Eclipse IDE, HTML/DHTML, XML

Jun 2004 – Jun 2006 · 2 yrs · Greater Chennai Area

• 1. I worked under developing the product NFC (Network Flow Collector) for Hitachi (Japan) during the year 2004-2005. It is a network traffic management software for Hitachi.
• I worked in C++, Multithreaded programming, OO Designs, UML Diagrams using MS Visio.
• 2. I was responsible for application development, maintainance and enhancements projects for Freescale Semiconductors (EHS and Facilities).
• I was working in HTML, DHTML, Cold Fusion, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, Filemaker Pro, UNIX, SQLs