Feb 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Sep 2015 – Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · On-site

• I was hired in Mentor Graphic Noida to setup their engineering department for Automotive Embedded division (Earlier MontaVista/Cavium Networks). Where I have managed QA activities of Embedded Automotive products and features such as IVI(In Vehicle Infotainment), Graphics, Noise cancellation, Audio, Video, Camera , Embedded Operating system such as MEL (Mentor Emmbedded Linux) , MVL (MontaVista Linux), Nucleaus. In the field of Kernel and Middleware.
• This was a challenging role and also included followings:-
• 1. Hiring right talent, get them required training, tools and support. Created a high performing team of 14 talented engineers from zero.
• 2. Managing projects and team involving cross location such as Bangalore and Germany.
• 3. Handling multiple projects and make sure timely deliveries with defined quality standards.
• 4. I am playing important role in delivery planning, defining quality standards, resource planning, release cycles, negotiating with customer to setup right expectations.
• 5. Providing effort estimations for upcoming projects, to start the project discussion with customer.
• 6. Introduce new processes and methods to increase productivity, efficiency and overall product quality.
• 7. Coordinate with product management and marketing to keep schedule and delivery planning intact with focus on to increase business and client satisfaction.
• 8. Work closely with customers to understand their requirements and align the test strategies accordingly.
• 9. Setup DevOps infrastructure to expedite development such as Jenkins, continuous integration, Jira, testlink, build and infrastructure.

Nov 2011 – Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · On-site

Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Working as individual contributor as well as Lead for NetApp’s proprietary file system WAFL(Write Anywhere File Layout) “A Storage File System” Features Projects:
• Wafliron, Wafl check, Larger Aggregates, Sowrdfish, , 5% cache reserve, De-duplication, Compression, Replication … etc.
• These features cover:
• 1. Storage efficiency
• 2. High Availability
• 3. File system Recovery & consistency
• 4. Performance features.
• 5. Back up and Re-store.
• Have good knowledge of SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FCOE solutions and Ethernet storage.
• Primary responsibilities:-
• 1. Study requirements, writing testplan and testscases for the feature.
• 2. Designed automation framework using Perl to facilitate faster turnaround time.
• 3. Bug validation and test execution.
• 4. Work closely with team to find out issues earlier and help them wherever necessary.
• 5. Lead Multiple Projects test projects from conception to completion.
• 6. In Parallel I work with NetApp product management and Sales teams to understand NetApp business and customer problems, so we can test product according customer uses.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked with Sony India as a consultant from Global edge software ltd, worked primarily on Sony’s proprietary platform Game-OS of Play station-3.
• This was a porting project, I ported all libraries and functions that are available on GameOS (proprietary of Sony Computer Entertainment) to Fedora-Core-5.
• 1) Worked on threads and distributed computing.
• 2) Write Unit test-cases using C, C++ for API.
• 3) Implement library functions that can be used to help developing Unit test cases.
• 4) Writing Makefiles to compile all unit testcases that can be executed on Cell-OS/Game OS.
• 5) Ported existing Unit testcase from Cell-Os to Linux.
• 6) Writing scripts to automate test case execution using Shell and Perl.
• Role : Coding, Writing Script
• Tools : PS3, Gcov, Memprof, Bugzilla,Gdb,Makefile
• Platform : C++, C, Fedora Core, GameOS.