Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• "Grey Sim," as the name suggests, works on the philosophy of Grey Matter Simulation, i.e., tinkering minds of kids and youth. We started our impactful journey in 2013 & our focus is on Technical Skill Development in Electronics, Telecom, Renewable Energy & New Age Skills domain, and STEM Education. Over the last ten years, we have developed some impactful interventions in Vocational Education and Livelihood space, focusing on 4 SDGs, namely 4 - Quality Education, 5 - Gender Equality, 8 - Good Jobs & Economic Growth & 10 - Reduced Inequalities. We work on the following thematic areas:
• 1. Livelihood Creation: RPL, Short Term Technical Skilling, Long term work integrated skilling, Apprenticeship & entrepreneurship development, Content Development & Training Simulators
• 2. Education: STEM education (Atal Tinker Labs), School Transformation, and Skills @ Schools in line with NEP 2020
• 3. Capacity Building of ITIs through introducing New Age Courses, Industry Partnerships, Training the trainers, Facilitating Apprentice & Placement, etc.
• Our marquee donors include Voltas, Whirlpool, Tech Mahindra, HCL Foundation, Sandvik Asia, GIZ, HDFC Bank, Genpact, Godrej & Boyce, and Crompton.
• GROW100 Cohort (100 impactful NGOs) led by the Edelgive Foundation and the Better World Initiative (BWI) of Genpact selected Grey Sim as one of these NGOs. Furthermore, Grey Sim is registered with the NSE Social Stock Exchange.

Nov 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · Pune Area, India

Sep 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune

• Role is to sell our spectacular DevOpsNow platform and make our mark in DevOps market. We are continuing to build a already awesome platform to pack insane amount of value into it. A customer watches how REAN DevOpsNow platform picks their solution, deploys it on AWS public cloud, tests it for security as well as functional tests, and then continues to monitor it, auto-heal it, managing the production environment with top notch DevOps pipelines Ensuring business growth!

Apr 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Pune Area, India

• REAN Cloud acquires Opex in Sept 2016.
• Opex platform: Created DeployNow, TestNow and Self Healing Server.
• Opex world class offerings in Infrastructure automation and solution development
• DevOps using Infrastructure-as-code
• Docker, Terraform, Consul, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Vagrant, Kubernetes etc...skills.
• Integrations with ITSM tools like BMC Remedy, BPPM monitoring, CMDB, Bladelogic, HP NNM, OVO, IBM Tivoli, etc.
• Automate creation of servers, get into software defined apps (data centers)
• AUTOMATE IT. CREATE TIME.
• http://www.OpexSoftware.com

Feb 2011 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• QA Consultant
• ZS ASSOCIATES, PUNE Feb, 2011-Till Date
• Following are the responsibilities undertaken:
• Managing a team of 6 QA resources and 1 contractor.
• Managing Planning and Scheduling activities (Using Agile).
• Gathering the requirements from the stakeholders (marketing, sales, customers and product owners).
• Executive Briefing, Customer Demos and Proof of Concepts (Pre-Sales Presentation)
• Project Management, Release Management, Project Planning & Scheduling, Estimation and Project Strategy.
• Instrumental in setting Global QA process standardization and various tool implementations.
• Helped implement Agile to the teams in ZS.
• Refined QA processes to make it more efficient.

Feb 2010 – Jan 2011 · 11 mos

• Client for the project was an insurance giant in Europe, Atradius who was giving Infosys the charge of keeping its applications up-to-date and testing it. Following are the responsibilities undertaken:
• Project Management responsibilities – Resource management, estimation, Schedule tracking, Data Metrics, Status readout for Management, Root cause analysis etc.
• Managing a team of 15 QA resources spread across 3 counties in Europe and Pune .
• Client Management while showcasing QA related progress.
• Managing Planning and scheduling activities.
• Worked with the client to have a better understanding of the requirements.
• Follow CMM standard processes in the project.

Jan 2004 – Dec 2009 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• Worked as an Associate Manager for the The Application and Dependency(ADDM) product. This product includes discovery of Unix, Windows, SAN ,SNMP v3 products. Major responsibilities undertaken were:
• Setup a QA team of 7 in Pune consisting of Manual testers and automation testers.. The role included facilitating the team performance through hiring, training, mentoring, defining workload priorities. Helping the team improve on technical and soft skills. Was the first QA person on the team and built the team from scratch.
• Project Management responsibilities –Estimation, Schedule tracking on performance metrics of products & projects and keeping the top management in loop through structured reports submitted periodically. Risk mitigating and reporting was an important part of it.
• Introducing processes improvements and maintained perfect coordination with QA and development teams working on testing activities relating to several concurrent product releases. Worked with Cross teams for seamless releases.
• Contributed one year as Program Manager in addition leading QA domain. As Program Manager synchronized all the parts of the product and ensured observance of the company’s procedures during product releases.

Feb 2001 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune

• Conducted testing of various Selectica products by defining and implementing Test cases and Test Plans and integrating roles of team Members.
• Successfully managed -Cross Platform testing on Windows and Unix Platforms and performed Smoke, Regression and Functionality testing.

Mar 2000 – Dec 2000 · 9 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• • Developed & implemented various in-house software projects using Java and JSP, Servlets.

Nov 1994 – Mar 2000 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• Developed project plans using Project Management Software like Primavera Project Planner (Win ver 2.0) and Microsoft Project (Ver 4).
• Defined and updated Project Schedule, periodically. Drawn up Work Breakdown Structure to facilitate project implementation. The service span included 8 months in sister concern, The Kuljian Corporation, in the US.