May 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Managing a team consisting of 6 individuals, comprised of both full-time employees and contractors.
• Participating in the recruitment and interview processes, Mentoring team members and offering technical guidance.
• Engaging with PSP development owners and program management to establish release schedules.
• Drive the validation efforts of PSP Firmware across various business verticals - Server, Client, and Embedded.
• Driving daily scrum meetings and delivering weekly status reports to stakeholders (PM/Sr Manager).
• Assumed the role of the primary contact for new features including feature comprehension, test case creation, and conducting knowledge transfer sessions to the team.
• Monitor the quality of testing releases and enhance overall test coverage, actively involved in test planning.
• Implemented process enhancements in release and test case management, which significantly benefited the team.
• Analyzing reported bugs from internal and external stakeholders and identifying areas for improvement.
• Build PSP Firmware as per release mail and integrate the PSP Firmware to the latest PI BIOS or Weekly BIOS for testing.
• Handled the Platform Secure Processor firmware binary building and shared the same with BIOS stakeholders and served as the gatekeeper for production Git branches.
• Good hands-on Experience in PSP testing, debugging, and analyzing, in adherence to our company testing protocols, guidelines, and quality standards to ensure the firmware performs to specification.

Jul 2018 – Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Nov 2011 – Jun 2018 · 6 yrs 7 mos

• Project Name: Firmware Audit
• Role: Senior Test Engineer and Team Lead.
• Client: Hewlett Packard->PMC->Microsemi
• This is storage controller Firmware testing project. It has different features like RAID creation, backup, restore, encryption, rebuild, movement and many more. I worked as a test engineer and Test Team leader. I was actively involved in customer issue reproduction, debugging and verification.
• Environment and skill details:
• Skill: SAS, SATA, PCIe, NVME and RAID technology.
• Tools: JDSU 12G SAS Analyzer, Test Rail, JIRA, PUTTI, Odyssey Tools (in-house tool), IO Meter, Meat Grinder, FIO. Medusa etc.
• Servers: HPE ProLiant server (DL/ML/BL), HPE blade server, Cisco, Dell, Inspur, Lenovo, Huawei and Supermicro, Cavium Thunder X2.
• Storage Enclosure: HP D3600/D3700, HP D2600/D2700, HP D6000, HP MSA 1040 and HP MSA 2040, Dell Storage MD1400 and MD1420 DA.
• Drive: SAS, SATA, SSD & M.2.
• Storage Controller: SAS controller, SATA Controller.
• Operating System: Windows, Linux, VMware, SLES, Ubuntu etc.

Oct 2009 – Nov 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Project: HP Insight Control QA
• Role: Test (QA) Engineer.
• Client: Hewlett Packard
• This is a complete enterprise management & solution software, where HP System Insight Manager is the base software along with it has 10 plugins which provide different features to manage and provide solution to the customer e.g. Virtual provisioning feature, automatic software deployment feature, performance and load balancing management feature, power management feature, disaster recovery feature etc.
• I have worked on solution testing with full responsibilities.
• Environment and skill details:
• Skill: Functional testing, Solution testing, Hyper-V Cluster, VMware ESX Cluster, HP Blade server management tool, SAN Switch, SAN FC Technology.
• Tools: Medusa, VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, Quality Centre10.0, QUIX (HP in-house tool for bug tracking).
• Server: HP ProLiant server, HP blade server, and HP Integrity server.
• Storage: HP D2700/2600, HP D3700/D3600, HP EVA, HP MSA etc.
• Operating system: Windows, Linux, VMware, HP-UX, Open VMS on HP.
• Configuration: DAS, SAN Environment, DNS, DHCP.

Jun 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Project: HP System Insight Manager QA
• Role: Test (QA) Engineer.
• Client: Hewlett Packard
• This is a HP server management software, using this software we can manage (monitor, deploy agent, event notification etc.) over 500+ HP servers, HP storages & HP switches.
• I have worked on application testing with full responsibilities.
• Environment and skill details:
• Skill: Functional testing, Solution testing, SNMP Agents, WMI Providers, MIB Walker, SNMP trap generator.
• Tools: Talisman, Quality Centre10.0 and QUIX (HP in-house tool for bug tracking)
• Server: HP ProLiant servers, HP blade servers and HP Integrity servers.
• Storage: HP D2700/2600, HP D3700/D3600, HP EVA, HP MSA etc.
• Operating system: Windows, Linux, VMware (ESX and ESXi), HP-UX, Open VMS on HP.