Apr 2020 – Mar 2025 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Next-Gen Quality Assurance: Developed a vision and test strategy leveraging the Test Pyramid to
• ensure the quality of Tesco tills through system integration testing using manual methods and
• robotic arms. Delivered high-quality releases with a weekly deployment frequency to stores. Oversaw the management of Next-Gen Labs to support effective testing.
• Quality Engineering and Resilience: Promoting shift-left testing by equipping teams with virtual tills
• and mock modules, along with test automation frameworks powered by virtual tills. Introduced practices like integration, NFR, CHO, and CHAOS testing and foster a "Test-as-you-code" culture, ensuring defect prevention from day one.
• Central Configuration Management: Developing a centralized configuration model using a
• "Configuration as a Service" approach. Addressing varying business requirements across stores by
• enabling real-time feature adjustments via the cloud.
• New Stores : Responsible for overseeing the readiness of the software and their deployments to the systems in New stores and ensuring the stores are ready to trade and gave grand entry into the Tesco store chain by the day of opening.
• SRE and Support Engineering and GenAI Adoption: Responsible for seeing and leading the SRE team, which is responsible for incident management at stores. Leading the adoption of Gen-AI in problem analysis, runbooks onboarding and training to LLM and building self-healing applications by collaborating with Data Science teams

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Here is a short description about the project I handle
• Senior Engineering Manager in Tesco. Driving e-commerce and in-store platforms by influencing and collaborating with partners, organizations, and cross-functional teams by delivering the API's required for basket creation, order lifecycle, and restrictions of sale.
• Also responsible for Quality Assure of the in store operations. Thie includes driving multiple teams for both QA automation testing and also for Manual QA testing. Automation testing charter includes system integration testing, NFRs and Functional API regression testing. Manual testing includes signoff od the final weekly releases to production, hotfix signoff and adhoc program Manual testing support.
• Lead multiple teams working on multiple services and programs/solutions such as life cycle operations prices in Tesco, Customer Ordering service for Indigenously built Tesco Till platform which in In-Store devices which are serving multi-millions orders worth sale value of tens of millions of £ per day.
• Was able to Drive a Special team to develop and deliver Cloud price eventing services in 30 days.

Dec 2015 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Designing the new converged data center management solution OneView.
• Responsible for Analyzing and translating business information and requriements to an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve business objectives.
• Conduct proof of concept projects to validate new feature sets and 3rd party technologies.
• Analyze the current architecture to identify weakness and develop opportunities for continuous improvements to increase quality, effectiveness and user experience at the same time reduce the cost.
• Applying multiple technical solutions to solve business problems. This also includes
• Documenting all the solution architecture design and analysis work
• Interface with cross business units and technical leadership and collaborate to arrive at common and reliable architectures.
• Monitor and review process, Code reviews , and testing procedures and make sure the effectiveness and quality of the project.
• Interact and suggest L1/L2 and pre sales and provide suggestions and clarifications when required to enable and accelerate sales.

Nov 2013 – Apr 2020 · 6 yrs 5 mos

• Data center Managebility and Converged infrastructure story of HP has lot to offer to customer in terms of automation and quick deployment of infrastructure. Currently working as the Technologist in Firmware deployment and Health monitoring of the infrastructure.

Apr 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Team/Project Lead for HPUX Security projects and Technical expert in Network security

Aug 2006 – Apr 2011 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Leading Multiple Projects under HPUX Network security.
• Worked on OpenVMS cluster networking stack and multiple components like cluster communication, SCS and connection manager.

Oct 2002 – Aug 2006 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Worked in OS/2 kernel and Linux kernel as part of LTC team.
• Developed Kdump for x86_64 contributing to open source linux kernel 2.6

Jul 2002 – Oct 2002 · 3 mos

• Writing Linux device driver for Ethernet devices for linux 2.4 kernel.
• Writing BSP for embedded boards with ARM processors.