Apr 2021 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• ● Building and Leading QA org for Prisma Cloud Enterprise SaaS Platform, supporting multi-cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, and IBM Cloud
• ● Providing technical leadership for end-to-end QA and automation processes tailored to products built on Microservices architecture, ensuring reliability, scalability, and predictable performance
• ● Proven ability to build, coach, mentor, and inspire the Quality Engineering team, fostering high productivity, teamwork, and enhanced group competency to drive organisational growth

Aug 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

• ● Build & Lead solid system test engineering team from scratch in Bangalore for multiple Nutanix Products/Components - Calm, HCI Core (AOS, DR, Prism), NCC & Nutanix Objects storage
• ● Delivering QA & Automation for products in Hybrid-Cloud architecture, HCI, Storage Backup/DR, Security and Server Technologies
• ● Providing technical leadership for system test and automation for products built on Distributed systems and MSP architecture
• ● Testing at scale and building product integration test efforts with rapidly expanding Nutanix portfolio
• ● Coach, mentor & motivate the Quality Engineering team towards high productivity, teamwork and improved group competency for higher growth

May 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Build and lead System Test Engineering in Bangalore for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS.

May 2014 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• ● Build and Lead Automation Factory team focused in test automation for Enterprise & Hyperscale Storage Products (SSD,PCIe,NVMe) - InfiniFlash(Ceph), IONacc
• ● Build common pool of fungible resources to deliver FW Validation & automation for multiple product areas and leverage.
• ● Drive implementation of common test automation framework to improve test coverage & help QE teams to qualify multiple releases in parallel
• ● Build innovative tools and infrastructure to bring efficiency and effectiveness in QA - Advanced Test Management System leveraging open source TestLink tool, Unified Test Automation Framework (Puppet, Jenkins)
• ● Resource management for personnel & hardware, project scoping, tracking & delivery, budgeting
• ● Drive implementation of test automation to improve test coverage, time to market and help QE teams to run multiple releases in parallel
• ● Participate in setting team goals and translating company and product objectives into goals and focuses for the teams
• ● Ensure projects meet objectives through establishing effective organizational structure and efficiently leading operations
• ● Build, mentor, motivate, and manage the QE group towards high productivity, teamwork, improved group competency and further growth
• ● Work closely with product management and development to determine product roadmaps, quality criteria and quality metrics

Jun 2010 – May 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• Technical Lead: Test Development & Automation:-
• ● Developing Test Plans, Strategies and automation for new features of Data Protection products like Snapmirror, Snapvault, Any-2-NetApp backup solutions
• ● Test Development & Automation for Any-to-NetApp Open Source Backup Solution based on VMWare Copy-Offload infrastructure.
• ● Test Development & Automation for NetApp Backup and Disaster Recovery products in Clustered Data ONTAP environment.
• ● Member of ‘Automation Bozos Group’, which is aimed at bringing efficiency and address issues revolving around Automation at NetApp.
• ● Member of ‘NACL CZARS Group’ which is aimed at NACL adoption across various BUs at NetApp.
• ● Test Automation & Framework development: Library development and enhancements, test script reviews and adding new features for automation framework(s)
• ● Estimation and planning of hardware/software and resource requirements
• ● Creating detailed test cases for assigned features / modules
• ● Test Development & Execution: Functionality testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and Systemic Style testing
• ● Effective interaction with cross BU teams regularly to find any gap in test coverage as well required test coverage for new features.
• ● Defining the exit criteria for each and every release
• ● Reporting defects and tracking them to closure
• ● Consolidating the test execution progress and reporting the status to QA manager on a weekly basis. Informing the stability of assigned features / modules on a regular basis during the release.
• ● Building/Training the strong QA team

May 2006 – Jun 2010 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• ● Participate in design discussion of new features of McAfee Anti-Virus Engine features
• ● Developing Test Plans and Test Strategies for new Anti-Virus Engine features like Zip FS, Rar FS, Microsoft Office files & documents, etc
• ● Competitive analysis for anti-virus engine and automation for the same
• ● End to End test development and automation for Engine SDK examples testing across multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Novell and Mac)
• ● Estimation and planning of hardware/software and resource requirements
• ● Creating detailed test cases for assigned features / modules
• ● Test Development, Execution & Automation: Functionality testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and adhoc testing
• ● Agile software development model & release process.

Nov 2003 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• ● Developing Test Design for new features of HP Manageability Processor (ILO) of Low, Mid and high-end HP Servers
• ● Test Execution: Functionality testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and adhoc testing
• ● Test Automation and Framework development: Test Script Development, Library development and framework enhancements
• ● Porting TCL scripts to Perl scripts
• ● Waterfall software development model & release process.