Amir F. Mukeri

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Skype ID: amir_mukeri

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Seasoned Agile Test/QA leader helping organization and teams to meet diverse & ever-challenging needs of the “cloud era” through next generation software engineering practices.

Summary of Experience:

Total 10+ years of experience in software testing.

Expertise in Leading Manual and Automated Quality Assurance Testing teams of Web and Stand-alone applications.

Successfully incubated & led development & testing teams with VMware, IBM, Symantec, NetApp and a startup (now part of Intel Corp).

Excellent automation skills in Selenium WebDriver 2, C#, Java, TestNG, Ruby, Cucumber, Python and Robottest frameworks.

Review test plans, scripts, cases, and scenarios for accuracy and ensure quality.

Strong knowledge and understanding in AGILE TDD/BDD, Waterfall process of software using Automation and Manual Testing.

Expertise in analyzing Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, and High Level Design Documents for all kinds of projects.

Defect triaging, prioritizing, management and resolution tracking and execution.

Stakeholder management, requirement management, projects planning, risk management, coordination, reporting & execution with globally spread teams.

Excellent in building and executing Test Automation strategy, Test project planning, team building, team performance management, tracking, and reporting.

Education and Certifications:

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, University of Pune, India.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems, Infra, DevOps

RHEL 6.x, HP-UX 11.x/10.X, SUN SOLARIS 9/10, AIX 6, Windows 2012, IBM, Dell Power Systems

VMware vSphere 5.5(ESX, vCenter), VMware View,

Chef, Puppet

QA/Testing Management

Test Planning, Automation strategy, reviews, setting up teams, QA processes and metrics, reporting, RCA, hiring, training and retaining talent.

Test Automation and Tools

Selenium Webdriver (Java, Python), .Net C#, MS Team Foundation Server, MS Test Manager, CodedUI, Apache Maven 3.3, IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), AutoIt

CVS, GIT, SVN,Perforce, MS Team Foundation Server, Jira

Test Automation Framework

TestNG, Page Object Model (POM), Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Cucumber, Capybara DSL, Robottest

RDBMS/Database

Oracle 11gR2/11g/10g/9i/8i/7.x, MSSQL Server 2008, MySQL 5, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2.

Storage & GUI

SAN, NAS & Files System, NetApp OnTap 8.1(C-Mode & 7-Mode), NetApp OnCommand Suite, Brocade FC switch

Languages, Scripting

C, C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting

Professional Experience:

InEight May 2015 – Till Date

Role: Consulting Lead QA Automation/Architect

Description: InEight provides technology solutions for project-driven companies in the EC&O, Mining, Oil & Gas and Utilities industries. InEight is a premier SAP Channel Partner.

Responsibilities:

Design and develop the test automation framework from scratch.

Developed unified automation central framework in .Net C# framework to cater to multiple product groups for GUI, WebServices on MS Azure cloud, on-prem and mobile devices.

Framework design incorporated best design practices for test automation viz. Page Object Model, uniform logging and reporting, data abstraction, etc.

Same framework used for deskop, mobile and tablets using Selenium & Appium.

Working on establishing best QA Automation practices.

Work with offshore dev & test teams in resolution of issues.

Project planning, tracking and execution.

Environment: .Net C# 2013, Xamarin Studio, Speckflow(Gherkin), Microsoft TFS Team Foundation Server 2013, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Android SDK, Xamarin Forms, SAP Mobile Platform Server, Azure Cloud.

Druva Data Solutions Nov 2014 – March 2015

Role: Director QA Automation

Description: Druva is Sequoia and NVP funded startup established in 2008. It is Gartner #1 market leader in End Point Data Protection and Governance. Druva inSync takes care of complete data backup, recovery and leak protection of your data on laptops, desktops and mobile devices (Android, iOS, Windows) using backup to Amazon Cloud.

The project involved test automation of 5000+ test scenarios and with continuous cloud updates every two-week it was essential to provide solid regression coverage with minimal manual intervention. At the same time challenge was to enhance or refresh the automation framework so as to be more stable and predictable.

Responsibilities:

Implemented Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for regression as well as new feature test automation using Gherkin DSL.

Developed Page Object Model based GUI automation framework.

Design and development of test automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver 2, Ruby Cucumber as well as in Python and Robottest.

Lead the development of test automation for critical cloud infra feature such backup Cache server, Email backup, etc. from scratch.

Introduced Continuous Integration (CI) practice for automation code using Jenkins-CI.

Setup Agile scrum based process and introduced Jira for Sprint planning and tracking.

Scaled the automations by engaging contracting vendor engineering team to develop automated test and regression execution.

Team budgeting, forecasting and planning for resources.

Team performance Management: Setting up quarterly goals, providing regular feedback, and doing appraisal including salary recommendations.

Environment: Ruby,Cucumber Python, Selenium 2, Robottest, AWS, Dynamo DB, CherryPy Server, Nginx, Jenkins-CI, Jira Agile, Testrail, Ubuntu Linux 12, Windows, Mac OS X.

VMware, Inc. Oct 2012 – Nov 2014

Role: Manager, Quality Engineering

Description: VMware is the market leader in virtualization technology, solutions and products. VMware vSphere is at the core of virtual cloud infrastructure. It includes ESX and vCenter products. While ESX is hypervisor vCenter provides the critical piece of virtual infrastructure management capabilities for compute, storage and network infrastructure.

The Project involved testing and automation of vCenter server through WebUI and SOAP API interfaces for Update and patch releases including escalation repros.

Responsibilities:

Managed a Quality Engineering team spread in India and US.

Led the test automation in Java, Selenium and TestNG based framework.

Overall test planning & execution for VC Updates, features, GA, hot patches.

Test automation in Ruby, Selenium & Cucumber.

Managed multiple (8+) GA releases including two critical Single Sign On (SSO) and network security releases involving fixes and enhancements to VC 5.1 & 5.5 releases.

Overall QE owner for these releases with company wide engagement of teams across US, Europe, India & China development centers.

Managed critical customer escalations for VMware vCenter product.

Led the cross product group for Agile tool implementation.

Motivated and guided the team to participate in workshop presentation on Fuzzy API security testing for international conference on software testing.

Team performance Management: Setting up annual goals, providing regular feedback, and doing appraisal including salary recommendations.

Environment: Java, Ruby, Cucumber, XML, SOAP API SDK, TestNG, Eclipse, Aptana Studio, MS SQL Server, Oracle 10g, VMware ESX & vCenter, Suse Enterprise Linux.

NetApp, Inc. Oct 2011 – Oct 2012

Role: Lead Product & Partner Engineer (Product Management)

Description: NetApp is the market leader in storage products developing both hardware appliance and software. NetApp releases storage manageability SDK for storage admin, developers, SIs & partners to develop their own solutions or customize the products.

The Project involved leading the technical marketing activities for NetApp Manageability SDK and online developer community.

Responsibilities:

Gathered requirements and developed product roadmap through direct customer interaction, market research, competitive analysis, and feedback from worldwide sales force.

Competitive Analysis: Led the test project focusing on analyzing competitor product strengths and weaknesses that resulted in product roadmap enhancements.

Prototype Development: Developed the prototype for NMSDK API development environment using Eclipse Plugin Development Environment (PDE).

As a developer community evangelist managed events such as developer contests, product launches, developer conferences, etc.

Created Go To Market collaterals such recorded demos, Getting Started video Series for OnCommand suit of products, facts sheets, FAQs, etc.

Designed and developed script based solutions for NetApp OnCommand Provisioning & Protection Manager products using NMSDK in Java & PowerShell.

Successfully led the NetApp DevCon conference held in Malaysia in September 2012 including a 4-hour session delivered on developing storage provisioning and protection application from scratch using ZEDI (IDE for development).

Environment: NetApp OnTap 8.1(C-Mode & 7-Mode), API OnCommand Suite, System Center, Operations Manager, Java, Eclipse, PowerShell, Camtesia Studio

VMware, Inc. July 2010 – Oct 2011

Role: Staff Software Engineer QA

Description: VMware is the market leader in x86 virtualization. The project scope was testing and automation for VMware vCenter & View patches and escalations test teams.

Responsibilities:

Planning and execution of product hot fixes and patches, automation, Request for Product Qualification (RPQs) and customer advocacy.

Customer Escalations Management: Leading the escalation repros, interacting with customers, tech support staff, account & product management.

Led the code coverage testing efforts using Cobertura.

Test Autmation in Selenium WebDriver and Java using TestNG framework.

Actively participated in cross sustenance - tech support initiative to improve customer support metrics by training support staff.

Lab infra management: Budgeting, forecasting and procuring hardware.

Motivated and guided the team to participate in internal idea incubation competition vHack of which one idea got first prize and was selected for further funding.

Led the productization efforts of the same which is now released as Fling.

Environment: VMware ESX & vCenter,MS SQL Server, Oracle 10g, PostgreSQL, SLESS, VMware View, TestNG, SilkTest, Java, Selenium WebDriver 2, Eclipse

IBM Tivoli May 2008 – July 2010

Role: Staff Software Engineer Test

Description: IBM Tivoli Security product suit involving Identity and Access Management for Operating System (TAMOS) & Tivoli Security Policy Manager (TSPM) for OS for native and virtualized environments. TAMOS manages the access to various OS resources ranging from files to network ports.

Responsibilities:

Team Setup: As a Scrum Master setup the dev-test team, led the knowledge transfer, project planning and execution, and coordination with Australia based development team.

Test Automation development in Java in Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester and Rational Quality Manager.

Led the development in Python as a part of dev scrum team.

Successfully led the Webservices SOA/Content security product incubation initiative from concept to prototype development in the area of Access Management for Content Management system (FileNet).

One PUBLISH rated invention disclosure in the area of security for unstructured and semi-structured data.

Won Best of IBM Bravo award for contributions to the TAMOS Agent 6.0 releases.

Environment: RHEL 5, AIX 6 (LPARs, WPARs), Solaris 10(Containers, Zones), Perl, CMVC, Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Functional Tester (Java), IBM Content Management (FileNet)

Symantec Inc. June 2006 – May 2008

Role: SQA Engineer

Description: The product was Veritas Backup Reporter - VBR (now known as Symantec OpsCenter). VBR collects the information about the backup infrastructure such as backup size, duration, media used, throughput, etc. and creates predictive analytical reports and dashboard for backup infra planning such as future requirement of storage, backup failure analysis, etc. including billing.

The Project involved testing and automation of VBR for multiple releases.

Responsibilities:

As a member of 6 people team I was the complete owner of quality of deliverables for Veritas NetBackup related components/modules in Veritas Backup Reporter.

Was part of first Agile implementation Pilot project across Business Unit.

Test automation of functional test suite using Perl, Shell & MySQL

Setting up the SAN test infrastructure involving EMC arrays and Brocade FC switch.

QE owner for Disk Based Data Protection (DBDP) feature testing of NetBackup 6.5.

Won manger’s recognition award for two consecutive quarters

Environment: EMC Clariion Storage array, Brocade FC switch, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Perl, MySQL.

Great Software Lab(Client: Reconnex Inc.) July 2005 – June 2006

Role: DevTest Engineer.

Description: The product was Reconnex iGuard a ERM network data leak protection appliance. iGuard captures the network traffic at the wire speed, does a deep packet analysis, dumps TCP/IP packets into a data store and generates alerts, reports for any sensitive information flowing outside the network as per the policies set for violation of any corporate givernance policies such as SOX, GLBA, HIPPA,etc.

The Project involved testing and automation of iGuard network appliance.

Responsibilities:

Test owner for TCP/IP Capture Filter module & reporting dashboard for Data Leak Prevention appliance Reconnex iGurad.

Web UI Test Automation development from scratch in Jython (Python on JVM) on QEngine an UI automation tool.

Completely owned and automated keyword highlighting feature of iGuard.

Backend regression test automation in Perl and Bash scripting.

Developed test result logging tool in Perl & MySQL for TestLink tool.

Environment: Jython, Linux, QEngine, Bash, Fedora Linux, Ethereal, libpcap, Wireshark, Apache Tomcat.

Prolink Computers June 1997 – June 2000

Role: Tech Support & Sales Engineer

Description: Prolink is provider of networking, hardware and solution integration services for Windows, Linux, Novell NetWare and UNIX based infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

Network Configuration for Novel Netware, Linux and Windows based networks

Customer account management & lead generation

Managed a team of 6 sales & service engineers.

Professional Member: IEEE, ACM, SNIA, and Scrum Alliance.

Current Location/Address: Scottsdale, Arizona 85258

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