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Quality Engineering Manager

Location:
San Jose, CA
Posted:
April 24, 2017

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Ninad Raje

Phone: 408-***-**** (Cell)

E-mail: *********@*****.***

Experience/Skills Summary:

* ***** ** * *****-on leader of Quality Engineering, Automation and Tools teams with a dedicated focus on improving product quality, improving engineering efficiency and processes, automation coverage, continuous integration and tools/framework development.

Excellent organizational skills, people management skills and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Over 10 years of experience as software engineer in developing and maintaining enterprise applications, network management systems, web applications etc.

Excellent ability to quickly grasp new technologies and apply them effectively to solve complex problems.

Excellent presentation and written/oral communication skills.

Technical Skills:

Languages: Python, C++, Java

OS: Linux, Windows

Middleware/Databases: Django, .NET, MySQL, Cassandra

Tools/Frameworks/Environments: Jenkins, AWS, OpenStack, REST, Selenium, gcov/lcov, coverage, Jmeter

Protocols: REST, SSH, HTTP/S, SNMP, TCP/IP, Fiber Channel

Experience Details:

Sr. Manager, Quality Engineering, Harmonic Inc. [Mar 2016 – Present]

Technologies: Agile/SCRUM/KanBan, JIRA, Confluence, Linux, Python, Jmeter, Continuous integration, Jenkins, Openstack, AWS.

Managed all aspects of testing including functional testing of new features, regression testing, performance testing, robustness testing, redundancy testing etc. for cloud based video transcoding and packaging services for live content and DVR content for channel providers like AT&T, Comcast.

Managed a team of SDETs responsible for test automation.

KPI management to keep track of critical quality benchmarks and regular updates to executive management.

Customer engagement - Release management, release notes, RCA for field issues etc.

Director of Quality Engineering, Ampush Inc. [September 2012 – Mar 2016]

Technologies: Agile/SCRUM, JIRA, Selenium, Confluence, Linux, Python, SQL, Git, Bitbucket, Continuous integration, Jenkins, Cassandra

Initiated and executed QA/Engineering efficiency initiatives, continuous integration, and automation initiatives to deliver high quality releases of a web based big data analytics system to enable customers to maximize their advertisement ROI on social media.

Improved overall quality of the system tremendously to bring down production outages to zero thus increasing the business throughput of the company.

Defined engineering efficiency initiatives to significantly increase unit tests and automation test coverage, increased the code coverage percentages to 85%, introduced and implemented engineering efficiency tools and processes across the organization.

Engineering Manager (QA Automation), Cisco Systems, San Jose CA [Jan 2010 – September 2012]

Technologies: Python, JAVA, Linux, Selenium, Windows, Mac OS, XML, XMLRPC, HTTP, SNMP, Socket APIs, Jenkins, GCOV/LCOV.

Managed a team of on-site and offshore automation engineers that developed innovative technical solutions for the complex features of Cisco’s video teleconferencing product; developed core components of the automation framework to support end-to -end automation solutions.

Started and expanded cost-effective offshore initiative within the organization to successfully increase automation ROI with respect to percentage of tests automated, number of defects found, and with respect to number of manual resources required within the team.

Collaborated across cross-functional teams like development engineering to effectively deliver automation solutions. Started an early engagement initiative wherein the team members were embedded into the Development teams to provide automation hooks for the new features.

Automated components of diverse technologies like embedded platform CLIs, server APIs, mobile apps, browser based applications etc. Provided complete, end-to-end automation solutions for wireless tests, NAT tests, stress tests etc.

Recipient of multiple Cisco CAP awards given for outstanding performance.

Manager (QA, Automation, Tools), Asterpix Inc. San Jose CA [April 2007 – Jan 2010]

Technologies: Python, Java, C++, Linux, MySQL, Django, Shell scripting, Amazon S3.

Developed data center deployment tools to automate deployment of critical services of Asterpix’s Video annotation web service, keyword based search and content management systems etc. Managed all stages of tools development including requirements gathering, architecture, design, development, delivery, and documentation. The tools architecture was Object-oriented, multi-threaded, and scalable.

Reduced overall manual effort from man-hours to minutes during each execution with single point of invocation and ZERO human interaction.

Increased automation coverage to 80% by automating unit, functional, API and UI automated tests.

Software tools and automation Lead, Brocade Communication Systems Inc. San Jose, CA [January 2003 - April 2007] Technologies: C#, .NET, Tcl/Expect, Java, Eclipse, Perl, Windows, Fabric OS, SAN, Linux, Shell scripting, gcov/lcov.

Developed Tcl/Expect based automation framework to automate Brocade’s SAN product. The automation helped to improve quality and reduced manual efforts.

Managed architecture and releases of internal tool (IOManager) to manage data traffic across Brocade's storage networks to detect frame losses and improve quality resulting in increased customer satisfaction. The server part of the tool was developed in C# as a .NET service. The client was developed as Tcl/Expect APIs.

Architected gcov based code coverage tool to support Brocade’s embedded OS platform (FOS). It uses compile time instrumentation technique to generate code coverage data. This tool helped Brocade significantly to find out dead, unused code in the Embedded OS that helped to increase run-time efficiency and reduce overheads like build time.

Managed offshore team of engineers.

Defined and standardized SQA processes across multiple SQA groups.

Awarded two Brocade excellence awards, one Brocade button award, and one VP award.

Sr. Software Engineer, Aladdin Knowledge Systems Sunnyvale, CA [June 1999 - November 2002]

Technologies: C++, Visual C++, COM, RSA Crypto, RW Tools++, NT 4.0, Win32, Solaris 2.6/2.7, Microsoft SQL, Oracle 8i

Designed and developed components of an on-line digital rights management system and a secured digital content delivery infrastructure. The CGI processes the transactions during an on-line purchase of a software title from a web storefront. The primary functionality of the CGI is to validate the purchase offer, generate the purchase receipt and provide an install key to install the product.

Software Engineer, TCSI Inc., San Jose, CA. [January 1996 - June 1999]

Technologies: C++, NT 4.0, Win32, Solaris 2.7/2.8 Microsoft SQL, Oracle 8i, OSP, CORBA, SS7

Designed, developed and maintained of various modules of a network management system. It is a distributed system that encapsulates the alarm and configuration management functionality of the SS7 network.

Education: MS (computer science), University of Poona, Pune, India

US Citizen. References available upon request.



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