• Achieved 100% Test-plan automation for automatable tests across all owned features in Performance, QoS, and Synchronous Replication.

• Delivered business-critical Synchronous Replication feature including scale and stress testing with high quality.

• Scaled capacity of the team by building an automated regression pipeline leveraging extensive automation and additional testbeds resulting in minimal manual test requirements post FQA for owned features.

• Implemented automation-first strategy for all new features achieving great success in test re-runs as well as immediate automated regression capability for tested features.

• Contribute and collaborate with automation and tools teams to enhance overall productivity, driving implementation and leverage automation, tools, and processes to enhance team delivery and efficiency.

• Summary: Cisco UCS product line; QA, Sustaining, Scale Testing, Automation, Automated Operations.

• TCL, Perl, Shell Scripting, Python.

• Successfully directed engineering team of over 100 across Cisco San Jose/Bangalore and Wipro/MindTree Bangalore.

• Continuously ensured and maintained time management efforts in the coordination of Cisco UCS Software Sustaining for shipped releases.

• Coordinated with upper management on quality discussions and handling of metrics for Cisco UCS.

• Drove automated sanity/PCS and regression for all Cisco UCS and scale automation and regression across various platforms.

• Ensured 80%+ test plan based feature automation for Cisco UCS S/W features.

• Performance efforts yielded test-plan based automation to 80%+ coverage for feature and scale automation across all platforms for Cisco Unified Computing System.

• Successfully delivered 5 main, 14 maintenances, and up to 80 sustaining/patch releases with high-quality manual tests and automated sanity/regression coverage over 4 years.

• Scaled the capacity of automated regression factory to support 3 independent parallel ongoing major and minor releases.

• Summary: Nexus 7K product line of switches: Automation, Automated Operations.

• TCL, Perl, Shell Scripting.

• Implemented key managerial tactics across various global locations including San Jose, Bangalore, and Chennai.

• Planned and designed multiple complex testbeds and handled multiple simultaneous releases.

• Provided hands-on owning, executing, and debugging sanity and regression tests.

• Successfully executed growth tactics through the development of small team into a large automation/support factory.

• Delivered up to 19 releases with high-quality automated sanity and regression coverage.

• Summary: Nexus 7K product line of switches: Automation and Regression

• Successfully managed and oversaw activities of up to 4 sanity engineers.

• Balanced Nexus7000 sanity framework maintenance whilst delivering high quality builds for Quality Assurance. Collaborated with various personnel to plan and scheduled automated jobs for daily builds.

• Provided organizational efforts to daily failures and reported as needed for quick fixes across 30 daily suites.

• High Quality Sanity Support: Continuously delivered superior support 24/7.

• Acknowledged numerous times with CAP Awards of exceptional performance.

• Lead successful sanity engineering team and implemented industry knowledge for up to 30 complex suites.