Mayur Saxena
Software Engineering Managwer
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Enthusiastic Software Engineering Manager eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Clear understanding of people management, technical leadership and trained in project management. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in software development domain.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Software Engineering Manager
Cisco system India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
02.2018 - Current
- Led organization-wide technology strategy development.
- Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
- Led team of ten engineers in software development from beginning design through completion.
- Reviewed and revised technical design directions, prioritizing senior leadership's business goals.
- Met with Senior management on weekly basis to provide detailed project report and milestone updates.
- Documented technical workflows and knowledge in private wiki for education of newly hired employees.
- Collaborated with product management, architects to define and groom requirements and build projects that achieved or exceeded Business unit goal.
- Allied with other engineering leaders to plan, manage and coordinate teams around reaching prescribed development milestones.
- Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple product releases to optimize resource utilization and shorten development times.
- Integrated all prescribed processes and conventions during project planning to align products with internal guidelines.
- Evaluated ongoing development efforts, providing feedback on potential methods of expediting completion and improving final results.
- Mentored junior software engineers, providing careful guidance of development strategies and education on innovative development techniques.
- Reviewed and assessed architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs.
- Interviewed, hired, trained and mentored staff by coaching daily, leading performance reviews and offering constructive feedback.
- Analyzed architecture design, scoping, implementation, testing and deployment needs to define project requirements.
Software Release Manager & Scrum Master
Cisco System India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, Karnatakata
02.2014 - 01.2018
- Managed simultaneous and multiple releases across various platforms and within diverse portfolios.
- Managed release validation through development, testing and production phases.
- Recruited subject matter experts to tackle advanced release deficits and unforeseen development obstacles hindering scheduled iterations.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
Lead Software Test Engineer
Cisco system India Pvt Ltd
bangalore, Karnataka
01.2008 - 01.2014
- Reviewed scalability, performance and load balancing of each application.
- Developed and deployed test load scripts with Python/TCL.
- Conducted load, stress and endurance tests to simulate realistic user activities.
- Coordinated and monitored work of co-located and remote teams.
- Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.
- Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Utilized Agile software development methods to increase team efficiency by 100% in test automations.
- Tracked, prioritized and organized defects, working with development team to facilitate timely corrections.
- Reduced overall manual testing hours to 20% by writing and optimizing automation test scripts.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every 6 weeks and well-organized sprints.
- Established functional and technical specifications and standards.
- Reviewed documentation to identify necessary changes in simulation and support capabilities.
- Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance.
- Identified areas needing improvement to review with senior leadership and develop plans for improvement.
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.
- Supported virtualized environment for servers used for testing and backend servers.
- Worked with company proprietary frameworks and tools/languages such as Python, Shell and Selenium/WebDriver.
Software Test Engineer
Verizon India Pvt Ltd, Chennai India
Chennai, Tamilnadu
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
- Created accurate and efficient test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Supported test review, defect control and configuration management within delivery pipeline.
- Verified acceptance by developing and implementing automated and manual application features and regression tests.
- Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.
- Determined server operating limits by conducting weekly load tests.
- Defined, created and controlled testing environments for successful software deliverables.
Software Test Engineer
Alcatel lucent India Pvt Ltd, Chennai India
Chennai, Tamilnadu
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Determined server operating limits by conducting weekly load tests.
- Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.
- Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
- Performed Sanity Functionality and Regression tests on modules and full software implementations.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications
Barkatullah University
Bhopal MP India 04.1996 - 06.2000
Skills
Python
Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
VMWare
GIT, Bitbucket, JIRA, Rally
Selenium WebDriver, Wireshark, JMeter
Test Framework Tngpi (Python based test framework)Cloud knowledge AWS, UCAAS, Cloud UCMUbuntu, Windows servers, Mac etc
Personnel recruitment
Succession planning
Workforce improvements
Team Building
Budget administration
Project lifecycle management
Agile framework
Technical Design Review
Software Development
API design knowledge
Accomplishments
- Earned " Best quality award " Award for cisco roundtable endpoints testing.
- Certificate of Recognition for various DevOps deployments and troubleshooting.
- Maintained very low MTTR (mean time to resolved) on customer issues within team by facilitating the team to move on right directions while solving any customer issues.
- Total pipeline driven test automations.
- Quality improvement with automation test coverage increase from 70% to 95 %.
- Developed the Cisco WebEx Bots for reporting and controlling the CI process and other test results activities.
- Developed automated system to recovered dead devices during automated testing.
- Developed the Crash reporting notification system for any reported ACRs.
- Third party software compliance and CVE management expertise.
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute, PMP ( Active certification)
Timeline
Software Engineering Manager
Cisco system India Pvt Ltd
02.2018 - Current
Software Release Manager & Scrum Master
Cisco System India Pvt Ltd
02.2014 - 01.2018
Lead Software Test Engineer
Cisco system India Pvt Ltd
01.2008 - 01.2014
Software Test Engineer
Verizon India Pvt Ltd, Chennai India
01.2007 - 01.2008
Software Test Engineer
Alcatel lucent India Pvt Ltd, Chennai India
01.2005 - 01.2007
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications
Barkatullah University
04.1996 - 06.2000