Senior management professional with overall 20years of experience, bringing strategic leadership and operational excellence to drive organizational success. Skilled in project management, team collaboration, and process optimization with keen focus on achieving results. Adept at navigating complex challenges, fostering culture of accountability, and adapting to evolving business needs. Known for strong decision-making, effective communication, and building high-performing teams.
- 13years of experience in IC role and 7 years in management.
- Experience in managing a customer solution testing team with 20+ engineers. - Lead Programs for new release delivery working closes with cross functional teams.
- Drive new product initiatives (NPIs) working with the teams across Geo. Experience in Customer solution design and testing Experience in Data Com L2/L3 Testing and Automation.
• Managed a team of 17 engineers.
• Technically lead Service Provider & Cloud Customer segments
• Instrumental in creating new profile Design & Automation strategy for Service Provider Segment, which would help to qualify multiple customer use cases in short time.
• As a technical manager, I review & analyze customer use case requirements provided by the customers.
• Collaborate effectively with teams across geographies in 3+ continents, direct customer interfacing and stakeholder management.
• Drive Juniper Validated Design (Reference Architecture) for Metro segment in collaboration with PLM team.
• Work with Field team and Customers to Analyze Customer Deployment Architectures, Network Topologies and Test Plans
• Performed role of project lead for 3 releases this year, which included multiple test teams.
• Drive technical sessions every month within the team.
• Involved in design reviews and test plan reviews
• Lead and encourage team to develop new automation tools.
• Strategize and Plan of New equipment procurement.
• Drive and Lead New Product Initiatives (NPIs)
• Work on continuous Improvement and transformation
• Work closely with Tier 1 customers like AT&T, Amazon, Microsoft, Comcast, Vodafone India, Google, British Telecom, Telecom Italia, Alibaba, Baidu, Oracle.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired employees, Interns and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.
- Design Test topology,
- Create testplan and get it reviewed.
- Execute testcases manually
- Automate testcases
- Submit to regression test
- Involved in functional testing of DSL physical layer features for Alcatel-Lucent DSLAM i.e. ISAM-7300
- Involved in End to end testing of the product
- Automated testcase with APME framework.
- Travelled to Belgium for feature testing of new features.