Prashant Mathur
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Seasoned Engineering Manager with over 16 years of experience across diverse technologies - SaaS, Archiving and Compliance platforms, DevOps automation tools. Over 8 years of experience in leading and managing global teams in a result oriented, empathetic and inclusive manner.
Majority of my experience is in managing QA teams, however, from past one year I got the responsibility of Engineering Manager.
My service continuity is from Dec 2008 till current date with multiple acquisitions in last 13 years.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Smarsh
Bangalore
2022.02 - Current
- Provided regular feedback to both junior engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.
- Directly interacted with high-level customers to verify satisfaction and integrate feedback on in-process development projects.
- Evaluated ongoing development efforts, providing feedback on potential methods of expediting completion and improving final results.
- Allied with other engineering leaders to plan, manage and coordinate teams around reaching prescribed development milestones.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate specific customer facing features from requirements to finished component.
- Led globally distributed teams of Engineering, QA, DevOps on simultaneous projects, multi-tasking across several deliverables while remaining in direct control of development paths.
- Interviewed, hired and mentored diversified teams, leading performance reviews and offering constructive feedback.
- Worked closely with management teams to plan, develop and execute technical strategies aligned to client's vision.
Software Engineering QA Manager
Micro Focus
Bengaluru
2018.09 - 2022.01
- Managing a global highly-experienced diverse team of over 20 people comprising of QA and DevOps engineers.
- Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
- Pioneered Agile methodology for release planning, testing and deployment of enterprise level SaaS platform services.
- Led team of employees, overseeing hiring, training and professional growth of employees.
- Improved quality and team productivity by implementing new processes and tools through consistent hard work and dedication.
- Cultivating partnerships between engineering, product and delivery teams to create holistically designed solutions and products.
Software Quality Assurance Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Bengaluru
2015.12 - 2018.08
- Hired and mentored a highly skilled diverse team of over 15 people with manual, automation and performance test engineers.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
- Constant engagement with Dev, PM, PgMs, Operations and support leaders to ensure timely and quality product releases.
- Led a team of senior automation experts in designing and implementing automation framework based on Java, REST Assured and Protractor tech stacks to be used across the product groups in the BU.
- Guided and mentored team members to help them grow from manual QA to automation engineers.
- Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful quarterly objectives, release plans and test strategy for entire team.
- Tracked, prioritized and organized defects with Jira dashboards and QA metrics, worked with development team to facilitate timely corrections and optimizations.
Senior Software Quality Engineer
Stratify/Autonomy/Hewlett Packard
Bengaluru
2008.12 - 2015.11
- Led a team of 5 QA engineers with technical guidance, test planning, assignments and execution to meet release timelines.
- Developed and executed QA test cases, scripts and procedures for automated software maintenance.
- Resolved technical issues and forecasted troubleshooting complications during software trials.
- Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing
- Assessed application patches and updates at development, testing and quality assurance stages.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
Software QA Engineer
Integral India Software Development Pvt Ltd.
Bengaluru
2005.12 - 2008.12
- Developed and executed QA test cases, scripts and procedures for automated software maintenance.
- Resolved technical issues and forecasted troubleshooting complications during software trials.
- Assessed application patches and updates at development, testing and quality assurance stages.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication
Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering And Tech
Jaipur 2000.08 - 2004.07
Skills
Agile Methodologies
undefinedAccomplishments
Implemented XRAY (Test Management) with Jira integration for all QA teams across multiple product groups.
Won customer confidence by designing a CI/CD pipeline that runs a automated BVT test suite every 24 hours and deploy latest artifacts before the execution.
Supervised the automation framework development using Core Java, REST Assured libraries.
Supervised the automation framework development using Protractor for Angular UI automation.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Smarsh
2022.02 - Current
Software Engineering QA Manager
Micro Focus
2018.09 - 2022.01
Software Quality Assurance Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2015.12 - 2018.08
Senior Software Quality Engineer
Stratify/Autonomy/Hewlett Packard
2008.12 - 2015.11
Software QA Engineer
Integral India Software Development Pvt Ltd.
2005.12 - 2008.12
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication
Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering And Tech
2000.08 - 2004.07
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