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Sumati Rohira

Bangalore

Summary

Seeking engineering leadership positions, to drive long-term organizational excellence and build focused growth-oriented engineering teams.

21 years of technical competence in Telco service provider networks, core networking, virtualization and network application seasoned with 10 years of evident leadership skills. Quality Assurance being the biggest strength.

Self-Motivated, dynamic and participative leader successful in bringing the best from teams for organizational benefit through motivation and mutual learning.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager

Colt Technologies
Bengaluru
12.2020 - Current
  • Developed business plans to incorporate growth, modernization and cost structure improvement.
  • Build engineering standards in the test labs for production networks for quality assurance of different OEM devices and life cycle management of releases of these platforms. Drive Network planning, testing, engineering and capacity management for production packet networks.
  • Develop Business cases for new telecom technology, review architectural design and collaborate with deployment and service delivery teams
  • Owning and leading a team of highly capable network consultants responsible for the engineering and testing of end to end services, new products, new platforms and releases on the packet production environment. Innovation in test standards and automation with SDN.

Senior Manager QA

Extreme Networks
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 03.2020
  • Led project scope development to deliver final products that meet business needs. Coordinated with internal departments to ensure successful execution of projects according to timeline and budget constraints.
  • Software Quality Assurance (QA) Proficient in QA standards and experienced leader in QA for core networking products, releases and NMS, EMS, orchestrators. · End-to-end quality assurance for core products and solutions with excellent track record of excelling execution and experience in building and managing large testing teams.
  • Designing & defining technical process & methodologies, nurturing through leadership, enhancing employee engagement, strong collaboration with Development, PLM, Tools and Program Management for new NPI and features. · Strategy development, improvements and maintenance of test assets

ACT Fibernet

Assistant General Manager
Bengaluru
11.2016 - 08.2017
  • Ensuring quality network experience to the customers and resolution of complaints
  • Ownership for all aspects of technology solutions to align with business and operarations
  • Coordinating with cross-functional heads for smooth network operation management

QA Lead

Juniper Networks
Bengaluru
04.2006 - 10.2016
  • Conducted manual and automated tests on software applications to identify bugs or defects. Lead a team for different products releases and test cycles
  • Release Planning, (E2E) end-to-end management, QA strategy planning. Project and team management, QA process improvements, test Plans Review.
  • Hardware planning and cost reduction resulting enhancement of virtualized environment
  • Worked with the lab and tools team for the stabilization of virtual environment for parallel execution for 500 scripts in a CI/CD process

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication

Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirapalli
03-2002

Skills

  • Resource Allocation
  • Strategic Planning
  • Budget Oversight
  • People management and Talent Development
  • Innovation Management
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • QA Leadership and management
  • Telecom and Service Provider Networks
  • Virtualization and Automation

Affiliations

o Spot award for maximum bugs filed in a day at Wipro

o Migration of entire physical test environment to virtualized for overnight execution for 1500 scripts as part of CI/CD model at Juniper

o Capex reduction as part of virtualization, collaboration for tool and infra changes

o Code convergence tool implementation and testing for CI/CD implementation

o Team management in Extreme with zero attrition at Extreme Networks and ACT Fibernet

Timeline

Senior Manager

Colt Technologies
12.2020 - Current

Senior Manager QA

Extreme Networks
01.2018 - 03.2020

ACT Fibernet

Assistant General Manager
11.2016 - 08.2017

QA Lead

Juniper Networks
04.2006 - 10.2016

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication

Bharathidasan University

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