Duration: Jul 2023 – till date
Designation: Software Engineering Tech Manager
Product Name: SMGR
Role
System Manager provides customers a centralized and unified management to manage the core elements of Avaya Aura together as a System
Responsibilities (in brief):
- Managing mainline project along with feature pack with team of 9 members.
- Understanding the feature to plan the development and testing accordingly.
- Collaborating with all the adopters relying on SMGR for smooth delivery and functionality in each release.
- Working closely with T4 teams to resolve issues for large enterprise clients.
- Working towards transitioning the product from on-prem to cloud (AEC)
- Implemented new technologies to streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve customer service.
Duration: May 2019 – Jun 2023
Designation: Product Owner
Product Name: Aura
Role
Avaya Aura is a bunch of Avaya products including CM, AES, SM, SMGR. Handled the features for CM, AVP/ASP and then SMGR in the time frame.
Responsibilities (in brief):
- Working with PLMs to understand customer requirement and crafting stories to make sure the feature is delivered in time with great quality.
- Conducting Persona Mapping meetings to make sure that all needed stake holders are involved and understand the requirement of a particular feature.
- Collaborating with different teams for end-to-end delivery of a particular feature.
- Participating in feature demos to make sure that discrepancies if any are caught in early stage.
Duration: Dec 2014 – Apr 2019
Designation: Module lead
Product Name: Avaya IP Telephony Servers, PBX and CMM
Role
Avaya PBX is IP Telephony based product that is combination of Hardware, Software, Telecom and Networking.
Responsibilities (in brief):
- Leading mainline project for Avaya communication Manager – A flagship product of Avaya & heart of any solution, with team of 10+ engineers for multiple releases.
- Planning Test Strategy, defining scope/content planning for Service Packs & mainline content, attending MRRB & CCT, dynamic Test Coverage Planning based on Content analysis & Risky File analysis, SV Effort planning & estimation, resource optimization,
- Co-ordination with different SV & development teams, ensuring quality and thorough test coverage while bridging with Project/Program Management
- Part of RCA TEA team
- Working with Senior Consultant/Consultant for Products knowledge and Process enhancement
- Assisting other engineers in day-to-day process.
- Responsible for Test Plan reviews.
- Defect tracking and logging.
- Regular Review meetings with Development team for current defects logged.
- Root cause analysis for defects created.
- Regression inputs to team to improve product quality for each service pack.
- Ramping up new joiners
Duration: Dec 2010 – Nov 2014
Designation: Test Engineer
Product Name: Avaya IP Telephony Servers, PBX and CMM
Role
Avaya PBX is IP Telephony based product that is combination of Hardware, Software, Telecom and Networking.
Responsibilities (in brief):
- Performing Acceptance testing, Structured testing, Integration testing, Ad-hoc testing, Regression testing, and Recovery testing.
- Working with Senior Consultant/Consultant for Products knowledge and Process enhancement
- Assisting other engineers in day-to-day process.
- Responsible for Test Plan creation, Test Case writing and reviews.
- Defect tracking and logging.
- Regular Review meetings with Development team for current defects logged.
- Root cause analysis for defects created.
- Regression inputs to team to improve product quality for each service pack.
- Ramping up new joiners
Duration: July 2007 – Nov 2010
Designation: Support Engineer
Product Name: Application Enablement Services (AES), BCMRD, Verint Recording systems
Role
AES is a product which acts as an interpreter between Avaya PBX and all the other applications. It provides the applications a robust platform to communicate with PBX independent of the APIs being used by application.
Responsibilities (in brief):
- Supporting customers on issues raised
- Handling critical customer accounts
- Working on escalations
- Mentoring new joiners to ramp up