Abhishek Kulkarni
QA Manager
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Experienced professional with a track record of 18 years, successfully leading the delivery of complex projects, environments
▶ Proficient in leading software modules, ensuring the delivery excellence of products and solutions within the provider team
▶ Expertise in team management, ensuring on-time delivery of scrum team features. Working as interface between customers, sales, PM and scrum team to understand and resolve any pain points and quality issues during project cycles.
▶ Effectively managed teams, managing testing, performance appraisals and goal settings under the guidance of a Senior Development Manager
▶ Experience working as a team member, lead, individual contributor, scrum master and facilitating synchronization between project managers, product owners, and architects
▶ Proficient in documentation efforts, providing support for Trainings of Interest (TOIs), leading testing efforts, module ownerships, workload discovery, and fostering effective cross-team communication
▶ Collaborating with Customer Focus team, Sales team, presales team, Support team as and when required for driving POCs and other help/Queries. Connect with Enterprise Customers for understanding complex environments, POCs to resolve their pain points, escalations.
▶ SyncUP with PM to suggest new product enhancements and highlight customer requirements to gain new business
▶ Maintained ownership of new features, encompassing exploratory, performance, system, localization, appliances, and regression cases, with a well-defined test strategy and automation framework
▶ Detail-oriented team player with exceptional organizational skills, capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy
Experience
Experienced professional with a track record of 18 years, successfully leading the delivery of complex projects, environments
▶ Proficient in leading software modules, ensuring the delivery excellence of products and solutions within the provider team
▶ Expertise in team management, ensuring on-time delivery of scrum team features. Working as interface between customers, sales, PM and scrum team to understand and resolve any pain points and quality issues during project cycles.
▶ Effectively managed teams, managing testing, performance appraisals and goal settings under the guidance of a Senior Development Manager
▶ Experience working as a team member, lead, individual contributor, scrum master and facilitating synchronization between project managers, product owners, and architects
▶ Proficient in documentation efforts, providing support for Trainings of Interest (TOIs), leading testing efforts, module ownerships, workload discovery, and fostering effective cross-team communication
▶ Collaborating with Customer Focus team, Sales team, presales team, Support team as and when required for driving POCs and other help/Queries. Connect with Enterprise Customers for understanding complex environments, POCs to resolve their pain points, escalations.
▶ SyncUP with PM to suggest new product enhancements and highlight customer requirements to gain new business
▶ Maintained ownership of new features, encompassing exploratory, performance, system, localization, appliances, and regression cases, with a well-defined test strategy and automation framework
▶ Detail-oriented team player with exceptional organizational skills, capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy
Have good hands on with Networking ,TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, LDAP,VLAN, Kerberos, SSL, Certificates, Rest API, Kubernetes, Containers, Curl, Cloud stack, CI/CD cycles, JSON, xmls
▶ Worked on Enterprise Products like Veritas NetBackup, Symantec System Recovery, Microsoft Live Meeting, Verizon BlueJeans, Avaya OneX Speech, SolidCore S3 etc.
▶ Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMWare ESXi, KVM), clustering, disk management, file systems, Appliances, Hardware management for Dev-Org
▶ Responsible for deploying and managing Linux servers, including installation, configuration, and maintenance of CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Suse Linux, HPUX , Zlinux and Windows Servers
▶ Experience installing, troubleshooting, and configuring workloads like Microsoft-Exchange, SCCM, Altiris, Office communications server, Lync Server, Lotus Notes, SharePoint, Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase, MongoDB clusters. Also worked on Distributions like Apache, Cloudera, Hortonworks , DataStax, CDP and EMC Isilion
▶ Knowledge of tools -JIRA, Confluence, Postman, Defect management tool, Selenium, QC ,Test cases management tool, Aptare, VMWare VRops
Education
MTech-Networking and Telecomm
BE- COmputers
